(a) If the Mayor or his designee determines that use of a project labor agreement will serve the goals of this Chapter 1375, the Mayor, or his designee, with the assistance of the Law Department, shall meet with the Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council, or other appropriate trade union, in connection with the public bidding and contract awarding process for every proposed City building and other City improvement project in which the engineering estimate for the project exceeds two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) to evaluate whether a project labor agreement will advance the City's procurement interest in cost, efficiency and quality and in promoting labor-management stability as well as compliance with applicable legal requirements governing safety and health, equal employment opportunity, labor and employment standards and other matters. The failure of the Mayor, his designee,or the City to comply with this Chapter shall not cause a contract procured hereunder to be invalid and shall not create a private cause of action by any bidder.
(b) If the Mayor or his designee determines that use of a project labor agreement will serve the goals set forth in subsection (a) hereof, the Mayor, or his designee, shall negotiate a project labor agreement with the Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council or other appropriate trade unions.
(c) The bidding documents for each such City building or other improvement project shall contain a written provision requiring the successful bidder to comply with and adhere to all of the provisions of any project labor agreement negotiated by the Mayor or his designee for the project.
(d) The City shall not thereafter enter into any contract with the successful bidder for the construction of any such City building or other improvement unless the contract contains a provision requiring the successful bidder and all of his contractors and subcontractors to comply with and adhere to the provisions of the negotiated project labor agreement.
(Ord. 2011-124. Passed 9-13-11.)