Resolution 1521
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RESOLUTION NO. 1521
A RESOLUTION CALLING FOR SEALED PROPOSALS AND
FIXING LIQUIDATED DAMAGES FOR FAILURE TO
COMPLETE THE WORK WITHIN TIME SPECIFIED
TENTH STREET IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT
PROJECT NO. 1970-4
RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Gilroy, California,
that
WHEREAS, the said Council did, on the 19th day of October, 1970,
adopt its Resolution No. 1517
of Preliminary Determination and of
Intention to order the clearing, grubbing, grading, removal of existing
trees, shrubs and structures, and the construction of base, pavement,
curbs, gutters, sidewalks, driveways, surface and subsurface storm
drainage facilities, water laterals and valves, sewer laterals and
appurtenances in said City, all as more particularly described and
set forth in said Resolution of Preliminary Determination and of
Intention.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Clerk of said City is hereby directed
to publish once a week for two weeks in the Gilroy ~~Dispatch,
a newspaper published and circulated in said City, a notice inviting
sealed proposals or bids for the construction of said improvements,
and referring to the plans and specifications on file in the office
of said City Clerk, the first publication of which notice shall be
at least ten days prior to the time fixed for opening bids.
All proposals or bids shall be accompanied by cash, a cashier's
or certified check payable to the order of the City Clerk amounting
to ten percent of the bid, or by a bond in said amount and payable
to said Clerk signed by the bidder and a corporate surety or by the
bidder and two sureties who shall justify before any officer com-
petent to administer an oath, in double said amount and over and
above all statutory exemptions. The amount so posted shall be for-
feited to said City in case the bidder depositing the same does not,
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within fifteen days after written notice that the contract has been
awarded to him, enter into a contract with the City.
It is hereby determined that in the event the contractor, contract-
ing owners included, does not complete the work within the time limit
specified ~n the proposed contract or within such further time as this
Council shall have authorized, the contractor or contracting owners,
as the case may be, shall pay to the City liquidated damages in the
Thirty ($30.00)
amount of ~xtiuodx~Dollars ~~~ per day for each and every
day's delay in finishing the work beyond the completion date specified
in said contract. Additional provisions with regard to said time of
completion and liquidated damages are set forth in the specifications,
which provisions are hereby referred to and incorporated herein by
reference.
Said sealed proposals or bids shall be delivered to the City
Clerk of said City on or before 11:00 o'clock A.M., on the 13th day
of November, 1970, said time being not less than ten days from the
time of the first publication of said notice. Bids will be publicly
opened, examined and declared on said day and hour, and referred to
and considered by the Council at its meeting at 8:00 o'clock P.M.,
on November 16, 1970.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and cor-
rect copy of a resolution duly passed and adopted by the City
C.ouncil of the City of Gilroy, California, at a mee,ting. thereof
held on the
19th
day of October
~ 19 70, by
the following vote of the members thereof:
AYES, and in favor thereof, Councilmen: Batrez, Duffin, Kennedy, Pate,
Silva, Wentworth, and Goodrich
BOES, Councilmen: None
ABSENT, Councilmen:
None
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Clty'-"Cleri of the i ty of GilrifI
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