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Los Angeles / Orange Counties P° Building and Construction �= Trades Council Affiliated wiih the Building & Construction Tirades Dept.. AFL-CIO August 23, 2024 CouncilmemberJohnathan Ryan Hernandez Santa Ana City Hall 20 Civic Center Plaza Santa Ana, CA 92701 1626 Beverly Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90026-5784 Phone (213) 483-4222 (714) 827-6791 Fax (213) 483-4419 RE: Related Bristol Community Workforce Agreement and Community Benefits Dear Councilmember Hernandez: The City of Santa Ana has been a stalwart champion of working men and women. The City's Community Workforce Agreement is one of the strongest and most supportive of union labor and the protection of labor standards. You have set an example for all cities and developers in California to follow. This is why you strongly recommend developers partner with the Los Angeles and Orange County Building and Construction Trades to ensure that work that happens in the city maximizes Local hire, veterans' priority, and the support of workforce development programs such as our apprenticeship opportunities. In that spirit, we have been attempting to work with the developers of the Bristol Related project to ensure that the city's workforce development priorities are met during the construction of this project. Unfortunately, the developers and their consultants have been less than enthusiastic to negotiate an agreement that ensures these community benefits. This past October, we sent the developers a first draft agreement and letter of intent that went without reply. It took them months to provide a scope of work so that we could adequately draw up a second draft agreement and letter of intent which they have had ample time to consider. Now, weeks later, and after many attempts to discuss and negotiate, the developers and their consultants continue to drag theirfeet. Although the developers have selected a union signatory general contractor for the project, this alone does not provide for the community benefits that the city has asked the developers to provide. This alone does not set targeted goals for local hire of Santa Ana residents and apprentices. This alone does not ensure that our nation's veterans have priority on the out -of -work list. This alone does not provide for a no-strike/no-lockout clause to ensure this project is completed efficiently, reducingthe construction impacts on local residents, and maximizing revenue generation for Santa Ana. The city has made it very clear what priorities it has when it comes to development in Santa Ana, but the developers of Bristol Related have not made good -faith efforts to meet them.