Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 28 - Ports and Airports › Part 309 - Mississippi State Port Authority's Section 3 Plan Port Restoration › Hiring Policies for Achievement of MSPA Section 3 Hiring Goals

Current through June 25, 2024
The hiring policy as set forth herein is an essential component
				of any Section 3 Plan submitted to the Port Authority by Contractors and
				Subcontractors for approval. The Port Authority recognizes the importance of
				making sure that low- and very low- income residents residing in the
				Metropolitan Statistical Area benefit from any and all Section 3 Covered
				Projects built in their communities. As such, Contractors and Subcontractors
				are expected by the Port Authority to demonstrate in their Section 3 Plans and
				through their subsequent implementation of such plans that Section 3 eligible
				residents are included in the hiring goals and are indeed beneficiaries of the
				plans' hiring policies and practices.
The Port Authority, contractors and subcontractors shall direct
				their efforts to provide, to the greatest extent feasible, training and
				employment opportunities generated from the expenditure of section 3 covered
				assistance to section 3 residents in the order of priority listed below.
				Priority consideration shall be given, where feasible, to:
* Section 3 residents residing in the service area or
				neighborhood in which the section 3 covered project is located (collectively,
				referred to as category 1 residents).2
* Other section 3 residents.
Through the incorporation of the Port Authority's Section 3
				Plan into its contracts, the Port Authority will expect Contractors and
				Subcontractors to:
* Conduct aggressive employment outreach to a number of
				community based agencies for new hires;
* Accept and give preferential employment consideration to
				referred Section 3 eligible residents;
* Provide appropriate employment outreach signage, flyers and
				advertisements in order to target and inform low- and very low- income
				residents of employment opportunities;
* Cooperate with the Compliance Officer or its designee to
				undertake, to the greatest extent feasible, such efforts as they may deem
				necessary to achieve the Port Authority's Section 3 goals;
* Prior to beginning work, inform Section 3 participants of the
				development at which the work will be performed, by providing the
				following:
* Names of the Section 3 business concerns to be
				utilized
* Estimates of the number of employees to be utilized for
				contract
* Projected number of available positions, to include job
				descriptions and wage rates (construction wages consistent with Davis
				Bacon).
* Efforts that will be utilized to seek Section 3
				participants;
* Notify the Compliance Officer or its designee of any
				employment opportunities prior to hiring for such opportunities;
* Immediately notify the Compliance Officer or its designee of
				any problems experienced due to the employment of Section 3 participants;
				and
* Immediately notify the Compliance Officer or its designee if
				a participant quits, walks off, or is terminated for any reason. The contractor
				or subcontractor must provide written documentation of all such incidents to
				support such decisions to the Compliance Officer or its designee to determine
				if an investigation is warranted.
2 The categories below, which are
				not applicable to the Section 3 covered activity referenced herein, shall be
				given higher priority, if and when applicable:
* Participants in HUD Youthbuild programs (category 2
				residents).
* Where the section 3 project is assisted under the Stewart B.
				McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (
				42 U.S.C.
				11301 et seq.), homeless persons residing in
				the service area or neighborhood in which the section 3 covered project is
				located shall be given the highest priority.