HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 496-1935 RESOLUTION ORDERING ABATEMENT OF WEEDS.
WHEREAS the City Council of the City of South San Francisco did, on the 20th
day of May, 195~, pass its resolution of intent ion to abate the nuisance caused by weed~
growing on the streets in said resolution of intention described; and
WHEREAS no person has objected or protested against the proposed removal of
said weeds;
RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of South San Francisco that said
City Council hereby orders that said nuisance be abated in the manner herein provided.
It is hereby determined that p~ublic advantage will be served bY calling for
sealed proposals for the performance of the work of abating said nuisance.
The City Clerk is hereby directed to cause a notice inviting sealed proposals
for doing said work to be published by two (2) insertf'ons in "The Enterorise, and The
South San Francisco Journal", a newspaper of general c~culation, published and c~rculated
in said City of South San Francisco, which notice shall be substantially in the following
fo~m:
NOTICE INVITING SEALED PROPOSALS
OR BIDS FOR PSE~0VING WE~.DS FRO~.~
CERTAIN STREETS IN TPH~ CI?Y OF
SOLWfH SAN FRANCIS CO.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed proposals or bids will be received by the-
City Council of the City. of South San Francisco on the 2~th day of June, 19Z5, until the
hour of 8:00 o'clock'P.M, for doing the following work in said City of South San
Francis co:
The cutting of all weeds in the parking areas and the areas between sidewalks
and property lines of the streets shown upon the plated areas of said City of South San
Francisco, on which areas weeds may exist at the time of the execution of the agreement
herein contemplated.
All work here~n provided for shall be perfqrmed under the d~rection ~and to
the satisfaction of the Superintendent of Streets of the City of South San Francisco.
No person shall be employed upon any of such work who is not a bona fide
resident of said City of South San Francisco.
The contractor, to whom the contract may be awarded for said work, shall
give preference to married men, who are supporting families residing in said City of
South San Francisco.
Each bidder shall submit a price per lineal foot for which such contractor
shall be willing to perform such work.
The contractor, to whom a contract for s~ch work may be awarded, shall have
no claim for compensation for damages by reason of the fact that any weeds growing
upon such areas may be removed prio~ to the t~me such contractor may arrive for work
at any such areas where weeds may be growing at the time of the execution of such
It is hereby determined that public advantage will be served bY calling for
sealed proposals for the performance of the work of abating said nuisance.
The City Clerk is hereby directed to cause a notice inviting sealed proposals
for doing said work to be published by two (2) insertions in "The Enterprise. and The
South San Francisco Journal", a newspaper of general c~culation, published and circulated
in said City of South San Francisco, which notice shall be substantially in the following
form:
NOTICE INVITING SEALED PROPOSALS
OR BIDS FOR REMOVING WEEDS FROM
CERTAIN STREETS IN TH~ CI~TY OF
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed proposals or bids will be received by the-
City Council of the City. of South San Francisco on the 24th day of June, 1935, until tl~
hour of 8:00 o'clock'P.M, for doing the following work in said City of South San
Francis co:
The cutting of all weeds in the parking areas and the areas between sidewalks
and property lines of the streets shown upon the plated areas of said City of South San
Francisco, on which areas weeds may exist at the time of the execution of the agreement
herein contemplated.
Ail work herein provided for shall be perfo~rmed under the d~rection .and to
the satisfaction of the Superintendent of Streets of the City of South San Francisco.
No person shall be employed upon any of such work who is .not a bona fide
resident of said City of South San Francisco.
The contractor, to whom the contract may be awarded for said work, shall
give preference to married men, who are supporting families residing in said City of
South San Francisco.
Each bidder shall submit a price per lineal foot for which such contractor
shall be willing to perform such work.
The contractor, to whom a contract for soch work may be awarded, shall have
no claim for compensation for damages by reason of the fact that any weeds growing
upon such areas may be removed prior to the time such contractor may a~ive for work ~
at any such areas where weeds may be growing at the time of the execution of such
agreement.
No bid will be accepted from a contractor who has not been licensed in
accordance with the provisions of an act of the Legislature of the State of
California, entitled: "An act providing for the ~egistration of contractors, and
defining the term contractor; providing the method of obtaining licenses to engage in
the business of contracting, and fiXing the fees for such l~censes; providing the
method of suspension and cancellation of such licenses; and prescribing the
punishment for violation of the provisions of this act." Chapter V91 of Statutes
.and Amendments of 1929, as amended.
Said City Council has ascertained that the general prevailing rates of per
diem wages and the general prevailing rate for legal holidy and overtime work applicable
to the work to be done, are as follows:
CLASSIFICATION RATE PER HOUR
Weed Cutters $ .50
Legal holiday and overtime work, time and one-half.
It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded, an(
upon any sub-contractor under him, to pay not less than the said specified rates to all
laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by them in the execution of the contract. The
contractor shall forfeit as a penalty to the City of South San Francisco Ten Dollars ($10.
for each laborer, workman or mechanic emoloyed, for each calendary day, or portion thereo~
such laborer, workman or mechanic is paid less than the said stipulated rates for auy0 wor~
done under said contract, by him, or by any sub-contractor under him. And such contract
shall contain a stipulation to this effect, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter ~
of the Statutes of California 1931.
NOTICE IF Fi~RTHER HEREBY GIVEN that no person, firm, partnership, association~
or corporation, or agent thereof, doing any of the work herein provided for, as a
contractor or sub-contractor, shall knowingly employ, or cause or allow to be employed
thereon, any alien, except in cases of e ×traord~nary emergency caused by fire, flood or
danger to life or property.
The contractor, to whom a contract for said work may be awarded, shall forfeit
as a penalty to said City of South San Francisco Ten Dollars ($10.00) for each alien
knowingly employed in the execution of s~ch contract by him, or by any sub-contractor und~
him, for each calendar day, or portion thereof, during which such .alien is permitted or
required to labor in violation of an act of the Legislature of the State of California,
entitled: "An act to prohibit the employment of aliens by contractors and sub-contractor~
on all public work, except in certain cases of extraordinary emergency, providing for the
reporting of such cases of extraordinary emergency and the keeping of records of the
citizenship of workers employed upon public work aud the inspection of such records by the
proper officials, providing for a ~orfeiture for each calendar day or portion thereof, an~
alien is knowingly permitted to work on public work and for a stipulation to this effect
in the contract, and providing other oenalties for violation of the orovisions thereof,"
approved May 2~, 1931, Statutes of 1931, page 913.
.The t ime of service of any laborer, workman or mechanic employed on any of sa~
work is hereby limited to thirty (30) hours during any one calendar week.
The contract to be awarded shall contain a provision embodying the foregoing
limitations with respect to the time of service of any such laborer, workman ~r mechanic
who may be employed upon any of said work and the further stipulation that, for every
person employed in the execution of such contract, whether such employment is by said
contractor or by a sub-contractor under him, the contractor, to whom said contract is
awarded, shall forfeit as a penalty to s aid City of South San Francisco the~ sum of Ten Do:
($10.00)~ for each calendar day for each week during which such laborer, workman or
mechanic is reGuired Or permitted to labor more than thirty (30) hours, or more than eight
(8) hours in violation of the provisions of Section 6~3c-1 of the Penal Code.
The contract must be entered into in compliance with and subject to the condi?
imposed by Sect~.on 6~3c of the Penal Code of the State of California. Such contract shall
contain a stipulation which shall provide that the contractor to whom said contract is
awarded shall forfeit as a penalty to said City of South San Francisco Ten Dollars ($10.0£
for each laborer, workman, or mechanic employed in the execution of said contract, by hims.
laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by them in the execution of the contract. The
contractor shall forfeit as a penalty to the City of South San Francisco Ten Dollars ($1(
for each laborer, workman or mechanic employed, for each calendary day, or portion therec
such laborer, workman or mechanic is paid less than the said stipulated rates for auy~ wo~
done under said contract, by him, or by any sub-contractor under him. And such contract
shall contain a stipulation to this effect, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter
of the Statutes of California 1931.
NOTICE IF FURTHER HP~'REBY GIVEN that no person, firm, partnership, associatio~
or corporation, or agent thereof, ~oing any of the work herein provided for, as a
contractor or sub-contractor, shall knowingly employ, or cause or allow to be employed
thereon, any alien, except in cases of e xtraordfnary emergency caused by fire, flood or
danger to life or property.
The contractor, to whom a contract for said work may be awarded, shall forfe~
as a penalty to said City of South San Francisco Ten Dollars ($10.00) for each alien
knowingly employed in the execution of such contract by him, or by any sub-contractor uno
him, for each calendar day, or portion thereof, during which such .alien is permitted or
required to labor in violation of an act of the Legislature of the State of California,
entitled: "An act to prohibit the employment of aliens by contractors and sub-contracto:
on all public work, except in certain cases of extraordinary emergency, providing for thl
reporting of such cases of extraordinary emergency and the keeping of records of the
citizenship of workers employed upon public work and the inspection of such records by ti
proper officials, providing for a forfeiture for each calendar day or portion thereof, a~
alien is knowingly permitted to work on public work and for a stipulation to this effect
in the contract, and providing other oenalties for violation of the orovisions thereof,"
approved May 25, 1931, Statutes of 1931, page 913.
· The time of service of any laborer, workman or mechanic employed on any of s~
work is hereby limited to thirty (30) hours during any one calendar week.
The contract to be awarded shall contain a provision embodying the foregoing
limitations with respect to the time of service of any such laborer, workman ,r mechanic
who may be employed upon any of said work and. the further stipulation that, for every
person employed in the execution of such contract, whether such employment is by said
contractor or by a sub-contractor under him, the contractor, to whom said contract 'is
awarded, shall forfeit as a penalty to s aid City of South San Francisco the. sum of Ten I~
($10.00) for each calendar day for each week during which such laborer, workman or
mechanic is required Or permitted to labor more than thirty (30) hours, or more than eigl
(8) hours in violation of the provisions of Section 653c-1 of the Penal Code.
The contract must be entered into in compliance with and subject to the cond
imposed by Section 653c of the Penal Code of the State of California. Such contract sha
contain a stipulation which shall provide that the contractor to whom said contract is
awarded shall forfeit as a penalty to said City of South San Francisco Ten Dollars ($10'.~
for each laborer, workman, or mechanic employed in the execution of said contract, by hi:
or by any sub-contractor under him, upon any of the work herein mentioned, for each cale
day during which such laborer, workman or mechanic is recuired or permitted to labor mot
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than eight (8) hott~s in violation of the provisions of Section 653c of the Penal Code
of the State of California. '
The contract to be awarded shall contain a further stipulation that the
contractor, to whom such contract may be awarded, shall use or supply only such
unmanufactured articles, materials, and supplies as may have been mined or produced in
the United States and only such manufactured art.~cles, materials, and supplies as have
been manufactured in the United States, substantially from all articles, materials or
supplies mined, produced, or so manufactured, as the case may be, in United States,
excepting only where such articles, materials, or supplies of the class or kind to be
used, or the articles, materials or supplies from which they are manufactt~ed are not
mined, produced or manufactured, as the case may be in United States, as required by
an act of the Legislature of the State of California entitled: "An act to require the
use of materials and 'supplies substantially produced in the United States, in public
works and for oublic purposes"; Chapter P.~6 of the Statutes of California, 1933.
The contractor, to whom the contract may be awarded, will be required to
comply with the terms of that certain act of the Legislature of the State of
California known as the "California Industrial Recovery Act", Chapter 1039 Statutes of
California 1933. Such contract shall c ontain a clause providing that the contractor
shall give a preference of fifteen (15) per cent to supplies, articles and materials
mined, manufactured or supplied in observance of any code of fair competition, approved,
prescribed or issued under Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act or under any
similar law of the State of California, or in ptmsuance of any agreement entered into or
approved under said laws, or in conformity with the terms prescribed in any licenses
issued under said laws as the case may be, and which concerns such trade or industry
and subdivision thereof as may be involved, and, in the purchasing of materials, or
supplies for public use, shall give a preference of ten (10) per cent to any bidder
who expressly agrees to ftmnish only such materials or supplies so mined, produced,
manufactured or supplied.
The successful bidder shall, within ten days, after the award, enter into
a contract with the City of South San Francisco for the faitt~ful performance of the
work to be done under said award. All proposals must be accompanied by a certified
check upon a solvent bank of the State of California, payable to the City of South
San Franc:!sco in ~u amount not less than ten per cent of the aggregate of the bid upon
the condition that, if the proposal be accepted mud the contract awarded and if the
bidder shall fail and neglect to execute a contract and give the bonds required, the
sum mentioned in said check shall be liquidated damages for such failure and neglect
and shall be forfeited to and paid into the treasury of the City of South San Francisco.
The bidder to whom the contract is awarded, will be required to execute a bond for
the faithful performance of his work in an amount equal to fifty (50) per cent of the
amount of the undertaking with at least two responsible sureties in the full amount of
excepting only where such a~ticles, materials, or supplies of the class or kind to be
used, or the articles, materials or supplies from which they are manufactured are not
mined, produced or manufactured, as the case may be in United States, as required by
an act of the Legislature of the ~tate of CalifoEGia entitled: "An act to require the
use of materials and §upplies substantially produced in the United States, in public
works and for oublic purposes"; Chapter 226 of the Statutes of California, 1933.
The contractor, to whom the contract may be awarded, will be required to
comply with the terms of that certain act of the Legislature of the State of
California known as the "California Industrial Recovery Act", Chapter 1039 Statutes of
California 1933. Such contract shall contain a clause providing that the contractor
shall give a preference of fifteen (15) per cent to supplies, articles and materials
mined, manufactured or supplied in observance of any code of fair comoetition, approved,
prescribed or issued under Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act or under any
similar law of the State of California, or in pursuance of any agreement entered into or
approved under said laws, or in conformity with the terms prescribed in any licenses
issued under said laws as the case may be, and which concerns such trade or industry
and subdivision thereof as may be involved, and, ~n the purchasing of materials, or
supplies for public use, shall give a preference of ten (10) per cent to any bidder
who expressly agrees to furnish only such materials or supplies so mined, produced,
manufactured or supplied.
The successful bidder shall, within ten days, after the award, enter into
a contract with the City of South San Francisco for the faithful performance of the
work to be done under said award. All proposals must be accompanied by a certified
check upon a solvent bank of the State of California, payable to the City of South
San Francisco in an amount not less than ten per cent of the aggregate of the bid upon
the condition that, if the proposal be accepted ~nd the contract awarded and if the
bidder shall fail and neglect to execute a contract and give the bonds required, the
sum mentioned in said check shall be liquidated damages for such failure and neglect
and shall be forfeited to and paid into the treasury of the City of South San Francisco.
The bidder to whom the contract is awarded, will be required to execute a bond for
the faithful performance of his work in an amount equal to fifty (50) per cent of the
amount of the undertaking with at least two responsible sureties in the full amount of
the bid each; and will also be req~Ired, before entering upon the work, to fLL~n~sh a
good and sufficient bond, as required by an act of the Legislature of the State of
California, approved May 10, 1919, entitled: "An Act to secure the payment of the
claims of persons employed by contractors upon public works and the claims of persons
who furnish materials, supplies, teams, implements or machinery used or consumed by
such contractor in the performance of such works, and prescribing the duties of certain
~oublic officers with respect thereto~, Chapter 303 of the Statutes of California, 1919o
Sealed propYsal or bids will be delivered to the City Clerk on or before 8:0£
p.m. on ~'Ionday, the 24th day of June, 1935.
All sealed proposals will be opened by said City Council in public session on
Monday, the 24th day of June, 1935, at 8:00 p.m. in the council chamber of said City Cou~
Said City Council reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
By order of the City Council of the City of South San Francisco.
Dated J~ne 10th, 1935.
_ (SEAL) DANIEL McSWEENEY
City Clerk.
I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was regularly introduced and
adopted by the City Council of the Ciy of South San Francisco this 10th day of June, 193f
by the following vote:
Ayes, Councilmen V. BOID0, JOHN F. MAGER, M. ~INUCCIANI, R. TIBBET~S, REESE LLOYD
Noes, Councilmen NONE
Absent, Councilmen NONE
Attest:
DANIEL Mc SWEENEY
City Clerk
(SEAL)