Title
Recommendation to Authorize the City Manager to Execute an Amendment to the Existing Citywide Project Stabilization Agreement for Public Works or Improvement Contracts Providing for a Three (3) Year Renewal and Options for Subsequent Annual Renewals. (City Manager/City Attorney 310)
Body
To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The City of Alameda (City) and the Building and Construction Trades Council of Alameda County (BTC) entered into a three-year project stabilization agreement (PSA) beginning January 2017 (see Exhibit 1). The PSA ensures that construction projects contracted out by the City have an adequate supply of qualified, skilled craft workers; mitigates risk of labor disruptions on City projects; and works to promote local hiring. The PSA expires in January 2020. City staff seeks the City Council's approval to extend the PSA for an addition three (3) year term (see Exhibit 2).
BACKGROUND
Between 2011 and 2016, the City Council on multiple occasions discussed and directed staff to negotiate a PSA with BTC. BTC is the labor group that represents construction workers in the geographic area, which includes the City.
One important purpose of a PSA is to ensure that construction projects contracted out by the City have an adequate supply of qualified, skilled craft workers working under uniform work rules. In addition, a PSA can mitigate the risk of labor disruptions that would adversely affect the construction progress and timely completion of public projects.
PSAs and other related agreements, such as Project Labor Agreements and Community Benefit Agreements, are negotiated between a public entity, developer or general contractor, and the building trades unions, in this case represented by BTC. A public entity can require a contractor to agree to utilize a PSA as a condition of entering into a construction contract for a public work with the public entity. Typically, PSAs contain the following provisions:
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