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Clerk 06/21/2005
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing and adopting a project labor agreement for the construction of the Brightwater conveyance system as negotiated between and agreed to by the King County department of natural resources and parks, the Northwest Washington Building and Construction Trades Council, the Seattle/King County Building and Construction Trades Council and the Washington State Building and Construction Trades Council.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The Brightwater project includes a thirty-six-million-gallon-per-day (mgd) wastewater treatment plant and conveyance facilities to transport untreated wastewater to the Brightwater treatment plant and discharge treated wastewater to Puget Sound.
2. The Brightwater conveyance system includes a thirteen-mile, large-diameter tunnel that combines two force main influent pipes, a gravity-flow effluent pipe, and a reclaimed water pipeline. The system also includes four access portals ranging in depth from forty feet to two hundred fifteen feet, an influent pump station, two smaller tunnels that link the existing wastewater conveyance system to the Brightwater conveyance system, and an outfall to Puget Sound.
3. Constructing the Brightwater conveyance system will require a continuous supply of qualified workers between 2006 and 2010.
4. The King County executive proposes the use of a project labor agreement ("PLA") for the Brightwater conveyance system to help ensure timely construction of the project.
5. Washington state executive order 96-08 states that project labor agreements are of "great potential economic benefit for appropriate and time sensitive major construction projects which will extend for a substantial period of time, involve a substantial number of contractors, subcontractors and trades and craft workers, and have a substantial dollar value."
6. The King County labor policy committee developed labor policies specific to PLAs, including labor policy 2002-022, which ...
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