Newhires and beating the bushs to make sure that we get veterans integrated. Kind of a lot to swallow, but i have a handout that outlines everything that we have done todate. Webcor obayashi has hired nine direct hire positions within our company. Turner at the recent u. S. Hornet career fair hired one and i think the key is developing the oneonone relationships with the sourcing agencies to find the veterans that are out there and get them into internships or apprenticeship programs so they can be hired. So that is my summary. Thanks. Thank you. The one other item on the veterans report that i wanted to highlight was that enville buildings was awarded the hoisting contract for the project. So they are going to be providing the man lifts to bring personnel into the excavation and in future to the upperlevels of Transit Center construction and the personnel to operate those. And that is a disabled veteranowned business. So both in the field as contractors were making end roads. Just a f
General. I think its important to note that its not just about hiring veterans. Its about retention. And making sure that they succeed. And so on that note we have actually been looking at ways to ensure that they are going to succeed. Just as a best practices note from all the research i have done, we found that veterans need each other once they are back from their tours of duties. They actually should retain a cohort, which they can find of hang out with and be together. That is what were attempting to create with this whole construction hiring process as a way for them to still, like there are so many jobs in the city that are coming down the pike, we want to make sure that they have a network to stay connected with each other. So on that note were working with San Francisco unified school district, as well as integrating veterans preorientation programs there. As well as the Sf State University Veterans Club to generate internship paths into construction employers like webcor, tur
Moving the project forward. Mike was a member of the caltrain board of directors and also a former San Mateo County supervisor, mayor of daly city and San Francisco Police Inspector and not only served on our board, but numerous other regional transportation boards and well always be appreciative to mike for all of his work in the area of transportation, as well as his commitment for those in need. We extend our sympathies to mike and his family. I would also like to thank director reiskin, because a few Board Meetings ago director reiskin suspected that suggested that we look into that and found its viable and could save us money and we modeled after the department of public works and caltrans regulations, allowing for savings during the bid submission and bidders will be encouraged to submit their value engineering proposals that will decrease the bid price, Construction Cost and if a proposal is accepted the savings attributable to that value engineering proposed are subtracted from
Working to support veterans, but nobody is really talking to each other and they are trying to individually reach out to employers and not really in a cohesive fashion. With unions and companies and cbos we needed to develop a more cohesive hiring process and that is what we worked on. We had a Success Story working closely with the Carpenters Union, where we have two returning veterans, i think from afghanistan, to essentially prescreened through a communitybased organization out of a group of 75 possible veterans through a craigslist ad and got them in for an interview. Liked their attitude, their demeanor, their work ethic. They are both former marines and hired them into actually sponsored them and they went into the carpenter training preapprenticeship program and they could have skipped that and gone right in as an apprentice, but they wanted to see if they really liked the carpenter program. So this is a replicable hiring program that were going to try to push out and we have be
There are so many jobs in the city that are coming down the pike, we want to make sure that they have a network to stay connected with each other. So on that note were working with San Francisco unified school district, as well as integrating veterans preorientation programs there. As well as the Sf State University Veterans Club to generate internship paths into construction employers like webcor, turner, dbs and other employers. We can start with the transbay project and then move forward from there. So its kind of a multipronged approach and still a work in progress. Working with the unions, as well as the Building Trades to make sure that we have got them all aligned and identifying existing veterans in the union first, followed by any possible newhires and beating the bushs to make sure that we get veterans integrated. Kind of a lot to swallow, but i have a handout that outlines everything that we have done todate. Webcor obayashi has hired nine direct hire positions within our co