PRESENTATION TO THE

FORT ORD REUSE AUTHORITYBOARD OF DIRECTORS

JANUARY 11 , 2013

Fort Ord Base Reuse PlanEconomic Recovery

Outline

Closure of Fort Ord: Impacts

Employment losses 13,500 active duty military and 4,500 civilian jobs lost

Business closures/impactsRegional economic losses

18,700 residents lost with an estimated $500M per year regional economic impact

Who was Impacted by the Closure/DownsizingEnvironmental Hazard Restrictions, Code

Compliance, Design Incompatibility for ReuseProgram to address the losses – begin recovery

Base Reuse Plan, Economic Studies/Conveyance, Local Preference, etc.

Base Reuse Plan: Promises

Employment opportunities for local/impacted residents Create replacement employment through educationally focused/complementary job

creation 2012 survey: 3,305 full-time/1,591 part-time permanent jobs to date The FORA and the ESCA RP Team have prioritized local hiring, when possible, by

releasing contracts to local contractors and hiring qualified local professionals  Business opportunities through reuse programs (construction,

entrepreneurial, etc.) Upwards of 2,700 construction jobs created through FORA’s Capital Improvement

Program, including 75% local prime contractors and 15% DBE sub-contractors Seaside Highlands, RCI, CSUMB, MPC, Dunes on Monterey Bay, ESCA, future

proposed developments, generated at least an equal amount. Economic benefit to the region –

Construction jobs were nearly all direct local beneficiaries. Permanent jobs estimated to employ 75% or more local hires Increased property and sales tax offsets

Prevailing wage requirements at the former Fort Ord FORA Master Resolution section 3.03.090

Environmental Justice – Levonne Stone

Mello Bill notes from 1994/1995President Clinton’s Executive Order –

Protection for communitiesFederal provisions and laws – Equal opportunityEnvironmental health exposures to military

toxinsTraining and education placement programs for

impacted/ disenfranchised community members Local opportunities during cleanup activitiesBRAC laws to protect local community interestsHow to correct the gap

FORA Board: Next Steps

Program to match local impacted community with business/contracting opportunities.

Link project development to impacted community members for employment and housing.

Sustain/clarify prevailing wage requirements.Federal funding provisions to build local capacity

operations.Find support for environmental justice provisions

as they pertain to FORA programs.Continue issue discussions through the Base

Reuse Plan post-reassessment policy workshops.

Board Discussion

“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.” - Cesar Chavez

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The time is always right to do what is right.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.