there needs to be a workforce development agreement to help local trades during decommissioning. we do need to see a liveable work wage and benefits for all workers out there during decommissioning.

After decades of Electrical maintenance at DCPP I believe it would be good practice to see the tri-counies building trades involved in negotiations for a working agreement for decommissioning. This would help offset the impact of closure on our local community.

I would like to see a local hire agreement for the decommissioning of Diablo Canyon to help those that will be economically affected by the decommissioning of the plant.

I feel that we should have a project labor agreement for local jobs. I think that we should keep as much work local. As much as I don't want to see the plant closed at all but I would like to have the opportunity to be a part of the closing of it.

would like to see an agreement with the local community for local jobs to assure living wages, long term jobs, community work force agreement. This would give an opportunity for tradesman to have a long term employment.

Diablo Power Plant is very important to our community in terms of employment, infrastructure and our economy. Its decommissioning should be no different. The decomissioning should be done by local workers and apprentices. A project labor agreement with the local trades would be the right to thing to do.

good afternoon, im writing because i feel like this is a topic of discussion. as a local tradesman in the slo county, i would like to see pge discuss a potential agreement for the decommissioning work out at diablo canyon. this is something that I know our local 639 ibew electricians would appreciate as well as our wives and kids. we are all part of this community and this is our backyard, and we deserve this opportunity. many of us are familiar with the plant, and have worked out there in the past. thank you for your time and consideration.

-local veteran and electrician

As a local apprentice in San Luis Obispo, I would like to see a project labor agreement on the decomissioning of diablo canyon. There would be a lot of work to keep people in our community employed and keep us local workers at home.

I'd like to see local hire using a PLA agreement. It would help many apprentices here locally and boost our local economy.

Employ local hire for the decommissioning of DCPP, or community work force agreement.

I feel like if we are going to decommission Diablo we need to make sure that the work stays with local hires. Hopefully there is some sort of PLA in place where we can keep local people working there to decommission the plant.

I feel that a local hire agreement should be put in place during the decomishening of diablo canyon power plant. Being a fourth year apprentice and the head of my house hold, living locally it will impact me and the community around me directly. Having a labor agreement would ensure local hire and the stimulation of the surrounding comunities and boost in local economy.

I strongly encourage the panel on agreeing to a Project Labor Agreement or Community Workforce Agreement for the betterment of the local economy on ALL of the decommissioning work at Diablo Canyon. Some of the benefits of what a PLA/CWA agreement are keeping the local dollars in the heart of SLO County and developing a career in the Building Trades. SLO County cannot afford to give this work up to workers coming from out of town or even out of state. Safety should also be on your minds when the decommissioning work takes place. As I right this comment, currently there are men and women who are on site that are skilled and properly trained to perform the decommissioning work. Some of the skilled and trained workers on site have worked many hours performing the maintenance and outages at Diablo Canyon. The plant is a very complicated system, why would you want to remove those workers doesn't make any sense. In order to achieve all of what I briefly talked about, a PLA/CWA is the perfect vehicle to get the job done right the first time and for the last time since this power plant will no longer be active. Thank you for your time on reading my comment and I am confident that you will make the right decision on choosing a PLA/CWA to better serve those who work towards a career and the safety of the residents in SLO County.

Will insurance for decommission of a nuke allow for non-union ?

On behalf of SLO Surfrider Foundation STOP Climate Change Campaign, I am writing to express our support for a Project Labor Agreement to cover the decommission work, including the many following reasons:

The Engagement Panel has already recognized and recommended in its Vision Statement that PG&E utilize a Project labor Agreement.
Diablo Canyon has already successfully utilized a number of Project Labor Agreements over several decades and is currently working under a PLA, the General Presidents Project Maintenance Agreement.
A PLA ensures that local young workers interested in learning a skilled trade will have the opportunity through local apprenticeship training programs.
A PLA ensures that Local skilled craft wont be left out of the project.
A PLA will keep our tax dollars local and circulating within our local communities.
Without a PLA out of town or out of state workers can come in and undercut the local workers.
PLA's like the San Luis Obispo city CWA and the South SLO Co. CWA which were recently negotiated, encourage participation of small and local business.
PLA's can and do contain any number of community benefit programs that assist Veterans, Women, Minorities and those with barriers to employment.
There is no requirement for qualified contractors to be union to bid projects covered by PLA's.

I must say that Corri from the SLOCBE is suppose to be representing all of her contractors that belong to the SLOCBE not just the non-union ones. I wonder what those union contractors that belong to SLOCBE thinks of who she solely stands behind. She hate the union so much that she even tries to scold the panel for their relentless work on the Decommissioning of Diablo Canyon that the panel has done. It would be nice if she could actually state the facts when it comes to PLA's. She is very much misinformed of what PLA's actually do for a job and how it put everyone on an even playing field. She should study up on PLA's instead of believing what the ABC spokesmen is feeding her.

I think that a PLA is a must for the decommissioning of Diablo Canyon. There are various systems that must stay operational for many years to come. We need the right people doing the demolition of all the systems. The same trade that put them in should demo them. We don't want a company to come in with a lowball price and cut the wrong system. This is very important to the community.

The purpose of this public comment/memorandum, is to ensure the interests of Port San Luis Harbor District are kept in the forefront of this long decommissioning process and Port San Luis Harbor District remains an important stakeholder during the next steps and throughout the entire process.

In August 2018, Port San Luis Harbor District Board of Commissioners reviewed and confirmed an “interest list” (below) of Diablo Canyon/PG&E assets as they related to Harbor District Operations. Harbor District Staff also presented this list during a presentation on September 15, 2018 at the Diablo Canyon Facilities Re-purposing Workshop. The interest list includes the property or equipment and the use/nexus to harbor operations. The list has not been prioritized at this time.

This interest list meets 4 Harbor District Major Objective/Goals, including:
Objective #1 – Keep the harbor function for boaters
Objective #2 – Expand money generating opportunities to support harbor operations that are consistent with affordability and accessibility for the public
Objective #3 – Ensure efficient and effective facilities to deliver critical district services
Objective #4 – Plan for long term financial stability.

Interest List
Diablo Canyon/PG&E Property/Equipment Acquisitions

Property - Potential Use
1. Property behind Harbor Terrace - Expand campground, trails.

2. Lighthouse Road Property and Trail - Full control, access, use.

3. Marina - Slips, transient docks, co-op with university/research, boatyard, boat storage, day use sailing destination, USCG satellite facility.

4. Intake Area near Marina (on land) - Boatyard, dry boat storage, hoists.

5. Wild Cherry Canyon (inland) - Trail to Harbor Terrace, co-op with non-profit or other groups for trails and open space.

6. Wild Cherry Canyon (flat area near Avila Beach Drive) - Parking lot, maintenance yard, concessions, trail head, boat storage.

7. Front Entrance Gate and nearby property - Boat storage, public use areas, expansion of camping.

8. Plant site buildings - Public services, co-op with university/research, dry boat storage

9. Flat Properties farther past Front Entrance Gate - Boat storage, fishermen’s gear storage, harbor storage.

10. Equipment (trucks, generators, heavy construction equipment) - Harbor use.

11. PG&E Energy Education Center (Ontario Road) - Trolley stop/parking, conference center, camping, boat storage.

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9· · · · · · MS. PERRY:· Okay.· Thank you very much for all
10· ·of you for being here tonight and allowing us to address
11· ·this issue.· I am Cordelia Perry, and that's P-E-R-R-Y,
12· ·and I'm the executive director for the San Luis Obispo
13· ·County Builders Exchange.· We actually represent 500
14· ·construction firms here locally, all of which they do
15· ·work here on the entire Central Coast, and our members
16· ·are union and non-union, and despite the mix of our
17· ·organization, we have strongly opposed PLAs. I
18· ·understand that you guys feel that the PLAs would
19· ·provide you with local hire.· Unfortunately, they do
20· ·not.· PLAs are tied directly to the unions, and with the
21· ·unions, these local men and women that have their
22· ·companies here have to pay union dues, all of their
23· ·medical benefits, retirement and their other benefit
24· ·programs all go into the union coffers.· So when they
25· ·guys are working on these projects for three or four
1· ·years, they lay out about $20 an hour out of every
2· ·paycheck just for their benefit program.· When they ·
3· ·leave this project, they do not receive any of that ·
4· ·money.· So this is money that they have been asked to ·
5· ·pay into the union for the privilege of holding a job ·
6· ·and working on Diablo or any other public works project ·
7· ·that has a PLA.· With the PLAs, you end up with about a ·
8· ·30 percent hire -- with being local hire, is what they ·
9· ·tell you, but you can achieve that just here locally.
10· ·If there is -- forgive me.
11· · · · · · So with your push for the local -- with the
12· ·PLAs, you need to talk to the local licensed
13· ·contractors, find out who wishes to sign on with the
14· ·union and those who do not, and with PLAs, the locals
15· ·are actually forced to become signatory to the union.
16· ·If they wish to join the union, they have that option,
17· ·and as far as a living wage goes, when you deal in
18· ·projects such as this, they have to pay prevailing wage
19· ·rates anyways and all of those rates were written by the
20· ·union.· That's why we have California prevailing wage.
21· ·So whether they're an apprentice or if they're a
22· ·journeyman, they still have to pay the same as anyone in
23· ·the union would have to.· So nobody -- and they say
24· ·there's no more $15-an-hour jobs.· Well, when you're an
25· ·apprentice, that's exactly what a lot of the trades do
1· ·pay, whether you're prevailing wage or not.
2· · · · · · So we're asking you to please do not recommend ·
3· ·a PLA and to ask the questions, the tough questions of ·
4· ·what is involved with a PLA.· Most of you have thought ·
5· ·it was all about local hire.· It's not.· You're tied to ·
6· ·a union and we're here to help you find the other side ·
7· ·of the puzzle and to answer those questions that are now ·
8· ·running through your head.
9· · · · · · I'm always available at the office Monday
10· ·through Friday.· I'm always going to answer questions
11· ·for you, but I do ask that you please do not recommend
12· ·the PLA and that you do your homework and you get both
13· ·sides because the union will graciously write that
14· ·contract for you and it will tie to their master
15· ·contract and nobody reads those 2,000 pages.
16· · · · · · So I do have a letter if you want it.· I will
17· ·submit it tonight as a matter of record and we do oppose
18· ·the PLAs, not just on Diablo, but all public works
19· ·projects.· You don't have to put yourself into a box.
20· ·If it's going to be specialized work and some of it will
21· ·guaranteed be done strictly by union guys that know what
22· ·they're doing out there, but when it comes to the
23· ·refurbishing, you don't have to be union, you have to be
24· ·qualified and these guys got 40 years experience in the
25· ·construction industry, they're just as qualified, if
1· ·not, more.
2· · · · · · So please don't box yourself in, please ask the ·
3· ·questions and we're here to help you.· Thank you.

66· · MR. SIMONIN:· Yeah.· That was perfect.· Thank.
7 you
8 · Good evening, Panel.· We sure appreciate the · · ·
9· ·ability to come up and do public comment, appreciate all
10· ·your volunteer efforts.· I know it's taken a lot of
11· ·time. It seems like it's probably taken more time than
12· ·you were aware of when you were getting on the panel.
13· ·You guys are doing a terrific job and you're very
14· ·thoughtful.
15· · · · · · I was just coming up, really, just to make some
16· ·positive comments.· Mr. Jones had indicated talking
17· ·about the solar farms that were project labor agreements
18· ·on the two solar farms, might not have been aware of it,
19· ·I wasn't aware of it, and the positive impacts it had on
20· ·our local community.· I was in charge of distributing
21· ·the manpower out there at the time.· There were
22· ·opportunities for the larger contractors to bring
23· ·out-of-town workers in.· Somebody brought up the teeth
24· ·in these agreements.· We were able to stop that and go
25· ·to the priority, which was local.· That's what the PLA ·
1· · is all about, is local hire.
2· · · · · · I didn't want to get into a back-and-forth with ·
3· ·Mrs. Perry, but if it wasn't for misinformation, there ·
4· ·would be no information.· 2,000 pages for a project
5· ·labor agreement.· There was 4 billion dollars worth of ·
6· ·solar work in the plains.· The project labor agreement ·
7· ·was 32 pages long.· So they aren't big agreements.· They ·
8· ·accentuate local hire priority.· It's very important on ·
9· ·projects of this size, this magnitude.· Hopefully, there
10· ·will be local contractors to participate, but chances
11· ·are it's going to be out-of-town contractors that have
12· ·the qualifications to perform this work and we need to
13· ·protect our local workforce.
14· · · · · · So thanks again.· I appreciate your time and
15· ·consideration.

The recommendations look good, particularly working with the Hourglass Project.

PS: I spent some time this morning noodling over your group’s summary recommendations, and have some thoughts for you to consider (or not!).

The Local Government stuff has me wondering how much we should want local government to do. My comments in CAPS:

Local Government
1. Recommend that the County of San Luis Obispo evaluate the hiring of a skilled economic specialist who would focus on the development of new, and retention of existing, businesses in the region
RATHER THAN HIRE ONE PERSON HOW ABOUT INSTEAD A 30,000-FOOT RECOMMENDATION:
RECOMMEND THAT THE COUNTY PRIORITIZE AND INVEST IN ONGOING AND LONG TERM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES THAT SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW BUSINESSES, AND THE RETENTION OF EXISTING BUSINESSES.
2. Recommend that local governments perform an analysis of impact and other fees to determine whether any changes should be made to incentivize business to relocate to this area and ensure retention of existing businesses
HOW ABOUT: “RECOMMEND THAT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ANALYZE FEES AND POLICIES TO DETERMINE WHETHER any changes should be made to incentivize business to relocate to this area and ensure retention of existing businesses …"

3. Recommend that the County and other local economic or governmental entities involved with the Hourglass Project direct that specific and realistic recommendations be developed that are supported by the local community and promote economic development to offset potential economic impacts of decommissioning
THIS COULD BE CONSTRUED AS GOVERNMENT TELLING HOURGLASS WHAT TO DO, AND TO DO ONLY THOSE THINGS THAT ’THE LOCAL COMMUNITY SUPPORTS” IT’S HARD ENOUGH TO MEASURE WHAT THE LOCAL COMMUNITY WANTS, AND SOME OF YOUR PANELISTS WOULD ARGUE FIERCELY ABOUT THEIR DIFFERENCES OF OPINION ….
… HOW ABOUT INSTEAD:
RECOMMEND THAT THE COUNTY WORK WITH HOURGLASS AND OTHER LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OR GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES TO IMPLEMENT SPECIFIC AND REALISTIC RECOMMENDATIONS THAT PROMOTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TO OFFSET POTENTIAL ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF DECOMMISSIONING…
4. Recommend that local governments and PG&E support and promote the recommendations of the Hourglass Project that are viable, embrace community values and build upon existing economic drivers, including tourism, agriculture, education, and technology, and where feasible, offer incentives to bring these recommendations to fruition

SUBTLE CHANGE SUGGESTED HERE: MAKE THE MAIN FOCUS OF THIS RECOMMENDATION BE ‘DIVERSIFICATION OF THE ECONOMY” …
WHILE IT’S TRUE THAT TOURISM AND AGRICULTURE ARE ECONOMIC DRIVERS, THEY ALSO ARE THE BIGGEST PRODUCERS OF LOW-PAYING JOBS AND WE NEED HIGH PAYING JOBS. SO DIVERSIFICATION OF THE ECONOMY WOULD BE AN IMPORTANT VALUE.

POSSIBLE LANGUAGE: RECOMMEND THAT LOCAL GOVERNMENHTS AND PG&E SUPPORT AND PROMOTE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE HOURGLASS PROJECT THAT ARE VIABLE, EMBRACE COMMUNITY AND VALUES AND BUILD UPON EXISTING MARKET STRENGTHS AND WILL LEAD TO CREATION OF A MORE DIVERSIFIED ECONOMY AND AN INCREASE IN HIGHER-PAYING JOBS.

I hope this is helpful.

Ms. Seeley theorized that once there is no more nuclear waste being produced, this area will be a be more attractive and more people will want to come here. Is there evidence that people are staying away because Diablo is here and producing nuclear waste?