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Council Minutes of 6/6/2000 oldest structure in North Olmsted. There are possibly some code violations due to the age of the house; and, if repairs are too expensive, the house should be raised. It has one tenant. The committee recommended approval of Ordinance 2000-32. • Ordinances 2000-57 and 2000-58 dealing with the tax exemption and income tax sharing with the schools, both related to the Duke-Weeks Realty, will be held in committee. • Ordinance 2000-61, which creates a reserve balance fund account in the General Fund for the purpose of budget stabilization. In other words, in the good years you save some money for the lean years. The fund may not exceed 5% of the previous year's General Fund. The committee recommended approval. • Ordinance 2000-62, which transfers money within the Springvale appropriation, $10,000 from operations, $70,000 to buildings and equipment, $11,100 from the previous Coke donation. The total transfer out of the fund was $91,100 for the capital improvement fund and will be used for a water meter vault, backflow preventer, meter setting and Cleveland Water Department charges replacing two, 2 inch water connections. The committee recommended approval. President Saringer read the following letters which she had received: • "Dear Mrs. Saringer, in regards to Ordinance No. 99-54, on behalf of the Cleveland Chapter of the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors National Association Inc. we urge to support the ordinance which would allow the Mayor to negotiate project labor agreements. SMACNA, a Cleveland Group, is a group of small business owners who by choice employ skilled, union sheet metal workers. We, therefore, would respectfully submit to you and the rest of City Council for the record our reasons why we support the project labor agreement ordinance. There have been many studies done in the past in reference to prevailing wage laws and their impact on construction projects. The conclusion from these studies found that the construction cost differences does not provide support for the proposition that the elimination of prevailing wage laws save on public construction costs. The decline in state and local income tax revenues would exceed savings and decreasing workers wages and benefits. The major points for adopting prevailing wage project labor agreements include: promote productive investment in human capital and in quality infrastructure construction. Quality high productivity construction results only when workers are well-trained in skill specialties. The goal of the government when procuring construction services should be to seek a neutral effect to the greatest extent possible on the local economy. Prevailing wage supports apprenticeship and continuing education programs that are being used increasingly by women and minorities to gain access to skilled and relatively high paying jobs. To expand on our educational commitment, our management and uniform training efforts have had an on-going industry fund which is maintained by hours worked by our union trades persons. This fund is used for training apprentices and upgrade training for journeymen persons. Last year in the greater Cleveland area, we had 1,011,650 hours worked. The amount contributed to education was a total $354,078 which equates at 35 cents per hour. I have enclosed with this letter an economic impact analysis of the greater Cleveland area union sheet metal contractors for 1999 which includes 9 max,.:.