Speaker 0: Communication from Councilwoman Gonzalez, Councilmember Richardson, Councilman Andrews and Councilman, your recommendation to request the city manager and Pacific Gateway to complete a comprehensive study of what a local higher FSC program would entail and return to City Council within 45 days.
Speaker 1: Councilwoman.
Speaker 6: Yes. I first want to thank my council colleagues, Councilmember Richardson, Councilmember Andrews and Councilmember Otunga, as well as the minister's alliance. I know that from the play we were able to discuss local hire in length. And I think what we. One very important thing that we received from that was that we definitely needed a local hire policy or at least review one that was more comprehensive, that looked at not only just the construction industry, but other industries as well. And I am a council member that represents the 90813. And I know a lot of us have heard a lot about the 90813 and that it is upwards of 19% unemployment. And it's sad. And so I think this is not, you know, the whole answer to it, but it's certainly a really strong answer to unemployment and tackling that and seeing how we can work on that with public development and public dollars. And so I just think my my colleagues for doing that, I think the like I said, the local hire coalition for being a part of this as well and for continuing to work with us. And I think we'll be able to build something very strong here. So thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Counsel Councilor Richardson.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Lina, for bringing this forward. This is this is some might see this as like clean up stuff from the play. But I really think that although this may not have the crowds, this is where the real juice is in terms of hiring our our residents there. This would cover not just construction jobs, but service jobs that the city that the city could could look into as well. So I would want to just. The city's city staff have reported anything on this today. Just. Can we hear from Nick?
Speaker 10: Sure. Nick Schultz.
Speaker 12: No, we don't have a formal report for the council. We have had initial discussions related to the play with some of the local groups, the ministerial alliance and some of the council officers. And we look forward to continuing to work with those folks and develop a report within the 45 day request.
Speaker 7: I just want to thank the Council for for moving forward on this. And I want to say that this is an opportunity for us to include a lot of our pre apprenticeship programs, particularly like like the Star program and the Ace Academy and YouthBuild and other other a lot of other programs into this. So. So thank you very much. And I encourage the Council to support.
Speaker 1: Not summary Ranga.
Speaker 11: Thank you, Mary. And I also want to thank my council members, my cup, my council member colleagues for including me in this motion, because I think it's more important that we have local agreements that are in line with project labor. Agreements mean that's how we get to be successful. And so I'm fully supportive of this and I'm looking forward to working again with our community groups and with the faith based groups. Faith based groups. Got a little list there. Some fun to work on this. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Councilwoman Monk.
Speaker 4: I just wanted to make sure that this includes all types of jobs in the community, not just our labor jobs, but all of our local businesses. The benefit to a community where local hire is prevailing is not just in having your local residents have jobs, but also in the reduction of the commute for the whole region, the reduction of pollution for the whole region. So I just want to make sure that we look at incentives also for our local businesses to hire local and what percentage of their payroll would be local.
Speaker 1: Okay. Thank you. See no other comments. Is there any public comment on the item? Please come forward.
Speaker 9: Very good. Kirk has the address. I would suggest that if any outside were to look, follow this council meeting. And if you listen to the previous long three hour discussion on this other item and this, it would be positive proof that this is a dysfunctional organization where the left hand doesn't talk to the right hand. All of these have merit. This. This argues well for the fact that you jumped the gun. Because this could have it's actually this would mean more than just cleaning up. This could be an essential part of and should have been an essential part of Murray's right in. Without what you spent 3 hours talking about. I would suggest the left hand get to the right hand. And with all the money that this city is spending on communication, it would seem to me that you should start talking, communicating to each other. Let the left hand know what the right hand is doing. This has considerable merit, as does the other. There's no sense in horsing around and setting up two committees to commissions and wasting further time to do it. So I would suggest that we need some. Again, it goes to the issue. We need some better direction from the leadership of this city. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Next speaker.
Speaker 8: Good evening. Derek Simpson, again, executive director of Long Beach County Action Partnership. Though I've learned a lot in my life this last two months in this process has been quite the experience and education in terms of how we can do better about jobs in our community. And it's been because of, as the councilwoman said, the openness and the opportunity to sincerely share information in a way that we could make meaningful and sustainable decisions in our community. I want to thank you again for bringing this item to the agenda of the council tonight, because, as Mr. Richardson said, this is the juice. This is where I use the analogy as I was trying to understand how I could articulate it to you. I just recently bought a really, really nice camera and it does everything that I wanted to do, but I don't know how to make it do it. And I think that by reading my manual and understanding steps one through ten to get through any given process, it helps me get some absolutely wonderful pictures. I think in this case, with that play being a wonderful document, this indeed historic. This particular local hire policy will help us as a community understand how we get the results that it was intended to provide us as a community. So we really hope that we have that continued seat at the table to understand how this policy will help us understand better the play's implementation in our community and make the impact that it was intended to make. We want to ensure that each of you know that we're willing to share whatever information that we have and work with you to make this what it was intended to be. And thank you for bringing it this far with the support of your staff here at the city. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Next speaker, please.
Speaker 14: Good evening, Alexander Hanham with the Legal Aid Foundation and the local hire coalition. In his recent State of the City address, Mayor Garcia encouraged businesses to invest in Long Beach and hire local residents. And with the play and with this agenda item, I think the council and the city have signaled that they're prepared to make that same investment. So we thank you for that and we're excited about that. We look forward to working with the Council to refine this policy to make sure that we can maximize that investment and the benefits to the city of Long Beach. Um. The local hiring policy can work if it's a three part policy, which includes a first class hiring program, local hiring policy for play construction and local hiring for non play construction. We're very excited about the possibility of a first source hiring program. Um, first source hiring can be a great way to, uh, give good jobs in certain sectors to local residents like the service industry. Like retail. Um. First force hiring cannot be used in conjunction with a play. Because unions are under legally binding agreements in the way that they hire for for a certain job. Um, if unions try to circumvent those agreements, then it can subject them to liability. They can violate their agreements. So it's important, in addition to the first source hiring, to have a play specific hiring policy to resolve the remaining questions that need to be answered to ensure that Long Beach residents get the maximum benefits from the play . Um, for example, the policy can spell out the requirements that a resident would need to, um, to qualify as a local resident or as a disadvantaged worker. Um, in addition, and more importantly, the policy can lay out the procedure that contractors must go through, um, to try to hire Long Beach workers before they open up jobs to residents of other cities. So before moving from Tier one to Tier two, what does a contractor have to show, have to demonstrate that they have done. Um, to try to fill those jobs that Long Beach residents. Um, it's our understanding that this policy will include a first class hiring program for non construction jobs as well as a program for play and non play construction jobs. Um, so we respectfully request clarification on that point. Um, but we're excited to work with the Council on this policy and we thank you for agenda item. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Next speaker, please.
Speaker 9: Ernest Roberts again, I think it's great that you guys are looking into the jobs coordinator role in a in a policy. I think that's very important. I can tell you that as has in our work in Los Angeles, we probably put something like 1700 people into the trades, into the various construction trades, the L.A. County building trades and the Carpenters. Um, and the processes in the policy would have to be really clear. I understand that there's been some confusion about the first horse, first horse hire and construction trades, and the first are does not work with union contractors. So even if the project is at $500,000 a union contract, it will still not be able to pull somebody off of a list. They're still going to have to go to the trades and get a dispatch. There's a lot of detail in this thing, but I think I'm glad that you're looking at this and I encourage you to to use whatever expertize you can you can get your hands on. There's a lot of expertize here within our coalition and and in labor to help you figure this out. A clear process of how the trades are going to move, I mean, move to get people from these colleges. You know, the apprenticeship programs are training programs in and of themselves. They generally don't need a lot of apprenticeship training. But I do understand that that's what you guys are doing and that's fine, but at least have a clear process of how that's going to happen and that's what the policy will do or does. So there's two parts to the policy as we see it, because the first horse hire stuff and then there's the stuff that deals with the construction trades and how that process, how the outreach, how the how the, how the, the network of agencies is going to contribute to this to the to this pipeline, which is why the pastors got involved in the first place. It's not unusual for them to see a lot of their congregation with significant issues that need need help in this area. That's why they're here. So just make sure that it happens. Also, for purposes of transparency, it might not be such a bad idea to think about having somebody from the community, somebody as knowledgeable about this as one of that six member panel for the oversight for the for the project labor agreement that will give some transparency, give some assurance to the to the pastors and the rest of the community that this process is open and clear. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Thank you. And I think our last speaker.
Speaker 4: Hello. Council Honorable Mayor Janine Pearce with Lane, Los Angeles Alliance for New Economy. I just want to applaud you guys for your vote earlier and applaud you for taking items. This item number 28, we would just like to to say that we encourage us to look at a robust jobs program to ensure that our plan is really successful. And we'd really like to see a pre apprenticeship program that has a proven track record used as a model for what we can custom make for Long Beach. We want to ensure that low income residents are prioritized, as you already have. And and, of course, veterans making sure we have a carve out for that. At Lane. We have a proven track record of working with organizations like the Hospitality Training Academy as well as L.A. Trade Tech. And we would definitely like to work with Pacific Gateway in trying to make sure that our pipeline in Long Beach is strengthened to make sure that building trades can be successful. And not just in those industries, but also in the tourism industry where we, you know, have raised standards there. But we need to make sure that we're getting local residents into those jobs. And so I just applaud you guys and look forward to working with you on this.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you very much, everyone, for coming in. We're going to turn this back to the council count tomorrow. Yes.
Speaker 2: Yes. Thank you. You know, I think especially in my district, I think without a doubt, the residents in this district, you know, that need the programs like this to get a jumpstart. And that's the needed to in order for them to succeed. So, you know, this is absolutely one of the ways that we can create, I think, really great jobs and thank all the our culture people bringing this to the diocese. Thank you again.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Councilman Ringa.
Speaker 11: Yeah. I, too, want to thank staff applicants for. However, what I've heard a lot about tonight is the input from the community in regards to not only the play, but the stadium as well. And what I'd like to see it for. From here forward, the next 45 days, your staff can reach out to the ministers, your clients to lean to. I mean, they're getting older. It's like, okay, thank you. To reach out and include them in this discussion because I think it's very important that we be as inclusive and transparent as we possibly can in this process. So I would encourage staff to please reach out to these other community groups that are in the audience as well and include them in the discussion.
Speaker 1: Thank you. We're going to go and go now to a vote. Obviously. Thank you to all the community that's been working on this. I know there's been a lot of a lot of meetings and hours and an interest. And I think just so that the community knows that things are important to note, that I think that we actually have a for us on the city side, we have an all star team on this. And I think we're all been very impressed with with Nick Shultz and his ability to do this. And I think he's very excited about the opportunity to bring something forward. And so we want to wish him and his whole team a lot of luck as we put this thing together. So with that is going to take a vote.
Speaker 0: Motion carries seven zero.
Speaker 1: Thank you. And now we're going to go ahead and go to 15.
Recommendation to request City Manager and Pacific Gateway to complete a comprehensive study of what a "Local Hire/FSA" program would entail and return to City Council within 45 days.  The research for the study should be done with Long Beach community partners including faith based organizations, and non-profits working on these issues.  The report should also include an evaluation and feasibility on a job coordinator for the program.