President Chong:

As the board of trustees prepares today (November 12, 2019) to vote on expanding the college district’s Project Labor Agreement to a second project, the Coalition for Fair Employment in Construction has examined the expectations set by the board and administration when the Project Labor Agreement was approved for a first project on September 12, 2017.

Because neither the college administration nor the board has asked for or provided an evaluation of September 2017 expectations versus November 2019 achievements, I am requesting the follow public records under the authority of California Government Code Section 6250:

1. All letters, faxes, memos, emails, texts, or other physical or electronic records produced from September 12, 2017 to the present referring to a Project Stabilization Agreement or Project Labor Agreement or similar document that a construction company would need to sign with unions as a condition of working on a district contract.

2. All letters, faxes, memos, emails, texts, or other physical or electronic records produced from September 12, 2017 to the present referring to the Sonoma-Mendocino-Lake Counties Building & Construction Trades Council or North Bay Building & Construction Trades Council or its affiliated and signatory local unions (such as the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No. 551).

3. All letters, faxes, memos, emails, texts, or other physical or electronic records produced from September 12, 2017 to the present referring to construction delays on the Burbank Auditorium Modernization Project. This would include records that reference this cryptic explanation in the staff report for the August 13, 2019 board meeting justifying Change Order #7: "a time extension review and accepted in TIA’s 1 & 2 for 83 calendar days of non-compensable delay. Schedule brought back 12 calendar days due to use of over-time spent. There is a total of 71 calendar days of time extension to August 10, 2019."

4. All letters, faxes, memos, emails, texts, or other physical or electronic records produced from September 12, 2017 to the present that evaluate the following expected performance measures for the Project Labor Agreement on the Burbank Auditorium Modernization Project:

• number of local general contractors that chose not to bid and number of local subcontractors that chose not to participate in the bid because of the Project Labor Agreement
  
• any cases in which there was an insufficient supply of skilled craft laborers
  
• number of Helmets to Hardhats participants
  
• number of hours performed by Helmets to Hardhats participants
  
• number of hours performed by journey level workers
  
• percentage of journey level workers who live in the “local” region
  
• number of hours performed by apprentices
  
• percentage of apprentices who live in the “local” region
  
• number of hours performed by students and graduates of the College who are journey level workers
  
• percentage of journey level workers who are students and graduates of the College
  
• number of hours performed by students and graduates of the College who are apprentices
  
• percentage of apprentices who are students and graduates of the College
  
• examples of how the Project Labor Agreement successfully achieved "construction cost control"
  
• examples of how the Project Labor Agreement successfully achieved "timely and successful completion of the Project"
  
• examples of how the district provided public accountability for performance of the Project Labor Agreement in the bidding process and during construction
  

As noted in the Project Labor Agreement, local persons are persons whose principal residence is within Sonoma, Lake, Napa, Solano, Marin and Mendocino counties.

You may email electronic copies to me or I can pick up paper copies if necessary.

Eric Christen

Executive Director

Coalition for Fair Employment in Construction