Committee tasked with overseeing stadium hiring briefed on progress, but notes there is still work to do [Video]

The Bills still haven’t met their required MWBE hiring requirements per the community benefits agreement with Erie County

BUFFALO, N.Y. — As progress on the new Bills stadium starts showing more and more, with the steel structure emerging in Orchard Park, it’s progress that you can’t see that’s at the center of discussion involving project hiring goals.

The Buffalo Bills and their construction partners are required to have 36% of all contracts awarded to minority (15%), women (15%), and service-disabled veteran-owned businesses (6%) as part of a Community Benefits Agreement or CBA with Erie County.

As 2 On Your Side reported in March, the project struggled to reach those goals at the start of construction in June 2023 with only 6.8% of contracts awarded amongst MWBEs and SDVOBs. By March 2024 however, they’d reached 28.9%.

That progress was noted last month at a meeting of the Erie County Stadium Corporation (ECSC) and once again Monday, at the second …