I would like PG&E to step up and talk about establishing a community workforce agreement with the tri county building trades to ensure that the work stays local and helps bolster the local economy.

I want to say that it would be a huge benefit to the community if we had a local labor agreement

I think local work should stay local! we need a local hire agreement to keep this county strong. out of town contractors will take our money with them..... sorry small businesses!

it would be beneficial to keep the work local. consider a community workforce agreement.

Due to the economic impact of the closure of Diablo Canyon, I believe PG&E should look into entering some sort of agreement to ensure that the building trades and blue collar working class jobs remain local. It is very important to keep county dollars in the county.

As an apprentice with the IBEW, I highly encourage that PG&E engage with the Tri-County building trade to bring forth local work.

I hope to have your consideration on an arrangement for a local hire on the decommission of Diablo Canyon. Please put a PLA/CWA in place for the future demolition/decommission of the Diablo Canyon power plant. Thank you.

A local workforce agreement would be great job for an apprentices who live here in the community to be able to learn and have good work to be able to make a living in the county.

Many jobs are gong to be lost with the decommissioning of Diablo. It will be wonderful to see the work given to the local community and local workers.

With all the jobs being lost through the decommissioning of Diablo Canyon, it is critical we secure opportunities for career paths with apprentices and journeyman alike. Particularly on the local level, in regards to the economic health of all of our communities. Thank You.

working for all electric

I believe it is important to have a community labor agreement for the decommissioning. It's a strong help to local apprenticeships and local hands. It will give the community a living wage.

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.

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.

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.

How much of the 85 million that the county has been allocated are they willing to put on the table to give back to PG&E for delays due to bureucratic red tape and indicisiveness and inability to approve permits. Furthermore when, not if, the coastal commission shuts down ANY option other than complete destruction. What will be the result of the money that's been allocated for "repurpose". All of this is assuming that someone will be willing to PAY for the land. How is ownership and taxation of the land going to be established?