Committees Descriptions
San Diego AGC is a committee-driven association, relying on committees to act as a creative arm for the industry. When you participate, you'll play a key role in coming up with new ideas, new concepts and new programs that positively affect the industry as a whole and each company individually. Most, but not all, of the committees listed here are open to as many members as are willing to participate.
If you would like to join a committee at any time during the year, contact (858) 558-7444 or fill out a Committee Volunteer Application.
Government Relations
Meets: 3-6 times per year
The Government Relations Committee ensures that AGC of San Diego keeps a high profile position in the "political arena" at the local, regional, state and national levels. This will involve a continual analysis of all political efforts affecting the industry. The committee will annually develop legislative positions for distribution to the membership. It will work closely with our Legislative Advocate in Sacramento and with the AGC of California and AGC of America on all statewide and federal legislative matters. The committee is also responsible for advocacy of adequate infrastructure investment.
Political Action Committee (PAC)
(Government Relations Subcommittee)
Meets: 3-5 times per year
The PAC committee focuses its entire effort on fundraising and candidate endorsement. Specific activities include:
- Interviewing and recommending to the Government Relations Committee and to the Board of Directors candidates at the local, regional, state and national level for AGC San Diego endorsements.
- Developing an annual fundraising plan for Government Relations Committee and Board approval. In key election years this is particularly important. This fundraising should include a plan to solicit PAC donations; a plan for reception type fundraisers sponsored by members in the member's offices; and coordination of key individual donations with the AGC.
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Affiliate Members Council
Meets: 4 times per year
The Affiliate Members' Council is comprised of members from Affiliate AGC firms. The Council meets six times per year and presents the Board with policy recommendations, and the AGC Committees with program recommendations that meet the specific needs of the Affiliate Members and AGC Members. Specific responsibilities include the Annual Affiliate's Mixer, the Spring Golf Tournament, and the Affiliate Day Golf Tournament, which supports AGC's fundraising efforts for the Education Scholarship Program. The Affiliates also participate and support other meetings and events as well as present the Annual AGC Member Awards for Excellence in Marketing, Good Business Award, Affiliate Member of the Year, Affiliate Company of the Year and Rookie of the Year. The term for the council chairperson is for 2 years.
Construction Education & Training
Meets: 4-6 times per year
The committee is to provide cutting edge education and training opportunities in the following areas.
Construction Tech Academy: The committee is charged with the responsibility of helping to develop and promote Construction Tech Academy. This 400 + student high school that is located in Kearny High School will graduate students that intend to pursue a career in the construction trades, architecture, or engineering. Part of this responsibility is to work closely with AGC's Apprenticeship Program.
Education Seminars: The committee is to develop and offer courses each year in a number of areas including Supervisory training; Construction Business and Management; Executive Leadership; Project Management/Engineering; and Construction Technology. Courses should be designed to range from short 1-2 hour seminars to full day or two day offerings with nationally known speakers.
AGC Scholarship Program:
The committee is also charged with overseeing the AGC Scholarship program. The AGC Educational Trust provides funding for scholarships mainly to San Diego State University.
SDSU Construction Engineering and Management Program:
The committee will provide resources to assist SDSU with the new Construction Engineering and Management Program.
Safety
Meets: Monthly - First Wednesday of each month
The committee is tasked with promoting as a Core Value in the construction industry and to provide a network for professional growth and development opportunities to the committee members. Committee actions should include monitoring, communicating, and understanding Federal OSHA, Cal OSHA, and NAVFAC/DOD policies and procedures; continually monitoring and reporting on updated safety information; and continually searching for new ways to promote the industry to upgrade safety consciousness and best practices. The committee is also tasked with monitoring national, state, and local legislation that involves the construction industry. The Committee will provide input for AGC positions for consideration by Government Relations Committee and the Board of Directors.
Labor Relations
Meets: on call
The Labor Relations Committee shall be responsible for negotiating and administering collective bargaining agreements between the various building trade unions and the San Diego AGC signatory contractors. The committee shall also be responsible for AGC participation on the various Taft Hartley Fringe Funds and the various Joint Apprenticeship & Training Committees (JATC). Members of these committees must be employed by firms that are signatory to collective bargaining agreements.
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General Building Contractors' Council
Meets: 3-4 times per year
The General Building Contractor's Council is comprised of members from General Building Contractor AGC firms. The Council is to meet 3 - 4 times per year and to present the Board with policy recommendations and the AGC Committees with program recommendations that meet the specific needs of the General Building Contractor Members. Terms on this council are for two years.
General Engineering Contractors' Council
Meets: 3-4 times per year
The General Engineering Contractor's Council is comprised of members from General Engineering Contractor AGC firms. The Council is to meet 3 - 4 times per year and to present the Board with policy recommendations and the AGC Committees with program recommendations that meet the specific needs of the General Engineering Contractor Members. Terms on this council are for two years.
Meetings & Events
Meets: 4 times per year. Subcommittees in charge of specific events may meet more often prior to the event.
The Meetings & Events Committee oversees, plans, and assists in organizing all AGC meetings and events. The committee will be responsible for insuring that AGC meetings and events are relevant, meet the membership's needs and are well planned and organized. Meetings will include: Spring Conference; Winter Conference; Membership Mixers; Spring Golf; Baseball Bash; Day at the Races; Affiliate Day Golf; Build San Diego; AGC Softball Classic; Holiday Dinner Dance; and Membership Meetings. Committee members will be asked to actively participate in one or two of the above events as well as attend the regularly scheduled general committee meetings.
Meets: The committee will meet 4 times per year. Subcommittees in charge of specific events may meet more often prior to the event.
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Specialty Contractors' Council
Meets: 6 times per year
The Contractor/Specialty Contractor Council is comprised of members from Contractor/Specialty Contractor AGC firms. The Council meets 6 times per year and presents the Board with policy recommendations and the AGC Committees with program recommendations that meet the specific needs of the Contractor/Specialty Contractor Members. The Specialty Council presents AGC Members Awards each year. They also organize and sponsor the SDSU Aztec Football Tailgate and other projects as needed. Terms on this council are for two years.
Human Resources Practices Committee
Meets: 6 times per year
The committee serves as a resource for AGC members on employment and other human resource issues facing contractors. The committee aims to serve its members in three primary ways: 1) Create and deliver services that educate and offer compliance assistance on human resources issues to the AGC membership at large. 2) Serve as a forum for human resources professionals in order to share information, solve problems, and network. 3) To promote the human resources function as an integral business partner in creating and maintaining a successful organization.
Foundation For Success Committee
Meets: 3-4 times per year
The AGC Foundations for Success is tasked with the responsibility to ensure AGC makes a long-term effort to proactively reach into all segments of the community to promote our industry as a career choice.
The committee is to develop a program that reaches the citizens of San Diego at an early age, and continue to promote the construction industry by providing opportunities through college years and beyond.
Specific tasks include:
- Utilizing Construction Tech Academy as a prime source of high school age recruitment. This effort should include summer jobs program and an internship program. The transportation of these students to these opportunities needs to be addressed. Emphasis needs to be on ensuring that CTA participation reflects the demographics of San Diego, and that opportunities are given to groups that have not historically participated in the industry.
- Assist the J.R. Filanc Construction Engineering and Management Program at SDSU in exposing the Programs to a wide variety of students from throughout the county. The committee will also consider expansion of scholarship opportunities, summer jobs, and internships that provide opportunities for students from throughout San Diego.
The committee will be required to report annually to the Board of Directors concerning progress in all areas detailed above, and to keep statistics concerning the goal of matching participation in the various programs to the demographics of the San Diego area.
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Industry Relations
Meets: 2-3 times per year
This committee will develop, coordinate, and implement liaison and dialogue among the AGC committees that meet with the various Public entities and other users of construction services. The committee will coordinate these efforts to insure a consistent message is being given to the liaison groups. The members of this committee will consist of the chairpersons of the following committees:
- Port District Liaison
- Caltrans Liaison
- City of San Diego Liaison
- County of San Diego Liaison
- Navy Liaison
- Public Building Liaison
- Water Authority
- Airport Authority
San Diego Port District Liaison
This committee meets 3 times per year with the San Diego Port District to discuss issues of importance between the construction industry and Port officials. This committee has the responsibility to make sure industry and Port concerns are addressed and communicated on a regular basis to the membership. The committee's focus is in solving the day to day challenges faced on construction sites. Topics will include but are not limited to bidding practices; specification content; payment schedules; inspection methods etc. The Government Relations Committee is responsible for general political matters involving the Port District.
This committee is intended to include contractors, subcontractors, and material suppliers involved in working with the Port.
Caltrans Liaison
This committee meets quarterly with Caltrans officials to discuss issues of importance between the construction industry and District 11 Caltrans officials. It has the responsibility to make sure industry and Caltrans concerns are addressed and communicated on a regular basis to the membership. The committee also has the responsibility to coordinate with the San Diego AGC and the AGC of California Committees that meets with Caltrans headquarters officials in Sacramento. The committee's focus is on solving day to day challenges faced on construction sites. Topics will include but are not limited to bidding practices; specification content; payment schedules; inspection methods etc. The Government Relations Committee is responsible for general political matters involving Caltrans, road funding, etc.
This committee is intended to include contractors, subcontractors, and material suppliers involved in working with Caltrans.
City of San Diego Liaison
This committee meets quarterly with the City of San Diego and periodically with other cities in San Diego County to discuss issues of importance between the construction industry and City officials. This committee has the responsibility to make sure industry and City concerns are addressed and communicated on a regular basis to the membership. The committee's focus is in solving the day to day challenges faced on construction sites. Topics will include but are not limited to bidding practices; specification content; payment schedules; inspection methods etc. The Government Relations Committee is responsible for general political matters involving the City of San Diego.
This committee is intended to include contractors, subcontractors, and material suppliers involved in working with the City.
County of San Diego Liaison
This committee meets three times per year with the County of San Diego to discuss issues of importance between the construction industry and County officials. This committee has the responsibility to make sure industry and the County's concerns are addressed and communicated on a regular basis to the membership. The committee's focus is in solving the day to day challenges faced on construction sites. The County is represented by officials from the Public Works Dept. (engineering projects) and the County General Services (building projects). Topics will include but are not limited to bidding practices; specification content; payment schedules; inspection methods etc. The Government Relations Committee is responsible for general political matters involving the County of San Diego.
This committee is intended to include contractors, subcontractors, and material suppliers involved in working with the County of San Diego.
Navy Liaison
This committee meets on a regular basis with the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest Division to discuss issues of importance between the construction industry and Navy officials. This committee has the responsibility to develop a meaningful dialogue with Navy personnel on a variety of issues including specifications; delivery systems; change order procedures; contracts etc. The committee's focus is in solving the day to day challenges faced on construction sites.
Membership on this committee is restricted to member firms that are involved in the construction process with the Navy.
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Public Building Liaison
This committee is charged with the responsibility of maintaining an open line of communication with various public agencies involved in building construction. The committee addresses current issues through individual task forces that are critical to the relationship between contractors, subcontractors and the public agencies. Members of this committee may also volunteer for liaison committees established with UCSD, SDSU, Community Colleges and certain school districts.
San Diego County Water Authority Liaison
This committee meets 3 times per year and discusses issues of importance between the construction industry and Water Authority officials. This committee has the responsibility to make sure industry and Water Authority concerns are addressed and communicated on a regular basis to the membership. The committee's focus is in solving the day to day challenges faced on construction sites. Topics include, bidding practices, specification content, payment schedules, inspection methods, etc. The Government Relations Committee is responsible for generating political matters involving the Water Authority.
This committee is intended to include contractors, subcontractors, and material suppliers involved in working with the Water Authority.
Airport Authority Liaison
This committee meets 3 times per year with the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority to discuss issues of importance between the construction industry and Airport officials. This committee has the responsibility to make sure industry and Airport concerns are addressed and communicated on a regular basis to the membership. The committee's focus is in solving the day to day challenges faced on construction sites. Topics will include but are not limited to bidding practices; specification content; payment schedules; inspection methods etc. The Government Relations Committee is responsible for general political matters involving the Airport Authority.
This committee is intended to include contractors, subcontractors, and material suppliers involved in working with the Airport.
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Technology Trends in Construction Committee
Meets: 6 times per year
Members are asked to provide the industry leadership and direction in the following areas:
- Identify, explore, and critique the construction industry's technology trends and information needs.
The committee is charged with the responsibility to identify, explore and critique the new trends in which technology advancements will help make the construction industry operate on a more efficient and effective basis. In this capacity, the committee will be charged with researching new and better means and methods that will help the industry now and in the future.
- Provide the industry technological training and education.
The committee is charged with utilizing the information generated in #1 and developing a training and educational program that will allow members to view new technologies and to be trained in their usage. The committee should utilize the technological training facilities in the AGC building.
- Identify, explore, and critique trends and technologies associated with estimating, bidding, and plan room services.
Topics should include, but not limited to: Building Information Modeling (BIM), communications & collaboration, paperless technology, industry software, (i.e. accounting, project management, estimating, takeoff, scheduling, etc.
Construction Leadership Committee (CLC)
Meets: 6-8 times per year
This committee will address the needs of young professionals in the industry and will have the responsibility of undertaking the following activities:
- Liaison with AGC Student Chapter at SDSU, where members will be tasked with to ensuring AGC San Diego members are engaged in the SDSU Student Chapter and then presenting the progress and ideas to the Education and Training Committee.
- The Annual Reno Competition in Reno, where participants will be responsible for providing the coaching for the SDSU team.
- Junior Achievement's "BizTown", in which members are to volunteer for at least one day per year at the AGC "Construction Company".
- The AGC Scholarship Program, where the committee will have the responsibility of interviewing and selecting all of the recipients for certain AGCSD Scholarships that are given out each year.
- Local Seminars where committee will also work with the AGC Education and Training Committee to bring speakers that will focus on politics, technology, design and engineering innovations, etc., to the CLC meetings. The goal will be to enhance the CLC participants understanding of key industry issues.
- Speakers/Networking where CLC will provide opportunities for participants to network on a local, statewide, and national basis with other CLC participants.
Environmental Stewardship Committee
Meets: Monthly
The Environmental Stewardship Committee will promote collaborative activities throughout the construction industry to assist contractors in enhancing their environmental efforts, thereby improving the overall environmental performance of the industry.
Specific duties include:
- Encouraging environmental stewardship through education, awareness and outreach.
- Recognize environmental responsible construction practices.
- Provide contractors with tools to efficiently manage environmental exposures and risks of liability
- Identify opportunities to reduce the impact that the construction practices have on the environment.
- Identify ways to measure and report environmental trends and performance indicators of such trends.
Build & Serve Committee
Meets: TBD
The Build & Serve Committee is to provide a venue for AGC members to "give back" to the community. This committee will select charitable projects and programs throughout San Diego County that will give AGC and its members an opportunity to participate in projects that will help the community.
The committee will also be responsible for securing members to volunteer for selected projects and for raising funds that will allow the industry to participate financially in selected charitable programs and projects.
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