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On <br />AFL-CIO <br />RONALD J. SIKORSKI Southern California & Southern Nevada <br />Business Manager <br />and <br />General Vice President <br />Mayor and City Council, <br />November 17, 2020 <br />I am writing as the Business Manager for the International Union of Operating Engineers, <br />Local Union No. 12 representing 18,000 active members in the region. On behalf of our <br />members, we urge you to approve the "31d and Broadway" Project in Santa Ana. The <br />Project will bring in a building with 171 multi -family housing units, a 75-room hotel, mixed <br />use retail shopping with public parking. <br />The Developer, Mr. Mike Harrah for, Caribou Industries has committed, in writing to the <br />Building Trades Council, to complete the negotiations of the Agreement. The Building <br />Trades Council are in talks with the Developer for a Project Labor Agreement that can <br />provide the project with skilled and trained workers, strong safety standards, <br />apprenticeship opportunities for Santa Ana and other Orange County resident and <br />support for the Veterans through the Helmets to Hardhats program. <br />The project will create hundreds of high wage -high skilled construction jobs and these <br />jobs have a significant multiplier effect on other jobs. Quality Union jobs that are needed <br />to revitalize our local economy during the recession caused by the pandemic. It will also <br />provide the needed revenue for the municipal services to the public. <br />The project, once completed, will fit in with the current structures in that area with the <br />mixed -use modern format. Just steps away from the Orange Streetcar line enabling <br />residents and the local community to take public transportation, therefore alleviating traffic <br />and making it environmentally friendly. <br />Thank you for your service to the great City of Santa Ana and your attention to this <br />important matter. Again, we urge you to please approve this wonderful Project. <br />Singer ly, <br />Ronald J. Sikors i, usiness Manager <br />I.U.O.E., Local Union No. 12 and <br />General Vice President <br />RJS:va <br />150 EAST CORSON STREET • P.O. BOX 7109 0 PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91109-7209 0 TELEPHONE: (626) 792-8900 <br />