Cal. PCC § 20688.3
This is the official text of Cal. PCC § 20688.3, part of California’s Public Contract Code — governs how California government agencies award and manage contracts.
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Official statutory text
(a) To the greatest extent feasible, opportunities for training and employment arising from any contract for work to be performed in connection with any redevelopment project shall be given to the lower income residents of the project area.
(b) An agency with a resident population of less than 1,000 persons in its territorial jurisdiction, and with a secured assessed valuation of not more than thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) as shown on the 1978–79 assessment roll, may, by contract, obligate lessees and purchasers of real property acquired in a redevelopment project and owners of property improved as part of a redevelopment project to give preference to training and employment, in businesses to be conducted on the property, to residents of the project area upon such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon. In the event that there is an agreement between the employer and a labor organization which restricts the employer’s ability to employ project area residents, then such labor organization shall give preference as to entry into the particular labor organization, and with respect to employment in a business on the property, to residents of the project area otherwise qualified.
(b) An agency with a resident population of less than 1,000 persons in its territorial jurisdiction, and with a secured assessed valuation of not more than thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) as shown on the 1978–79 assessment roll, may, by contract, obligate lessees and purchasers of real property acquired in a redevelopment project and owners of property improved as part of a redevelopment project to give preference to training and employment, in businesses to be conducted on the property, to residents of the project area upon such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon. In the event that there is an agreement between the employer and a labor organization which restricts the employer’s ability to employ project area residents, then such labor organization shall give preference as to entry into the particular labor organization, and with respect to employment in a business on the property, to residents of the project area otherwise qualified.
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