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Lynnwood task group explores regional workforce agreement to prioritize local hires and apprenticeships
Summary
The council's workforce task group reported talks with ML Johnson & Associates on community workforce and workforce-agreement models, discussed prioritizing Lynnwood hires and apprenticeships, and proposed sharing 1.5 FTE administrative cost across neighboring cities.
Members of the council's workforce task group gave an update on meetings with ML Johnson & Associates about community workforce agreements (CWAs) and workforce agreements to prioritize local hires, apprenticeships and disadvantaged workers on public projects. The task group described workforce agreements as partnerships among the city, contractors and community organizations that can be tailored for local priorities such as local hire percentages and youth apprenticeships.
Council members emphasized starting with public-sector projects and using incentives for private projects rather than mandates. The task group reported the consultant estimated roughly 1.5 full-time-equivalent positions to administer a program, and suggested a regional model where several nearby cities share administration costs to reduce per-city expense. "If we join forces with other cities, you know, there would be more paperwork and more administration," one councilor said, but added the shared-cost approach could make the idea feasible.
Council members asked staff to continue stakeholder outreach with developers and neighboring cities and to return with more detailed cost/benefit analyses before committing to program design or scope. The group identified the wastewater-treatment-plant project as a near-term candidate for piloting workforce requirements.
