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File Number: 19-657 <br />Impacts of Pre-Apprenticeship Training on Apprentice Local Hire Goal <br />In order for qualified San Leandro residents to be available for requests made by contractors to <br />meet the local hire goal for CWA projects, they must already possess either an apprentice or a <br />journey level certification from the hall for their trade. To successfully gain access to a trade’s <br />apprenticeship, applicants must have completed a pre-apprenticeship program or met the <br />prerequisites for training by the time the apprenticeship opens (which occur at various times <br />annually and are not always synchronized with pre-apprenticeship programs). Applicants must <br />successfully pass the requisite tests to secure an apprenticeship in highly competitive <br />recruitments. Under the terms of the current CWA, the City does not require that the local trade <br />unions in San Leandro or Alameda County reserve apprenticeships for San Leandro residents. <br />As apprenticeship periods are typically at least four years, the effect of not having enough San <br />Leandro resident apprentices year over year only compounds the lack of journey level workers <br />who reside in San Leandro available for work on City projects. <br />In order for San Leandro resident apprentices to be available in hiring halls for trades such as <br />operator/engineers, laborers, cement masons and electricians, they must successfully pass the <br />apprenticeship exam and recruiting process. There are twelve pre-apprenticeship programs in <br />the Bay Area that are certified by local trades’ councils, two of which are near San Leandro. The <br />programs can last between nine and sixteen weeks, require a high school diploma or GED and <br />driver’s license and often focus on recruiting women, people of color and/or low-income people. <br />The City does not currently have control or influence over how many San Leandro residents <br />graduate from those programs. Forging partnerships with local, certified pre-apprenticeship <br />programs, a strategy adopted by various public agencies in Alameda County, has successfully <br />bolstered the number of qualified resident candidates testing for limited apprenticeship slots. <br />Staff Level of Effort and Impacts to Project Delivery <br />Presently, there is a lack of sufficient staff to perform compliance and administration required for <br />the current volume of CWA projects. The CWA covers the prime contractor and all subcontractors <br />working on the project. Each contractor is required to submit GFE documentation proving that <br />they complied with the local hire request process. As of December 2019, there are more than <br />eighty contractors and subcontractors working on CWA projects. Implementation of the CWA has <br />impacted staff’s ability to deliver projects as there is increased amount of time spent on pre-bid <br />activities and compliance as well as technical assistance efforts. <br />In the first year of the CWA, approximately 0.25 FTE was spent on CWA administration. With the <br />increase in the number of CWA projects as well as the broader scope of these projects and <br />attendant increase in types of trades used, the percentage FTE currently spent on administration, <br />compliance and technical assistance is between 0.4 and 0.5. This does not include effort <br />expended by project managers or other staff nor does it include consultant hours spent by <br />BABRT, the consultant the City hired for workforce development, marketing, data and trend <br />analysis and outreach to support both the implementation of the CWA and the City’s Local <br />Business Preference policy. <br />Based upon the observations outlined above, staff recommends: <br />1) Agree to a two-year extension of the current terms of the CWA with the exception of the <br />Page 5 City of San Leandro Printed on 12/10/2019 <br />84