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CALCTP Green Workforce Training Expanded with Sales Training Program

As one of the CALCTP founding partners, Lee Stevens on behalf of ETA attended the Press Conference led by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Steyer, Gary Newsome, Mayor of San Francisco at the Levi's Strauss Corporate Headquarters on November 17, 2010 announcing the expansion of the California Advanced Lighting Controls Training Program (CALCTP) that Daryl DeJean and Lee Stevens have helped create . CALCTP will now add a Sales Module with a $250,000 pilot program funded 100% by a grant from Tom Steyer, a leading ventural capitalist from the Bay Area.

The announcement was made at the Levi Strauss Headquarters which has undergone a successful lighting control renovation designed by McMillan Electric, one of the ten NECA founding members of the CALCTP Program. Ten electrical contractors CEO's were on stage to receive recognition for their forward thinking idea of creating CALCTP. Please see the following link to Levi's commitment to sustainability. Levi Strauss & Co. Sustainability

The Governor was very excited about this new program and recounted his own experience with sales training

"Of course, when I was going to trade school in Austria I learned how to be a salesman; this was the thing that I learned to do. So this is why, since then, I've learned well enough that everything that you do you have to go out and sell, if it is your movies, if it is fitness, if it is bodybuilding, if it is your Governorship, your philosophy, your programs, your reforms, everything. You always have to be out there and selling."

Mayor Newsome, a truly remarkable orator delivered a moving speech and ended with his unconditional support for this NECA-IBEW initiative with the following,

"I think the one issue that we all come together around -- if not the environment, where still there's a debate -- it should be on the issue of jobs in a state with unemployment north of 12 percent.

So if we're nakedly self-interested and all we care about is jobs, then this is exactly the conversation we need to be having, not just the celebration and announcement of 2,500 jobs and down payment on that because of what Tom and other are doing but because of this fundamental fact: You put a billion dollars into a coal plant, you'll generate about 870 jobs. Not bad. You take that same billion dollars and you put it in a nuclear plant, you could generate 1,000 to the highest -- I've never seen numbers north of 1,500 jobs. A little bit better. But you put it in solar, it's 1,900 jobs for that billion dollar investment. Put it into wind, 3,300 jobs are created.

But here's the game changer and here's why I came and at a moment's notice said, "Tom, I'd love to come down to this event." If you want to get serious about jobs in the construction and building trades, which has unemployment north of 30 percent -- that's not underemployment, that unemployment -- then change the way we produce and consume energy as it relates to buildings. One billion dollars invested into upgrading and making buildings more energy efficient generates 7,000 jobs. Those are all the independent analyses that have been done. So the greatest investment you can make from a jobs perspective is investing in energy efficiency.

Tom Steyer, a passionate and highly engaging speaker, voiced his commitment to supporting the program as follows,

"I just wanted to make one point. This really is about creating good jobs but the way that we're doing it is in a way that makes sense from an investment standpoint. So let me just give a few numbers on that, because we're talking about creating thousands of jobs"

For a full transcript of the entire event. please check the following link:

http://gov.ca.gov/speech/16506/