But the unions also wanted to expand the agreement to include locked-in wage rates for residential homes in the project - what would have been unusual and a vast overreach. Then, in 2020, the building trades unions demanded union wage rates for infrastructure such as utilities and public buildings, a so-called project labor agreement like those that have become increasingly common in California. At the time, the field had been narrowed to two, and the remaining firm, Lennar, effectively won by default. The first round of solicitations for a master developer imploded in 2016, when the backroom tactics of the council, City Manager Valerie Barone and political consultant Mary Jo Rossi were too much for the staff-recommended firm, Catellus. For nearly a decade now, since the start in 2013 of the search for a master developer, Concord council members and city officials have repeatedly botched and politically tainted the process. They should do so and then reconsider the other companies from last year’s selection process.īut if the council caves to the Seeno consortium demands, the Navy should reconsider whether to let the city continue as the lead agency in this project. Consequently, the council has the option to end the deal. The good news is that the consortium, known as Concord First Partners, has failed to meet its first deadline. Now it says it can’t make the numbers work.Ĭouncil members should consider this a harbinger of the gamesmanship that lies ahead if they stick with the consortium. The Seeno consortium was then selected largely because it promised to meet those same demands. Seeno was chosen after the last developer bailed because it said that the council’s demands for exceptionally costly labor agreements made the project financially unworkable. Yet, it’s already complaining that it can’t make the project pencil out and that it needs to renegotiate the original terms. Meanwhile, the consortium has failed to complete even the first basic step of the planning process it agreed to. So, it is unclear whether the city even has the legal ability to grant such property rights to land it would be acquiring in the future.
The city will only get the rights to the property after the planning is completed. It could expose the city to litigation and liability if the city and the consortium were unable to agree to terms during the planning process.Īnd, right now, the city doesn’t even own the property - the Navy still does. It would undermine the city’s bargaining leverage for the months, perhaps years, of difficult negotiations ahead. Suddenly, the consortium wants enforceable rights to the property before the planning process is completed. Now, the consortium is demanding changes to its agreement with the city for the $1 billion-plus residential and commercial project, which covers an area half the size of the city of Pleasant Hill and would include 13,000 housing units and millions of square feet of office and commercial space. Navy, which still owns the land, should look for another government agency to take the lead.Ĭouncil members should never have partnered last year with the consortium knowing the Seeno companies’ history of environmental and other legal violations.
Denver got to the Chargers 9 before McManus was good from 27 yards.The Concord City Council tonight should reject the demands of a consortium led by the Seeno construction family and look for another master developer for the massive project at the Naval Weapons Station site.Īnd if the council caves to the Seeno consortium - a signal that it’s placing politics ahead of the public interest - the U.S. KJ Hamler hauled in a 47-yard pass to the LA 28. The Broncos were not content to run out the clock though. The Chargers converted all four of their third-down opportunities - including Ekeler's TD - on the drive, which took 7:40 off the clock.įollowing a Denver three-and-out, Los Angeles evened it at 10 on Hopkins' 37-yard field goal with 53 seconds remaining in the half. The Chargers answered on their ensuing possession, putting together a 15-play, 82-yard drive that was capped by Austin Ekeler's 6-yard run up the middle with the Los Angeles linemen helping him get across the goal line. The Dulcich TD was the Broncos' first in 87 minutes, 54 seconds. On the play before Dulcich's score, Wilson avoided a sack attempt by Khalil Mack and Chris Rumph II, scrambled right and connected with Jerry Jeudy for a 37-yard completion. Dulcich, a third-round pick from UCLA, was activated before the game after beginning the season on injured reserve due to a hamstring injury. Wilson was able to elude pressure, step up in the pocket and loft a pass up the right sideline to the rookie tight end, who caught it at the LA 15 and went untouched into the end zone for his first NFL touchdown.
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