...Title
Project Labor Agreement Amendments.
...Recommendation
As recommended by the Rules and Open Government Committee on November 17, 2021, direct staff to negotiate with the Santa Clara Building & Construction Trades Council with the goal of expanding the scope of the City’s Project Labor Agreement (PLA) to:
(a) Decrease the project threshold covered under the PLA from $3,000,000 to $1,000,000.
(b) Remove the annual CPI adjustment to the threshold.
(c) Remove exemptions to the PLA currently included in Addendum C for street maintenance, sewer maintenance, municipal water, airport pavement maintenance, on-call contracts, and building maintenance and rehabilitation.
(d) Specify that contractors on covered projects will employ apprentices from a joint labor-management apprenticeship program approved by the California Division of Apprenticeship Standards.
CEQA: Not a Project, File No. PP17-008, General Procedure and Policy Making resulting in no changes to the physical environment. (Cohen and Esparza)
[Rules Committee referral 11/17/2021- Item G.2]