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Residents and partners applaud apprenticeship work, press for election oversight and report hauling transition issues
Summary
Public commenters at the Jan. 13 meeting highlighted a jail-based apprenticeship graduation and low recidivism among graduates, urged quicker meetings of the Election Advisory Committee to restore public trust, and heard an operational update from WM on a hauling transition affecting roughly 19,000 homes.
Several members of the public used the Jan. 13 board meeting public comment period to raise workforce, elections and service-delivery issues.
Tim Robertson, executive director of the San Joaquin Building Trades Council, told the board his organization is partnering with the county and jail to run an MC3 apprentice readiness program. He said about 50 students have graduated from the jail-based program over the last two-and-a-half years and that graduates show a markedly…
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