City Council created a nine-member panel, five of whom represent the city, to look at increasing worker diversity on city construction projects.
The Columbus City Council on Monday created a nine-member committee designed to make recommendations on adding goals for hiring female, minority and local workers on larger city construction projects that utilizeThe new Community Benefits Agreement Advisory Committee will make nonbinding recommendations to the mayor on when such inclusion goals should be sought from construction companies and labor unions.
"This new chapter will promote a diverse workforce, efficient construction timelines, greater consideration of environmental impacts, and overall community benefits related to large city construction projects and renovation projects," Council member Rob Dorans, who is employed as an attorney for aThe new advisory body"will embrace diversity and inclusion as it relates to construction projects in our city," saidConstruction companies say committee could have 'chilling...
"Instead of making it easier to compete, this ordinance could have a chilling effect on public construction in Columbus," Hobbs wrote. The community benefits agreements, which the city has used twice to date constructing a community center and firehouse,"goes a step further," Dorans said."It sets up basically goals for local hire, it sets up goals for recruitment," such as hiring people interested in apprentice jobs in the building-trades who live in the neighborhood where the construction is taking place.
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