Staff reviews prevailing-wage rules; council asks for local data before changing Rochesters $175,000 threshold
City compliance staff explained state and federal prevailing-wage rules and Rochesters tiered threshold, answered council questions about administrative burdens and cost impacts, and agreed to return with DLI survey data and estimates of per-unit impacts on affordable-housing projects.
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Paul Nutella, presenting for the compliance team, summarized how prevailing wages are determined and how the city applies them. "In 2020, the city of Rochester adopted a policy to adhere to prevailing wage for all of their projects that are city funded, so CIP projects," Nutella said, and he explained the citys tiered approach has been reduced over time so that by 2025 the threshold covers city-funded projects at $175,000 and above.
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