Quint Street Construction Projects Target Local and Disadvantaged Contractors and Workforce Training Organizations

First of two outreach meetings features construction site tour

San Francisco County Transportation Authority, Caltrain and the San Francisco Department of Public Works will be holding a Contractor and Workforce Training Organization Workshop

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

4p.m.-6p.m.

Southeast Community Facility

1800 Oakdale Avenue

San Francisco, CA 94124

(note: this is not an event for job seekers)

The San Francisco County Transportation Authority (SFCTA), in collaboration with Caltrain and the San Francisco Department of Public Works, will hold a community workshop on two upcoming Quint Street projects in the Bayview neighborhood. The three agencies hope to attract construction contractors and workforce training organizations for the projects, which are scheduled to begin construction in 2015.

The upcoming workshop, scheduled for Tuesday, September 30 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Southeast Community Facility (1800 Oakdale Avenue), is the first of two informational workshops about the potential contractor and workforce opportunities associated with the projects.
"As a member of the Caltrain and San Francisco County Transportation Authority boards, I am working to ensure that the Southeastern Neighborhoods and all San Francisco will gain the most benefit from the Quint-Jerrold bridge replacement project, including the creation of jobs and boosting our local economy thorough our investments in transportation infrastructure,” said Malia Cohen, District 10 Supervisor. “I commend these agencies for convening early outreach community meetings to maximize participation by our local contractors and workforce training providers."

The Quint Street Bridge Replacement Project will be constructed first and involves replacing the Quint Street Bridge with a berm and retaining wall to facilitate a potential new Oakdale Caltrain Station.

The Quint-Jerrold Connector Road Project construction will follow, creating a new road linking Quint Street just north of Oakdale Avenue to Jerrold Avenue along the west side of the Caltrain tracks.

A tour of the project site will take place immediately following the workshop. For more information about the Quint Street projects, visit www.sfcta.org/quint.

About the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (www.sfcta.org)
Created in 1989, the SFCTA is responsible for long-range transportation planning for the city, and it analyzes, designs and funds improvements for San Francisco’s roadway and public transportation networks. The SFCTA administers and oversees the delivery of the Prop K half-cent local transportation sales tax program, serves as the designated Congestion Management Agency (CMA) for San Francisco, under state law, and acts as the San Francisco Program Manager for grants from the Transportation Fund for Clean Air (TFCA). The SFCTA administers the countywide vehicle registration fee and is the Treasure Island Mobility Management Agency. 

The SFCTA Board consists of the eleven members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, who act as SFCTA Commissioners. Commissioner John Avalos is Chairman of the Board, and Tilly Chang is the SFCTA’s Executive Director.

Limón Rotisserie's looking for a few good employees

Limón Rotisserie's newest location is up and running, and they are looking for a few good cooks and servers; organized, clean, fast individuals who want to join our team. Please, send them a copy of your resume and reference sheet attached to the body of your email. You can also stop by and drop a copy of your resume and reference sheet at their location on 5800 Third St. They will be calling for personal interviews over the weekend, giving preference to those cooks with at least 2 years of experience in high volume restaurants.

• Compensation: based on experience
• Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
• Please, no phone calls about this job!
• Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
  

Original URL: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/fbh/2797284409.html 

h/t R Morine

DIVERSITY Job Fair

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Southeast College Alex Pitcher Community Room 1800 Oakdale Ave, 1st floor

MANY OF THE BAY AREA’S TOP EMPLOYERS WILL BE PRESENT
Please contact Greg Doxy for further information and Resume and Interview Workshop schedule. (415)643-1400 or (415) 424-7760

Job Openings

A couple of job openings of interest came across my inbox today - thought I'd pass them along:


UCSF Recycling Coordinator

Under supervision of the East Zone Manager, the incumbent is responsible 1) developing, implementing, and coordinating UCSF’s Mission Bay/East Zone recycling program for UCSF Facilities; 2) managing the collection, storage and removal of all refuse; and 3) developing and implementing education programs about refuse removal and recycling; the mandated recycling compost diversion goods are 75% by 6/30/2012 and zero waste by 6/30/2020; the Recycling Coordinator position exists for co-management of the UCSF Recycling, Compost, Re-Use, and Waste Reduction programs; areas of responsibility include planning, program development and evaluation, oversight of day-to-day operations, budget management and customer relations, acquisition of required equipment and supplies, monitoring of waste/recycling/compost hauler contract compliance, and implementation of program initiatives; and perform other duties as assigned.

US Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Engineer/Scientist

US EPA Region 9 is accepting applications for an open position in the Waste Division Permitting Office. This office leads hazardous waste permitting and corrective action cleanups to ensure adequate protection of human health and the environment. The successful applicant will serve as a project manager who will have the responsibility to develop permits for industrial facilities; work directly with the public to involve communities in the permitting and cleanup process; work with state governments on their permitting activities; and oversee corrective action cleanups on contaminated lands.

To Apply: www.usajobs.gov . In the “WHAT” box in the center of the page, on the opening date, type announcement number: LV-R9-DE-2011-0023

Fresh & Easy Hiring Event, Friday, June 24 10AM-5PM

The Bayview Opera House at 4705 Third Street is hosting the Fresh & Easy
Neighborhood Market hiring event THIS Friday, June 24 from 10AM-5PM.

The store at 5800 Third St is scheduled to open on Wednesday, August 24.

Filling San Francisco storefronts could start with better system to track vacancies

Read more at the San Francisco Examiner

Vacant storefronts line streets in neighborhoods such as the Bayview and the mid-Market Street area, but just how many retail spaces are empty throughout The City is a tough number to pin down.

That would change with a centralized, citywide system to track vacancies, according to a proposal of new programs from the Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development.

Vacant storefronts have a number of harmful effects on surrounding communities, including crime and graffiti and discouraging investment in the neighborhood, the proposal said.

Read more at the San Francisco Examine

San Francisco's Summer Youth Employment Program

The City and County of San Francisco’s Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) is offering paid work experiences for low-income youth ages 17-21 who live in San Francisco. SYEP provides young people with hands-on work experience, job readiness training and ongoing support through partnerships with local community-based organizations. You must meet income and SYEP program requirements to be eligible for this summer program begins June 6 and ends in July 29.

Apply will only be accepted until Friday, April 29th.

TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE PROGRAM YOU MUST:

Nearly 500 in S.F. schools to get pink slips

From SFGate,

Nearly 500 San Francisco teachers, aides and administrators will find pink slips in their mailboxes within the next two weeks as the school board works to backfill an estimated $27 million shortfall if the state's worst-case budget scenario pans out later this year.


If the layoffs hold, class sizes would go up and overall support for students would decline, district officials said Tuesday night.


The layoff notices are expected to hit struggling schools the hardest because of a disproportionate number of new teachers at those sites. Under seniority rules, it's typically last in, first out in layoffs.


At El Dorado Elementary in Visitacion Valley, for example, half the school's 15 teachers are expecting to get a layoff notice.

Read more at SFGate

Bayview Workers Challenge UCSF on Local Hiring - SF Bay Citizen

From the SF Bay Citizen,

Aboriginal Blackmen United picketed and barbecued outside the University of California, San Francisco's Mission Bay hospital construction site for the third day in a row Thursday, blocking the main entrance to the work area. The group claims UCSF isn’t hiring construction workers from the nearby Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, though the laborers are qualified.

“This job is in our backyard,” said Leroy Moore, job coordinator for ABU. “Whatever it takes to build that, all that it takes is out here.”

The university is building a 289-bed medical center that will serve women, children and cancer patients. It is slated to open in 2014.

Read more at SF Bay Citizen

Read UCSF's Press release on the issue.

Read article "UCSF agrees to hire more San Francisco residents for hospital project" at SF Business Times.

Local hiring numbers lead to dispute at hospital project

From the SF Examiner,

How many San Franciscans are hired for a project at the University of California San Francisco’s new hospital project in Mission Bay will continue to spur protests, despite the hospital making it clear that they hope to hire at least 20 percent local residents.

The Aboriginal Blackmen United have been picketing the hospital construction site for several days because they say UCSF is not hiring enough workers from the neighboring Bayview-Hunters Point district, where unemployment far outpaces much of the rest of The City.

University staff put out a press release Friday reiterating their goal to hire 20 percent local employees, a goal they set in December. UCSF spokeswoman Amy Pile said that last month, the average exceded that goal, with 22 percent of the workers on the project coming from The City.

The goal falls short of the requirements set forth by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for city-funded projects last month, which will go into effect later this year.

The legislation will not set a goal, but instead set a mandate, that city-funded projects hire 20 percent local workers, with that requirement increasing by 5 percent each year until it reaches 50 percent. The legislation does not affect UCSF project because it is not a city-funded project.

James Richards, leader of the ABU, said the protesters are not satisfied with the goal.

“I don’t think it’s sufficient at all,” he said. “I think we need 50 percent [local hires].”

He said that protests will continue.

“We’re going to take this to a higher level,” he said. “If we have to go to jail, if we have to stop the work – whatever we have to do to be heard. If we don’t work, nobody works.”

Hunters View redevelopment struggles to hire locally - KALW

From KALW News,

In the 1940s, San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point was home to one of the most important shipyards on America's West Coast. The shipyard employed nearly 20,000 workers. They were mostly African-American migrants who came to San Francisco, lured by the Navy's promise of steady work. The buildings they lived in were meant to be temporary - but after the war ended, they became permanent parts of the landscape.

People kept living in them even after the shipyard closed in the 1970s, and the neighborhood became one of the city's poorest.

Now, San Francisco wants to redevelop the area for market-rate housing. And that means demolishing some of those old buildings. New construction means new jobs, but residents are wondering just how many of those jobs are for them.

Read the rest of this article at KALWNews.org

San Mateo Co. supes urge Newsom to veto ordinance - KGO

David Louie at KGO writes,

SAN MATEO, Calif. (KGO) -- On a 4-0 vote, San Mateo County Supervisors today passed a resolution urging San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to veto an ordinance that calls for a 50 percent local hiring goal for all city-financed construction jobs within a 70-mile radius of San Francisco. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors' intent is to help provide jobs to building and construction trades people who live in San Francisco.

However, San Mateo labor leaders and the four San Mateo County Supervisors (the Board is currently missing one member with the election of former Board President Richard Gordon to the state assembly) argue that San Francisco's ordinance takes away job opportunities for its local residents. They point out the current jobless rate is close to 30 percent for construction and trades jobs.

Read more at KGO

But, as Sarah Phelan at the SF Bay Guardian asks,

Does Mayor Newsom represent SF workers or San Mateo politicians?

Avalos’ mandatory local hiring legislation heads to mayor’s desk December 19, 2010 - SF Bay View

Mayor Newsom has until Dec. 24 to sign historic jobs bill to put unemployed residents back to work and millions into the local economy

San Francisco – On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors once again approved Supervisor John Avalos’ landmark local hiring legislation requiring jobs for San Francisco residents on publicly-funded projects, sending the bill to Mayor Gavin Newsom’s desk for signature. Thousands of eyes watch City Hall Room 200 for a hint that Mayor Newsom will sign the law and help give the city’s unemployed a Christmas gift nearly 50 years in the making.

More at SF Bay View

Local Hiring Law Passes Board of Supervisors

A flurry of articles about the passage of John Avalos' local hiring law:

Local Hiring Law a New Deal for San Francisco - John Avalos and Sophie Maxwell, SFGate 12/14/10

Supervisors overwhelmingly approve Avalos’ mandatory local hiring legislation - SF Bay View 12/13/10

For Local Hiring Law to Succeed, Plenty of Cooperation Is Required - New York Times 12/11/10

Local hire is the law! - SF Bay View 12/09/10

For Local Hiring Law to Succeed, Plenty of Cooperation Is Required - NYT

Jonathan Weber writes for the New York Times,

With the city planning to directly spend about $10 billion on public works over the next decade, there is a baseline logic in trying to use that spending to help those who have been hurt most by the recession.

But the local-hiring mandate will work only if everyone — the city, the unions, the contractors and the aspiring workers — gets behind the idea of using construction projects as a tool of social policy. Ideally, hundreds of low-income San Franciscans will get stable, middle-class jobs in the construction trades. But safety-valve provisions in the legislation could invite mischief, and leave city taxpayers with higher bills and not much more.

Read more at The New York Times

Avalos to introduce scaled-back local hiring bill - Bay Citizen

Gerry Shih writes:

San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos is expected to introduce on Tuesday a scaled-back version of a mandatory local hiring bill after reaching a tentative agreement with labor unions, Avalos and a union official said Monday.

In its first year, the legislation would require construction firms contracted by San Francisco to hire at least 25 percent local residents for city jobs. The minimum would be raised by 5 percentage points every year thereafter until it is capped at 50 percent in 2016.

Read more at The Bay Citizen