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OFFICIAL RESULTS IBEW LOCAL 302 ELECTION RESULTS JULY 17, 2010 TERM 2010 - 2013
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OFFICIAL RESULTS IBEW LOCAL 302 INSIDE WIREMAN ELECTION RESULTS JUNE 9, 2010 TERM 2010 - 2013
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Local 302 proudly on display at Los Medanos College
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Brentwood's Civic Center taking shape
By Rowena Coetsee
BRENTWOOD — April showers haven't kept hard hats away from the construction site downtown, where the city's civic center is taking shape. Crane operators and iron workers recently started lowering 50-foot steel beams into place for the City Hall, which includes the council chamber and is the first of the project's five structures. The undertaking also includes a community center, a three-story parking garage, a reconfigured City Park, which will include a permanent ground-level stage for outdoor performances, and a plaza fountain inside the park. The framework for Brentwood's City Hall is about 25 percent complete, said city management analyst Gail Leech. Once the skeleton of the building is finished, crews will install metal decks on each floor as well as the roof, and cover each with reinforced concrete slabs. Workers then will repeat that process for the community center, finishing up around mid-June. After that, scaffolding will go up around the buildings so that crews can start adding metal framing to the support structure. Once that approximately two-month process is finished, they'll begin installing the electrical wiring and plumbing for City Hall. The first four elements of the civic center will cost $46.5 million; city officials earlier this month opened 17 bids on a 280-stall parking garage that will be the last component. The city budgeted $10.5 million for this final phase, but Leech, who hasn't finished analyzing all the bids, expects the actual price tag to be less. The City Council is scheduled to approve the winning bid at its May 18 meeting. Meanwhile, the construction is keeping a few local residents gainfully employed. When the city decided last year to require all contractors on the job to follow union rules, it also indicated in that project labor agreement that it wanted them to hire local residents whenever possible as well as give priority to war veterans. Although Leech said union halls don't keep track of the jobs they assign to veterans, they began tabulating the number of local hires last month. Of the 45 individuals who worked on the civic center in March, 11 were East County residents, and six of those were from Brentwood.
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