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Los Angeles / Orange Counties 1626 Beverly Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90026-5784 Building and Construction Phone (213) 483-4222 w. l (714) 827-6791 Trades Council Fax (213) 483-4419 Affiliated with the Building & Construction Trades Depc, AFL-CIO 601S�o RON MILLER Executive Secretary PUBLIC COMMENT - PLEASE READ ALOUD DURING PUBLIC HEARING Good evening Mr. Mayor and members of the City Council, My name is Ernesto Medrano and I am the Orange County Representative for the Los Angeles and Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council. We represent 140,000 hard working men and women from our 49 affiliated Trade Organizations. We are writing to urge the City Council to support the One Broadway Plaza Project in Santa Ana. This Project has been in the works for about 2 decades and there is no better time for it to be approved but the present. The historic project will create about 3000 high wage -high skilled construction jobs and these jobs have a significant multiplier effect on other jobs in the area. This Project will be the county's tallest (37 stories), safest and greenest building, emerging as the flagship for Downtown Santa Ana and all of central Orange County. The Building Trades Council are in talks with Mr. Mike Harrah, the Developer, to achieve a Project Labor Agreement that can provide the project with a skilled and trained workforce, strong safety enhancements for the construction workers and diminish the liability for Contractors. The Project will provide middle class opportunities for Santa Ana and other Orange County residents through our all of our Affiliated Trades Joint Labor Management Apprenticeship Programs. It will also provide a robust local hire for Santa Ana and Orange County residents and preferential hire to Veterans through our Helmets to Hardhats program. This Agreement provides the only mechanism to provide the current City Council's well thought out goal of local hire for local residents to work on this project. These quality jobs also provide the construction workers with great healthcare and defined retirement plans. A Project Labor Agreement will also provide for a smooth, continuous flow of work without disruption or interruption through a No Strike - No Lockout provision. The Developer has also committed to support the City's affordable housing efforts with over $4 Million in lieu of fees. This way the City can have the option as to how and where to invest these resources to improve the lives of its residents. The Project will provide an alternative onsite transportation and will promote low emitting and fuel efficient vehicles via on -site charging stations. The structure is adjacent to the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center (SARTC) — Orange County & regional mass transit hub which