Local Employment and Apprenticeship Training Program

On qualifying public work and improvement projects, the mandatory program requires contractors or service providers to employ City of Tacoma residents, residents from Economically Distressed Areas of the Tacoma Public Utilities (TPU) Service Area. These can be journey workers and/or registered apprentices enrolled in a Washington State Apprenticeship Council-approved Apprenticeship Program. 15% of the project labor hours must be performed by those employees.

For larger projects that cost more than $1,000,000, there is an additional 15% apprentice utilization requirement. these registered apprentices must live within the Tacoma Public Utilities Service Area. Contractors may use a registered apprentice to satisfy both requirements at the same time if they live in the City of Tacoma or the Economically Distressed Areas noted above.

The City requires prime contractors to recruit and hire SAC’s and/or city of Tacoma residents, see exception below.  Contractors present their Prime Contractor LEAP Utilization Plan for meeting the workforce utilization requirement(s) at a pre-construction meeting.

The Contractor can use subcontractor hours toward meeting the requirement and the contractor may be asked to provide a LEAP Employee Verification Form (LEVF) for every person from whom the contractor will claim credit. Contractors who do not meet the requirement are assessed an amount for each hour that is not achieved. The City of Tacoma may waive the penalty if in the best interest of the City.

Local Employee Requirements Apply To:

• Civil projects over $250,000 (water main, sewer, street pavement, etc.)
• Building projects over $750,000 (Convention Center, Police Station, etc.)
• Service contracts relating to a public work or improvement that use labor at a City site such as the City’s Annual Flagging Contract

LEAP Apprentice Utilization Requirements Apply To:

• Civil or Building projects over $1,000,000
• Service contracts relating to a public work or improvement that use labor at a City site such as the City’s Annual Flagging Contract over $1,000,000

LEAP Washington State Apprentice Utilization Requirements Apply To:

• Projects for TPU and Wholly Outside the TPU Service Area
• Civil or Building projects over $1,000,000
• Service contracts relating to a public work or improvement that use labor at a City site such as the City’s Annual Flagging Contract over $1,000,000

Electronic payroll submittals will occur via LCPtracker, a web-based system, accessed online by a web browser. Each contractor and subcontractor will be given a log- on identification and password to access the LCPtracker system. Instructions to assist both administrators and contractors through the set up and export process can be found here. Again, this requirement will be ‘flowed down’ to every lower-tier subcontractor and vendor required to provide labor compliance documentation for this project.

Use of the system will involve data entry of weekly payroll or no work performed information, including employee identification, labor classification, total hours worked, and hours worked on this project, wage and benefit rates paid, etc. LCPtracker’s software can interface with many payroll and accounting software programs that generate a ‘comma delimited file’ (.csv). If your program does not have this capability, LCPtracker can likely build an interface to communicate with your accounting software.

To get started, the prime contractor will set you up as a vendor, and your company will receive an email with a user ID and temporary password. Once your company has been assigned to a project, you will get a second email advising your assignment to a project.

As a contractor, you will need to ensure that all your lower- tier subcontractors are set up so that they may be set up in the LCPtracker system as well.  Once enrolled, you and your lower- tier subcontractors will receive a username and password from a no-reply email address with LCPtracker. Once your account is setup, LCP Tracker provides two convenient, standard training options:

Option 1: Computer-Based Training Courses.

Option 2: Pre-recorded videos can be viewed at any time by logging into the LCPtracker website and following these simple steps:

• Enter your user name and password
• Select the “Training Materials” link located at the top of the page
• Select Contractor Training Videos
• For questions on uploading payroll files into LCPtracker, please contact support at (714) 669-0052, option 4, or email support at support@LCPtracker.com