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Sec. 82.07. Minimum wages on public contracts. <br />(a) Policy. It is the policy of the City of Saint Paul that all work for development, buildings, roads, and other <br />works paid for with public funds be constructed and maintained by the best means and highest quality labor <br />that is reasonably available and that persons working on public works be compensated according to the real <br />value of the services they perform. Accordingly, it is the policy of the City of Saint Paul that the wages of <br />workers on publicly -owned and publicly -funded projects be comparable to wages paid for similar work in the <br />local community. <br />(b) Definitions. <br />(1) Apprenticeship Program means a bona fide apprenticeship program registered with the U.S. <br />Department of Labor or with a state apprenticeship agency. <br />(2) Certified Payroll Records means payroll records furnished under oath signed by an owner or officer of <br />an employer to the contracting authority and the project owner every week, including a certified <br />payroll report with respect to the wages and benefits paid each employee during the preceding week <br />specifying for each employee: name; identifying number; prevailing wage master job classification; <br />hours worked each day; total hours; rate of pay; gross amount earned; each deduction for taxes; total <br />deductions; net pay for week; dollars contributed per hour for each benefit, including name and <br />address of administrator; benefit account number; and telephone number for health and welfare, <br />vacation or holiday, apprenticeship training, pension, and other benefit programs. <br />(3) Department means the Saint Paul Department of Human Rights and Equal Economic Opportunity. <br />(4) Prevailing hours of labor means not more than eight (8) hours per day or more than forty (40) hours <br />per week. <br />Prevailing wage rate means the rate of wages and benefits certified and published as prevailing by the <br />Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry. <br />(6) Project means any new construction work, demolition work, or repair work on any roads, bridges, <br />sewers, streets, alleys, parks, parkways, buildings, removal of public nuisances or any other <br />improvement of public or private property. <br />(7) Restitution means an amount at least equal to the amount of underpayment of prevailing wages. <br />(8) Relending orRegranting Program means a program whereby public funds are either loaned or granted <br />by the city or HRA to an intermediary such as a community development corporation, which serves as a <br />pass -through agency for the award of public assistance. <br />(9) End borrower or grantee means the end borrower or grantee who receives public funds from an <br />intermediary under a relending or regranting program and uses such funds to pay for project costs. <br />(5) <br />(c) Application. This section applies to all city or St. Paul Housing and Redevelopment Authority projects in the <br />amount of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) or more. <br />This section also applies to all projects in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) or more <br />involving the erection, construction, demolition, remodeling or repairing of a privately owned building, other <br />facility or property where the city or the Saint Paul Housing and Redevelopment Authority provides financial <br />assistance for the work to be performed in the form of a grant, loan, loan guarantee, tax increment financing, tax <br />abatement, tax credit or revenue from bonds. With respect to a relending or regranting program, the threshold <br />level of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) of project costs is determined on an individual basis by the cost <br />of the project of each end borrower or grantee. <br />(Supp. No. 124) <br />Created: 2023-09-28 16:55:13 [EST] <br />Page 1 of 3 <br />