Staff from the County of Riverside’s Transportation Department will be performing overlay reconstruction work on various roads throughout unincorporated Riverside County.The Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 Sept. 9, with Chuck Washington absent, to approve force account, or in-house, work. The reconstruction will include 17 roads in the French Valley, unincorporated Hemet, and Temecula Wine Country areas.The use of Transportation Department personnel rather than a contractor allows projects which are less complex and of a maintenance nature to be performed more efficiently due to the time and cost savings from not needing to generate engineered plans and contract specifications and from not having inspection costs. The state's Public Contract Code allows road const
