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Residents and workforce advocates press Huntington Park to award landscape contract to local social-enterprise
Summary
Dozens of residents, trainees and community leaders urged the council to pick SLA for the city's landscape-maintenance contract, citing local hiring, apprenticeship pipelines into unions and school greening projects; incumbent Northstar Landcare thanked the city for the opportunity.
Speakers at the Huntington Park City Council meeting urged the council to award the city's landscape maintenance contract to a local social-enterprise, Sustainable Landscape Alliance (SLA), saying the firm trains local residents and places graduates into union careers.
Jesse Salazar, director of operations for SLA, described the company as "more than a landscape company" because its workforce-development arm enrolls local residents and helps graduates enter union jobs. "By year 3, the goal is to have 100% of the workforce be from Huntington Park," Salazar said during…
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