HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 607-1937RESOLUTION CALLING FOR BIDS FOR
ABATEMENT OF WEEDS
WHEREAS, the city council of the City of South San Francisco did, Om
the 10th day of May, 1937, pass its resolution of intention to abate the nuisance
caused by weeds growing on the streets in said resolution of intention described;
and4
WHEREAS, on the ~th day of June, 1~3~, said city council passed a
resolution ordering the abatement of said weeds; and
WHEREAS, in the opinion of said city council, public advantage will
be served by calling for sealed proposals for the performance of the work of abat-
ing said nuisance.
RESOLVED by the city council of the City of South San Francisco that
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 new~paper of general circulation 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 THE CITY OF SOUTH SA~
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 21st day of June,
193~, until the hour of 8:00 o'clock p. m. for doing the following work in said
City of South San Francisco;
The removal of all weeds in the parking areas and the areas between
sidewalks and property lines of the streets and avenues mentioned and referred to
in the resolution of intention to abate weeds adopted by said city council on the
10th day of May, 193V, on which areas weeds may exist at the time of the execution
of the agreement herein contemplated.
All work herein provided for shall be pex-forz~d under the direction
and to the satisfaction of the Superintendent of Streets of the City of South San
Francisco.
Each bidder shall submit a price per lineal foot for which said
bidder shall be willing to perform such work.
The contractor~ to whom a contract for such work may be a~arded,
shall have~no claim for compensation or d~nages by reason of the fact that any
weeds growing upon such areas may be removed prior to the time such contractor
may arrive 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 LegiSYature of the State of
California, entitled:"an act providing for the registration of contractors, and
definlhg the term contrac~or~ providing the method of obtaining licenses to engage
in the business of contracting, and fixing the fees for such licenses; 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 holiday and overtime
work applicable to the work to be done, are as f611ows:
CLASSIFICATION
RATE PER HOUR
Weed cutters
$0.60
Overtime work, one and onehalf times the foregoing rates.
._.,,~e~'e.-,~e?~' %~ne a~a~e~-% of said wee~s; and
WHEREAS, in the opinion of said city council, public advantage will
be served by calling for sealed proposals for the performance of the work of abat-
ing said nuisance.
RESOLVED by the city council of the City of South San Francisco that
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 new~paper of general circulation 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 THE CITY OF SOUTH SA~
FRANCISCO.
NOTI~E IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed proposals or bids will be received
by the city council of the City of South San Francisco on the 21st day of June,
193~, until the hour of 8:00 o'clock p. m. for doing the following work in said
City of South San Francisco;
The removal of all weeds in the parking areas and t he areas between
sidewalks and property lines of the streets and avenues mentioned and referred to
in the resolution of intention to abate weeds adopted by said city council on the
10th day of May, 193V, on which areas weeds may exist at the time of the execution
of the agreement herein contemplated.
All work herein provided for shall be pex-formedunder the direction
and to the satisfaction of the Superintendent of Streets of the City of South San
Franciscoe
Each bidder shall submit a price per lineal foot for which said
bidder shall be willing to perform such work.
The contractor~ to whom a contract for such work may be mvax~ied,
shall haveno claim for compensation or damages by reason of the fact that any
weeds growing upon such areas may be removed prior to the time such contractor
may arrive 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 registration of contractors, and
defining the term contractor~ providing the method of obtaining licenses to engage
in the business of contra6ting, and fixing the fees for such licenses, 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 holiday and overtime
work applicable to the work to be done, are as f611ows:
CLASSIFICATION
RATE PER HOUR
Weed cutters
$0.60
Overtime work, one and onehalf times the foregoing rates.
It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is
awarded, and 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 contra~t. The contractor shall forfeit as a penalty bo the
City of South San Francisco Ten Dollars ($10.00) for wahc laborer, workman or
mechanic employed, for each calendar day, or portion thereof, such laborer,
workman or mechanic is paid less than the said stipulated rates for any work done under
said contract, by him, or by any sub-contractor under him. And such contract shall
contain a stipulation to this effect, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter
397 of the Statutes of California 1931.
NOTICE IS FURTHER HEREBY GIVEN that no person, firm, partnership,
association, or corporation, or agent thereof, doing any of the work herein pro-
vided for, as a contractor or sub-contractor, shall knowingly employ, or cause or
allow to be employed thereon, any alien, except in cases of extraordinary emergency
caused by fire, flood or danger to life or property.
The contractor, to whom a contract for~$aid work may be awarded, shall
forfeit as a penalty to said City of South San Francisco The Dollars ($10.00~ for
each alien knowingly employed in the execution of such contract by him, or by any
sub-contractor under 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-contractors on all public work, except in certain cases of extra-
ordinary emergency, providing for the reporting of such cases of extraordinary emergency
and the keeping of the records of the citizenship'of workers emplo~d upon public work and
the inspection of such records by the proper officials, providing for a forfeiture for
each calendar day or portion thereof, any alien is knowingly permitted to work on public
work and for a stipulation to this effect in the contract, and providing other penalties
for violation of the provisions thereof," approved May 25, 1931, Statutes of 1931, page
913.
The contract must be entered into in compliance with an subject to the
conditions imposed by Section 653c 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 $10.00 for each laborer, workman, or mechanic employed in the execution of said
contract, by him, or by any sub-contractor un~e~ him, upon any of the work herein mention-
ed, for each cala~dar day during which such laborer, workman or mechanic is required or
permitted to labor more than eight (8) hours in violation of the provisions of Section
653c of the Penal Code of the State of California.
The contracto to be awarded shall contain a further stipulation that the
contractor, to whom such contract may be awarded, shall use or supply only such unmanu-
factured articles, materials, and supplies as may have been mined or produced in the United
States and only such manufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been manufactur-
ed 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,
m~erials, or supplies of the class or kind to be used, or the articles, materials or supplies
from whcth 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 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 public purposes"; Chapter 226 of the Statutes of California, 1933.
The successful bidder shall, within $e$ 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 sol-
vent 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 pro-
posal be accepted and 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 treaury of
the City of South San Francisco. The bidder to whom the contract is awarded, will be requireA
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 required before entering upon the work, to furnish a good and
sufficient bofid, 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 con-
tractors 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 public officers with respect thereto", Chapter 303 of
the Statues of California, 1919.
Sealed proposals or bids will be delivered to the City Clerk on or before
8:00 o'clock p. m. on Monday, the 21st day of June, 193~,
All sealed proposals will be opened by said City Council in public session
on Monday, the 21st day of June, 193V, at 8:00 o'clock p, m. in the council chamber of
said City Council.
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 June 8th, 193V.
Daniel McSweeney
City Clerk
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~I hereny certify that the foregoing resolution was regularly introduced
and adopted by the City Council of the City of South San Francisco this 8th day of June,
193~, by the following vote:
Ayes, Councilmen
V. Boido, A. J. Eschelbach, J. F. Mager, M. Minucciani, D. W. Ratto
Noes, Councilmen ~one
Absent, Councilmen Bone
(Seal)
Attest:
Daniel McSweeney
CitY Clerk.