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The Spokane Alliance plans to pack the city council chambers at Monday’s City Council meeting to ask Council President Ben Stuckart and members of the council to pass three Quality Job ordinances.
According to a press release, the Quality Job Ordinances would create:
- A $350K threshold for all public works projects to phase in a 15 percent apprenticeship utilization.
- A funding mechanism to assess the economic benefit of low bid materials compared to materials purchased locally.
- A way to awarding points to local contractors with a history of good performance.
The Spokane Alliance has been working to create Quality Jobs in Spokane for the past five years. This ordinance package is an evolution of the work the Spokane Alliance did last year with the Public Facilities District Board to align Quality Jobs values with the implementation of work on the Convention Hall and Arena which resulted in keeping $38 million of $42 million local while putting veterans back to work and creating educational opportunities for our youth in the form of apprenticeships.
Monday’s council meeting will be at 6 p.m.
