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ASSOCIATED BUILDERS
AND CONTRACTORS INC.
GOLDEN GATE CHAPTER
R. EIVE®
July 30, 1993 21993
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Board of Supervisors
Contra Costa Board of Supervisors CLERK B04RDOFSUPERVISORS
651 Pine St. , Room 106 CONTRA COSTA CO.
Martinez, CA 94553
Supervisors,
Re. : July 20, 1993 Memorandum S.2 From Supervisors Sunne McPeak
and Jeff Smith On Subject Of:
Consideration Of Project Agreements And Contract Requirements
For Major County Projects Beginning With The Hospital
Replacement Project.
Associated Builders & Contractors, a non-profit construction
trade association, strongly objects to this proposal and urges
the board of supervisors to reject passage of these 11 Union
Only 11 Project Agreements.
The recommended actions will not achieve the stated goals of
providing additional jobs and providing for cost efficient
public works projects. It seems as if Supervisors McPeak and
Smith are using the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in
Boston Harbor as the basis for making these anti-competitive
and pro-union recommendations.
Current state of California regulations provide the best means
to achieve cost efficient public works projects. Project
agreements will not provide additional jobs. In fact, local
construction unions were cited by the Little Hoover Commission
for their failure to meet apprenticeship goals for minorities
and women; how will they provide employment for out of work
county citizens if they are unable to attain full employment
for their current members ? The only way to insure the county
can create construction jobs is to maintain the free
enterprise, competitive bidding process that now exists in
Contra Costa County.
The supervisors must be careful not to expect that Boston
Harbor gives communities a blank check to enact Project
Agreements. Associated Builders & Contractors is prepared to
litigate in this matter. Contra Costa has already spent
thousands of scarce county dollars pursuing the ill advised
Prevailing Wage Ordinance in 1991 ( see attached newspaper
article ) . The citizens of Contra Costa County do not want a
board of supervisors who will again subject the county to
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financial risk.
Associated Builders & Contractors is contacting the Contra
Costa Industrial Council, California Apartment Association,
U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other interested organizations to
set a strategy for insuring that the Contra Costa County Board
of Supervisors do not allow Project Agreements on county
projects.
I look forward to meeting with each of you individually and
discussing this issue.
Pohnr y,
S. Robinson
Executive Director
cc: Barry Evergettis, ABC Chapter President
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Contra Costa Council
T' 'imr. 's
San Mates,Galrtomia, Tuesday,August 27,1997
!tile
San Mateo County's Daily Newspaper
Four"
counties to
a eal-rulin► on
reva*l* wage
Local officials order to prtservc the ,thilit} of
local goternntcnts to Protect the
health and safety of their own
jiy� IYy �+atir"t citiY.cns."said Tont Nolan.pres-
J r L� V ideal of the San Mateo ('nuni+'
Gourd of Supci'isors.
By NANCY SOLOMON trona,it Costa County filed the
t+nu.So.,riwr;t•:� meal in the ).S. Coott�s
A aeaTs an an iti•leo. San
SAN rRANCISCC) rinciuc>vt �nnlCloraceun
Elected officials frons four l#ay tie, i�''Is ins Ip
Arca counties pledged their con. In dune• U.. . District Court
tinued support of pretailinA- Judge Charles A. Legge o%cr-
waAc ordinances while riling an turned prevailing waFo ordi-
tppeal Monday of a recent minces in San Bruno.South San
lideral court decision that xtruek f�raacisco and Contra Costa
down local laws that require County when he ruled in favor of
minimum wages on large con- I lawsuit filed by the U,S.
struction projects. Chamber of Contmerce .tad the
They_say they will take Associmed Builders dt Contrac-
I�tCient•seulIII a ruTiag�t2 Inc tors•
L',$, $UpremC COurt if metes• I,egge wrote in hit; opinion
*Ssir., that prevailing wages are special
an Mateo Counts joins with interest legislation that prevents
Contru Costa in this lawsuit in workers from bargaining for
their own labor contract,
But the local leaders argued
Monday that requiring contrac-
tors to pay,higher wages on large
construction projects is a health .
end safety issue.
..The goal of this ordinance is
preventing accidents and deaths
on the job, and safeguarding
against plant malfunctions that
might endanger public safety."
Contra Costa County Supervisor
Torn Powers said. -It's clear
from our experience. and now
from now research, that the
higher the pay, the better the
training and quality of the
workforce."
Prevailing wage ordinances
extend the requirements for pub-
lic projects to private firsts
building large private projects,
See WAGE.Page A2
the otn••r vide went to work ge
inviting reporters to intcrviov
one of the attorneys figlrtioy,pre•
Cuntioued!root page Qoc vailing w:age laws.
In tl s;: project., w'urk m would •••r1i� ASSOci:tted Bnild; ors ti:
rcrctis'e tvnges similar tounion Contractor!, stand t'or tn
scala. r t 1crC Is IU ."said stark
San 1'raneisrn City Attorney •the market elute" said Mark
Louise Aeone said slit would be l'Iticrntan• attontcy fear the
filing a bricl' in support of the ortinnirntion. "I�jou Nant ter
appeal twouse the judge's deci• ,"i,s.lutc health and s:ofrtv, {fit
%ion could ultimately affect all make everyone weal %hi a.
loc;ti ordinances regarding the uartJs,'
w�urkrorce, such as San Vran•
Okeo's video display terminal Thiamin sttid that it'Contra
regulations, Costa County were to win 'Its
-Mis the Intal lender% finklivIl appeal. the ABC would take tltc
their press conference on the erose in the Suprtmc Court.
steps of thv Pcderal Building. The appeal process is expected
ouhl'Ic r0ations specialists for to take at least a year.