HOW DESIGNERS BURIED PROP. 224
When the last votes were finally counted for California's Proposition 224 on contracting out state design work, the measure had been thoroughly trounced. Proposition 224 threatened to undermine the livelihood of many consulting engineers and architects that perform work for state and local agencies, threatening to shift the work to government staff designers. It would have required every state-funded design contract to survive a cost comparison with staff-designed work by California agencies using a method that would have strongly favored state-employed designers. Reimbursed overhead costs for equipment or pension contributions would have counted in the totals for consulting engineers, but no overhead would have been used in calculating state employee design costs. The measure was sponsored by the Professional Engineers in California Government, a union that has succeeded in winning court decisions severely restricting the amount of work that the California Department of Transportation could contract out.
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Korman, R
- Rosenbaum, D B
- Publication Date: 1998-6-15
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: p. 10
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Serial:
- ENR
- Volume: 240
- Issue Number: 24
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Incorporated
- ISSN: 0891-9526
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Competitive bidding; Contracting out; Contractors; Costs; Court decisions; Design; Government agencies; Legislation; Overhead costs; State departments of transportation; State government
- Geographic Terms: California
- Old TRIS Terms: Proposition 224
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Design; Finance; Highways; Law; I10: Economics and Administration;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00751295
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jul 26 1998 12:00AM