[Excerpt] As a public agency that spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to procure construction services from external contractors, the City of New York (“NYC”) Department of Parks and Recreation (“DPR”) is a significant contributor to economic activity in the NYC building trades landscape. One mechanism that is often used by public sector agencies to ensure that large, complex, and multi-trade construction projects run smoothly, are completed efficiently with few disruptions, follow high work quality and safety standards, and put upward pressure on wages and benefits in regional construction industries is a Project Labor Agreement (“PLA”). PLAs are “job site constitutions” that set terms for an entire project rather than taking a piecemeal, trade-by-trade approach to contracting and negotiation. As detailed in this report, the PLA design not only appears to be feasible for NYC street tree planting contracts; it has the potential to be net beneficial for DPR, for the public, for firms that successfully bid on planting contracts, and for the workers performing the labor on those contracts.