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Home My WebLink About7/19/2022 Item 7c, Cannon July 19, 2022 Mr. Matt Horn City of San Luis Obispo Director of Public Works 919 Palm Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-3218 VIA EMAIL Subject: Community Workforce Agreement: Policy Implementation Update Dear Mr. Horn: We are in support of staffs recommendations with respect to inspection, testing, and surveying services. We feel that City staff has thoroughly researched and surveyed stakeholders to understand the economic and community impacts of a community workforces agreement. It is inarguable that the requirement that engineering, surveying, construction management firms sign CWA's will lead to a reduced number of companies providing services to the City of San Luis Obispo. That will cost in talent, quality of service and availability of already limited resources. This will cause project delays and result in lower quality projects and higher costs and exacerbate an already elevated cost environment. Regarding local labor participation goals. Our community does not suffer from a lack of local labor participation on public or private sector projects, quite the opposite. If our community already achieves 90% local labor participation, how can a labor agreement improve on that? It can't. When projects of sufficient size and complexity exceed the available local community workforce, it is reasonable to expect a temporary influx of trades and labor from outside the area. Some of those individuals will remain in this community but most will return to their base of operations and follow the work to the next community. We have very low unemployment in this City and County, and we are not concerned about outside labor and talent eating off our plates for projects like this. As a community member, we want the talent that is best suited for projects that will impact the lives of those living here for decades. Sometimes, that talent is not locally available. 1050 Southwood Drive, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 T 805.544.7407 F 805.544.3863 CannonCorp.us We do not support Community Workforce Agreements. We do support staff recommendations exempting Surveyors, Construction Management, Inspection and Soils and Materials Testing from the CWA. Sincerely, Michael F. Cannon President Lawrence P. Kraemer, PE Director, Public Infrastructure Division Via email: emailcouncil@slocity.org 1050 Southwood Drive, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 T 805.544.7407 F 805.544.3863 CannonCorp.us