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ORDINANCE NO. 132
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ATASCADERO ADDING CHAPTER
ENTITLED INFORMAL PUBLIC CONSTRUCTION BIDDING ORDINANCE
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ATASCADERO DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 13' of Title 2 is hereby amended to add
Section 2-3.14 to 2-3. 22 of the Municipal Code to read as
follows:
Section 2-3.14 This Section hereinafter should read as follows:
"Informal Bidding Ordinance".
Section 2-3.15 Findings and Purpose. The City Council
finds and declares:
(A) It is in the public interest for the City to elect to ,
become subject to the uniform public construction cost accounting
procedures adopted by the California Uniform Cost Accounting
Commission pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 21000 et.
seq. (Part 3, Chapter 2) .
(b) Performance of City public works projects in accordance
with the procedures will enable the City to perform public
works projects with its own forces and/or by contracts awarded
through informal bidding procedures when it is in the best
interests of the City to do so.
(c) It is the intent of the City Council that this Chapter
govern the selection of contractors by the City through informal
bidding procedures, in accordance with Public Contract Code
Section 21204.
SECTION 2-3.16. 'Responsibilities of Director of Public
Works. The City Council hereby delegates the authority to award
informal contracts, in accordance with this Chapter to the City
Director of Public Works.
SECTION 2-3.17. Development, Maintenance and Use of List of
Qualified Contractors.
(a) The City Director of Public Works shall develop a list
of qualified contractors eligible to submit bids on informal
contracts awarded by the City. In developing the list, the
City Director of Public Works shall obtain from the Contractors
State License Board, and from construction trade associations in
the county, names and addresses of qualified contractors located
in the county.
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(b) The list shall be organized in accordance with the
license classifications of the Contractor 's State License Board.
(c) The City Director of Public Works shall publish
annually, in all those construction trade journals
identified by the Contractors State License Board in Accordance
with Public Contract Code Section 21206, notice that the City has
elected to become subject to the uniform public construction
cost accounting procedures, that it maintains a list of qualified
contractors to submit bids on informal contracts, and of the
City office to contact for all information necessary for a
qualified contractor to be included on the list.
(d) Any licensed California contractor may upon request
be added to the list at any time.
(e) The City Director of Public Works shall develop and
provide to contractors applying for inclusion on the list a
simplified form requesting the applicant' s name, address, and
California contractors license number and classification.
SECTION 2-3.18. Plans, Specifications and Working Details.
The City Council hereby delegates to the City Director of
Public Works authority to prepare and adopt plans, specifications
and working details for all informal contracts, .and directs the
City Director of Public Works to develop plans, specifications
and working details necesssary to enable a qualified contractor
to perform the work required for each informal contract awarded.
SECTION 2-3.19. Informal Contract Projects - Identifying
and Inviting Bids.
(a) The City Director of Public Works shall identify all
City public works projects in excess of the monetary limits
imposed by law for work performed on projects with the City' s
own forces and less than the amount which required performance
by contracts awarded after formal bidding, and shall accomplish
such identified projects by informal contract.
(b) Projects shall not be split to avoid any of the bidding
requirements contained in the Uniform Public Construction Cost
Accounting Act, Public Contract Code 21000 et. seq.
(c) The City Director of Public Works shall mail notices
inviting informal bids to all contractors on the list of
qualified contractors, for the category of work being bid, and/or
all construction trade journals specified in Section 2-3.17.
(d) The City Director of Public Works shall complete the
mailing of notices inviting informal bids, as required by this
Section, not less than 10 calendar days before bids are due.
(e) The notice inviting informal bids shall describe the
project in general terms, how to obtain more detailed in-
formation about the project, and state the time and place for
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the submission of bids.
SECTION 2-3.20. Opening of Bids and Award of Contract. At
the time provided in the notice inviting informal bids, the City
Director of Public Works shall open all bids timely received and
shall award a contract to the lowest responsible bidder. If two
or more bids are the same and lowest, the City Director of Public
Works shall award the contract by drawing lots. If no
bids are received, the City Director of Public Works may solicit
informal bids again, or perform the work by City forces, as
he/she determines to be in the best interest of the City.
SECTION 2-3. 21. Procedure for Emergencies. The City
Council hereby delegates to the City Director of Pubic Works the
power to declare a public emergency, as defined in Public
Contract Code Section 21205, and to accomplish repairs and/or
replacements as permitted by the said section. Work shall be
performed without the benefit of informal or formal bidding only
so long as necessary to permit the continued conduct of essential
City operations or services or to avoid danger to life or prop-
erty. The City Director of Public Works shall provide a full
report on the emergency and work peformed, at the next meeting of
the City Council, at which time the City Council will determine
appropriate action in accordance with Public Contract Code
Section 21205, including but not limited to, whether work should
continue without the benefit of informal or formal bidding.
SECTION 2-3.22., Severability. If any section, subsection,
sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason
held invalid or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of
competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the
validity of the remaining portions of the ordinance. The City
Council hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance
and each and every section, subsection, sentence, clause or
phrase not declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard
to whether any portion of the ordinance would be subsequently
declared invalid or unconstitutional.
On motion by COUNCILWOMAN NORRIS and seconded by
COUNCILMAN HANDSITY , the foregoing ordinance is hereby adopted
in its entirety by the following roll call vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS HANDSITY, MACKEY, MOLINA, NORRIS & MAYOR NELSON
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: NONE
DATE ADOPTED: 5/27/86
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ATTEST: CITY F ATASCADERO
ROBERT M. JONES ROLFE ELSO
City Clerk Mayor
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT:
PAL SENSIBAUGH MICHA HELTON, Zity Manager
Public Works Director
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
ROBERT M. JONES
City Attorney
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ATASCADERO,CALIFORNIA 93423 r" ATASCADERO,CALIFORNIA 93423
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CITY COUNCIL �aseadeiC® �.
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CITY MANAGER CALIFORNIA 93423
' PHONE: (805) 466-8600
ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DEPARTMENT
COMMUNITY.DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT - FIRE DEPARTMENT
PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT - 6005 LEWIS AVENUE
ATASCADERO, CALIFORNIA 93422
�» PHONE: (805) 466-2141
Hon. Kenneth Cory
State Controller
CERTIFICATIOIJ
I, CINDY WILKINS, Deputy City Clerk of the City of
Atascadero, hereby certify that the foregoing is a true
and correct copy of Ordinance No 132 adopted by the
Atascadero City Council at a regular meeting thereof held
on May 27 , 1986
DATED: 6/11/86
CINDY WILKINS, Deputy City Clerk
City of Atascadero , '2a�lif6rnia:
cc: Public Works Dept.
Finakce Dept.