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Fort Ord Base Reuse Plan Economic Recovery Outline

This presentation outlines the economic recovery plan for the closure of Fort Ord, including impacts, promises, and next steps for the Fort Ord Reuse Authority Board of Directors.

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Fort Ord Base Reuse Plan Economic Recovery Outline

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  1. Fort Ord Base Reuse PlanEconomic Recovery Outline Presentation to the Fort Ord Reuse Authority Board of Directors January 11, 2013

  2. Closure of Fort Ord: Impacts • Employment losses • 13,500 active duty military and 4,500 civilian jobs lost • Business closures/impacts • Regional economic losses • 18,700 residents lost with an estimated $500M per year regional economic impact • Who was Impacted by the Closure/Downsizing • Environmental Hazard Restrictions, Code Compliance, Design Incompatibility for Reuse • Program to address the losses – begin recovery • Base Reuse Plan, Economic Studies/Conveyance, Local Preference, etc.

  3. 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

  4. Environmental Justice – Levonne Stone Mello Bill notes from 1994/1995 President Clinton’s Executive Order – Protection for communities Federal provisions and laws – Equal opportunity Environmental health exposures to military toxins Training and education placement programs for impacted/ disenfranchised community members Local opportunities during cleanup activities BRAC laws to protect local community interests How to correct the gap

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

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