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STATE OF CALIFORNIA

Employment Training Panel

Edmund G. Brown Jr. GOVERNOR FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 1, 2018 CONTACT: Madison Hummel

(916) 327-5334

News Release

Employment Training Panel Reaches 50,000 Apprenticeship Trainee

Milestone

SACRAMENTO – The State of California’s Employment Training Panel today announced it has

supported more than 50,000 trainees through its apprenticeship training program.

“Apprenticeship programs provide employers with skilled workers and provide workers with training that

can grow their income and lead to good-paying careers,” said Employment Training Panel executive

director Stewart Knox. “In response to increased employer demand, the Employment Training Panel has

grown its apprenticeship training program to fund the rigorous training required of men and women

seeking career opportunities in the construction trades.”

In 2012, the Employment Training Panel began funding the classroom instruction portion of state

registered apprenticeship training programs available to pre-apprentices, apprentices, and journeymen.

With its awarding of 12 new construction sector apprenticeship programs worth $9 million today, the

panel has awarded a total of $85 million to 174 apprenticeship training contracts supporting 50,112

trainees since the program’s inception. The panel approved more than $14 million in apprenticeship

training in the last fiscal year and has set aside $20 million in the current fiscal year – with $9 million

awarded today – to meet increased employer demand.

Apprenticeship programs include paid on-the-job work combined with an educational or instructional

component where workers earn while learning and learn by doing. Pre-apprenticeship programs prepare

individuals to enter registered apprenticeship programs through industry-based training and classroom

instruction. As trainees complete apprenticeship programs, they become journeymen who throughout their

career may seek retraining or new skills training to meet work requirements.

The contracts awarded by the Employment Training Panel included $949,244 to the Pipe Trades Joint

Apprenticeship and Training Committee of Santa Clara and San Benito Counties (Pipe Trades JATC) to

train 270 apprentices and journeymen in residential and commercial plumbing, steam fitting, refrigeration,

heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC). Recent increases in new construction projects has

created high employer demand for skilled workers in the area.

“We have expanded the number of registered apprentices in our training programs to meet California’s

high demand for residential and commercial pipe fitters,” said Pipe Trades JATC Director Carl Cimino.

“These funds will cover training costs and text books while creating a domino effect by freeing up

portions of our budget for new training devices and building improvements that are critical to our training

and growth.”

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Training will take place at the Lloyd E. Williams Pipe Trades Training Center in San Jose. After training,

Pipe Trades JATC apprentices and journeymen will work on a number of projects throughout

Northern California that may include the Google Campus, Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital, and the

San Jose Airport Terminal expansion.

In total, the Employment Training Panel today approved 63 contracts worth more than $18.7 million to

train 15,516 workers.

ETP is the state’s premier program supporting job creation and retention through training. The panel

reimburses employers for the costs of training existing workers, funds training for unemployed workers to

re-enter the workforce and helps to ensure California businesses have the skilled workers they need to

remain competitive.

For more information about the program, please visit www.etp.ca.gov, or call (916) 327-5334.

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PROJECTS APPROVEDJuly 27, 2018

REVIEW AND ACTION ON PROPOSALS

Contractor City/County Contract Amt

North Hollywood Regional Office

American Educational Systems, Inc. dba American College of Healthcare and Technology

Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, San Bernardino

$382,800

Building Skills Partnership Los Angeles $1,798,200

California Long Term Care Education Center Statewide $178,840

Chilton and Leste Management, Inc WITHDRAWN

First Software USA dba Oxford Institute of Technology

Los Angeles, Orange, Kern, Riverside, Ventura, San Bernardino

$372,902

Golden State Foods Corp. Los Angeles $79,092

Kern County Electrical Joint Apprenticeship & Training Committee

Kern $278,585

Paradigm Treatment Centers, LLC Los Angeles and Marin $197,600

South Bay Workforce Investment Board, Inc. Statewide $131,536

Sun Hill Properties, Inc. Los Angeles $188,600

Sunvair, Inc. Los Angeles $98,800

Trojan Battery Company, LLC Los Angeles $247,000

Ventura County Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Trust Fund

Ventura $325,330

San Diego Regional Office

Boudreau Pipeline Corporation Riverside $103,532

Doubleco Incorporated dba R & D Fasteners San Bernardino $87,750

ELROB, INC., dba El-Com System Solutions (Amendment)

Garden Grove $49,400

Ricoh USA, Inc. Statewide $199,456

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Rush Truck Centers of California, Inc. Los Angeles, San Bernardino, San Diego

$219,920

SYSCO Riverside, Inc. (Amendment) Riverside County $66,150

The Ultimate Software Group, Inc. Orange $199,290

TTM Technologies, Inc. Orange, Santa Clara, San Diego

$520,676

Vavrinek, Trine, Day and Co., LLP San Bernardino, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Sacramento, Riverside, Fresno

$217,488

White Nelson Diehl Evans LLP Orange and San Diego $97,290

Woodbridge Glass Inc. Orange $82,472

San Francisco Bay Area Regional Office

Bell-Carter Foods, Inc. Contra Costa, Stanislaus, Tehama

$169,442

Boehringer Ingelheim Fremont, Inc. Alameda $899,522

California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO Statewide $1,736,738

Carpenters Training Committee for Northern California

Northern California $949,588

District Council 16 Northern California Journeymen and Apprentice Training Trust Fund

Statewide $1,755,776

Dome Construction Corporation San Mateo, Alameda, San Francisco, Santa Clara, and Ventura

$241,800

G & C Auto Body, Inc. Statewide $249,636

George Chiala Farms, Inc. Santa Clara and San Benito $367,510

Ly Brothers Corporation dba Sugar Bowl Bakery

Alameda $253,760

Northern California District Council of Laborers Construction Craft Laborers Joint Apprenticeship Training Center

Statewide $949,815

Pinterest, Inc. WITHDRAWN

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Pipe Trades Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee of Santa Clara and San Benito Counties

Santa Clara, San Benito $949,244

United Association Local Union 342 Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee

Alameda, Contra Costa $841,050

Sacramento Regional Office

Baloian Packing Co., Inc. Fresno $99,970

Central Valley Mother Lode Plumbers, Pipe and Refrigeration Fitters Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee

Stanislaus, San Joaquin $227,799

Central Valley Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee

Fresno, Madera, Kings, Tulare, Kern, Mono, Inyo

$174,980

Courage Production, LLC Solano $88,504

Fowler Packing Company, Inc. Fresno $198,900

Fresno Area Plumbers, Pipe and Refrigeration Fitters Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee

Fresno, Madera, Tulare, Kings $335,612

Fresno, Madera, Kings and Tulare Counties Electrical Industries Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee

Fresno, Madera, Kings, Tulare $459,917

Georgia-Pacific Corrugated LLC Madera $129,480

Greenheck Fan Corporation Placer $188,240

North State Electrical Contractors, Inc. Sacramento $153,400

Sysco Central California, Inc. Stanislaus $368,228

Vision Care Center, a Medical Group, Inc. dba Eye-Q Vision Care

Fresno $152,858

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Proposals Approved By Delegation Order For 6/12/18 – 7/16/18

< $75,000

Contractor City/County Contract Amt.

North Hollywood Regional Office

Four Star Meat Co., Inc. Los Angeles $49,660

Hi-Temp Insulation, Inc. Ventura $67,860

Kern Steel Fabrication, Inc. Kern $49,920

Scorpio Enterprises dba Airemasters Air Conditioning, Inc.

Santa Fe Springs $42,250

Summit Machine LLC San Bernardino $49,400

Vital Research, LLC Los Angeles $12,168

San Diego Regional Office

Bowyer Environmental Consulting, Inc. San Diego $10,400

D.T. Mattson Enterprises, Inc. dba Pro-LineRacing

Riverside $74,880

Firstline Security Systems, Inc. Orange, San Diego $49,972

San Francisco Bay Area Regional Office

Asian Investment Corporation dba SQA Solution

San Mateo County $3,120

KRT Marketing, Inc. Contra Costa $49,920

Lightning Bolt Solutions, Inc. San Mateo County $37,440

Social Imprints, LLC San Francisco, Sacramento $48,984

Sacramento Regional Office

NFCC, Inc. dba Northern Fresno Collision Center

Fresno $38,064

Timberworks Construction Services, Inc. Sacramento $48,438

Trofholz Technologies Placer County $29,640