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RESOLUTION NO. 408
A RESOLUTION CALLING FOR SEALED PROPOSALS AND
FIXING LIQUIDATED DAMAGES FOR FAILURE TO
COMPLETE THE WORK WITHIN TIME SPECIFIED
WEST VALLEY JOINT JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT
SARATOGA CAMPUS ASSESSMENT DISTRICT
RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Saratoga,
California, that
WHEREAS, said Council did, on the 3rd day of January, 1968,
adopt its Resolution of Intention No. 396 to order the clearing,
grading, grubbing and c~nstruction of pavement, curbs, gutters,
traffic bars, storm drainage and sanitary sewerage facilities,
street lighting, traffic signals, landscaping and water distribu-
tion facilities in said City, all as more particularly described
and set forth in said Resolution of Intention;
NOW, THEEFOE, the Clerk of said City is hereby directed to
publish once a week for two weeks in the Saratoga News, 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 fourteen 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 per cent of the bid, or by a bond in said amount and payable
to said City Clerk, signed by the bidder and a corporate surety or
by the bidder and two sureties who shall Justify before any officer
competent to administer an oath, in double said amount and over
and above all statutory exemptions. The amount so posted shall be
forfeited to said City in case the bidder depositing the same does
not, 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~ con-
tracting owners included, does not complete the work within the time
limit specified in 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 amount of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150.00 ) 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 the City of Saratoga on or before Three o'clock P .M. on
the 1st day of April , 1968, said time being not less than
fourteen 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 April B, 1968.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct
copy of Resolution duly passed and adopted by the City Council of
the City of Saratoga, California, at a meeting thereof held on the
21st day of February~ , 1968, by the following vote of the
members thereof:
AYES, and in favor thereof, Councilmen:
Glennon, Tyler, Burry, Robbins
NOES, Councilmen: None
ABSENT, Councilmen: Herman ....