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IS MANTECA HOLDING ACE?
ACE riders may help lure employers
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The Manteca City Council might pursue a survey of ACE riders as a city goal in a bid to develop data to try and lure employers. - photo by HIME ROMERO/Bulletin file photo
Manteca’s biggest drawing card to luring employers demanding a well-trained workforce may be among the 60,000 plus San Joaquin County commuters driving west over the Altamont Pass weekdays and the 1,420 people on average that catch ACE trains out of the Lathrop-Manteca station.Manteca leaders believe it makes sense to arm those trying to market the city to potential employers that need tech workers and other skilled labor with hard data regarding commuters that spend hours traveling to and from work in the Bay Area each week. Such data could include current employers and job duties, skills, pay, education, and experience. It might include “soft data” such as whether respondents would forsake the commute for jobs in Manteca that are in the ballpark of what they are currently paid.A survey of Manteca commuters specifically was floated as a potential municipal goal during the City Council’s budget and goal workshop conducted Friday at the Manteca Transit Center.Council members said they might favor a survey of Altamont Corridor Express riders from Manteca.