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Discussion on construction pre-apprenticeship program funding and details
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Council Member Feliz inquires about the $1 million baseline funding for construction pre-apprenticeships, and Commissioner Gross provides details on the program's success and impact.
- The program has operated successfully for about eight years
- It provides a pathway to union construction careers for New Yorkers from low to moderate income communities
- Over 1,000 participants have been served, with a 90% completion rate and 75% job placement in union trades
- The program aims to serve about 200 New Yorkers per year when fully scaled
Oswald Feliz
0:56:37
A few questions about new needs at SBS.
0:56:41
The moving on from the bids and the containerization rules.
0:56:46
The preliminary plan includes an additional $8,600,000 for various programs such as formation, job training and partnerships, and jobs jobs NYC.
0:56:57
The plan includes a $1,000,000 baseline for job trainings, construction, pre apprenticeships.
0:57:03
Talk to us about this program and can you provide details on how the funding will be used?
Dynishal Gross
0:57:09
Yes, thank you Council Chair Feliz.
0:57:12
The construction pre apprenticeship program is a program that SBS operated successfully for I believe eight years.
0:57:21
The program provides a pathway to construction careers, union construction careers which lead to you know great middle class wages for New Yorkers who are able to access them and the program attempts to expand access to for New Yorkers from low to moderate income communities and areas of the city and groups in the city that have historically not connected to union opportunities at a high rate.
0:57:51
We're really proud of the work that we've done through this program over its existence.
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We've served over a thousand participants.
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Those participants have completed the pre apprenticeships at a 90% completion rate and over seventy five percent of them have been connected to jobs in union trades.
0:58:11
So we are very excited to have this money restored in the January plan and we are working this fiscal year to reestablish these programs and have first outputs these, this fiscal year because we don't think this is work that can wait, and we are also excited to carry it forward into the out years.
Oswald Feliz
0:58:33
Does this program assist specific communities in need of job skills and training and also how many individuals will this program assist?
Dynishal Gross
0:58:42
So this program is not geographically targeted again we are confined to certain geographies.
0:58:49
We attempt to serve high need New Yorkers so those from low and moderate income communities including our NYCHA communities and we have served about 200 New Yorkers per year through the intervention.
0:59:03
This year we're starting with a partial year, so the output for f y twenty five may be less than that, but we'll be back up to full scale in f y twenty six.