Burgis installed as supervisor board chair, focuses on jobs and development

While getting past the COVID-19-related health dangers and the pandemic’s effect on Contra Costa County staff will again dominate the Contra Costa Board of Supervisors’ schedules well into 2021, new board Chairwoman Diane Burgis said there are plenty of other things on the new year’s agenda as well.

During the board’s Jan. 5 annual reorganization meeting, Burgis pledged an effort to analyze possible consolidation of the county’s fire districts, and expansion of the supervisors’ ongoing Northern Waterfront Economic Development Initiative to encourage and accommodate light- and heavy-industrial development, including high-tech, along Contra Costa’s waterfront from Rodeo east to Oakley.