public works

“We also allege that, at a public works project in Cathedral City, US Framing West also underpaid its workers by approximately $40,000.”

The work aims “to best prepare ourselves for the wet weather season ahead,” said David Copp, the city’s deputy public works director.

Residents are paying the price in higher liability payouts and embarrassingly decrepit streets, sidewalks and other public works.

“They saw very complex stratified societies with monumental architecture and public works, but all without so-called agriculture,” she says, which they cited as a justification for colonizing “unused” lands.

“My story of growing up in an immigrant, working-class family resonates with this district because that is this district,” said Caloza, a former public works commissioner.