QUESTION
Council Member Amanda Farias Asks Mega Contracting About Local Employment Goals
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Council Member Amanda Farias inquires about the specific employment goals for local hires in the Timbale Terrace project, particularly in construction and trade certifications. Michelle Ponce from Mega Contracting Group outlines their target of ensuring 30% of new hires are local residents and discusses ongoing discussions with community boards and local organizations to meet this goal. She emphasizes the importance of early involvement in job training and collaboration with unions to maximize opportunities for local employment.
Speaker 13
0:32:13
Just a quick question on the economic development piece.
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You've we've listed here CBOs, building trays, and higher in YCs.
0:32:21
We know the percentage of people in the local area that we can pull to hire from.
0:32:27
Do we know if there's, like, 10%, 15%, 20% are in constructions goals or in union or have some sort of trade certification or credential that we'll be utilizing to hire on this project?
Speaker 10
0:32:40
So we're we will definitely work with the community board and other local organizations to post these jobs.
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Our target is that 30% of new hires be local residents from the any boy.
Speaker 13
0:32:50
Okay.
0:32:50
Mhmm.
0:32:51
So the target goal is 30%, but we haven't initially had any conversations yet to see what the percentage of people in the locality are within the union or have have been credentialed?
Speaker 10
0:33:01
Not yet, but we've started those conversations a bit as we've gone through this.
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You will bring you that process.
Speaker 13
0:33:06
Okay.
0:33:06
Great.
0:33:07
And I I, obviously, as someone that's worked in job training prior, I always love to see when folks are going to add more people to OSHA training and having recruitment sessions.
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As many of us know, job training programs, apprenticeship programs are longer than potentially how long this is gonna take to be built.
0:33:25
And so, you know, I one like to say, please consider as early as you pass we can to start that process, to make sure people from the locality can actually benefit from being on this project.
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Secondarily, working with the unions is super critical and going beyond these bare minimum credentials and making sure people can work.