Exhibit 10.2.a
 
GRANITE CONSTRUCTION INCORPORATED
 
AMENDED AND RESTATED 1999 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
 
Amendment No. 1
 
Section 14.1 of the Granite Construction Incorporated Amended and Restated 1999
Equity Incentive Plan, as amended and restated on May 15, 2009 (the “Plan”)
authorizes amendments to the Plan by action of the Compensation Committee of the
Company’s Board of Directors. Accordingly, the Plan is hereby amended, effective
January 1, 2010, as follows:
 
1.           Section 10.3 is amended to read as follows:
 
“10.3           Subsequent Award.  Each Nonemployee Director automatically will
be granted either a Restricted Stock or Restricted Stock Unit Award (as
determined by the Board) on the date of each annual meeting of the shareholders
of the Company.”
 
2.           The first sentence of Section 10.4(a) is amended to read as
follows:
 
“Shares issued pursuant to any Nonemployee Director Restricted Stock Award or
any Nonemployee Director Restricted Stock Unit Award shall vest in full on the
first May 20th to occur more than one year after the date of grant (as provided
for in Section 10.2 or Section 10.3) and as set forth in the Award Agreement
evidencing such Award.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the annual meeting of
the shareholders of the Company occurs during a calendar on a date after May 20,
then shares issued pursuant to any Nonemployee Director Restricted Stock Award
or any Nonemployee Director Restricted Stock Unit Award shall vest on the first
anniversary of the date of grant and as set forth in the Award Agreement
evidencing such Award.”
 
Except as amended hereby, the terms of the Plan remain in full force and effect.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Amendment is executed this 7th day of November, 2009.
 
GRANITE CONSTRUCTION INCORPORATED
 

 
By:           /s/ William G. Dorey 
 

 
Its:           President and
CEO