By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.
We often hear from aspiring contractors who have grown up in the business and want to follow in their parent’s footsteps. If you want to keep the same license number timing is everything as we learn here. A landscaper’s ambition gets ‘cut short’ and we review what it takes to be a Responsible Managing Employee…
By Kenneth S. Grossbart, Abdulaziz, Grossbart & Rudman
By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.
In a break from tradition, I believe for the first time, the Contractors State License Board (CSLB) held its quarterly meeting in the Sheet Metal Workers’ Assembly Hall in Fairfield, CA on June 18th.
According to David Kalb, founder and former owner of Capitol Services, this was a lively meeting lasting close to 5 hours. The Registrar’s Report covered Procedures regarding the Board’s Interaction with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the CSLB Sunset Review Process.
by John McGill
My grandmother had a favorite saying: ‘A word to the wise is sufficient’, meaning of course that I should shape up or the next time I would be in even more trouble. Regrettably I didn’t always understand what I was supposed to do to avoid the “next time”. Courts do this correction with direction in their decisions too, and sometimes that direction is not clear either. A good example is the latest decision in Pacific Caisson & Shoring Inc v Bernard Bros. Inc.
A MESSAGE FROM MAYOR SCHAAF
Dear Business and Philanthropic Partners:
I am pleased to announce that we have officially launched our "Classrooms2Careers" program. We are currently preparing youth throughout the city to participate in this program and our goal is to place our teenage youth in meaningful, quality employment opportunities in and around Oakland for 100 hours of work beginning July 6, 2015.