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EXHIBIT 11 Efforts to Offer Training and Employment Opportunities to Section 3 Residents and Contracts to Section 3 Business Concerns Training and Employment Opportunities for Section 3 Residents • Advertising training and employment positions by distributing flyers (which identify the positions to be filled, the qualifications required, and where to obtain additional information about the application process) in the neighborhood where the Section 3 covered project is located. • Contacting neighborhood councils, resident management corporations, or other resident organizations, where they exist, in the neighborhood where the Section 3 project is located in order to notify residents of the training and employment positions to be filled. • Sponsoring (scheduling, advertising, or financing) a job informational meeting to be conducted by a contractor or representatives at a location in the neighborhood of the Section 3 covered project. • Arranging assistance for completing job applications for Section 3 residents. • Arranging for a location in the neighborhood of the project, where job applications may be delivered to and collected by the contractor or representatives. • Conducting job interviews at the location of the neighborhood where the Section 3 covered project is located. • Consulting with State and local agencies administering training programs funded through JTPA or JOBS, probation and parole agencies, unemployment compensation programs, community organizations and other officials or organizations to assist with recruiting Section 3 residents for contractor's training and employment positions. • Advertising the jobs to be filled through the local media, such as community television networks, newspapers of general circulation, and radio advertising. • Employing a job coordinator, or contracting with a business concern that is licensed in t he field of job placement (preferably one of the See tion 3 business concerns identified in part 135), that will undertake, on behalf of the contractor, the efforts to match eligible and qualified Section 3 residents with the training and employment positions that the contractor intends to fill. • Where there are more qualified Section 3 residents than there are positions to be filled, maintaining a file of eligible qualified Section 3 residents for future employment positions. • Undertaking job counseling, education and related programs in association with local educational institutions. • Undertaking such continued job training efforts as may be necessary to ensure the continued employment of Section 3 Residents previously hired for employment opportunities. • After selection of bidders but prior to execution of contracts, incorporating into the contract a negotiated provision for a specific number of Section 3residents to be trained or employed on the Section 3 covered project. Efforts to Award Contracts to Section 3 Business Concerns • Contacting business assistance agencies, minority contractors associations and community organizations to inform them of contracting opportunities and requesting their assistance in identifying Section 3 businesses which may solicit bids or proposals for contracts for work in connection with Section 3 covered assistance.