July 2015
DBE GOAL METHODOLOGY
49 CFR PART 26
GEORGETOWN SCOTT COUNTY REGIONAL AIRPORT
FISCAL YEAR 2015
A. UPDATE OF GOALS - To make the program as useful as possible to the public, the
Georgetown Scott County Regional Airport Board will update the "amount," "method," and
"breakout" portions of this section of the program annually or as required. The following
sections will be submitted to the FAA every year, or as required, for approval: Amount of
Overall goal section, Method used for establishing overall goals, Process, the Race-neutral/Race
conscious breakout, and Contract goals. The material on overall goals in the DBE program will
be a shorter summary of the material submitted annually, or as required in the overall goal
submission.
B. AMOUNT OF GOAL - The Georgetown Scott County Regional Airport Board's overall goal
for FY 2015 is 8.04% of the Federal financial assistance we will expend in FAA-assisted
contracts. We expect an FAA grant this FY in the amount of $645,970.00, which means that our
DBE goal is set at $51,936.00 for this Fiscal Year. This overall goal is intended for information
of public users of the program, and does not imply that the FAA, as such, has approved the goal.
C. METHOD - STEP 1: In the development of the DBE goal for the Georgetown Scott County
Regional Airport the first step was to establish the availability of ready, willing and able DBE
businesses that were capable of participating in the types of contracts that were programmed
during FY 2015. The project that is anticipated entails Apron Rehabilitation along with all the
professional fees associated with such a project. The monetary size of the project is estimated at
$645,970.00. An analysis of the project indicates that funds will be expended in the following
areas.
GEORGETOWN SCOTT COUNTY REGIONAL AIRPORT
TASK
General Contractors
Street/Highway
Painting
Hauling
Engineering
Landscaping
TOTAL
PROJECT ANALYSIS
FY 2015
NAICS
AMOUNT
236220
$142,536
237310
$351,027
238320
$11,832
484110
$30,000
541330
$95,575
561730
$15,000
$645,970.00
PERCENTAGE
22.07%
54.34%
1.83%
4.64%
14.80%
2.32%
100.00%
The formula to be used to calculate the Base Figure for the DBE goal is as follows:
Total DBE Firms in State listed by NAICS Code of Work to be Performed X 100 = Base Figure
Total Firms in the State listed by NAICS Code of Work to be Performed
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An investigation indicated that a majority (over 70%) of the contractors and subcontractors on
projects accomplished in Kentucky came from the State of Kentucky and that approximately
70% of the contract dollars were also expended in the State of Kentucky. Because of this, the
universe to be used to establish a Base Figure will be limited to the State of Kentucky. A search
was initiated for a Directory that would identify firms to accomplish these tasks. It was agreed
that the most comprehensive directory for DBE firms in Kentucky was the DBE Directory that
has been established by the “Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Office of Minority Affairs
Certified DBE Directory.” This directory contains DBE firms that have been certified in
accordance with the requirements for 49 CFR Part 26.
The current DBE Directory dated June 2015 contains the names of 393 DBE certified firms that
are located both in and out of the State of Kentucky. A total of 199 out of state firms were
eliminated from consideration. This reduced the number of considered firms to a total of 194. The
list was further refined by identifying those firms that could participate in the project by their
appropriate NAICS. The resulting number will be used as the numerator in determining the Base
Figure.
The next step in establishing the Base Figure was to determine our denominator. This was
accomplished through the use of the Census Bureau’s County Business Pattern (CBCBP) and the
identification of the NAICSs that were the same as those identified from the Directory. With
these figures in hand we compute our Base Figure using the following mathematics:
 KICS 236220
.2207 
 NAICS 236220
Base
Figure


 KICS 237310
.5434 

 NAICS 237310

 KICS 238320
.0183 

 NAICS 238320



 KICS 484110 
 KICS 541330
.0464 
.1480 
 NAICS 484110 
 NAICS 541330

 KICS 561730
.0232 
 NAICS 561730




KICS- Kentucky DBE Directory NAICS
NAICS–Census Bureau’s County Business Pattern (CBCBP) Data Base
Base

Figure
 20 
5
 4 

.2207 
.5434  .0183 
 260 
 59 
 267 
 5 
 15 
 7 
.0464 
.1480 
.0232 

 359 
 525 
 898 
Base
.0170 .0461 .0003 .0006 .0042 .0002
Figure
Base
=
Figure
6.84 %
STEP 2: With the Base Figure established our next step was to more finely tailor this figure to
reflect conditions which have occurred at the Georgetown Scott County Regional Airport.
Currently, there are no known disparity studies completed in this area of the Commonwealth of
Kentucky. The Georgetown Scott County Regional Airport Board has considered the suggested
options outlined in 49 CFR Part 26
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Para 26.45 and determined that past performance is the data to be utilized to determine if an
adjustment to our Base Figure is warranted. It was felt that other airports in the state should be
investigated as well. To this end we investigated other airports with like type projects. Listed
below are the projects that were included for analysis. As you will note, each of these projects is
of a similar nature to the project that is being anticipated in the 2015 time frame at the
Georgetown Scott County Regional Airport.
GEORGETOWN SCOTT COUNTY REGIONAL AIRPORT
LIKE TYPE FAA PROJECTS
YEAR
LOCATION
PROJECT
EXPENSES
2009
2009
2009
Murray
Bardstown
Danville
$479,000
$684,211
$344,137
PROJECT TYPE
Apron Rehabilitation
Apron Rehabilitation
Apron Rehabilitation
MEDIAN *
% OF DBE
PARTICIPATION
9.75%
9.24%*
8.10%
The next step was to determine if any adjustment might be needed to the Base Figure. It was
determined that the Median of the three projects was 9.24%, and it was felt that the Base Figure
should be adjusted to cater for this variance.
A summary of this analysis yields the following:
MEDIAN PERCENTAGE
BASE FIGURE
+
9.24%
6.84%
16.08% ÷ 2 = 8.04%
Satisfied that the Median Percentage was valid, the final step in the comparison was the
development of a simple average of the Base Figure and the Median Percentage to establish a final
percentage. The result of this was 8.04%. It was felt that the Base Figure of 6.84% should be
adjusted for this variance. The Average Percentage of 8.04% is established as the goal for DBE
participation at the Georgetown Scott County Regional Airport for FY 2015.
D. PROCESS - The Georgetown Scott County Regional Airport Board, Kentucky, submitted its
overall goal to the FAA in July, 2015 for their consideration and approval. Before establishing
the overall goal each year, the Board has consulted with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
and other available minorities, women and general contractor groups to obtain information
concerning the availability of disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged businesses and the effects of
discrimination on opportunities for DBEs. The Board’s efforts are to establish a level playing
field for the participation of DBEs. Following this consultation, The Board has published a
notice of the proposed overall goal on the Georgetown Scott County Regional Airport website,
informing the public that the proposed goal and its rationale are available for inspection during
normal business hours at the Board’s office for 30 days following the date of the notice, and
informing the public that the Board and DOT will accept comments on the goals for 30 days
from the date of the notice. Normally, the Board will issue this notice by June 1 of each year.
The notice will include the Board’s addresses to which comments may be sent. The overall goal
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submission to the DOT will include a summary of information and comments received during
this public participation process and the Board’s responses.
We will begin using our overall goal on October 1 of each year, unless we have received other
instructions from DOT (or if the goal is established on a project basis, by the time of the first
solicitation for a DOT-assisted contract for the project). Consultation discussions were held with
the following agencies:
GEORGETOWN SCOTT COUNTY REGIONAL AIRPORT
AGENCIES CONSULTED WITH
Agency/Organization
Discussion/Information
Kentucky Department of Aviation –
Craig Farmer
Georgetown Scott County Regional Airport
Manager – James Toole
Availabilities of DBEs, Directories, and Small and
DBE contracting opportunities.
Availabilities of DBE, Directories and Small and
DBE contracting opportunities
Public comments have been requested for the FY 2015 goal and the 30 day comment period is
underway. Any comments received from the public advertisement or the other coordination will
be evaluated and necessary changes will be made to the goal.
E. RACE-CONSCIOUS AND RACE-NEUTRAL GOALS - Each time the Georgetown Scott
County Regional Airport Board submits an overall goal for review by the FAA, the Board will
also submit a projection of the portion of the goal that is expected to be met through race-neutral
means and the basis for that projection. This projection is subject to approval by the FAA, in
conjunction with its review of the Board’s overall goal. The Board will establish contract goals
to meet any portion of an overall goal when the Board does not project being able to meet the
goal using race-neutral means.
We estimate that, in meeting our overall goal of 8.04%, that 0% of the goal will be attained from
race-neutral participation and 8.04% via race-conscious participation measures.
This breakout was established by computing the median of the variance of the level of DBE
participation vs. DBE goal on the projects considered in Step 2 of the overall goal participation
computation. The Median Percentage was 0%, the following is the level of variance in each of
the projects:
YEAR
2009
2009
2009
PROJECT DBE GOAL VARIANCE
GEORGETOWN SCOTT COUNTY REGIONAL AIRPORT
LIKE-TYPE FAA PROJECTS
LOCATION
DBE GOAL
% OF DBE
VARIANCE
Murray
9.75%
9.75%
0%
Bardstown
9.24%
9.24%
0%*
Danville
8.77%
8.10%
-0.67%
* MEDIAN PERCENTAGE
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F. CONTRACT GOALS - The Georgetown Scott County Regional Airport Board will use
contract goals to meet any portion of the overall goal that the Board does not project being able
to meet using race-neutral means. Contract goals are established so that, over the period to which
the overall goal applies, they will cumulatively result in meeting any portion of our overall goal
that is not projected to be met through the use of race-neutral means. The contract goal
established for this period is 8.04%.
We will establish contract goals only on those DOT-assisted contracts that have subcontracting
possibilities. We need not establish a contract goal on every such contract and the size of
contract goals will be adapted to the circumstances of each such contract (e.g., type and location
of work, availability of DBEs to perform the particular type of work).
The Board will express the contract goals as a percentage of the Federal share of a DOT-assisted
contract.
G. THREE YEAR GOAL: At this time the FY 2016 and FY 2017 do not meet the threshold
requiring development of a DBE goal. For calculations purposes for 2016 and 2017 a goal of 0%
will be used. As additional data becomes available the goal will be revised and submitted for
consideration and approval.
2015 2016 2017 -
8.04%
0%
+
0%
8.04% = 8.04%
References:
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet/ List of Certified DBE Firms, June 2015
2013 – U.S. Census Bureau, June 2015
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