build. that has been a great success for us, and we want to continue to build on that success. chairperson avalos: in terms of where your numbers might vary by trade currently for their concession projects, could you summarize the? >> i do not have the same level of detail that ed harrington and others have. tcommunications, roofing small buildings -- probably the largest categories are for electricians, electronic technicians, and some very specialized work related to the sewage treatment plant improvements and new camera system changes throughout the airport. i apologize that i do not have more detail.

this is where we have to get specific data. chairperson avalos: we can follow that in the months ahead. thank you for being here. next up, i call up lon simmons -- rhonda simmons. you will be talking about what the person looking for work can expect to find and how to apply and find work. >> yes. thank you for inviting my office to be a part of this presentation. we have been working on local hire for least the last two years, trying to maximize local employment in this economy. i would like to thank my colleagues. also hrc, and the porch and

parks and wreck -- the port and parks and rec. we could not do this without our partner department -- partner department's assistant as. the legislation is really about work force. while it has been controversial on a lot of fronts, we have core places to make it work. city building is probably our anchor academy. we are probably on our 12th cycle. we have placed well over a thousand folks into 26 apprenticeships. we have hit every apprenticed in this city. recovered them all. we represent about 44% of the folks going into the apprentice trades through city build.

we have perfected the training. both of our heads of done a tremendous job. we have operated on a partnership model. it operates with four anchor cbo's. we started with 15 and realized that was too many to get the quality we wanted. we went to a comprehensive rfp process to get our core group. our core group has settled on m -- settled on mission hiring hall and others. all is done to city college to ensure folks who are wanting to go back to school can do that. city bill is a credit-bearing program.

the places or points of recruitment or entry to get into construction have also expanded. not only do we have those four cbo's, we also have expanded our one stop system to include a total of 51-stops across the city. we have one in chinatown with self-help for the elderly. we have one in visitation valley. we have a partnership with hsa, soon to be a partnership with good will. we have one in western addition and center -- and civic center supported by good will, and one in the mission district. in addition, we also offer ongoing orientations are folks that are already passed the apprenticeships point and are journeymen looking for work.

we offer help the couple of times a month. based on demand, i would anticipate over time if we need to expand that we will. particularly if there are special projects are things we need to adjust for. just a couple of quick commercials on other academies we are running that i think may have some overlap. we also are aware that local hire will drop a lot of folks. as we go to orientations, they may not all want to be in construction. we have also expanded our sector academy offerings to offer a train at green academy, a health-care academy, and we are looking at expanding into hospitality and culinary arts. chairperson avalos: what we see from the public. thank you for your presentation

and word on this. we are going to go ahead and open up for public comment. i have a few cards, but it looks like there are more people out there than the cards i have. jim salinas, thomas coleman. that is what i have. everyone else can come ahead and line up. >> good afternoon. thank you, chairman avalos. thank you both, supervisors. i just want to say congratulations, congratulations, congratulations. i am a native san franciscan. i am 58 years old. i have never seen such a thing. i have seen something close when i was a younger woman. this is great. my primary concern has been for

the future. future young people in the city, future homeowners, young families, and generations to come. i had a major concern. you had a press conference and you were gracious enough to give me a moment, and i was able to speak with you. you had a lot going on, but you lend me your ear. we need all professions included in local hiring. you said this is a start. it is a fantastic start and it is more than what i dreamed of. as a native san franciscan, i am very proud. what i just ask and request very strongly -- you have given me every indication that this will grow. local hiring will grow and encompass other professions. as in the descendants system with a business on third street, i offer a real estate, construction projects, community

outreach, marketing, certified notary, property management, and i have many degrees. i hope there is some room for me. people like myself in local hiring -- fortunately, i can come in and community outreach. the community does not know what is going on. when it comes to dumping garbage, if we are going to be successful, and we are, we need to educate the public. that is where i come in as being a native san franciscan and one that cares, one that generally cares and has demonstrated that. i have to say we must have local hiring, as we have agreed. chairperson avalos: thank you. i have a few other cards. >> thanks. i am darren brown. i am speaking today from the

progressive workers alliance, which is 10 different low-wage worker organizations. we agree this is a really exciting organization and we are happy to see the level of responsiveness from the different organizations. there is one thing we think we are still missing to make this legislation successful, and that is clarity for workers. i think our perspective from power, from the chinese progressive association, from the filipino community center, is clarifying how people actually go about applying for these jobs. because there are 23 different trades that are encompassed in the ordinance, it may all operate a little bit differently. i think we need a centralized document in some way the clarifies how people go about either the -- either the apprenticeships or the german trade. what are the steps they need to

apply for these jobs as the become available? if we are absent that data, we fall back into those familiar with the process of accessing it. the target part of the legislation was the disadvantaged worker side. we are looking at the neighborhoods with the lowest levels of employment, neighborhoods that have faced racism or exclusion based on limited language proficiency and other issues. targeting those neighborhoods was not is mandatory. we were not able to get the language in this ordinance that made that mandatory. we need to get some of this information gap clarified. that is a piece i would love to see moewd take up. i no bright line has been trying to organize that, but if the city could put together and how you open up friendships or apply from it so that we can tell the workers to be ready for a date and get their name on a list, and if you are a journeyman,

this is what you need to do, make sure you have your dos up -- those things need to be clarified. chairperson avalos: thank you very much. really great suggestions. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is tom pullman. i am a contractors association member and financial officer. i will probably be able to answer some of the questions that have come up recently with in this hearing about some of the reasons why it is difficult for the electrician trade to meet the threshold requirements. a little introduction about the association. we have been around since 1909. we are an association of electrical contractors, sometimes referred to as an electrical sub contractors. 35 of local members -- i also

represent contractors from the greater bay area when they worked in san francisco. these contractors in good years, such as 2006 and 2007, provide upward of $550 million of electrical installations. in a bad two years, roughly $260 million. we have a large stake in local construction and will be directly impacted by this ordinance. i have previously submitted letters to city officials, have met with many employees from the mayor's office of economic and work-force development. they have been generous with their time. we have problems with for see in our industry, specifically from electrical workers. there is a letter i recently submitted. as local businesses, we support the local economy.

we also support the concept of hiring local residents. however, there exists a combination of restrictions which make compliance highly impractical, if not impossible. these include california state laws regarding electrical installations and our apprenticeship standards. chairperson avalos: please continue. i would love to hear more of what you have to say. >> state law mandates the electric work in california to be formed by a state-certified electricians. there are approximately 450 electrician's living in san francisco. of this pool of certified electricians, 285 are union electricians, which we are contractually bound to hire. these union electricians are distributed among one-hundred- plus contract is bound by the

local hiring ordinance, which prohibits hiring outside of the hiring hall and does not allow dispatch by geographical location. all of those items, we are trying to work with to remedy and help us meet the requirements. new hires come from our apprentice applicant list. placement on this list occurs after the complete the process, take the and exam, complete oil -- and complete oral interviews. this process can take several weeks. our focus is on providing lifelong careers. the factors listed above converged to make it very difficult, if not impossible, as an industry to meet the mandates in the local hire ordinance. we cannot change our procedures

overnight. we're going to need help from the department of labor and local 6. in the meantime, we are going to ask for your support. we have served and supported san francisco for 102 years. we are asking for a little bit of support over the next couple of years as we pledge to work with the city and the office of employment and work-force development. the support we would ask is that there is a provision our capability to the ordinance to suspend any fines for our specialized trade as we work with our partners in the industry and in the city towards compliance. chairperson avalos: i am glad to hear there is an openness for complying with the ordinance.

i am glad the flexibility works on many levels. the penalties do not just include fines. there will be other ways we can get around that and we have built in ways to be flexible. we can have an ongoing discussion about that and a relationship built around how to make it work and a commitment. it is going to take changing with the times. the times that are changing. everything is moving forward. let's get on the same page and make it happen. >> one element i would like to stress is that as you are i am sure well aware dealing with strong unions -- they have the reluctance to change. in order for us to continue to succeed, we are going to need to make some pretty substantial changes with our partners in labor. if we can get help from the city, which would greatly appreciate that.

we are concerned and nervous about being able to meet the mandates. we are stuck between a rock and a hard place. by lifting state law has penalties or a loss of license. if we violate the cba, there are fines, and if we violate this ordinance, there are fines. everywhere we turn in order to ensure we can comply, there is a portion that is difficult for us. we are really going to need some support in the short run. chairperson avalos: whatever publican give to help people to change practices, we will do. i think this is one time where it is necessary to discard some old ways and come forward with some new ways. there are a lot of unions that have asked for some flexibility to help them be better oriented

toward this ordinance. i think changing those ways around a main call and building a pipeline and apprenticeship program is going to be the way to go. to the extent you can work with my office and the office of economic and work-force development and other city departments to make it happen, we are here to make it a bit easier for you. >> i appreciate that. we will use your help. thank you. >> good afternoon. ♪ to be hired to the limit standing tall for a chance to work with you i'd gladly risk it all through the sict -- city fire through the limits and do it all for a chance to be working with

you i'd really risk it all right down to the electric wire even through the city fire promise won't get fired through the city fire through the limits working do it all for a chance to work with you i'd really risk it all right down to the electric wire and i promise won't get fired ♪ chairperson avalos: thank you very much. next speaker, please. ace washington and espinoal jackson. >> my name is greg docks with a service to the board of supervisors in the community,

also to the mayor's administration. i just want to say i was watching the legislation on the cutting edge. this by far is the one that has seen implementation with the sincerity of making it work. looking at the culture across the country -- osiris is pro union. we support the unions. we just do not support what happens behind the doors. it is time for the unions to come forth and start implementing. i am not saying all unions are the same across the board, but the ones we have identified. we have everything in place. i am calling out to the cbo's to understand we have to collectively work together. the city officials, the mayor's office -- they have been doing

work to make sure this works. we need to work collectively to make this work. it is like a chain in a bicycle. you get one snag and it can stop the process. now the ball is in the community's court, let us get this thing going. >> my name is washington -- is ace washington. i am here to congratulate those of you who put this legislation together. i have been monitoring since this started last year. i am here to tell all the new people here that all these new programs -- i am sure espinola is the only one who has been here longer than i have. i have been here 20 years, when we used to go to jail for these good faith efforts. it started in my community, the western addition. i am appalled by everyone in these groups that had not even

invited no one from the field no more. everybody in the city thinks it is the field. but that is where the blood, sweat, and tears started. that is where we had to stop everybody. i am from the department of regulations, a new department that is going to come to city hall would you like it or not, that will be watching all these caretakers, city build and all that. where is the mechanism to increase this agency? it is not all peaches and cream. there must be a mechanism. i have been monitoring and

regulating. i do not have to have a big bankroll, a big computers, or office space. what i do is in my heart. each one of these city departments has to be monitored. their handling everything. redevelopment has passed everything down to this department. but right now i think they need to be audited to find out what they are doing. i will bring the reporting as we go on. thanks a lot. chairperson avalos: any other members of the public would like to comment after ms. jackson, please come forward. >> good afternoon. i would like to agree with some of the things the last figure stated. i went through the packet, 45 pages. there are questions that i have. another is going to be a meeting

on the 18th, and i have given this sheet to the work force as well as city build. i have questions on page 16, page 24, page 28, page 29, and page 31 of the ordinance. you need to look at it very carefully. i have questions and i want to give you this so you can add into it. at the very end, who is going to be auditing the performance of city built and the oewd? i see what you are trying to do is real for the citizens of san francisco. but i see some downfalls and cracks, because there is a lot of games that are being played here where you are giving of considerations to who was first

established to do what those groups are doing. that is the human rights commission as well as -- they change the name. the right things in this city. --they rewrite things in this city. oewd used to be cdbg. that was a body that took care of all the cbo's in this city. it started from a block grant. i would like to talk with you further down the road before the 18th, because there is a lot of history that has been done in this city. human rights' the others to me has been clipped not doing the job they are supposed to be doing with this ordinance. thank you very much. chairperson avalos: thank you

very much. next speaker, please. >> josh, by one defense project. i want to thank supervisor avalos for his continuing efforts to move this exciting series of policy changes, and to mayor lee and all the departments here. airport, i think it is a testimony we are committing to the aggressive time line laid out in the local higher ordinance. from wanted to make some comments. i want to endorse the statements of jerron brown from power. i want to speak to the face of local hire. we all saw them at the press conference in the mission district. there were 42 students going through the program, faces that are hungry for opportunity, that are ready and excited about new opportunities. i was just at asian neighborhood

design at 11:00 this morning, where they graduated 17 more students. every day, the myth that there is a lack of interest, capacity, capability, and know how within our communities is obliterated here in san francisco. there is a pool of workers that are ready to take advantage of these opportunities. it is important we keep moving forward to do that, to connect hope and expectation with reality. the economy is not always going to be like this. the jobs are going to come. there are discussions about how we do that. it is going to turn around. this gives us time to pursue our partnerships with laborers, partnerships with engineers, contractors that have stepped forward, local folks that want to make this work. that is the spirit of the partnerships we can create. to the gentleman who spoke about the challenges, i think the challenges are also in

communities. if they do not start swimming, they are going to sink like a stone. let us not start. let us use a city i.d. card to prove residency. >> i am a union painter. i was listening to all these different trades you had going on and you never mentioned my trade. everybody is talking about different things. do not forget us. chairperson avalos: thank you. >> good afternoon, chairman and members of the committee. i am jim salinas. i have lived here my entire life.

after hearing some of the things that were said here, everybody is going to do this. you just heard the electrical contractors association. everybody is pointing the finger elsewhere but themselves parian you have to know that the system is integrated into the culture. if you do not fall into one of three categories, if you are not a friend of the contractor, you are not going to go to work. we always have the bulk of the work, but we have the least amount of work hours. let me tell you that i worked