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AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING APPRENTICESHIPS AND PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENTS ON CERTAIN PUBLIC CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS AND CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS FOR WHICH TAX ABATEMENT HAS BEEN GRANTED
Sponsors: Payne and Rice
Deferred 6F-H 090612
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WHEREAS, the City of Newark has a compelling interest to ensure that development projects (hereinafter, “Tax Abated Projects”) with a total estimated cost equal to or exceeding $25 million, excluding land acquisitions costs, that receive a tax abatement pursuant to the Long Term Tax Exemption Act, N.J.S.A 40A:20-1 et. seq., are completed at responsible cost with the highest degree of quality; and
WHEREAS, the City of Newark has a compelling interest in ensuring that Public Works Contracts with estimated costs equal to or in excess of $5 million are undertaken at the lowest responsible cost and with the highest degree of quality; and
WHEREAS, the City of Newark has a compelling interest in ensuring that workers on Public Works Contracts and Tax Abated Projects are paid appropriate wages and that their families receive appropriate benefits; and
WHEREAS, a highly skilled workforce ensures the efficient, economical and safe completion of contracts as described above; and
WHEREAS, the employment of apprentices in such contracts can maintain reasonable costs while providing valuable and rewarding work opportunities for new workers; and
WHEREAS, the City of Newark also seeks to ensure that job opportunities generated by contracts as described above are also utilized to help low-income, minority and women workers gain access to careers in the construction trades; and
WHEREAS, poverty, unemployment and underemployment are significant social problems in the City of Newark, and the City seeks to promote meaningful job opportunities for all of its citizens; and
WHEREAS, the benefits received by contractors impacted by this ordinance will create opportunities to employ a substantial number of apprentices from Newark, thus ensuring that those pr...
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