For purposes of this chapter, the following words, phrases and terms are defined as follows:
(a) “City” means the City of Cleveland, Ohio.
(b) “Construction Contract” means any agreement whereby the City either grants a privilege or is committed to expend or does expend its funds or other resources, or federal grant opportunities, including without limitation, Community Development Block Grants, Urban Development Action Grants and Economic Development Administration Grants, in an amount of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) or more, for the erection, rehabilitation, improvement, alteration, conversion, extension, demolition or repair of improvements to real property, including facilities providing utility service and includes the supervision, inspection, and other on-site functions incidental to construction, but does not include professional services. Construction Contract includes any contract that is entered into by a person or entity that receives a grant, loan, privilege, credit, or resources from the City, from its funds or from federal grant opportunities for the poor, minorities and/or unemployed in an amount of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) or more, for the purpose of erecting, improving, rehabilitating, altering, converting, extending, demolishing, or repairing real property or improvements to real property.
(c) “Construction Worker Hours” means the total hours worked on a Construction Contract by Skilled and Unskilled Construction Trade Workers, whether those workers are employed by the Contractor or any Subcontractor. In determining the total Construction Worker Hours to be furnished at the construction site, there shall be included the number of hours devoted to all tasks customarily performed on a construction site, whether or not such tasks are, in fact, performed on the construction site. Construction Worker Hours excludes the number of hours of work performed by non-Ohio residents.
(d) "Contractor" means any person or company receiving a Construction Contract from the City of Cleveland, any subdivision of the City, or any individual legally authorized to bind the City under said contract.
(e) “Director” means the Director of the Office of Equal Opportunity.
(f) "Low-Income Person" means a Resident who, when first employed by a contractor, is a member of a family having a total income equal to or less than the "Section 8" Low-Income limit established by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. Low-Income family is defined as a family whose annual income does not exceed eighty percent (80%) of the median family income for the area in which they reside, as determined by HUD. Income limits are adjusted for family size. A Resident who is not a member of a family shall be considered as a one (1) person family for this purpose. A Resident shall retain "Low-Income Person" status for a continuous five (5) year period starting upon the OEO's written acknowledgement that the Resident's family income does not exceed the above-stated limit, provided the Resident remains a Resident during the five (5) year period.
(g) “Resident” or “Resident of the City” shall mean persons domiciled within the boundaries of City of Cleveland. The domicile is an individual’s one (1) and only true, fixed and permanent home and principal establishment.
(h) “Skilled and Unskilled Construction Trade Worker” means all work site foremen, journeyworkers, including technical engineers, apprentices, construction trainees and elevator construction helpers and apprentices that are in a bona fide apprenticeship training program that is certified by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training. Also included are other workers appropriate for construction activities. Salaried superintendents are excluded from this special provision.
(i) “Subcontractor(s)” means any person or company that assumes by secondary contract some or all of the obligations of the original Contractor.
(Ord. No. 1323-18. Passed 11-19-18, eff. 11-21-18)