Rising Sun Developers, a coalition of Black builders in San Francisco's Bay View Hunters Point neighborhood, are protesting their exclusion and the lack of a fair bidding process for contracts to build the new Willie Brown Middle School in their own neighborhood. Unlike the City and County of San Francisco, the San Francisco School District does not have a local-hire requirement that would guarantee contracts for local companies or jobs for local residents, including minorities.

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Bay View Hunters Point resident and owner of Liberty Builders, a member of the Rising Sun Developers coalition, testified at the San Francisco School Board on 01.29.2013.