2018-05-14-minutes-public-works-study-session

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Question 12: You must include the key assumptions (if any) and their justifications, methodology, and calculations upon which your jobs created/retained estimate is based. Simply providing a number or approximate number will not be considered a complete answer and will result in your application being rejected from consideration. Potential Example Answer for Question 12: We have completed a survey of local contractors likely to bid on a project such as this. Our results (data provided as attachment) show that due to current economic condtttons, a greater supply for building services necessary for this project exists in the local market than demandfor those services. As a result, most of those surveyed indicate lower levels of employment than in the past, including reducing workforce levels up to 50% and/or intermittent work with extended periods of temporary layoffs due to lack of work A project this size, according to our estimates (data provided as attachment) will require (; j skilled construction laborers for approximately (X period of time), (X) subcontractors employing (X) laborers for approximately (Xperiod of time), and well as )p support staff (aaministratrve, clerical, management) for (Xperiod time). The agency will also be employing a halftime project manager to oversee the project. Most studies (two examples attached) believe that Washington State's building industry is only beginning to recover and may never reach employment levels previously seen. Keeping that in mind and being conservative while taking into account the current economic environment of Upper Kittitas County and especially the depressed construction industry, we estimate at least (x) jobs will be retained for at least (Xj months (the term of the construction phase of the project). In addition, as the agency does not currently employ a qual ied project manager, at least one part-time professional, job will be created for the same period This, of course does not consider any impact to other local suppliers and supporting businesses which will certainly provide services for this project as well as those who are directly employed as a result of the project.