AGCW Southern District Update: Comedian Gabriel Rutledge at May 1 dinner meeting | Pierce County Construction Career Day | Legislative wrap-up

Top-notch comedian Gabriel Rutledge
at May 1 dinner meeting - register today

A past winner of both the Seattle International Comedy Competition and The Laughing Skull Comedy Festival in Atlanta, Gabriel Rutledge has made numerous television appearances including Comedy Central's Live at Gotham, Nickelodeon's Nickmom Night Out, Laughs on FOX and Inside Joke on Amazon Prime Video. He's also performed at the HBO Comedy Festival in Las Vegas, and his own Dry Bar Comedy special A Third of The Room has been viewed millions of times on-line. Gabriel has also recorded five albums including his most recent Good Luck in Court which debuted at #1 on the iTunes comedy charts.
As always, we will be at the Tacoma Country and Golf Club with a 5:00 p.m. social hour and 6:00 p.m. dinner. Please register here before April 29 at noon.

Pierce County Construction Career Day is May 17
Each year, Pierce County Construction Career Day exposes 2,000 area high-school students to our industry with hands-on activities and informational booths. Workforce development is critical to the success of our industry and this is your opportunity to help our young people learn about construction careers. AGC members have been an important piece of this event for a decade and a half. Please consider getting involved! if you would like to help sponsor the event or register for a booth, click here.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly:
Legislative wrap-up webinar
Join us this Friday, April 19, at 8:00 as AGC's Government Affairs team discusses key legislative bills that passed were passed by the state Legislature in the recent 2024 session. We'll also touch on some bills that didn’t pass but will likely be back in 2025. This is a members-only virtual webinar. Click here to register for the event; Michele Willms will then send you a calendar invite with the webinar link. If you have any questions, let me know.

WEBINAR
What contractors need to know
about new change-order legislation
The Washington State Legislature recently passed a bill (SSB 6192) that makes significant changes to change-order laws. AGC members are invited to join us for this May 8 webinar to get the latest info on this bill and its impacts to our industry. The bill applies change-order requirements, currently applied to public works, to private construction as well. It also adds specialty contractors and suppliers to change-order laws. In this webinar, Brett Hill of Ahlers Cressman & Sleight will describe the changes and discuss what general contractors, specialty contractors and suppliers need to do to be in compliance. AGC members may register by clicking here for the webinar and I will send you the meeting link.

WEBINAR
New apprenticeship-utilization requirements
by municipalities
Last year, the Washington State Legislature passed a bill applying apprenticeship-utilization requirements (15% of labor hours) to contracts awarded by municipalities (cities, counties, ports, PUDs), beginning July 1, 2024, for projects estimated to cost more than $2 million. This dollar threshold is lowered to $1.5 million as of July 1, 2026, and to $1 million on July 1, 2028. Contractors who work for municipalities will want to make sure they understand the requirements which they may not have encountered before.
In this May 16, webinar, we are pleased to have L&I staff discuss the requirements and answer questions that contractors may have concerning apprentice-utilization requirements and the Prevailing Wage Intents and Affidavits system. Join here via ZOOM, or click here to register and I will send you the calendar invitation with the registration link.