Speaker 0: Item 20 Report from Economic Development and Public Works. Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all documents necessary for the Second Amendment to project labor agreement and execute a new citywide project. Labor agreement for all covered projects over 750,000 and also street related right of way project over 1 million citywide.
Speaker 4: Thank you. Let's go and take it to the staff.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the council. We're excited to be here tonight. We put a lot of good negotiation into a project labor agreement, and we're happy to bring this back after getting some good direction from the council in October and really working through a number of things to make our play even stronger. So I will turn that over to John Keisler and Nick Schulz for the presentation.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Tom. An honorable mayor and members of the city council. Happy to present to you the the details behind the new project labor agreement. So just as a quick background, back in 2015, the council authorized the original play. That agreement funded projects over 500,000. It ran for five years and it required certain things like the jobs coordinator for only projects over a certain amount that was extended by the city council last year so that we could negotiate a new agreement. As you also remember, on October 13th, we actually conducted a study session to get feedback from the city council and hear about the city council priorities. As you, as you recall, the independent jobs coordinator, new definitions for for our workers and who would be eligible for the program and new requirements for holding our contractors accountable for the program goals. Another important aspect that the Council highlighted was how can we use our project labor agreement to create good jobs for disadvantaged communities and include goals from our framework for racial reconciliation? I'm happy to report tonight that this new agreement really does hit on all those priorities and that the Council brought forward at the study session and really grateful for our partners at the trades, members of the community that have really provided a lot of input. And this really does establish a ten year agreement that prioritizes our residents, those that have the most challenges, and adds the independent jobs coordinator for all projects to support them in finding and keeping jobs. This new agreement also substantially adds more eligible projects. In fact, in the last play, we covered about $50 million worth of projects. This one will cover almost a quarter billion dollars over $260 million worth of projects that are projected by our public works department over the next five years. This also expands the definition of disadvantaged workers, adds the accountability that the council had prioritized. And to do this, we also increased the thresholds for projects so that we can cover the costs of these additional support programs, address some of the bidding issues we had encountered in the last play, and provide stability longer and bigger projects for our workers so that they have more continuity in their in their jobs. So just as a quick summary of the specific terms and conditions that the trades and and that our team, Nick Schultz hammered out, this is actually doubles the term from five years to ten years effective on the execution by both parties and covers all projects over $750,000 for street related or right of way projects over $1,000,000. And what we'll be doing is we'll be coming back after five years when we get our new project list to talk with the trades about a cost escalation factor based on year six and through ten. This also the trades have agreed to place referrals from the city in their apprenticeship program. They've also agreed to prioritize local workers on local jobs no matter where they were on the priority hiring list. And it requires the independent jobs coordinator to support all projects no matter their size. Union membership is not required for our residents and workers to participate in the play. And disadvantage workers now have a range of of different categories, including veteran chronic employment, homeless, single parent, criminal record, all of the same categories that the Metro play requires up in Los Angeles. Also, we're expanding our reporting to record disadvantaged work hours by city and tier so that we can better identify if local workers are benefiting from the program. And we're implementing a program on our side to hold our contractors accountable for these hiring goals that the Council has set. In terms of cost, this really will cover 40 to 50 projects over this next five year period. I have to call out Eric Lopez, our public works director, who has been really working closely, closely with us in really being an advocate for how we can make expand the number of projects in total budget. Those 40, 50 to 50 projects over the next five years are projected to be $266 million. That's a five times increase from our last. And we anticipate for the new programs that we talked about around independent jobs, coordination and reporting that it will be about 1% to 2% of the total project cost depending on the size of the project. That is a total of roughly 2.6 million to 5.3 million over the five year period for the total package. There's only one thing that I have to add to this presentation, which is an A. The recommendations should be approved as written except for the following amendment. And I have this up on the screen. It's in the the second recommendation that the language should read beginning after five years from the effective date of this agreement, the parties shall meet and discuss potential changes to these thresholds with any agreement reached to be put in writing and signed by the City and Building Trades Council. So with that, I will end my report and I'm happy with here with Nick Schulz, who really was at the forefront of negotiating this agreement to answer any questions you might have. Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Thank you. Mr. Murdoch, did you have any additional comments?
Speaker 6: Just that I am really happy with the work that was done. I think we've seen a lot of great projects getting done through our project labor agreement over the past five years. We've employed a lot of people. We've reported on all of that progress and the last time that we did this and we're going to keep tracking it and looking about prioritizing jobs going forward. This also is part of our reconciliation work. As the council passed, the reconciliation plan was to really look at how do we do additional jobs, especially in areas that haven't had access to jobs. And that's what the jobs coordinator is going to do. So with that, we're turn it back to the council for questions.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you. I'm going to make a few comment and then turn it over to Councilmember Ringa who made the motion. Let me let me just begin broadly by saying that I'm really proud that Long Beach has really led the way in the creation of its original city wide project labor agreement. It was not it was done, obviously, with a lot of pain that went into it getting there. And I remember first being on the council when we were having these discussions and the resistance that we ran into as council members and certainly even even some resistance are when all of us came off this body together, a lot of folks that were still learning about what these project labor agreements were really all about from the community. But we got it done and we signed really one of the most substantial city wide agreements in the state of the agreement. It was a partnership with our construction trades, with all of our building trades that do such amazing work across our city, who build our city every single day. And I want to just thank each and every one of them, especially Ron Miller, who has carried who's been our go to leader on that end, but really all the heads of all the trades and the members. And I just want to also note that our work on this place and of course, the work that's happening now as we extend our wasn't just about what happened here in Long Beach, but we took this energy and began to work then with the port to ensure that they had a play. And then pretty soon Long Beach City College moved forward and they put a project labor agreement in place. And then recently the school district moved forward and put their project labor agreement in place. So we we made this not just about our public projects, our large infrastructure projects. We created a system where all project public projects across the city, across jurisdiction, would be ensured to have these level of good jobs. And we know that these projects come in and they come in in great shape. They're done by skilled labor. There's community benefits. There's apprenticeship programs. And they're done with the quality that we expect and within the budget parameters that we put in place. And so it's been it's been a home run for us, really proud to be here again for this extension. And I want to thank all the members that have been so supportive of our project labor agreement work. And so with that, we have a motion and first step is councilmember uranium.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Mayor. And if you can please put up a Slide seven. Think it's the one that I will be referring to. I want to agree totally with everything that the mayor said when I was on the committee, college board trustees. There was an effort also to create a play when I was on that board and there was resistance as well as during the time that Councilmember Ranga was on the city council to try to bring this forward. And there was also resistance in those days. So this is a major threshold that we're crossing at this point. You can put up Slide seven that. Anyway, the the whole issue is that it is community based. We are still doing a remarkable job of working with our community, our affiliates with Ron Miller and the construction and trades with all the other unions. And we're also dealing with this long before the legal foundation, I'll tell you, the teachers Liberal Lobbyist Mediation Project and many other community groups and leaders who also put a lot of work into this project. The most important parts of the project, obviously, I guess I'm able to fly there, is that it provides the Metro's definition of a disadvantage worker, and it also includes in their the city's ability to not only track these disadvantaged workers, but also find out where the cities are, what period you're in. And also, I think the most important part of it is that it holds our contractors accountable for local, for meeting local, and it's valid, charitable. I think that's one of the most important aspects of this project labor agreement. And as mayor said, it also provides a guarantee that the work that gets done in the city, in Long Beach and that well is done with codes and that with the the knowledge that there are going to be fair wages and living wages for workers in this project. So I'm very happy and pleased toward this motion forward. And we appreciate the unanimous endorsement supported by council. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Councilmember. Next up is Councilwoman Cindy.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mayor. I just want to.
Speaker 2: Give.
Speaker 1: A huge congratulations to city staff to council member Rhode Island for all the hard work throughout the year that has been done in advocating for our local construction trade jobs. I know it's been really great to be able to see, you know, this this presentation and see how much work has been put into it. I'm really excited because this this agreement actually brings so many good paying jobs to so many residents in need, especially right now. We're going to need so much of this. So I am looking forward to supporting this item. And again, congratulations on this.
Speaker 4: Thank you. Council member Austin.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Obviously, this item has my full support. I want to congratulate and just salute staff for negotiating a great agreement with the the building trades and the interest. I love the fact that many of the points raised by the community over the years, as we have learned over the last five years with the play of how to tweak it, our, our, our, our recommendations to to look at the Metro agreement, it looks like we're we're fully implement kit and agreed upon in this this agreement and that I think will help with equity but but ensure that that a as a member already mentioned that we have quality labor peace and quality projects in our city expands it to many other public works jobs that that we currently do now which I think is good. Local hiring is is extremely, extremely important. And I just want to just mention how far we've come. You know, over the last five years, I can remember, you know, the very first meeting when Patrick O'Donnell was the original author to to move the project labor agreement forward. I was a coauthor on that had matriculated it brought came back with you know Gonzales so much work and effort has come in over the years but it did start off very rocky and with a lot of uncertainty and uneasiness. And today I think we it's a 180 degrees. The relationship with the building trades over the last five years and the results that the original play has produced are commendable and something that we can build upon. And so I'm looking forward to supporting this item and putting people to work over the next several years. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Thank you. Council member I'm sorry. Vice Mayor Richardson is next.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This is certainly a monumental, monumental achievement for a Long Beach. The last play represented about $2 billion in work. This new play tonight represents more than $260 million more significantly. That's five times the impact on this honest play. It's five times the opportunity. Most of the jobs are coming to our local community, and that's largely by expanding to include street projects. And my colleagues are right. This has been refined. I want to lift up Councilmember Turanga, who's really been a voice and advocate for this since his time at LBC. Standing up for, you know, construction, local training and jobs. So I think it's appropriate that, you know, that he made this motion tonight. And I know he's got a tremendous like going to try to do it. I remember when I was a chief of staff, Steve Meal Break Appalachian Gerry ships Detroit. It's been a long history and it wasn't really until I think 2014 when all of us joined the city council that the support, the votes were there to really make this happen. I'm glad to see that the four high level community needs have been addressed in here. Shout out to the Long Beach local hire coalition and Long Beach Ministers Alliance. They fought for eight years to get this right. These these recommendations were not new. They advocated for these. When we began begin this conversation. They were advocating for these these these four measures. And it's great to see that it's been negotiated. Thank you to the L.A. Building Trades Council and city staff for making sure that these provisions are there. I also want to acknowledge the work of the Long Beach Racial Group Racial Equity and Reconciliation Initiative, specifically calling out the opportunity to ensure that the construction workforce reflects our local community. That's important. So the four pieces, the independent jobs coordinator, I'm glad to see this. They're utilizing strategies from the equity toolkit that's important to ensure that black workers, brown workers from our local communities of color can work on these projects. I'm glad to see the definition of disadvantaged work targeting the most to need. You know, I've said it before, we have a k-shaped recovery disadvantage, workers taking a lot longer to recover. So we have to align all of our strategies, including the play with that effort on reporting disadvantage, work hours. Incredibly important. Talked about this and glad to see that in there. And I love that we have a process to move the metro, hold contractors accountable. That's the view of all these things together has brought brought us to this point. So this is a big moment for the community. It's a big moment for jobs, the big moment for labor. It's a big moment, moment for language. And it's all about the recovery. So so thanks a lot. And I'm happy to support this motion.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Councilwoman Allen. Councilwoman Allen.
Speaker 7: Not going too well. Sorry about that. Yes, I'm sorry about that. I was still on mute. Yes. Thank you, Mayor. And I'm just really excited that we're at a good point and that everyone is happy. And I know that it always hasn't been this way in the past, but so much good work has been put into this . And I have heard from several of our partners and this is a good package. Local hires. Goals are being met and the play has mechanisms to ensure a good faith effort by contractors, which is good. It encourages hiring of disadvantaged workers and implements independent job coordinator and also covers our street and gas line projects that weren't covered in the past. But most importantly, like my colleagues have already talked about, it establishes a ten year agreement that prioritizes Long Beach residents on the hiring list. And this is important for our community in a time where, you know, we need these jobs. So I do want to thank John Keiser and Nick Schultz and Eric Lopez for their work on this play and for all of our partners and trade. And I also want to acknowledge my colleague, Councilman Roberto Ranga, for his history and advocating for our local construction trades since his time on the council. So great work, everyone, and I'm excited to pass this tonight.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Councilman Allen. Councilwoman Pryce.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Can you hear me okay?
Speaker 4: Yes. No problem.
Speaker 2: Okay. Thank you very much. I do want to acknowledge the great work of staff of getting us to this point. And I know that during the conversations tonight, we've talked a lot about, you know, initial resistance to this. And I'm not sure exactly what specific conduct or words folks are recalling, but I do. Just like Councilman Austin, I do remember when this item came forth, I believe we were having our meeting offsite at the Highland Park Community Center when we first discussed this topic. And I think, you know, I was one of the council members that really was concerned about the additional cost of the project, because that was a community concern that would city projects now take on an additional cost. So I don't know that I would necessarily call that resistance, but I was really grateful at the time because the makers of the motion did accept some of the friendlies that I made that resulted in us having more transparency and regular reporting than we would normally have on citywide projects, which allowed us to be able to demonstrate to the constituents the best use of the public funds that we were using for these projects, which of course, is is the number one concern for all of us with the fiduciary duty to to make sure that we're getting the best price for projects. One thing that I have learned over the years is as several of the projects in my district and along the coastline have been completed with the play, they've been tremendously successful projects. And while there may be an additional cost associated with the terms of a play, that cost is is far outweighed by the benefits of utilizing a play. What I have been able to determine and speak of as fact from my own personal opinion as a result of some of the report back requirements that were part of the friendly amendment that we adopted five years ago, actually seven years ago, was that six years ago, on balance, the additional costs of the yielded in projects that are consistent in terms of the work quality and the quality of the final product, the efficiencies that have been identified as a result of working of the play, our efficiencies that we would not have without a play. And I think overall having some consistency and also at the same time putting quality Long Beach and regional workers on our city projects has far outweighed any additional costs that would come with the projects. And in my experience, the projects that I've been involved in have all come in under budget. So I feel very confident. I'm grateful that we had a robust dialog that was critical of some of the the concerns because we were able to demonstrate through the data that the play is actually a beneficial opportunity for the city in terms of executing city wide projects. And I'm grateful for John Keisler and Nick Schulz for putting the work that they put into place tonight, but also in the consistent reporting that was adopted as part of this provision in 2015. So I fully support this project and I look forward to having more city wide projects that can be completed through a play. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Councilman Mongo.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I want to thank so many members of our community who have continued to stand up for the community needs. I remember the dialog as well and at the time I was really modeling my goals after the Metro contract. It was the only conference that I was pretty familiar with and in meeting with elected officials that had passed a play and they really felt it was the gold standard. And here we are today. I'm able to mirror some of those things today, so I want to appreciate Labor for their work over the last five years. They've done excellent projects that I don't think would have been possible without the coordinated collaboration between our staff, the unions and the bid winners. And then I also want to thank our city staff. It has not been an easy path. It is a lot of additional work and we know that you're taking it on and taking it very seriously has led to amazing community impacts for individuals who might not otherwise have a job. And when you talk to someone who has had an opportunity because of the building trades and the confidence they have and how you can hear in their voice that their life has changed, you can tell that these agreements are really more than just jobs. They're really life. They're life for a family. They're breadwinners, they're community members that are able to have a living wage and also feel competent about how they can be a productive member of the community by contributing to their family. And so I just want to thank everyone who's worked with me over the past several years. I had a lot to learn about plays, and I think that now as a member of a council that's really I'm leading with with partnership, I'm really proud to be here. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Councilwoman. Next up is Councilman Ringo.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. I haven't had a chance to speak yet. I don't know if you're kind of going back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have your next. Sorry about that. Let me, let me. Let me. Let me, actually. What am I going to cancel in sorrow. And then I'll go to Castleman sorrow.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Sorry about that. I thought. Councilmember, you and I have spoken already, but I just want to make sure that to thank everyone who has been involved to getting it to this version, I know that it's taken a lot of conversations and work. And so I think John Kaiser Mitchell and Eric Lopez and their staff are getting it working so hard. And also our community organizers and advocates who have also made sure that we got all these different pieces together particularly. So just making sure I know that it's going to help, you know, contribute to increasing equity in my district. And I especially think it's a bit important that we incorporate the Metro's play definition of disadvantage workers and getting independent jobs coordinator. And it's going to be so crucial to ensuring that we get people in my district back to work and improving the livelihoods in their family as well. And also, I just want to echo to what Councilwoman Allen shared about again, referring back to Councilmember Urunga, as, you know, making this motion and his leadership and not only having his expertize around plays and labor and workforce development to the council, but also at bringing it from his past work as a LPC trustee. So I'm very supportive of this item and happy to support it. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Thank you. And now Councilmember Ringo.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Mayor. And I want to express my gratitude to all my colleagues for their very positive thoughts on this project here and the project legal agreement. It's been a long time coming. It's been a labor of love for many of us. And it's a culmination of a lot of blood, sweat and tears volunteers in bringing this forward. But one last thing, if I can. I'd like to see if we can have an annual review as to how we're doing with our place in our hiring efforts so that we can keep track of what we're doing here. And with that, a motion to approve the project agreement. Okay.
Speaker 4: Can we take public comment, please?
Speaker 6: Our first speakers, Abraham Zavala. Abraham Zavala.
Speaker 3: Hello? Yes. Yes. Please begin. Okay. Hello, everybody. This is Lopez speaking on behalf of Abraham that I couldn't make it. Representing Libra. Hello, Honorable Mayor and City Council. Thank you so much for digging. And also thank you for taking step forward and doing what's right, right. And protecting and ensuring that workers here locally get jobs. And hopefully with the new steps, we can ensure that local Long Beach residents are the ones taking up these local jobs with good benefits and the entry way to also union jobs that will ensure, you know, and ensure that we continue to grow middle class. So you can offer an opportunity to recreate and regrow a middle class to low income, marginalized residents who at times are, you know, put to the side, whether it's a criminal record or any other thing that is, you know, not allowing them to get a job. And, you know, we're offering opportunities here. So as a Long Beach resident, I'm really excited to see this forward. Really happy to see this as a tenant advocate, you know, to be able to offer, you know, opportunity for people who, like I said, get marginalized. And as we take that forward towards equity, you know, we're headed in the right direction. So, once again, thank you so much. And as a member of the of the coalition, you know, we support this and are really thankful for everyone who's taking a stab at this. Thank you.
Speaker 6: I think your next speaker is Chris Hannon.
Speaker 3: Chris Hannan. Hello. Good evening. Honorable mayor, honorable city council members. This is Chris Hannan, representative for the Los Angeles Orange County's Building Construction Trades Council. The city of Long Beach is the project. Labor agreement has created opportunities for so many, with 235,000 work hours that were created or that were worked constructing those projects for the residents of Long Beach, the impact was much greater. And I'd like to echo some of the comments that were made earlier. The impact and example the city of Long Beach said is just so much bigger than that. The individuals that were taken in through the Long Beach City College's apprenticeship readiness program. That was created because of the city of Long Beach's Project Labor Agreement. Those individuals are now over the same period of time working between 680 to 850000 work hours for that same five year period of time. It's led to other project labor agreements and community workforce agreements in the area. When I was at the Long Beach Unified School District's meeting, as well as the Long Beach City College's meetings for their project labor agreements, there were individuals that started their careers because of the city of Long Beach. This play. And it's just incredible the impact that it's made on their lives. And now they're working not just on those Long Beach projects, but in and around the region. And bringing those dollars back to their communities along the Pacific Gateways has done a great job supporting and removing barriers for these for these candidates as they entered into apprenticeship . And now many of them are even completing their apprenticeships and our journey level workers within our local unions. So the new ten year agreement is just going to create an expansion of those opportunities. And on behalf of the Building Trades Council and our local union affiliates and apprenticeship programs, we support the approval of item number 20. And want to thank all of you for the partnership. Thank you.
Speaker 6: I think your next speaker is Elsa tung.
Speaker 2: Hi. Good evening, Honorable Mayor and City Council. My name is Elsa Tung from Long Beach Forward, a member of the Long Beach Local Hire Coalition, which is a community based coalition that has been fighting for years for local and disadvantaged hire. Best practices within the city wide project labor agreement to benefit our Long Beach neighbors most in need. Today we say thank you. Thank you so much to economic development director John Keisler to city staff and to our council champions. Thank you for listening and with your vote today, thank you for doing right by our community. The proposed new plea includes the four structural improvements that have been consistently recommended by the local higher coalition to strengthen local disadvantage. Tire number one require an independent jobs coordinator for all projects to define disadvantaged worker using Metro's definition, which targets the most economically and socially disadvantaged population. Three Report Disadvantaged work hours by city or tier. So we know if Long Beach residents are benefiting and for use Metro's process for holding contractors liable for local and disadvantaged hiring goals . Council members recall that under the original 2015 plea, only an average of 19% of work hours were performed by Long Beach workers, with a majority of work hours coming from outside Long Beach. With these four structural changes, we should see this balance tips back toward Long Beach workers, and specifically the Long Beach workers who are most structurally disadvantaged. Finally, I want to read out loud the equity lens section of the staff report, because this is the city's promise that everyone needs to hear, quote, exploring and enhancing the role of the independent jobs coordinator in the proposed plan to improve access to local jobs for black communities and communities of color was explicitly called for as an action item in the strategy for Advancing Economic Equity in the city's Racial Equity and Reconciliation Initiative. Report to advance the strategy, the play administrator in the Economic Development Department will develop an implementation plan using strategies from the Equity Toolkit to enhance the role of the Independent Jobs Coordinator in the recruitment, training and ongoing support of black workers and local communities of color for work on play projects. Now, to keep track of this promise over the next ten years of the agreement, the play should be brought back to council regularly for official review and evaluation council members. We find ourselves in one of the worst health, economic and racial injustice crises this city has ever seen. But with your leadership, we will have a brighter future. Thank you so much for your leadership today. Thank you.
Speaker 6: I think your next speaker is Jessie. I'll call her.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, also the council on all council. Mayor, my name is Jessie Alcala. I am a single father of five daughters. I live in the city of Long Beach. And the one thing I want to thank the city council for is creating this program that focuses on disadvantaged workers like myself. I am a single parent raising five girls all on my own. And this opportunity that I believe that can program, that can provide. Well to make a huge impact on my life and many lives. Long Beach residents. So what we would like to do is to have a strong commitment from the Honorable Council to stay focused on hiring locals as an active tenant leader in the housing. Just a moment. I want to call on council to remember that your jobs can lead to more stable housing for families like myself and my residents around. Thank you for your time.
Speaker 6: Thank your next speaker, Suzanne Brown.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Good evening. My name is Suzanne Brown, and I'm an attorney with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles in our Long Beach office. I'm speaking this evening on behalf of the Long Beach Local Hire Coalition. Our coalition came together eight years ago to fight for strong, local and disadvantaged hiring requirements in the city's play. We strongly support plays and all the benefits of good paying union jobs, which is why the local and disadvantaged hiring pieces are so important to us. While it has taken some time to get the local and disadvantaged hiring provisions right, the recommendations in the staff report reflect what the community has been fighting for since the Coalition was formed eight years ago. We want to acknowledge this progress. We strongly support the adoption of a new play for ten years, with the four additional provisions laid out in the staff report, which you've heard restated many times, requiring an independent third party jobs coordinator for all play projects, utilizing Metro's definition of disadvantaged worker reporting, disadvantage, work hours by city or tier, and using Metro's process for holding contractors liable. These additional provisions will bring languages play into alignment with best practices by our partners in the region, such as L.A. Metro, and they will result in more jobs for Long Beach residents at a time when jobs are desperately needed. With the devastating and unequal impacts of the COVID 19 pandemic, we must seize opportunities to assist with a more equitable recovery. The play is one such opportunity and it was identified as such in the reconciliation initiative. We want to especially thank Councilmember Urunga and Vice Mayor Richardson for the leadership on this item. They have been working alongside us for years now. We also want to thank John Keisler and his team for working with us to create a play that includes the community's priorities. Thank you.
Speaker 6: I think your next speaker is coming off of a.
Speaker 2: Bob. President.
Speaker 3: Yes, good evening. Mayor and city council some provide here. You know, I just wanted to mention that, you know, ever since this project global agreement was in place five, six years ago, you know, thanks to the city mayor and. And the city council for taking on the adoption of the plea. You know, we know it was, you know, hard negotiations between the building trades, Roger Miller and Ray and and and the city staff at the time. But, you know, we we always experience these type of project labor agreements that come across a renewal process. And I don't think there's not one project labor agreement that has not been renewed since the project labor agreements have been in place for for many, many years. So, you know, I just want to echo the mayor's comments when he mentioned earlier about, you know, the city of Long Beach taking on, you know, throughout the city departments and the different agencies in the city of Long Beach that have adopted project agreements. Thank you to you, Mayor, for, you know, being the advocate that you are and the city council, you know, being advocates as well to the to the other agencies within the city. You know, and I think, you know, the city of Long Beach, you know, you know, take their hats off and say, hey, you know what? You're the you're basically the only city that has done this, I think, in all California, when it comes to having all the different agencies within the city of Long Beach adopt a project labor agreement. And I think the top probably three or four cities that have adopted a ten year agreement, you know, within L.A. County. So, you know, this is you know, this this day is a historical day, especially moving forward with the infrastructure dollars that the city is looking forward to in the near future. We look forward to working closely with the city of Long Beach and making sure that these project improvements, you know, keep keep moving and in making sure that we keep ourselves accountable. I want to thank the city staff, Nick and John and Public Works director for negotiating this contract. You know, these contracts and you know, they're not easy, but, you know, you guys got it done. And, you know, he'll be out tonight getting this applicants approved. So thank you. Thank you very much. And we look forward to working closely with the city and then. Thank you.
Speaker 6: That concludes public comment for this item.
Speaker 0: Mayor. That concludes public comment.
Speaker 4: Customer Ringa before we go to the depot or I'm sorry you made a motion. I just want to confirm that that includes the the revisions the staff discussed.
Speaker 3: Yes, it does. And I also think in the annual review of the progress.
Speaker 4: Yes, we we definitely we definitely got that and then I have so that's the motion to have the second by councilman's in Dallas and councilman price.
Speaker 2: Tamara, just real quickly, I wanted to just highlight a couple of things as as my colleagues were talking. It occurred to me that this conversation regarding plays has been going on far before, even when I was on the council and councilman Councilman Ranga highlighting that former Councilwoman Ranga had also brought this issue before council and that he himself had brought it with City College as a reminder that this is a lot of conversation. Then when I was involved in this through this council, and so there probably has been a lot of historical procedures with resistance and concerns and things in the past that I'm not even aware of. But I do. I would be remiss if I didn't call out specifically now Assemblymember O'Donnell and Senator Gonzales. Assemblymember O'Donnell is the one who brought that item forth at that first meeting that I think lasted until one or 2 a.m. at Highland Park, where we first talked about this issue. And he was really passionate about the topic and did a lot to educate me. And I know some of my other colleagues on why he felt passionately about it. And when he went on to the assembly, Senator Gonzalez really took the lead on this as well. And so, Councilmember Ranga, thank you for your efforts on this and for reminding us of how long this discussion has actually been happening, that it even predated you on this body, but that you had initiated on the College Board as well. So I really appreciate that. But I didn't want the night to go by without acknowledging some of our former colleagues who contributed so much to this conversation. So thank you.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Councilwoman. There is a motion and a second roll call. Vote, please.
Speaker 0: District one. I district to. I think District three, I District four.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 0: District five. District five. I. Can you hear me? Yes, thank you.
Speaker 2: Oh, good. Thank you.
Speaker 0: District six. I. District seven.
Speaker 3: A resounding A.
Speaker 0: District eight.
Speaker 3: II.
Speaker 0: District nine.
Speaker 3: By.
Speaker 0: Motion carries.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much. Moving on, we have I think we've got four or five kind of second readings of ordinances. So why don't we go ahead and get through these rather quickly? I 22 please.
Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary for the Second Amendment to Project Labor Agreement (PLA) No. 33859 between the City of Long Beach and the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council, and the signatory Craft Councils and Local Unions, to extend the terms of the PLA from its expiration date of December 31, 2020 to March 1, 2021, or the effective date of a new PLA, whichever occurs first; and 

Authorize City Manager to execute a new citywide Project Labor Agreement between the City of Long Beach and the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council, and the signatory Craft Councils and Local Unions, for all covered projects over $750,000, and all street-related right-of-way projects over $1,000,000, for a period of ten years, with an annual cost-escalation factor beginning after year five of the PLA.  (Citywide)