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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 -,-,-,-,--,-,-.-,-,-,-.- ~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.