[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Peekskill 7-14-2008 by L.L. No. 10-2008; amended in its entirety 3-14-2016 by L.L. No. 2-2016. Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
The State of New York has determined, and has stated in § 810 of the Labor Law of the State of New York, that skilled manpower constitutes a great resource in this state; that apprenticeship programs, through supervised training and education, develop skilled craftsmen and help meet the increasing needs for such workers in the state's labor force; that the continuing development of skilled manpower is essential for individual self-realization and for an expanding industrial economy; and that to those ends the state has declared it to be the public policy of the State of New York to develop sound apprenticeship training standards and to encourage industry and labor to institute training programs. The City of Peekskill hereby concurs with that statement of policy, not only on a state level, but also on a local level, and finds it to be in the best interest of the City to participate in the apprenticeship program established in Labor Law Article 23.
When any contractor enters into any construction contract in the amount of $1,500,000 or more with the City of Peekskill, or enters into a subcontract for $500,000 or more, the contractor and/or his subcontractor(s) shall have an apprenticeship agreement appropriate for the type and scope of work to be performed that has been registered with, and approved by, the Commissioner of Labor pursuant to the requirements found in Article 23 of the Labor Law. For the purposes of this chapter, the phrase "construction contract" shall mean any contract with the City of Peekskill which involves the construction, reconstruction, improvement, rehabilitation, maintenance, repair, furnishing, equipping of or otherwise provided for any building, facility or physical structure of any kind.