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City of Santa Ana — 611' Cycle Housing Element July 19, 2022 Page 3of5 March 8, 2021 SWAPE Letter to Mitchell M. Tsai re Local Hire Requirements and Considerations for Greenhouse Gas Modeling. Skilled and trained workforce requirements promote the development of skilled trades that yield sustainable economic development. As the California Workforce Development Board and the University of California, Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education concluded: [L]abor should be considered an investment rather than a cost —and investments in growing, diversifying, and upskilling California's workforce can positively affect returns on climate mitigation efforts. In other words, well -trained workers are key to delivering emissions reductions and moving California closer to its climate targets.1 Furthermore, local skilled and trained workforce requirements and policies have significant environmental benefits given that they improve an area's jobs -housing balance, decreasing the amount and length of job commutes and the associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In fact, on May 7, 2021, the South Coast Air Quality Management District found that that the "[u]se of a local state -certified apprenticeship program or a skilled and trained workforce with a local hire component" can result in air pollutant reductions.2 Cities are increasingly incorporating local skilled and trained workforce policies and requirements into general plans and municipal codes. For example, the City of Hayward's 2040 General Plan requires the city to "promote local hiring ... to help achieve a more positive jobs -housing balance, and reduce regional commuting, gas consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions."' 1 California Workforce Development Board (2020) Putting California on the High Road: A Jobs and Climate Action Plan for 2030 at p. ii, available at https:/ /laborcenter.berkeley.edu/ wn-content/uploads /2020 /09 /Putting-California-on-the-High-Road.pdf. Z South Coast Air Quality Management District (May 7, 2021) Certify Final Environmental Assessment and Adopt Proposed Rule 2305 — Warehouse Indirect Source Rule — Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions Program, and Proposed Rule 316 — Fees for Rule 2305, Submit Rule 2305 for Inclusion Into the SIP, and Approve Supporting Budget Actions, available at http: / /www.agmd.gov/docs/default- source/Agendas/Governing-Board/2021 /2021-May7-027.pdPsfvrsn=10. s City of Hayward (2014) Hayward 2040 General Plan Policy Document at p. 3-99, available at htti2s://www.ha=ard-ca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/General Plan FINAL.pdf.