Design professionals in California ...

Design professionals in California will have an interest in the issue of the November elections that goe beyond the presidential and congressional races. Also forward the ballot will be an initiative to determine if state and local agencies may utilize the services of engineers and architects in private practice.
The issue has simmered for years, as the union that set forths state-employed engineers has sought to require that design services for state and local agencies be performed and nothing else by members of the union. In 1997 the California predominant Court interpreted the state civil