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Commission creates stakeholder group to craft local-hire and community benefits policy after vocal public calls for 50% local hiring
Summary
Following presentations on community employment programs, the commission voted to form an inclusive stakeholder group to draft policy on job creation, local hiring and community benefits and to report preliminary work by Feb. 1, 2010; community groups urged a mandatory 50% local-hire goal for major sewer and digester projects while unions cautioned about legal and hiring-hall constraints.
Staff presented the PUCcommunity-employment portfolio and proposed a deliberative process to review existing policies and develop a community benefits framework. Carol Eisen, office of the assistant general manager, outlined programs that have placed more than 200 people in PUC employment to date, apprenticeship shortfalls, and plans to seek outside technical expertise to help craft a broader policy.
Public commenters and community organizations pressed for stronger, enforceable local-hire commitments for the Wastewater Enterprise projects, particularly the Southeast Treatment Plant digester replacements. Espanola Jackson told…
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