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City explains community workforce agreement; ordinance requires CWAs for contracts over $250,000

2625139 · February 4, 2025
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Summary

City staff updated the Hollister City Council on the city’s Community Workforce Agreement with the Santa Clara and San Benito County Building and Construction Trades Council and on the ordinance amendments requiring CWAs for public construction contracts over $250,000.

City staff presented an update on the city’s Community Workforce Agreement (CWA), a pre-hire agreement the city has used for public construction contracts and which the council amended into local purchasing rules.

Dave Marione, the city manager, told the council the ordinance was amended in December 2023 to require use of CWAs for public construction contracts valued at $250,000 or more; that ordinance amendment amended section 3.06 of the city’s purchasing code and codified the California Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting (CUPCCA) provisions the city had previously adopted.

Marione reviewed key CWA provisions: no-strike/no-lockout…

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