Won asks about Local Law 97 compliance and green jobs impact
Won asks how Local Law 97 compliance will proceed without federal, state, or city funding and how it affects promised green jobs. Jung says DOB reports 90% compliance with the first milestone and EDC supplements with workforce and business development support.
Yeah, I have some follow-up questions.
So for local law 97 compliance compared to the five bars, can you help me understand how you guys are still going to– right now there's no funding from the federal, state, or city government for local law 97 implications or implementation.
So how does this affect the green jobs that we were promised, and what is the plan there?
Thank you for the question, Chair Juan.
You know, as we noted in our testimony earlier, buildings are one of the biggest emitters of carbon dioxide and also creates the biggest opportunity for jobs in the green economy.
And so we have a shared understanding of the importance of enabling Local Law 97 implementation.
We've heard from our agency partners that they're making great strides.
DOB in particular has shared that there's been over 90% compliance with their first milestone for private building owners.
I will say that DOB is the implementation and enforcement agency.
We as EDC supplement their efforts by supporting on workforce development and business development.
So how many jobs are being created by Local Law 97 implementation?
Like I mentioned before, in the 21 focus occupations that we've seen, we've seen about 8.6% growth.
A lot of those are from the building occupations.
So how many jobs is 8.6%?
I don't have that exact figure and I don't want to misspeak, so I'm happy to come back.