Video: Council Hearing on Best Practices for Public-Private Partnerships

This hearing, chaired by Councilmember Kwame Brown, was held on November 1, 2007 in Room 500 of the Wilson Building.

First invited to speak were corporate representatives who in many ways were requesting the same things most of the other witnesses testified to including a transparent and competitive bidding process and pre-development community input.

You can see most of the corporate testimony in part one of the video tape >> http://tinyurl.com/2pe5up

Chris Otten, representing the Library Renaissance Project, spoke to the dangers of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP's) and some examples of bad PPP's in recent time here in the District. You can view his testimony in part two of the video tape. Forward to 3hours 4minutes and 45seconds >> http://tinyurl.com/yrdlu9

Kwame Brown then proceeds to allow for a back and forth with Chris whereby Brown commits to eliminating sole-sourcing property contracts. Forward to 3hours 29minutes and 10seconds >> http://tinyurl.com/yrdlu9

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