From: Marcy Weaver
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Dear Honorable Mayor and Members of the Chula Vista City Council, I hope this message finds you well. I wish to bring to your attention an issue regarding an email that was sent yesterday but was subsequently returned to the sender.
It is crucial that this correspondence reaches you, as it pertains to a matter of significant importance to our community.
For your convenience, I have included the email in question below for your reference.
Sincerely,
Marcy Weaver
CEO
Chula Vista Chamber of Commerce
Chula Vista Convention and Visitors Bureau
233 Fourth Avenue
Chula Vista, CA 91910
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Subject: Letter on behalf of the Chula Vista Chamber of Commerce Received 9/11/2023
Dear Honorable Mayor and Members of the Chula Vista City Council, The Chula Vista Chamber of Commerce is writing to express strong opposition on the proposed ordinance of a $25 minimum wage for workers employed by healthcare providers in the City of Chula Vista.
For your reference, we have attached our official letter of opposition, which provides a detailed overview of our concerns and objections regarding this proposed ordinance.
Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or require further information.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Marcy Weaver
CEO
Chula Vista Chamber of Commerce
Chula Vista Convention and Visitors Bureau
233 Fourth Avenue
Chula Vista, CA 91910
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233 Fourth Avenue | Chula Vista, CA 91910 | 619.420.6603 | fax 619.420.1269 | www. chulavistachamber. org Board of Directors
President
Susana Villegas
President Elect
Patricia Alvarez
Past President
William Hall
Vice Presidents
Dolores Jackson
Rick King
David Polansky
Dr. Matthew Tessier
Directors
Roberto Alcantar
RisaBaron
Becky Cortez
George Ching
Zulema Maldonado
JesseNavarro
Joyce Padilla
SassanRahimzadeh
Dr. Eduardo Reyes
Jack Straw
Kyle Strong
Jennifer Tabler
Alberto Velasquez
CEO
Marcy Weaver
September10, 2023
Honorable Mayorand Membersof theChulaVista City Council, On September6, 2023 theChula Vista Chamberof CommerceExecutiveCommittee conducteda sessiondevotedto examiningthe facts, consequencesand potentialimpactsof the adoptionof a $25 per hour minimumwage, applicableto healthcareproviders, a topic that will be consideredby the ChulaVista Mayor andCouncil.
We had theopportunityto speak with certainstakeholders, largeand small businessoperators, and Chambermembers. We wereextremely concernedby someof thepossible impactsand consequencesassociatedwith amandated $25 per hour minimum wage.
The unintendedconsequencesdiscussedincluded:
the need to reduce non- reimbursable services to the uninsured and indigent the need to reduce certain categories of service that are now operating at a breakeven point or a loss, such as women’s healthcare, planned parenthood, prenatal care, and mental health services.
wage competition between healthcare providers and non- healthcare providers for certain categories of support services, such as our restaurant / cafeteria workers, unlicensed caretaking staff, janitorial and landscaping services the reduction of Chula Vista healthcare facilities, third-party clinics, out- patient clinical staff, and marginally-performing operating entities
It became clearthat there arepotentiallya myriadof impactsand consequencesthat could affecthealthcarequalityand choicesfor the residentsof Chula Vista. The two majorChulaVista hospitals, includingthe largest private employerin the City, withthe highest averageper capita payroll, aswellas thesecondlargestfull-service hospital, are bothoperatingat a significant deficit. Both hospitals are sustainedby revenues generatedin theirmid and north county healthcareoperations.
Our CityCouncilwouldbe prudentto gatherthe factual data, throughan objective, independent study, to projectthe probableconsequencesof this proposedaction andthe impactsthat this proposal willhave ontheir constituents, ourcity budget, and area businesses.
As a Chamber, after a review of the factors facing our city’s healthcare providers, we cannot supportthe ordinanceunder consideration which will precipitously increasethe healthcare sector minimum wage.
If necessary, with Council’ s concurrence, the Chula Vista Chamber of Commerce stands ready to help gather fundsfor an independentstudyof the impacts this actionmayhaveon the welfareof our citizens, oneof our major industry sectors, and the manysmall and medium businessessustainingour city’s economy.
Sincerely,
Marcy Weaver
CEO
ChulaVista Chamberof Commerce
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Sent: Monday, September 11, 2023 3: 13 PM
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Subject: Agenda Item 8. 2
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September 11, 2023
To: Mayor John McCann ( via electronic submittal)
Councilmember Carolina Chavez
Councilmember Jose Preciado
Councilmember Alonso Gonzalez
Councilmember Andrea Cardenas
Subject: Agenda Item 8.2
Dear Honorable Members of the City of Chula Vista City Council:
The housing crisis is urgent and is affecting every community and every income level in our region. Please do not add additional regulations that will further collapse the housing market. The City’ s current proposals related to a Subcontractor Transparency Ordinance, a Prevailing Wage Ordinance and Project Labor Agreements ( PLA) will further collapse an already struggling housing market in our region.
Project Labor Agreements ( PLAs) for Affordable Housing Project Please remove the requirement for PLAs on Affordable Housing Projects. Requiring PLAs on Affordable Housing Projects will result in less affordable housing units being built within the City of Chula Vista. A PLA requirement adds approximately $ 43, 000 per housing unit to projects covered by the agreement — a 14.5 percent increase in construction costs. Simulations of affordable development housing projects indicate that more than 800 additional housing units can be produced with the same level of funding under a non- PLA scenario.
Prevailing Wage Ordinance
There is current, ongoing litigation in the unincorporated County of San Diego that is directly applicable to the City’s prevailing wage ordinance for traffic control workers. Please wait and see what the court does before passing a similar ordinance.
Subcontractor Transparency Ordinance
This ordinance is setting contractor’ s up for failure and will create additional administrative burdens that greatly open the door for inadvertent clerical oversights and extended stop work periods.
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2.72. 040 ( B) – This section is impossible to manage and totally unnecessary given the inspection hold language. The City is conditioning a City preconstruction meeting on providing subconsultant information, but in reality, when City preconstruction meetings are held, a only select numbers of subconsultants are able to be identified.
2.72. 050( C) –With respect to 180 days of stop work, if a permit doesn’ t have an inspection within 180 days it is cancelled anyways. Therefore, this is a de facto revocation of permit.
We appreciate your consideration in our comments and request you vote no on these items.
Sincerely,
Hannah Gbeh
Vice President of Government Affairs
Building Industry Association of San Diego County
Sources:
1. The Effects of Project Labor Agreements on the Production of Affordable Housing. https:// www. rand. org/ pubs/ research_ reports/ RRA1362-1. html Hannah Gbeh
Vice President of Government Affairs
Building Industry Association of San Diego County
9201 Spectrum Center Blvd. # 110
San Diego, CA 92123
www. biasandiego. org
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