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

local people, local impact, local benefits. that's the spirit of this legislation. it's wonderful to see and it gives me great hope for what we can do for this city if we put our hearts and minds together. under mayor lee's administration, too senile me kelly pulling together our city departments, the office of labor standards enforcement, the puc, the mta, to work closely with contractors, to work with the city build group -- that's the kind of work we need to see the real implementation of a local higher. i'm very hopeful. i feel very confident we will have very meaningful experiences for all the parties involved, from the workers looking for work to the contractors will be building, to the city departments to make sure we have the best services that we can have in san francisco. i'm so gratified and exciting we are doing this right. i look forward to all the folks continuing to work on this effort in the years to come. thank you very much. [applause] >> next, i would like to introduce supervisor campos. supervisor campos: thank you. good afternoon. i will be brie

you have been working with our hardest locally -- at ranging from local to international.m working with yoko ono, it has been wonderful. you have been placing women in the spotlight. it has been a great value to us. the overall mission is to enrich the community with special projects and events. you have been a wonderful participant in our commission on aging. you have been there since 2007. your appointment this year has just reflected the wonderful level of service to us. to a master of arts, chair of the african american partnership. it is a wonderful back drop. i know the will continue to be important to the backdrop on aging. sonya, i have known you since you have headed the hispanic pages. being on a health commissioned, at st. francis memorial hospital, you continue to work as a part-time worker. you have been a share of the laguna honda hospitals joint conference committee as well. you have been serving on the commission since 2008. it will be heavily bras with financial constraints. -- barraged with financial constraints. you have had a long history of working wit

jobs, for local residents, so i thank you for having this hearing -- misseed jobs, for local residents. this is kind of a no-brainer. there are great advances made in the construction side, and there is a lot of opportunity for policy development, as well. [bell] construction and permanent jobs. when people think of local hire, they always think of construction jobs. supervisor mirkarimi: let me ask you, so you can make that last point, beyond the question of construction jobs. intrinsic, they are not permanent? >> yes, i think that is correct. there have been a lot of agreements that have been negotiated from the stakeholders around very large development projects, and these contain targeted job policies, a hiring policies, that cover a wide ranging opportunities. -- job policies, hiring policies, that cover a wide range of opportunities. these are similar to what was being described, but i think there is a wide range of types of employers and types of contractual arrangements with their opportunities to look beyond just construction jobs. i have also looked into the green jobs effort

would secure in local hiring strategy. but it does not. it is not inclusive of pork projects. is that correct? >> that is correct. the only opportunity there is the leasing agreements the city would enter into where a first source would be subject to the lease. supervisor avalos: a fallback is that mandatory local hiring does not have a statutory rees reached reached. first source is the lever to try to exact local work force hiring and training agreements. subtracting from port jurisdiction, would it make sense for us to figure out a legislative enhancement that does the same thing as public works construction but also includes some of the port for a project like america's cup? we're talking about 1000 jobs. others say more. others say less. would that be to our advantage to try to secure that agreement to make sure that those jobs go locally? >> from owd's perspective, the idea of local jobs generated out of the america's cup was high on everyone's priority list. our interest is to continue to work with the port to figur

segregate our local funds, and we would apply the local hiring principle where we would not apply it to the federal funds, which could be barred by the constitution. we are getting money for the central subway and other projects. we can have the most robust implementation of that part of the ordinance. you are mr. rose had mentioned "federal government would not allow that whatsoever, because our local dollars are drawing down a federal match. that is what our staff are going to be talking to the fed's about in d.c.. is that correct? >> that is correct. the guidance and we have been getting verbally is that any project that receives any amount of federal funding, the guidelines have to be adhered to federally. so the segregation would not be allowed. however, we think there are some opportunities. that is what the executive team intends to discuss in their meetings this week. chairperson avalos: i did want to make sure the ordinance is flexible enough to apply to products. "we're very appreciative that it gives us the flexibility to take a look at where the guidelines allow was the o

there is a lot of confusion concerning local hiring. i would like the state -- the reason this came about is because of the fact that my husband -- he was an electrician, and he worked for hetch hetchy. this was in the 1960's, but he was unable to join the union because the books were closed to minorities at that time. we have been following what has been going on in san francisco since redevelopment came in as good faith effort. we have had the faith in san francisco, but there has not been an effort to hire people that live here in san francisco. a statement has been made -- this is the reason why i say it is very important that you have your representatives at that meeting tomorrow because the statement that was made about federal contracts -- it has been on the books since 1958 to deal with local hiring, and guess what? nobody seems to know anything about it. this is the reason why -- and the name that wanted to say that said they were not coming is a city built -- is citybuild. i not see anywhere where you city agencies are talking

passing the local hire ordinance was just the first step of a many-year process to strengthen local hiring efforts in our construction project, and the implementation part is the one piece that really needs to get hold in on, so we can really make sure we are doing the program effectively. it is going to be an ongoing process. we are learning a lot as we go on, but what has been really exciting is to see how much their lead -- mayor lee has unlimited local hiring and how much work has been done in his administration, for our major departments that do construction work, puc, dpw, mta, and airport, and have done so under the work of niel mckelly, who is now in the -- i'm going to get it wrong -- office of workforce development? the administrator's office. i'm embarrassed. [laughter] actually, being embarrassed is part of this job, actually. being embarrassed all the time. it is part and parcel all the time. so i want to thank you for all the work you have done. there have been a lot of outside discussions i had been part of. some concerns have come from business leaders, unions, and communit

we work with them to ensure we get a certain amount of local hire. we look at the project holistically. we look at if there are opportunities in the trailer, a security opportunities, putting up the financing. everything we can so that we can provide enough opportunity. construction has its good and bad. it is not always year-round work. it is seasonal. it goes as the project goes. we need to figure out how to broaden and diversified that. i know there is a commitment from the mayor and all of the folks working on this issue to try to see how we can expand this as much as we can. supervisor avalos: what is your staff size that helps us explain how to enforce these agreements? >> on the local hire side, city build has a team of 12 -- soon to be. 10 to 12. we just recently got more staff to help us. on any given day on the construction side, we're juggling a couple of hundred projects. we're trying to enforce the ordinances that we have on the books. on the in the u.s. siend use si3 folks working on that. we do have some tools that have helped us a lot

locally as they do business here. if i have to opt out of san francisco, i just do not think that is great, and this is a great city. so please vote no on this ordinance. supervisor chiu: next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is terry fowler. i am in the bail bond insurance business. i have been in the business for 30 years, and we do use the yellow pages. a lot of people are in difficult positions. we tracked every call we get through the door, and i would say at least 50% or more are connected to the yellow pages, either directly or they will see our tv and radio advertisements, and that will direct them. they will go to the yellow pages to get more information. what is interesting to me about this whole process here is how few times small business is mentioned. we have been left out of this whole discussion and all the research. in fact, there has been no research done by any about the -- by anybody about the impact on small business. has just been a guest. one government agency here that mention anything about

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because there is a regional regulation that says that all our local authorities need to have a local mobility plan. i heard this morning about a problem like neighbors complaining when things have to be changed and the whole debate that is coming up then. but i think we have it similar because it's our local mayors who sometimes are hesitating to put into practice -- that's one of the reasons why those cycling routes sometimes get stuck, because you have a regional cycling route, but local authorities, we have 19 in brussels, local authorities do have to give permits for that. there is a lot of criticism on that and i heard my dutch colleague say one hour ago, you can get stuck because at local levels people don't like it, although your regional plan is to be so good. that's true. on the other hand, i think that it's a good democratic process to really to go at the low-cal level and convince people why it's good to have those new infrastructureses. this is one of the typical, in old belgium towns you would find it now, it's the flow of cycling. it's what you do if you have a one-way

it provides 40% of the local water storage and 66% of the local water yield for the regional water system. in 2001, the sfpuc lowered water levels in the reservoir due to seismic concerns and a mandate from the california division of safety of cans, due to concerns over the seismic safety. the reservoir is currently operating at about 40% capacity.

by crippling our local public radio stations. the bill would decimate local n.p.r. statis by restricting their ability to choose programming best suited to their community. in my district n.p.r. stations provide valuable international and domestic news. they bring all things considered, "morning edition" and "car talk" into our cars and living rooms. these stations also cover local news, concerts, and shool events. they produce shows like "yours on the arts," "community calendar." the bill throws all that out of the window. n.p.r. reports and media coverage are consistency evenhanded driven by aigh standard of journalistic ethics. they are not politically biased. they let the stories do the talking. appantly the public, tax paying public, likes that. according for the project in excellence and journalism, in the last year the television network audience slipped 3 1/2 minutes. newspapers down 5%. radio fell 6%. magazines down 9%. n.p.r.? up %. since 000, n.p.r. audience is up 58%. 5.7 million unique monthly visitors to the website, up more than five million. this is

construction that remain /non-enlisted in trying to help local hiring? >> first source impact of our departments -- impacts all of our departments. it is taking advantage of this administration's interest in advancing local hire beyond construction and working with the leadership that naomi kelly provides in bringing all of the departments together to have a more focused plan around local hire. first source does ask all departments to have a plan on how they will implement it with respect to their department. those plans are probably as old as the legislation itself. there are many opportunities to engage all of the department's n first source and local hire to increase opportunities we may not see on our radar screen now. supervisor avalos: what about our ability to influence the private sector in their consciousness and making sure that their hiring of our people -- that they are hiring our people? >> on the private development in san francisco where there are no public dollars, these projects that will require building permits still have to agree to f

approximately 20% of it is city, which is local, which we can apply the new local hiring ordinates to. really exciting. i just wanted to see if we can get an update. where is that, if it has gone out to bid, what we think about waiting to use this new local hiring law, and one way or the other, what is our plan to connect local residents? >> i am very excited about the central subway as well, and i'm thrilled about the new local hiring law. i would like to ask at this time, do we have any updates for the first phase of the project that we can provide either the speakers today and the public on if there are any plans? >> we can take a look at the schedule in terms of the next full board meeting, i guess, in march -- i mean in april. we can give you a briefing on the project and then local hiring as well as local contracting, where we stand as an agency. >> okay, next speaker please. >> greetings. in an incident that resembled one that happened here in san francisco not long ago, 35 people were recently heard in san diego. there's no sign that the proper conclusion will be drawn to impr

it provides 40% of the local water storage and 66% of the local water yield for the regional water system. in 2001, the sfpuc lowered water levels in the reservoir due to seismic concerns and a mandate from the california division of safety of cans, due to concerns over the seismic safety. the reservoir is currently operating at about 40% capacity. this is a perspective from about 2,000 feet above the wilderness. the existing earth and rock filled dam is existed here. it was completed in 1925, modified in 1974, to increase the seismic stability of the structure. however, as the years has passed and our knowledge has increased, we know now that the than the to be replaced. you can see the bathtub ring around the reservoir. that represents 50 feet of vertical height of water storage, about 60% of the capacity. the proposed project would simply restore the water level to its historic capacity. this slide shows the existing ban on the left. it was the largest earth-fill dam in the world when it was completed in 1925. the rendering is shown on the right. the new dam would be built immediately

i am the california director of local governments for sustainability, a membership association of local governments nationwide, which include 130 cities and counties in california and over 600 in the united states. we are honored to have san francisco as a leading member, continuing to provide national, global leadership. i want to focus on one particular point. i will submit comments for the record. does local government action matter in addressing the challenge of climate change? i can tell you definitively it does. it matters when it helps create, contribute to, and scale local action elsewhere. that is when it is part of something larger. in cities lead, their actions can have impact will be on their local jurisdictions through inspiration, offering blueprints for action, and even friendly competition with leaders elsewhere, spurring a race to the top, if you will. in particular, california offers this, like no other state in the union. if local action for waste reduction and sustainability is important, in california, it truly has the impact to be transformed it. this is because th

this is a predecessor to mandatory local hiring. it was not under oewd, but was an island in itself. the people who had run that had left the city. it was without the kind of leadership that would modernize its approach. we legislated that first source would be put under the rubric of oewd. now, most everything we have been leading toward in terms of synthesizing work force dollars, which is still in play and evolving -- first source, which was never under oewd before, and the question of how weak influence legislatively both the public and private sector on their compliance with our local hiring. that would also go under oewd. it is a full-frontal strategy try to make sure the investments we make every single year to our budget, and grants brought in from state and federal sources, are used in a way that they are held accountable. we have seen since the birth of various legislative strategies of the last three years the growth of one-stop job training and placement centers in the city. up until three years ago, there had only been

this is a predecessor to mandatory local hiring. it was not under oewd, but was an island in itself. an island in itself. the people who had run that had

first is local hiring. with the essential -- the central subway project being of great interest to our communities, this is people of our community to work on the project and second is the overall job opportunity. one other opportunities will be available to the communities? such as agents, training operators. will there be any additional training for the upcoming jobs? thank you. director nolan: next speaker. >> good afternoon. bright line defense projects, here also to speak with respect to the central subway project, which we are all willie excited about, that it is getting to where it is going forward, and also the city's new mandatory local hiring law for construction, which applies to construction that is going to elevate opportunities for communities to work on these exciting projects. i kind of just wanted to see if we could request an update for the status of central subway. i know there were some publications that the first leg of the project, called the guy with a tunnel, would be put out for bid

we are a local, local firm. we have a commitment to the central waterfront. each of our members is invested in this part of the city. four of us are all of the waterfront, three of us are headquartered. this is a longstanding commitment that existed far before sales force came along and make a big splash. it is a belief that we have had for a long time, and we voted with our feed and investment dollars. we have been waiting for the opportunity to see the next that take place, which is pier 70, and we are excited about it, and we want to be your partner. this is the opportunity we believe would come for a long time. that is what you want to work on pier 70. i can sit here and try to summarize a detailed rfq where our design team came up with an amazing plan, but the reality is, that groundwork was already late for us by the park commission. the community as well. they work together for a long time to envision what the site should be about. instead of spending my time telling you our refinements to that, i want to talk about what is different about our part --