AGC CLC Giving Back Through LABGC Community Service Project


By Carol Eaton


Southern California region of the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) launched an ambitious and meaningful community service project that promises to make a big impact on Los Angeles area youth. Initiated in partnership with


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Griffith Company, the CEF and CLC joined forces with the Los Angeles Boys & Girls Club (LABGC) to undertake a multi-phase project that will improve the safety and security of its Lincoln Heights facility. An average 150 youth rely on the club every day for its after- school programs. Te project will help LABGC fulfill its core mission to serve local youth – while also offering an opportunity for young construction professionals to leverage their core building skills and give back to their local community. Tat mutually beneficial mission


is one that resonates with Griffith Company estimator Dustin Devoto, who is coordinating the project and brought the opportunity to the attention of the AGC CLC.


“Great Fit” “Griffith Company had been in


talks with the Boys & Girls Club about a few of their facility needs, and we had also been talking with the CLC about potentially partnering on a future community service project,” Devoto said. “Tis was a great fit for both, so we met with the Boys & Girls Club to find out their wish list.” Te list of renovation and repair


needs is substantial for the almost 70-year-old facility that serves an estimated 1,800 5-to-17-year-old youths annually in the economically disadvan- 16 May/June 2019


he AGC of California Construction Education Foundation (CEF) and the


From left, Sam McWhorter and Juana Lambert of the Los Angeles Boys & Girls Club met with AGC CLC members Dustin Devoto (Griffith Company), Jason McKeever (Matrix Environmental) and Joe Tuttle, (Griffith Company), for an onsite preconstruction meeting on March 27th.


taged Lincoln Heights neighborhood of LA. Te center provides everything from after school care and tutoring to summer camps, athletics, meal services, gang prevention programs, college and career counseling and more. AGC CEF and CLC planned to


start work on the first phase of improve- ments in early April. Phase one will focus mostly on outdoor improvement work designed to shore up safety and security at the facility. With a cost roughly estimated at around $60,000 in labor and materials, items of scope include: fence modifications for security, grading modification to the field to eliminate water pooling, sprinkler adjustments to eliminate dry areas of field, shade sails at the food stand and bleacher/dugout area, a drinking foundation repair, new signage at the facility’s back gate and fence area, and replacement of a riding lawn mower previously stolen from the facility,


among other items.


AGC Members Step Up At the time that AGC CLC project


representatives held a preconstruction planning meeting at the LABGC facility in late March, the project had secured approximately $1,200 to date in financial contributions through a Go Fund Me account. A number of AGC member firms had committed to performing various portions of the work or to donating money or materials. Among those initial project partners: Griffith Company, Murray Company, Matrix Environmental, Crown Fence, NorCal Pipeline, Bali Construction, Inc., Railworks Corporation, Twining, Inc. and Trisha Schense, to name a few. Te CLC project team expects to


set up work days to engage even more companies, individuals, student chapter


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