STATE OF CALIFORNIA Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR 455 Golden Gate Avenue, Tenth Floor San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 703-5050 To: The Public Works Community Re: Invitation Letter to the New Director’s Advisory Committee on Public Works I would like to invite all interested parties in the public works community to the first Director’s Advisory Committee on Public Works (DAC-PW) on December 11, 2007, from 10:00 a.m. to noon, at 455 Golden Gate Avenue, Milton Marks Meeting Room, San Francisco. The purpose of this meeting and others that will follow is to encourage communication and discussion among the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) and the various stakeholders in the regulated public works community regarding issues of common interest to the participants. We expect to use the information we receive to guide our efforts to better serve those engaged in public works.  The agenda for the first meeting will include the recently-enacted infrastructure bond measures, residential rates, apprenticeship and labor compliance and enforcement. Subsequent agendas will be developed after discussions with the participants. The discussions will focus on how to better communicate information and enforcement policies of the various divisions and improve responses to public works issues. DIR will have its senior staff in attendance to give participants an overview of the issues each think are important to the respective divisions as to prevailing wage/public works issues. I, along with Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet, Division of Apprenticeship Standards Chief David Rowan and the newly-appointed Chief of the Division of Labor Statistics & Research, Gregory Govan, will attend to give our views and hear participants’ comments and suggestions for future discussion. Please let us know if you will be attending by sending a response to DAC_PW@dir.ca.gov. Please send any comments or suggestions you may have for the meeting to this address as well. I look forward to seeing you at the first meeting. Sincerely, /s/ John C. Duncan Director