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begin discussing the item but take no action and schedule another meeting in 30-60 days. Caribous Industries agreed to a Project Labor Agreement with the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building Trades Council for the project in 2004. The agreement would provide a skilled and trained workforce that could prioritize hiring of Santa Ana residents, keep the project on time and on budget, and provide community support in Santa Ana for the project which had received a good deal of community opposition. By providing a greater percentage of Santa Ana workers on the project, the agreement would reduce traffic coming in and out of the city, would provide Santa Ana residents with a greater ability to afford market rate rents and home purchases and enhance the tax base for the community by providing greater purchasing power for Santa Ana residents working on the project. The attempt by opponents to stop the project at the ballot in 2005 failed in part because of the agreement by the developer to enter into a project labor agreement. Fast forward to 2020 and the rationale for having this project labor agreement is even stronger. Affordable housing is even scarcer and traffic worse now than in 2004-05 and having a workforce who is not paid area standard wages will only exacerbate the shortage of affordable housing. The recent Coronavirus has resulted in the stoppage of some private construction work and may stop even more if the examples of New York and Boston are any indication of what we can anticipate. Santa Ana construction workers will need the construction jobs this project will generate and prioritizing their hiring and a system to implement that local hiring goal will be a factor in Santa’s Ana’s economic recovery. Given the significance of a general plan amendment, a zoning ordinance amendment , the opposition to the project that has resurfaced and the need to get the proper documents before the Commission and possibly later, the City Council, a continuance of the matter is warranted to explore the issues raised in this e-mail. In addition, during normal times speakers can give public comment, the commissioners can ask questions, the staff can respond, and as long as the proper documents are there, and a thorough discussion can take place, people feel at least their voice was heard. Here, however, because of the restrictions due to the coronavirus, only part of the give and take process occurs. This argues for a more measured approach and additional time taken to ensure that the Commission has all the documents and that all can be heard. John R. Hanna Governmental Affairs/Special Counsel Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters 7111 Firestone Blvd. Buena Park, CA 90621 Office- (714)766-7140 Cell---- (213)999-6190