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Packet Pg. 2086 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 1] (5880 : Propose policy changes needed to elevate Santa ITEM 16.C.
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Packet Pg. 2087 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 1] (5880 : Propose From: [email protected]
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Saving Downtown
Date: Friday, July 21, 2023 11:25:38 AM
Attachments: Screenshot 2023-07-21 at 10.28.40 AM(1).png Screenshot 2023-07-21 at 10.17.57 AM.png
EXTERNAL
Dear City Council,
Turning the Sears building into a Los Angeles Artist Series and saving the Civic Auditorium are essential to the redevelopment of Santa Monica as a global destination for arts, culture, tourism, dining and world class events.
A restored Civic Auditorium and a Los Angeles Artist Series, combined with the Santa Monica Pier represent 150,000+ sq ft of potential convention and event space. This would allow you to compete for larger events..
It would also give Santa Monica two indoor and 3 total potential concert stages right in the downtown area.
These facilities combined with the SAMO HS athletic facilities would make Santa Monica a very attractive place for filming. By taking a look at the map, you can see just how many facilities would be available to incoming productions if properly marketed.
An LA Artist Series would be able to hold production vehicles in the parking lot, by passing any need for invasive street permits for productions. We would also have on site, a substantial stock of camera and event equipment.
Once you include the possibilities of Belmar field and the bandshell with Santa Monica’s year round weather, it start to become easy to image opportunities for a music week, art week, fashion week, conventions, music festivals, outdoor film festivals and more that would bring tourism, shopping, diners and hotel room bookings..
Joe DiRosa
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Packet Pg. 2088 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 1] (5880 : Propose policy changes needed to elevate Santa Monica) From: Natalya Zernitskaya
To: councilmtgitems
Cc: Gleam Davis; Lana Negrete; Christine Parra; Oscar de la Torre; Phil Brock; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; David White
Subject: 7/25/23 Council Agenda Item 16C- Public Comments Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2023 1:38:42 PM
EXTERNAL
RE: Item 16C
Good Afternoon Mayor Davis, Mayor Pro Tem Negrete, and City Councilmembers, I fully support the request by Mayor Davis, Mayor Pro Tem Negrete, and Councilmember Zwick to “direct the City Manager to explore and propose policy and regulatory changes needed to elevate Santa Monica's attractiveness as a major event venue. Positioning Santa Monica as a sought-after location to attract both local and international events would facilitate the City’s ability to proactively capitalize on several upcoming opportunities and support local businesses, stimulate economic recovery, further promote tourism, and provide new revenue sources to fund community programs and services for Santa Monica residents.”
I hope that this item will be an easy and unanimous “yes” vote by all Councilmembers and look forward to hearing from the City Manager on how Santa Monica can elevate our attractiveness as a major event venue at a future City Council meeting.
Sincerely,
Natalya Zernitskaya
Natalya Zernitskaya (she/her)
[email protected]
ITEM 16.C.
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Packet Pg. 2089 Attachment: Written Comments [Revision 1] (5880 : Propose policy changes needed to elevate Santa Monica) City Council
Report
City Council Meeting: July 25, 2023
Agenda Item: 16.D
1 of 1
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Denise Anderson Warren, City Clerk, Records and Election Services Department
Subject: Request of Councilmember Torosis, Mayor Davis and Councilmember Zwick that the City Council direct the City Manager to return to Council with recommendations addressing skilled and trained labor requirements for renewable energy projects and related infrastructure either City funded or placed upon City property to be installed by state-certified electricians. The City Manager should address proposed requirements outlined in attachment A in developing recommendations for Council consideration.
Prepared By: Denise Anderson Warren, City Clerk
Approved Forwarded to Council
Attachments:
A. Renewable Energy jobs - Attachment A
B. Written Comments
16.D
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Attachment A:
1. All contracted work shall be performed by State Licensed C-10 Electrical contractors and comply with the requirements thereof set forth in California law.
2. Electrical work will be performed by California state certified general electricians and apprentices registered in a state of California approved joint labor management apprenticeship program.
3. Sixty percent (60%) of all “Journeyman” electricians must be graduates of a Joint Labor Management State of California Approved Electrical Apprenticeship Training Program unless for an EVSE Project governed by Section 2 of this resolution below.
4. A minimum of 25% of job site electrical workers must be OSHA 10 Hour General Industry Safety & Health Certified.
5. At least one job site electrical worker must be OSHA 30 Hour General Industry Safety & Health Certified.
6. The ratio of “journeymen” to apprentices shall comply with requirements set forth in California law.
7. At a minimum, one job-site supervisor or job-site foreman supervising the EV Work at each job site is required to be an Electrical Vehicle Infrastructure Training Program (“EVITP”) certified electrician.
8. A minimum of fifty percent (50%) of the state certified general electricians performing the EV Work on each job site shall be EVITP certified electricians.
9. Fifty percent (50%) of all “Journeyman” electricians must be graduates of a Joint Labor Management State of California Approved Electrical Apprenticeship Training Program.
10. EVITP certification requirements do not apply to apprentices.
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Packet Pg. 2091 Attachment: Renewable Energy jobs - Attachment A (5884 : Address trained labor requirements for renewable energy projects) From: Joe Sullivan
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Letters of Support Item 16 (D)
Date: Monday, July 24, 2023 10:39:37 AM
Attachments: SM Renewable Energy Training - LOS NECA 16 (D).pdf IBEW LOS SM Renewable Enegy Training 16(D).pdf
EXTERNAL
Hi, please find the enclosed letters of support for Item 16 (D) for the July 25th Council meeting from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 11 and the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA). Please let me know what questions you have. Thanks! Joe Sullivan
Director of Energy & Workforce Solutions
IBEW 11/NECA L.A./LMCC
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ITEM 16.D.
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Packet Pg. 2092 Attachment: Written Comments (5884 : Address trained labor requirements for renewable energy projects) ITEM 16.D.
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Attachment: Written Comments (5884 : Address trained labor requirements for renewable energy projects) Santa Monica City Council July 21, 2023
City Hall Council Chambers
1685 Main Street, Room 250
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Re: Policy Requiring Renewable Energy Technologies Be Installed by Electricians Who Meet Training and Education Standards - - Agenda Item 16 (D) (a)
Dear Mayor Davis, Council Members, and City Staff:
On behalf of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 11, which represents approximately 12,000 members in Los Angeles County, I am writing to express our strong support for agenda item 16 (D) (a) requiring renewable energy technologies, including electric vehicle infrastructure, solar and battery energy storage systems and microgrids, be installed by trained, educated and licensed electricians.
IBEW Local 11 thanks Santa Monica for its leadership in Sustainability. In addition to all it has already accomplished, Santa Monica’s impressive goals of zero waste, water self-sufficiency and carbon neutrality, including electrifying the Big Blue Bus, will continue to improve air quality, help the state achieve its goals, and set an example for the rest of the nation.
By requiring certain renewable energy measures needed to achieve its targets be installed by skilled and trained electricians, Santa Monica will not only guarantee safety, efficacy, and achievement of desired energy generation/savings, it will create high-road careers. The training and education requirements in this item will lead to careers that pay family-sustaining wages and benefits, no-cost apprenticeship training opportunities with job placement with long-term career pathways, and equity and inclusion.
IBEW works with our partners at the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) and the Los Angeles/Orange County Building Trades to ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion in our apprenticeship recruitment. Our outreach team collaborates with community groups like the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, 2nd CALL, Women in Non-Traditional Employment Roles (WINTER), Helmets to Hardhats and others to reach populations that are traditionally underrepresented in the workforce.
Santa Monica is leading our county in sustainability. By adopting this item, Santa Monica will make sure its sustainability efforts are installed safely, perform as intended, create high-road careers and provide opportunities for underrepresented populations. IBEW Local 11 strongly supports this.
Sincerely,
Joel Barton
Business Manager
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ITEM 16.D.
JULY 25, 2023
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Packet Pg. 2094 Attachment: Written Comments (5884 : Address trained labor requirements for renewable energy projects) From: Dave Everett
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Agenda Item 16.D discriminates against minority-owned contracting firms Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2023 1:06:15 PM
Attachments: MeritConstructionAlliance.pdf
WECA_OppositionToSantaMonicaAgendaItem16D_25July2023.pdf
EXTERNAL
Item: 16.D, SKILLED AND TRAINED LABOR REQUIREMENTS FOR
RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS AND RELATED
INFRASTRUCTURE TO BE INSTALLED BY STATE-CERTIFIED
ELECTRICIANS.
July 25, 2023
Council Members,
I sent in a shorter message opposing Agenda Item 16.D earlier so that I would make the 12pm deadline for public comments, however I wanted to follow up with some more detail for you and the appropriate city staff.
Currently written, these proposed requirements outlined in “Attachment A” would exclude over 80% of construction workers who are not “Joint Labor” construction workers, but instead choose to join a “unilateral” State of California approved electrical apprenticeship training program.
The solution is to simply remove the term “joint labor” from the document and open it up to all State of California approved electrical programs.
Otherwise, this policy will discriminate against the majority of the construction workforce and contractors and block minority-owned companies from bidding and working on the projects - as the vast majority of minority-owned construction companies are merit shop/“unilateral” and wish to remain so.
In fact, John Harmon, Founder, President & CEO of the African American Chamber of Commerce points out that “98% of Black and Hispanic construction companies are non-union shops,” and according to Harry C. Alford, President of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, “…almost all minority-owned contracting firms are not affiliated with unions. African American-owned contracting firms are typically small businesses and employ their own core workforce of skilled construction workers who are not unionized and are generally more diverse than construction workers coming from union hiring halls.” I have highlighted the sections that use the discriminatory phrase “joint ITEM 16.D.
JULY 25, 2023
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Packet Pg. 2095 Attachment: Written Comments (5884 : Address trained labor requirements for renewable energy projects) labor” below:
2. Electrical work will be performed by California state certified general electricians and apprentices registered in a state of California approved joint labor management apprenticeship program.
3. Sixty percent (60%) of all “Journeyman” electricians must be graduates of a Joint Labor Management State of California Approved Electrical Apprenticeship Training Program unless for an EVSE Project governed by Section 2 of this resolution below.
9. Fifty percent (50%) of all “Journeyman” electricians must be graduates of a Joint Labor Management State of California Approved Electrical Apprenticeship Training Program.
https://santamonicacityca.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_LegiFile.aspx? Frame=&MeetingID=1375&MediaPosition=&ID=5884&CssClass=
By removing the term term “joint labor” from the document or by replacing it with the term “joint labor and unilateral,” you will be opening the construction work to all State of California approved electrical programs - including members of the Western Electrical Contractors Association (WECA.)
WECA is a statewide nonprofit organization serving merit shop/unilateral electrical contractors, their employees and the industry suppliers that support them.
WECA offers federal and state-approved Commercial, Residential, Low Voltage (Voice Data Video and Fire Life Safety) Electrical Apprenticeship programs, an Electrical Trainee program, and workforce development to the electrical and low voltage fields.
WECA additionally shares its expertise by producing curriculum products and publications for the industry.
WECA offers workforce development in an effort to achieve its goal of promoting merit shop electrical contracting as the most valuable, qualified choice for the electrical construction industry.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions and thank you for your attention to these materials.
Dave Everett
Western Electrical Contractors Association (WECA)
[email protected]
(714) 889-8533 cell
ITEM 16.D.
JULY 25, 2023
ITEM 16.D.
JULY 25, 2023
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Packet Pg. 2096 Attachment: Written Comments (5884 : Address trained labor requirements for renewable energy projects) 1180 W. Spring Street, Suite B
Riverside, CA 92507
www.GoWeca.com
ITEM 16.D.
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Packet Pg. 2097 Attachment: Written Comments (5884 : Address trained labor requirements for renewable energy projects) “98% of black and Latino-owned
construction companies are non-union.”
[https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2013/11/15/lawsuit-asks-should-taxpayerspay-more-for-labor-peace/?sh=28f86b1e436a] John Harmon, Sr., IOM, Founder, President
& CEO of the African American Chamber of Commerce
“Almost all minority-owned contracting
firms are not affiliated with unions. African
American-owned contracting firms are
typically small businesses and employ
their own core workforce of skilled
construction workers who are not
unionized and are generally more diverse
than construction workers coming from
union hiring halls.”
[https://www.mca-ma.com/post/plas-block-minority-women-contractors] Harry C. Alford, President of the
National Black Chamber of Commerce
ITEM 16.D.
JULY 25, 2023
ITEM 16.D.
JULY 25, 2023
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Packet Pg. 2098 Attachment: Written Comments (5884 : Address trained labor requirements for renewable energy projects) Item: 16.D, SKILLED AND TRAINED LABOR REQUIREMENTS FOR
RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS AND RELATED INFRASTRUCTURE
TO BE INSTALLED BY STATE-CERTIFIED ELECTRICIANS.
July 25, 2023
Council Members,
I sent in a shorter message opposing Agenda Item 16.D earlier so that I would make the 12pm deadline for public comments, however I wanted to follow up with some more detail for you and the appropriate city staff.
Currently written, these proposed requirements outlined in “Attachment A” would exclude over 80% of construction workers who are not “Joint Labor” construction workers, but instead choose to join a “unilateral” State of California approved electrical apprenticeship training program.
The solution is to simply remove the term “joint labor” from the document and open it up to all State of California approved electrical programs.
Otherwise, this policy will discriminate against the majority of the construction workforce and contractors and block minority-owned companies from bidding and working on the projects - as the vast majority of minority-owned construction companies are merit shop/“unilateral” and wish to remain so.
In fact, John Harmon, Founder, President & CEO of the African American Chamber of Commerce points out that “98% of Black and Hispanic construction companies are non-union shops,” and according to Harry C.
Alford, President of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, “…almost all minority-owned contracting firms are not affiliated with unions. African American-owned contracting firms are typically small businesses and employ their own core workforce of skilled construction workers who are not unionized and are generally more diverse than construction workers coming from union hiring halls.”
I have highlighted the sections that use the discriminatory phrase “joint labor” below:
2. Electrical work will be performed by California state certified general electricians and apprentices registered in a state of California approved joint labor management apprenticeship program. 3. Sixty percent (60%) of all “Journeyman” electricians must be graduates of a Joint Labor Management State of California Approved Electrical Apprenticeship Training Program unless for an EVSE Project governed by Section 2 of this resolution below.
9. Fifty percent (50%) of all “Journeyman” electricians must be graduates of a Joint Labor Management State of California Approved Electrical Apprenticeship Training Program. https://santamonicacityca.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_LegiFile.aspx?Frame=&MeetingID=1375&MediaPosition=&ID=5 884&CssClass=
ITEM 16.D.
JULY 25, 2023
ITEM 16.D.
JULY 25, 2023
16.D.b
Packet Pg. 2099 Attachment: Written Comments (5884 : Address trained labor requirements for renewable energy projects) By removing the term term “joint labor” from the document or by replacing it with the term “joint labor and unilateral,” you will be opening the construction work to all State of California approved electrical programs - including members of the Western Electrical Contractors Association (WECA.) WECA is a statewide nonprofit organization serving merit shop/unilateral electrical contractors, their employees and the industry suppliers that support them.
WECA offers federal and state-approved Commercial, Residential, Low Voltage (Voice Data Video and Fire Life Safety) Electrical Apprenticeship programs, an Electrical Trainee program, and workforce development to the electrical and low voltage fields.
WECA additionally shares its expertise by producing curriculum products and publications for the industry.
WECA offers workforce development in an effort to achieve its goal of promoting merit shop electrical contracting as the most valuable, qualified choice for the electrical construction industry.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions and thank you for your attention to these materials.
Dave Everett
Western Electrical Contractors Association (WECA)
[email protected]
(714) 889-8533 cell
1180 W. Spring Street, Suite B
Riverside, CA 92507
www.GoWeca.com
ITEM 16.D.
JULY 25, 2023
ITEM 16.D.
JULY 25, 2023
16.D.b
Packet Pg. 2100 Attachment: Written Comments (5884 : Address trained labor requirements for renewable energy projects) “98% of black and Latino-owned
construction companies are non-union.”
[https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2013/11/15/lawsuit-asks-should-taxpayerspay-more-for-labor-peace/?sh=28f86b1e436a] John Harmon, Sr., IOM, Founder, President
& CEO of the African American Chamber of Commerce
“Almost all minority-owned contracting
firms are not affiliated with unions. African
American-owned contracting firms are
typically small businesses and employ
their own core workforce of skilled
construction workers who are not
unionized and are generally more diverse
than construction workers coming from
union hiring halls.”
[https://www.mca-ma.com/post/plas-block-minority-women-contractors] Harry C. Alford, President of the
National Black Chamber of Commerce
ITEM 16.D.
JULY 25, 2023
ITEM 16.D.
JULY 25, 2023
16.D.b
Packet Pg. 2101 Attachment: Written Comments (5884 : Address trained labor requirements for renewable energy projects) From: Dave Everett
To: councilmtgitems
Subject: Re: opposition to City Council Meeting Agenda Item: 16.D, regarding skilled and trained labor requirements for renewable energy projects and related infrastructure to be installed by state-certified electricians.
Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2023 1:10:41 PM
EXTERNAL
On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 11:59 AM Dave Everett <[email protected]> wrote:
July 25, 2023
Council Members,
I’m writing on behalf of the Western Electrical Contractors Association (WECA) to voice our opposition to City Council Meeting Agenda Item:
16.D, regarding skilled and trained labor requirements for renewable energy projects and related infrastructure to be installed by statecertified electricians.
Currently written, these proposed requirements outlined in “attachment A” would exclude over 80% of construction workers who are not “Joint Labor” construction workers, but instead choose to join a “unilateral” State of California Approved Electrical Apprenticeship Training Program.
The solution is to simply remove the term “joint labor” from the document and open it up to all State of California Approved Electrical Programs.
Otherwise, this policy will discriminate against the majority of construction workforce and contractors.
Block minority-owned companies from bidding and working on the project as the vast majority are merit shop and wish to remain so.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions.
Thanks. I look forward to hearing from you!
Dave Everett
Western Electrical Contractors Association (WECA)
[email protected]
(714) 889-8533 cell
1180 W. Spring Street, Suite B
Riverside, CA 92507
www.goweca.com
ITEM 16.D.
JULY 25, 2023
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JULY 25, 2023
16.D.b
Packet Pg. 2102 Attachment: Written Comments (5884 : Address trained labor requirements for renewable energy projects) City Council
Report
City Council Meeting: July 25, 2023
Agenda Item: 16.E
1 of 1
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Denise Anderson Warren, City Clerk, Records and Election Services Department
Subject: Request of Councilmember Brock and Councilmember de la Torre that the City Council direct the City Manager to assign unspent funds from the FY 2022-23 individual Councilmember travel budgets allocated to former Mayor Himmelrich and former Mayor Pro Tem McCowan to the FY 2022-23 travel budget for any Councilmembers whose expenditures exceeded the amount that each was allocated for the year.
Prepared By: Denise Anderson Warren, City Clerk
Approved Forwarded to Council
Attachments:
A. Written Comments
B. PowerPoint Presentation
16.E
Packet Pg. 2103
From: Jason Mastbaum
To: councilmtgitems; councilmtgitems
Cc: Phil Brock; Oscar de la Torre; Christine Parra; Lana Negrete; Gleam Davis; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick Subject: Phil and Oscar owe us an apology 7/25/2023 council meeting item 16E Date: Monday, July 24, 2023 12:14:50 PM
EXTERNAL
Phil and Oscar owe us an apology.
They owe us an apology under the standards Phil himself campaigned on. The first item on the "issues" page of Phil's 2020 campaign website was a Trumpian screed of grievances that he said the city owed us an apology for. One of these was "For building edifices (city hall annex) to your incompetency and squandering our tax dollars...You owe us an apology." https://www.votebrock.org/issues/they-owe-us-an-apology Now Phil and Oscar are submitting a 16 item asking the residents to bail them out because their incompetency on managing their travel budgets squandered our tax dollars. Why should the residents bear the brunt of this bailout? They should pull this 16 item and instead 1) issue an apology and 2) pay to fix this out of their own pockets 3) find a class that can teach them the basic money management skills every other councilmember is capable of so that this doesn't happen again.
ITEM 16.E.
JULY 25, 2023
ITEM 16.E.
JULY 25, 2023
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Packet Pg. 2104 Attachment: Written Comments (5889 : Transfer unspent travel funds to pay for Councilmembers excess travel) Councilmember
FY 2022-23
Revised
Budget
FY 2022-23
Actuals
FY 2022-23
Remaining
Budget
FY 2022-23
CM Directed
Transfers
FY 2022-23
Revised
Budget
Phil Brock 8,331 13,029 (4,698) 250 1 (4,448)
Gleam Davis 8,331 6,466 1,865 - 1,865
Oscar de la Torre 8,331 9,744 (1,413) - (1,413)
Lana Negrete 8,331 6,159 2,172 (813) 2 1,358
Christine Parra 8,331 9,144 (813) 813 2
-
Caroline Torosis 4,860 1,518 3,342 (250) 1 3,092
Jesse Zwick 4,860 2,221 2,639 - 2,639
Sue Himmelrich 3,471 - 3,471 - 3,471
Kristin McCowan 3,471 273 3,198 - 3,198
Grand Total 58,317 48,555 9,762 - 9,762
1 CM Torosis agreed to transfer $250 to CM Brock prior to end of FY 2022-23. 2 Mayor Pro Tem Negrete agreed to transfer $813 to CM Parra prior to end of FY 2022-23.
Councilmember Travel Budget Allocations
During Fiscal Year 2022-23
Councilmembers receive a travel budget allocation based on the number of months they serve during the fiscal year: $8,331 for Councilmembers serving twelve months, $4,860 for Councilmembers elected in November 2022, and $3,471 for Councilmembers whose terms ended in December 2022.
July 24, 2023
16.E.b
Packet Pg. 2105 Attachment: PowerPoint Presentation (5889 : Transfer unspent travel funds to pay for Councilmembers excess travel)