(a) A Proposition HHH Project Labor Agreement (HHH-PLA) shall be required for any qualifying Permanent Supportive Housing or Facilities project that meets the following thresholds:
(1) Permanent Supportive Housing developments of 65 or more units; or
(2) Facilities with a total development cost of $5 million or more.
(b) The HHH-PLA shall require that core work staff shall be on the Contractor’s active payroll at least 60 days of the 100 working days prior to the award of a Contract.
(c) The HHH-PLA shall specify the number of bids required from subcontractors for each craft of work.
(d) The HHH-PLA shall include a fair and unbiased grievance procedure applicable to potential jurisdictional disputes, work stoppages, interpretation of HHH-PLA policy, or other project related issues.
(e) The HHH-PLA shall be in effect for a term of three years with two optional one year renewals.
(f) The HHH-PLA shall include a hybrid tiered approach for hiring by Contractors incorporating the following three tiers for project radius and zip codes based on socio-economic factors.
(1) Tier 1 – Includes the zip codes within a 5-mile radius surrounding the project’s location, containing qualified workers where the annual household income or the qualified worker’s annual household income is less than the County of Los Angeles’ median annual household income.
(2) Tier 2 – Includes the tier 2 zip codes, as designated in the HHH-PLA, that have at least two census tracts (or portions thereof) in which the median household income is less than 50 percent of the County of Los Angeles’ median annual household income, and/or where the unemployment rate exceeds 200 percent of the County of Los Angeles’ unemployment rate as reported by the most recent available U.S. Census Bureau data.
(3) Tier 3 – Includes tier 3 zip codes, as designated in the HHH-PLA, that have at least two census tracts or a portion thereof in which the median annual household income is less than the County of Los Angeles’ median annual household income, and/or the unemployment rate exceeds 100 percent of the County of Los Angeles’ unemployment rate as reported by the most recent available U.S. Census Bureau data.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 185,523, Eff. 6-12-18.