Q&A
Inquiry about tracking and verifying community hiring requirements
0:56:35
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Council Member De La Rosa asks about HPD's methods for tracking and verifying the 30% community hiring requirement proposed in Intro 910. Ahmed Tigani from HPD explains their current efforts and potential challenges in implementing such a system.
- Discusses ongoing development of a community hiring program and public input process
- Mentions experience with tracking similar requirements for federal funding (Section 3)
- Notes potential technological costs associated with implementing specific ZIP code-based conditions
Carmen N. De La Rosa
0:56:35
Going back to intro 9:10, So we talked about the 30% that the bill would require developers to ensure that at least 30% of the hours worked on the project are worked by residents of the zip code with at least 15% of the population is below the federal poverty rate or residents of nature development.
0:56:56
How would the agency track to verify that 30% of the hours are met on each project?
Ahmed Tigani
0:57:04
So right now we have before the public.
0:57:08
Are advancing of rules to establish our new community hiring program.
0:57:12
Mhmm.
0:57:13
A lot of the work we're trying to do to figure out how we would track our work recruiting from members of the community where we're building these projects.
0:57:22
Is part of that public conversation.
0:57:24
Mhmm.
0:57:25
So that's what we're looking to in terms of input and developing the framework, moving forward around community hiring.
0:57:32
Additionally, we have experienced doing this through our section 3 requirements on federal dollars that we spend, where we're looking and tracking with employers.
0:57:42
There are definitely technology and off the shelf software that we use that have been used in the industry and standard immediate will track some of this information.
0:57:52
Again, the more specific in particular we get with different conditions that either lock in or lock out certain ZIP codes, that would come with a tech cost that we would have to evaluate down the line.
