Senator Dennis Hollingsworth Selected as ACEC California’s Legislator of the Year

SACRAMENTO – Senator Dennis Hollingsworth-R has been named “Legislator of the Year” by the American Council of Engineering Companies – California (ACEC California). Sen. Hollingsworth is senator for the 36th District, which includes portions of San Diego and Riverside counties.

Senate Republican Leader Dennis Hollingsworth received the award because of his support for the expansion of public-private partnerships (P3s), and other project delivery methods designed to make California more competitive. Senator Hollingsworth is focused on job creation and emphasizes the need to reform a broken regulatory process that wastes taxpayer dollars and makes it more difficult to build important water storage facilities, roads and schools.

“I’m honored to be given this award by ACEC California, an organization that is dedicated to protecting the public interest while creating economic growth for our state through private sector job creation,” said Sen. Hollingsworth.
“Good paying jobs are important to the health of every community in California. We can create and keep jobs here if we give the private sector the tools to grow,” he added. Hollingsworth pointed to P3s and other widely accepted delivery methods as critical for the creation of sustainable jobs in the consulting engineering and surveying industries in California.

Paul Meyer, Executive Director of ACEC California, pointed to Sen. Hollingsworth’s emphasis on eliminating waste and unnecessary bureaucracy as one of the other key reasons he was selected for this year’s award.

“Senator Dennis Hollingsworth is a pragmatic and dedicated leader in the California Senate – one who seeks to cut through waste to provide reasonable legislation to help our economy grow. He also acutely realizes the importance of design build and P3s to our state’s future as well as the vital role played by the consulting engineering and surveying industries in the overall economic development of California.”

Senator Hollingsworth was elected to the State Legislature in 2000 and to the Senate in 2002 and was elected to his current post of Senate Republican Leader in February of this year. He is a resident of Murrieta in Riverside County.