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A new oversight committee is being created to track progress in awarding contracts to women and minorities on the $2-billion AirTrain project.
Starting next week, the committee, composed of minority and local business leaders, will meet biweekly with the Port Authority and Perini Corp., the lead contractor on the $316-million AirTrain terminal at Jamaica Station.
Newsday reported yesterday that the percentage of AirTrain contracts awarded to women and minorities falls far below Port Authority goals of 17 percent. Of $968 million awarded in AirTrain's first phase, $83.7 million went to women- and minority-owned businesses.
On the $90 million awarded so far...