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Hunters Point workshop: developer reports $14.6M in community expenditures, community calls for clearer reporting
Summary
At a public workshop on Hunters Point Shipyard community benefits, the developer and OCII reported about $14.6 million in direct expenditures to date and outlined job-training and small-business efforts; community members and the Citizens Advisory Committee urged more detailed, regularly published reporting and better outreach to Bayview residents.
The Successor Agency held a workshop on Oct. 18 to review the first- and second-quarter 2016 community benefits report for the Hunters Point Shipyard Phase 1 and Candlestick Point Phase 2 projects. Developer representatives and OCII staff presented highlights of direct expenditures, workforce participation and community programs, and more than a dozen community members and nonprofit partners offered public comment calling for clearer, more comprehensive reporting and deeper outreach in Bayview Hunters Point.
LaShawn Walker, speaking for the developer, said direct expenditures from project inception through the end of Q2 2016 total roughly $14.6 million, including about $1.96 million in job-training expenditures and about $845,000 in contractor assistance. Walker described mentorship and protégé programs that mentors said had helped local firms win work and build bonding capacity, noted a mobilization loan fund seeded at $250,000 with $283,000 loaned to date, and described…
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