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CC RESOLUTION 102RESOLUT ION 110. 102 ,
A RESGLUTION OF THEW BOARD OF TRUSTR�,S OF
THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA+, AWARD-
ING ON CERTAIN CONNDITIONS, TO R. A. WATTSON,
A CERTAIN CONTRACT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF
CERTAIN SANITARY SEWFRS AM APPURTENANCES IN
AND FOR THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA,
IN ACCOPDANCE VZTH PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS
PREPARED THEREFOR BY THE ENGINEERS FOR SAID
CITY; REJECTING ALL OTHER BIDS AND PROPOSALS
SUBMITTED FOR SAID CIMK OR IMPROVEMENT AND
DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO RETURN THE CHECKS
OF ALL UNSUCCESSFUL BIDDERS.
WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees of the City of E1
Segundo, California, has heretofore advertised for the con-
struction and completion of a certain sanitary trunk line
sewer system and appurtenances thereto, in and for said City;
AND, pVHEREAS, the time for opening aid considering
all of said bids has heretofore arrived, and said Board has
heretofore, at the time specified in the advertisement there-
for, opened, examined and publicly declared all bids re-
oeived;
AND, WHEREAS, all of said bids so received were
regularly taken under advisement until this time;
AND, VINERERS, after such consideration said Board
has reached a decision in the said matter;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that all bids re-
ceived for constructing and completing that certain sanitary
sewer system and appurtenances thereto, in and for said City
of E1 Segundo, California, hereinafter referred to, be aid
the same are hereby rejected, with the exception of the bid
of R. A. V(attson, and that the contract for the construction
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and completion of said sanitary trunk line sewer system
and appurtenances thereto, be and the same is hereby
awarded to said R. A. wattson, of 1026 McCadden Place,
Los Angeles, California, under his bid dated the 14th
day of _A.1 10u,t , 1925, and now on file in the office
of the City Clerk of said City, to which said bid so on
file as aforesaid reference is hereby expressly made, and
the said bid is by this reference hereby incorporated
herein and made a part hereof; provided however, that in
view of the fact that the moneys with which to construct
such sanitary sewer system and appurtenances must come
from bond moneys not as yet received, and upon which said
City is dependent, that the contract hereby awarded must
contain as an insert therein, and as a part thereof, the
following language:
"In consideration of the fact that the money
from the sewer bonds recently awarded by the City of E1
Segundo, California, to Anglo London Paris Company, and
Hunter, Dulin & Company, is not yet actually in the treas-
ury of the City of E1 Segundo, and the said city has no
other funds upon which it may rely in executing this con-
tract, and is dependent therefore upon the said proceeds
in order to carry out this contract, and as a result it
becomes necessary to fix a date upon which this contract
may hereafter become effective, and which for convenience
is hereafter referred to as the *effective date'; now,
therefore, said parties hereto do hereby further expressly
and actually covenant and agree in consideration of the
award made herein and the prices bid, that unless said bond
money is so actually received by said City within a period
of six months from date hereof, that this contract shall
not be binding upon the said City; provided, however, that
in the event such money be not so received within a period
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of forty -five days from date hereof, that then and in
that event said Contractor shall thereafter have the option
for a period of ten days after notice of the receipt by said
City of such money has been mailed to him, as hereinafter
provided, as to whether or not he shall thereafter proceed
with the same at the prices bid by him. Such ten -day option,
after notice as aforesaid, shall exist only after said
period of forty -five days shall have elapsed, and shall
expire and be void and of no further force or virtue six
months from the date of this contract. Within five days
after receipt of such actual proceeds by said City of El
Segundo, and if same be received within said period of six
months from date hereof, said City is to notify said Con-
tractor by either serving him personally with a written
notice to that effect, or by mailing same to him at the
following address, to -wit, 1026 McCadden Place, Los Angeles,
California, postage prepaid, and said Contractor must actually
commence the work within five days from the *effective date*
of this contract as hereinafter defined, and diligently pro-
secute the same to completion thereafter, or he shall have
no further rights in or under this contract. The effective
date, therefore, of this contract, it is mutually agreed,
under the circumstances above referred to, shall be that
certain date upon which said city shall have actually served
upon, or mailed to, said Contractor the written notice here -
inabove contemplated to the effect that said city has received
such bond moneys, in the event same are received within said
period of forty -five days from date hereof; and in the
event the same are not so received within said period of
forty -five days, then the *effective date' of this contract
shall be the day upon which said Contractor, within the term
of his ten -day option, after notice, shall elect to proceed
with such work hereunder. Notice of the exercise of said
option must be ,iven within said period of ten days above
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limited, must be in writing, and must be either delivered
personally to, or mailed to the City Clerk of the City
of E1 Segundo, California, at his address in the City Hall
of the City of E1 Segundo, 'California, and if mailed, same
must be mailed with the postage prepaid. If not so exer-
cised as above required, the same shall lapse and be and
remain void and of no further effect, and the Contractor's
rights hereunder shall cease and end."
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Attorney
shall prepare the form of contract to be executed pursuant
to this award and shall submit the same for signatures as
soon as possible;
AND BE IT FURTH ?R RESOLVED, that when the said
contract shall have been approved as to four by said City
Attorney, and as to provisions by the President of the Board
of Trustees of said ''City, that the said President, on behalf
of said City of E1 Segundo, be, and he is hereby authorized
and instructed to sign and deliver said contract on behalf
of said City, and the City Clerk of said City is hereby
authorized and instructed to affix the corporate seal of
the City thereto;
AND BE IT FURTH %R RESOLVED, that the City Clerk
shall certify to the passage and adoption of this resolution;
shall cause the sameto be entered in the Book of Resolutions
of the City of E1 Segundo, California, and shall make a
minute of the passage and adoption thereof, in the records
of the meeting at which the same is passed and adopted.
Passed, approved and adopted this 18th day of
August , A. ^., 1925.
President of the Board of Trustees
ATTEST: /� � � � % o£, the City of El Segundo, California.
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STATE OF CALI ^ORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS.
CITY OF FL SEGUNDO )
I, Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the City
of E1 Segundo, California, do hereby certify that the
whole number of members of the Board of Trustees of the
said City is five; that the foregoing resolution, being
Resolution No. 102 , was passed and adopted by the said
Board of Trustees, approved and signed by the President
of said Board, and attested by the Oity Clerk of said
City, all at a regular meeting of the said Board held on
the 18th day of August , 1925, and that the same
was so passed and adopted by the following vote-
AYES -. TRUSTEES Anderson, Cannon, Gerow, Love and Binder. ;
NOES: TRUSTEES none.
ABSENT: TRUSTEES None.
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California.
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