The 2017 legislative session passed its first cut-off milestone last Friday at which time policy bills needed to be reported out of committee.  Fiscal bills, including transportation and capital budget committee bills have until Friday, February 24th to get their bills reported out of committee.

As promised, here are the materials which were shared at the 2017 Professional Development Conference. Thank you again to all those in attendance, and for the great speakers we had this year! Lean Leaderhship Workshop – FINAL (John Dickson) WSACE Lean Leadership Commitment Worksheet (John Dickson) Bridge Simulation –...

The first legislative cutoff is Friday, 2/17/17, so policy bills have to be passed out of committee for further consideration. Policy bills referred to fiscal committees have another week for consideration. Many of the bills being tracked are scheduled for executive session and we’ll soon know if they are...

Pictures from the conference…

HB 1538, regarding contract retainage and bonding, was heard last week in the House Capital Budget Committee.  The bill allows a subcontractor to post a performance bond, even if the contractor has chosen the retainage option for a contract.  We testified with concerns that having this option will create...