Members of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors weren’t satisfied with the latest Community Workforce Agreement progress report, which showed a lower-than-anticipated percentage of local workers used for major capital projects.
The county has a five-year agreement with the Tri-Counties Building & Construction Trades Council for projects with a price tag over $10 million. The supervisors approved it in 2022 hoping to increase local labor participation for large projects.
So far the agreement has applied to the Probation Department headquarters building ($37.7 million); Santa Claus Lane streetscape improvements ($19.6 million); and the Tajiguas Landfill groundwater protection system ($19.8 million)…