SB 358

Under current law, laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers employed

on the site of certain state or local projects of public works (generally single-trade

projects whose estimated cost of completion is $48,000 or more and multiple-trade

projects whose estimated cost of completion is $100,000 or more) must be paid at the

rate paid for a majority of the hours worked in the person's trade or occupation in the

county in which the project is located, as determined by the Department of Workforce

Development (prevailing wage law).

This bill exempts from the prevailing wage law a project of public works that

is erected, constructed, repaired, remodeled, or demolished for a school district or for

a cooperative educational service agency (CESA), except that the bill does not

preclude a school district or a CESA from choosing to comply with the prevailing

wage law in the same manner as any other local governmental unit contracting for

the erection, construction, repair, remodeling, or demolition of a project of public

works is required to comply with that law.

Under current law, if the governing body of a school district adopts a resolution

to raise money by bond issue or by borrowing money from the common school fund

under a certificate of indebtedness, the school district clerk must publish notice of

that adoption. The notice must state the maximum amount proposed to be borrowed,

the purpose of the borrowing, and when and where the resolution may be inspected.

A referendum must then be held on the resolution, unless certain circumstances

apply. If a referendum is held, the referendum question must indicate the purpose

for which the bonds or certificate of indebtedness is to be issued and the maximum

amount of the bonds or certificate of indebtedness to be issued.

This bill requires notice of a resolution to raise money by bond issue or by

borrowing money from the common school fund under a certificate of indebtedness

for the erection, construction, repair, remodeling, or demolition of a project of public

works to which the governing body of a school district intends to apply the prevailing

wage law, and the referendum question on such a resolution, to indicate that the

maximum amount proposed to be borrowed is based, in part, on application of the

prevailing wage law to that project.