/news/2010/06/15/portland-programs-costs-hard-to-swallow/ Building and Construction News in Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:42:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.6 /news/2010/06/15/portland-programs-costs-hard-to-swallow/#comment-30286 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:42:37 +0000 /?p=55058#comment-30286 yes, this program is a joke, rife with “feel-good”, costly, unrealistic aspirations, that will go nowhere with millions of dollars of tax/ratepayer money. As a non-minority contractor, you’re shooting yourself in the foot getting involved with this. they want low cost, low skilled labor installers working for overpriced, “cream -skimming” “hope performance testers. they release no data to support them, the BPI training is a waste of time and money. the market is being inundated by home performance assessors, who will be looking to sub jobs, driving prices down for contractors. bad for local businesses, godd for the energy trust, which is the biggest fund-suck the state has seen in a long time. wake up, oregonians. The Energy Trust of Oregon is an oxymoron. they funnel more money out our state than people realize, or they’d be angry, CSG, BPI as well, are back-east revenue monsters, leading small oregon contractors to slaughter. Press should get ahold of that concept, and shed light for the citizens of oregon.

]]> /news/2010/06/15/portland-programs-costs-hard-to-swallow/#comment-28666 Sun, 20 Jun 2010 02:44:14 +0000 /?p=55058#comment-28666 So let me get this straight, what I see is this program is gearing towards utilizing minority construction companies. If they can’t afford the training or the equipment, that will be taken care of for them. Right? What about small start up construction companies that are owned by Caucasians? Or won’t they be considered because they are not a minority? I am glad for minority companies to get a chance to work if they have the skills and abilities, but when it starts to get down to this, I am appalled that companies are being considered because of nationality. Many, many small companies in the Portland Metro area are owned by Caucasians. Are they to be counted out because they are white? This should be a level playing field. Many people are getting tired of preferential treatment not based on skill but color, me included.

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