Recommendation to request City Manager to develop a policy where work done to develop our City EV infrastructure is performed by contractor’s signatory to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers who hold a valid California C-10 electrical contractors license. This requirement should apply to light, medium, and/or heavy duty EV charging infrastructure.
Motion carries. Thank you. And let me move on to item 16, please. Item six needs communication from Councilwoman Price, Councilwoman Gonzalez and Councilman Austin. Recommendation two requires City Manager to develop a policy where work done to develop the city's EV infrastructure is performed by contractors signatory to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers who hold a valid California C ten electrical contract license. Thank you, Councilwoman Price. Thank you. This item is a very important one, I think, for our city at the juncture that we're at as a city within the state, trying to create more green infrastructure and the inclusion of electric vehicle charging stations and infrastructure is a major part of that. In light of state recent state policy decisions requiring increased certification for those conducting electrical vehicle infrastructure, electrical work, the city of Long Beach should also require these categories of projects be completed by the same quality and certification of electricians. Additionally, because safety is also an important issue for Long Beach, it's important to ensure that contractors installing electrical vehicle infrastructure do so with correct safety training and practices. Contractors working in the city of Long Beach on city infrastructure should be required to do so with the same skills as the California Energy Commission requires, and that the California Public Utilities Commission requires for infrastructure work financed by SC, PGE, ENI and SG ENI. This will be an important infrastructure mechanism for our city to ensure quality work as we continue to look towards the future and build the necessary infrastructure for our mobility needs. I urge my colleagues to support this item. Thank you, Councilman Austin. I certainly second this. Probably if anyone has had the opportunity to visit the IBEW training center in Commerce, you'd understand that that this is an excellent item and something that we need to be fully supportive of as a city council. These individuals spend a good number of years learning their craft in it, and so it's so important that, particularly when it comes to public infrastructure, that we have the best and best quality and the safest approach to to our infrastructure. And so I'm fully in support of this 100%. Thank you for bringing it forward. Thank you, Councilmember. Councilmember Pearce. Awesome. Very happy to vote yes on this item. It's been great to see our city really embrace. Clean energy and to see us not only say we want to clean up our environment, but we want to make sure we have a skilled workforce that's rebuilding the middle class. And doing that is a great honor to take that step. And so I want to thank my colleagues for leading on this item. Thank you. Council member Vice Mayor Andres. Also, I want to thank our council and you know, price for doing bringing us forward because the fact that whenever we talk about our workers in the city of Long Beach, I'm so glad to hear that all these individuals are working from the city and live in the city of Long Beach. This is the greatest part about all of it. I mean, I can't applaud you even more on this. So congratulations on this item. Mrs. Weiss. Thank you. And I'm going to make some comments and then I'll open it up for public comment before the vote. Let me just say just to both this item and to the one before I think that I'm really proud of. This council continues to value the importance of good jobs, skilled labor, and ensuring that people that are doing the work within our city also have access to benefits, a pension and the dignity of being able to take care of their families. And I know that particularly as it relates to the IBEW and the other trades that are involved in our work at the Convention Center and our work in this motion that Councilman Price brought forward. This is absolutely the types of of measures and the types of of items that we should be supporting to ensure that the work is being done at the quality level that all of you men and women are doing every single day in our city. And so I just want to thank all of you. I want to thank Councilwoman Pearce and Councilwoman Price for their support of these important items and their continued support of the Council for supporting these really great jobs. And so thanked. Thank you to all of you here. Any public comment on this item? Please come forward. Hi. Good evening. My name is Pat Stewart. I'm director of business development for Baker Electric. And I'm really happy to be here tonight to talk about the certification. Baker Electric is a four generation family owned union contractor. We've been around since 1938, and an important part of Baker's reputation is built on quality and safety. And we do a lot of different scopes of electrical work, and obviously one of them is infrastructure and even charging stations. So in that industry, we want to help to eliminate safety risks by using certified installers. And Baker is installed over 1000, well over 1000 charging stations using qualified technicians. As you guys know, EV charging stations involve AC and DC currents. The voltage can vary between one and 20 to 40, fast charging for 80 and new charger technologies that are pushing chargers over 300 kilowatts. And that's why EV charging infrastructure should only be done by electricians who have had the appropriate advanced training, like National Fire Protection Association 70 and National Electrical Code. So this training helps because the electricians also survey the existing electrical infrastructure to ensure they can safely support the charging infrastructure. We want to make sure that we keep the public safe and want to make sure there isn't any incidents where we in charge to put in these charging stations. So I thank you guys very much. You know how important this is and we really appreciate your guys attention on that. Thank you. Thank you very much, sir. Nick, thank you very much. Next speaker, please. On there, councilmember manager Ron was a resident of Long Beach and I hope for the city to approve our charging stations for jobs and clean apartment for our city. Thank you. Thank you very much. Quick. Next speaker, please. Greetings, Mr. Mayor and council members. My name is Keith Franklin. I'm a resident of Long Beach. I'm a veteran of the U.S. Army. And I'm. Speaking in favor of the FBI. Type program. And the good electrical jobs that all bring to the city of Long Beach and. The residents like me. Please support the FBI, T.P.. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Okay, next speaker, please. Good evening, honorable mayor and members of the council. My name is Bernie Collier and I am the co-chair of the Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Training Program, otherwise known as ITP. And I want to thank you for this time to comment a little bit of information about Evite, which I think will be helpful in making your decision this evening . Evite was founded in 2011 as a national nonprofit industry wide program. It is staffed by volunteers all over the country who give their time and energy and expertize to develop the curriculum and update the curriculum on a regular basis. Evite is brand neutral. We don't endorse any products or any companies, but yet we have the involvement of a lot of companies all over the country who do give in-kind contributions of their technology and their knowledge no money. So there are over 30 organizations and include manufacturers, utilities and other members of the industry who are involved. The goal of the Evite is effective high performance installation, but most of all, safety, safety, safety, as you already heard from the previous speaker. There's a lot of high voltages involved and a lot of current. And it's important that we keep the workers safe, but it's also important that we keep our facilities safe, our homes, our businesses and industrial facilities that have EV charging or will have EV charging. It is already required by a number of state agencies. I'll give you a few key precedents. The California Public Utilities Commission requires that the utility installations be done by certified electricians. The California Energy Commission has awarded a grant to the Port of Long Beach, which requires the installation and maintenance to be done by certified electricians. And our neighbor in Nevada, Envy Energy, is installing charging stations on their highway, which also have to be done by Evite certified electricians. EVA training is low to no cost. It's available at community colleges, industry training centers and utility training facilities. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon or good evening, counsel. My name is Jennifer Crockett. I have the distinct honor and privilege of working for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the National Electrical Contractors Association. Myself and my colleagues are here today to ask for your support for every TPI. Part of the reason why we are here to ask for. TPI is not just for the. Very critical safety aspects of doing this charging infrastructure, right? But in a time when people are talking about green new deals and creating green renewable energy jobs. Long Beach is doing it. You're doing that here. Today by implementing policies. That create green and clean energy. Jobs that support. Your residents and support people in this industry. So I'm asking for your support. I'm so excited to be here tonight. We're excited to be a part of this. And thank you very much for your leadership. And thank you for all the work you do, which is really important. So thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hello, Commissioner Jane Templin. 623 Rosa Avenue resident, electrician and outreach director for the Electrical Training Institute and a proud graduate. We appreciate your understanding of our safety, building green and all the other components that we're here to support. We very much appreciate that. And anybody that is in doubt, I would love to invite them to our facility so I can give you a personal tour. I thank you for your support. Thank you. Thank you. And I want to also, for those of you that don't know, Commissioner Champlin is also under planning commission and does a very good job, I think of not just is not only a great planning commissioner, but does a great job of bringing the perspective of the trades and the work that you all do to our work of building buildings and building projects across the city. And so thank you for for the work you do, Jane, in that in that role. Councilwoman Pryce. I just wanted to end on this note and thank everyone for coming out tonight and let the men and women who are here with IBEW know just how very skilled and approachable your leadership is. So I did have the opportunity to tour the facility over five years ago, and had they not reached out and invited me and continued to foster a relationship with me, I would not now have any idea the level of work and detail that goes there, the number of men and women waiting there every day for job opportunities. It's truly remarkable to see and I'm really grateful for the partnership. And again, it really has to do. Not every union has the type of leadership that you all have. You should really understand that because the relationships that they foster with policymakers, to me it makes a world of a difference because if they bring an idea, they know and they've told me many times, we don't expect you to agree with us 100% of the time, but we want to have that dialog and we want to talk. And this right here was an amazing idea. It was really great as someone who drives an electric car and one of your members actually came out to our house and helped us set a set us up with our charging adapters at home. But, you know, to be able to have the additional infrastructure throughout the city and to have it be predictable, consistent and done with skill means a lot for our city. And again, I appreciate the partnership and I cannot say enough about the leadership of IBEW who brought this forward. I have tremendous respect for all of you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. I do have a couple more comments here. Council Councilwoman Gonzales. Yes, I, too. Just want to thank Councilmember Price for bringing this forward as well as working with IBEW. And I can't say that enough in the past and so many of you here, I really appreciate all of the the work. I worked with many of you on a few other issues relative to the environment and labor. What a concept is that the two can combine and we can actually see a trajectory of good, amazing opportunities for jobs and amazing opportunities for our city. So thank you again for the work. And Councilmember Pearce. I'll be brief I know already spoke and yes to the Bluegreen alliance. That is a strong alliance. I did not think everybody that came out earlier on my previous item, so I just wanted to thank not only IBEW but painters and teamsters who reached out to me in support of that previous item. So really great to have all labor in the House. Thank you. And and with that, we have a motion on a second. So Members, please go and cast your votes. Motion carries. Thank you all for coming again. Um, as we're going to go back to our hearing in a minute, there's wanted to get all these men and women on the on their way. I know they're here for those items.