Bulletins
After months of wrangling and debate, lawmakers have come to an agreement on water withdrawal legislation, quickly passing new water protection legislation and sending it to the governor. MITA has been tracking the legislation closely for the past year, ensuring there would not be any new regulations to hamper the
As you should be aware, effective with all projects starting with those let in the May 2, 2008, letting MDOT has implemented revised prevailing wage oversight procedures that define new roles and responsibilities for the engineer (owner representative) and the prime contractor. These roles and responsibilities are defined in the
Contractors would be paid by governmental units in a more timely manner, in legislation passing House Committee this week. The package of bills known as “prompt pay” legislation (HB 6173-6176) is a MITA initiative that has been in the works for two years. The legislation also cracks down on the
Many of you are aware that scam artists have and continue to circulate fraudulent letters that appear to be from the USDOT
Legislature Approves Airport Funding After months of political wrangling, the House sent a bill to the governor’s desk that will provide over $160 million to Michigan’s airports to upgrade their infrastructure. The money was federal dollars that needed to be appropriated by state legislators in order to be used. Final
As we have advised you in the past to beware, recently several MITA members have received what appears to be official letters from the USDOT requesting specific bank account information. Although the fax letters are very official looking on USDOT Procurement Office letterhead, we have confirmed with the USDOT’s Office
The 2008-2013 Contract with the Operating Engineers has been ratified by MITA Power-of-Attorney Contractor Members. Please note that the fringes as noted here differ somewhat from the Table Agreement. The only difference is a shift of three cents (.03¢) from the Labor Management Fund to the Retiree Benefit Fund. This
As the price of fuel continues to climb with no price down turn projected anytime soon, fuel escalator provisions and fuel price adjustment clauses have become a frequent topic of discussion throughout the industry. Historically, owner agencies like MDOT have been amenable to fuel escalator provisions or price adjustment clauses
MITA staff and select members led a delegation of the Michigan Transportation Team to Washington to lobby for more federal road dollars. Currently, our state receives only 92 cents of every transportation dollar we send to the federal government and the Federal Highway Trust Fund is scheduled to be insolvent
An Agreement was reached on May 13th for the statewide road contract. The details are as follows: 1. 5 year agreement 2. Monetary adjustments Effective June 1, 2008 – $1.20/hr Effective June 1, 2009 – $1.20/hr Effective June 1, 2010 – $1.20/hr Effective June 1, 2011 – $1.20/hr Effective June
The MITA legislative team has been busy this week pushing policymakers to act on key issues. There is about $160 million in airport funding projects tied up in a capitol outlay bill pending in the Legislature. MITA has been very concerned that the delay in approving these federal dollars will
ARTBA recently published the following information and statistics for transportation construction material prices and inflation. For 2007 as a whole, highway and street construction prices were up 5.7 percent compared to 2006, while inflation was up 2.8 percent. Since 2003, the cost of materials for highway and street contractors has
