1.   And she wants city contractors to draw their unskilled workers from city residents.

2.   But instead of producing concrete it hired other companies to supply city contractors.

3.   City contractors wait months to be paid.

4.   Four sites in suburban Westchester County are also under consideration, but city contractors and construction unions insist that the plant should be built in the city.

5.   In keeping with those views, Albanese sponsored a so-called living wage bill that required some city contractors to pay higher minimum wages.

6.   Last year, Thodur Bavan, a former high-ranking official in the city water department, pleaded guilty to accepting money from a city contractor.

7.   Since the law was imposed, hundreds of city contractors have begun to offer benefits to domestic partners.

8.   Still, the sudden change in management underscores what has happened to many city contractors in Washington because the city cannot pay its bills.

9.   The case already has yielded several convictions of city contractors on bid-rigging charges.

10.   The first proposal would have let city contractors limit the domestic partners benefits solely to gay employees.