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June 24, 2026 Page 3 <br />7357-030acp <br /> printed on recycled paper <br />growth industries with potential to produce jobs that can lift Tri-Valley area residents out of poverty is construction. <br />EBRRD urges the Planning Commission to recommend that the City Council direct Staff to negotiate additional terms in the PADA which include enforceable commitments that ensure employment of local residents, support workforce training and the creation of career pathway jobs that lift up the middle class, and support fair compensation of workers, including the provision of meaningful health care benefits. These goals are consistent with the City’s General Plan and Strategic Plan, which include goals and objectives to support the local workforce. <br />I.PROPOSED WORKFORCE STANDARDS <br />In keeping with the Goals and Objectives of the General Plan, and toimplement General Plan Land Use Element’s Program 1.6 and Program 1.7, and the Strategic Plan Goal E, and consistent with the goal of providing community benefits associated with the Project, EBRRD proposes the following workforce standards be included in the PADA: <br />Proposed Development Agreement Construction Impact Mitigation Commitments All contractors performing construction work on the Project shall commit to and comply with the following requirements: <br />(1)Each contractor agrees to make good faith efforts to meet a 30% local hiregoal, with first priority for workers residing in the Tri-Valley area and secondpriority for workers residing in Alameda or Contra Costa County; <br />(2)Health care expenditures equivalent to at least the hourly pro rata cost of aCovered California Platinum-level plan for two 40-year-old adults and twodependents provided either through direct payments to a worker-enrolledhealth plan or health savings account, or as a cash payment to the worker at1.5 times the health care expenditure rate; and <br />(3)Employment of apprentices enrolled in state-approved joint-labormanagement apprenticeship programs under the same process and manneras set forth in Section 230.1 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations.