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The regional planning board responsible for the infrastructure needs of San Diego County voted Friday to open negotiations with local labor leaders for an agreement that would ensure construction workers on future projects are paid union wages.
By a vote of 11-7, the board of directors of the San Diego Association of Governments, or SANDAG, agreed to enter into exclusive talks with the San Diego County Building and Construction Trades Council to adopt a “community benefits agreement.”
If adopted later this year, the community benefits agreement could affect billions of dollars in future transportation and other projects proposed by SANDAG, the regional board representing San Diego County and its 18 cities.
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Community leaders on Wednesday urged the county Board of Supervisors to pass an anticipated resolution in support of a sweeping federal police reform bill named after George Floyd.
“I call on our supervisors to do what is right,” the Rev. Shane Harris, a civil rights activist, said during a news conference outside the County Administration Building.
The Board of Supervisors will decide Tuesday whether to direct the chief administrative officer to support the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act on the county’s behalf.
Among several reforms, the legislation would ban chokeholds, racial profiling and qualified immunity, a court-established concept that shields police officers and other government officials from lawsuits except in cases in which officials violate “clearly established” constitutional rights.
For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. Hebrews 3:4
Dionne Carruthers had interviewed several contractors to build her family s dream home, but she couldn t seem to find the right fit.
Carruthers prayed that the Lord would lead her to the right person for the job, then she picked up the phone and set up an interview with another individual on her dwindling list of contractors.
That meeting led to the Oklahoma City woman becoming a homebuilder in her own right. She has the distinction of being a Black female contractor in a construction industry largely dominated by white and Hispanic men.
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