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PUC hearing exposes low San Francisco hire rates on $4.6B water program; supervisors press for stronger PLA/FirstSource enforcement
Summary
A lengthy May 11 hearing revealed San Francisco placements on regional WISIP projects are about 11% and local projects about 15%; supervisors and community speakers pressed SFPUC and OEWD to strengthen enforcement of First Source policies, amend the Project Labor Agreement (PLA) and improve apprenticeship pipelines.
Supervisors, SFPUC officials and dozens of community members on May 11 engaged in a multihour hearing on the workforce and local‑hire performance of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission—s Water System Improvement Program (WISIP), a $4.6 billion, multi‑county program.
Harlan Kelly, assistant general manager at the SFPUC, told the Budget & Finance Subcommittee that construction (to date) is about 17 percent complete and that the program breaks down into finance costs (~$500 million), project delivery (~$1.1 billion) and hard construction, with local construction about $400 million and regional construction about $2.6 billion. Kelly said material costs dominate heavy civil work (about 70 percent) and estimated the labor share is roughly $800 million across the program.
Kelly said early PUC data show…
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