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Recommendation to direct City Manager to negotiate a Citywide Project Labor Agreement (PLA) with the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council, and specified Craft Councils and Local Participants, and report back to the City Council within 30 days.
DISCUSSION
At the July 22, 2014 meeting Councilmembers Austin, Gonzalez and O'Donnell directed the City Manager to review and report back on a the development and implementation of a Local Workforce Training and Local hire policy within 90 days. Any such policy should include the following:
Threshold amount:
Proposing a Citywide Project Labor Agreement which would apply to and be limited to all of the mute-trade City's Public Work's contracts in excess of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) and prime single trade (specialty contracts) that exceed $25,000.00
Local residents, disadvantaged workers and Veteran hire:
This proposed agreement will require, as long as they possess the requisite skills and qualifications, the Participants will exert their best efforts to refer and/or recruit sufficient numbers of skilled craft "Local Residents" to fulfill the requirements of the Employers.
First, the Participants will exert their best efforts to encourage and provide referrals and utilization of qualified workers residing in those zip codes which overlap the City boundaries. Then, if the Participants cannot provide the Employers a sufficient number of Local Residents from within the City of Long Beach (first tier zip codes), the Participants will exert their best efforts to recruit and identify for referral Local Residents residing within a fifteen (15) mile radius from Long Beach City Hall. And finally, if the Participants still have not provided the Employers a sufficient number of Local
Residents, the Participants will then exert their best efforts to recruit and identify for referral Local Residents residing within Orange and Los Angeles counties.
A goal of 30% of all of the la...
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