CC RESOLUTION 487RESOLUTION NO. 487.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, AWARDING
TO MEFFORD CHEMICAL COMPANY THE CONTRACT
FOR FURNISHING SAID CITY WITH CERTAIN
HYDRATED LIME.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of E1 Segundo,
California, has heretofore in the manner provided by law,
duly and regularly advertised for bids for furnishing said
City with certain hydrated lime;
AND, WHEREAS, at the time for opening and consider-
ing all of said bids, to -wit, the hour of 7:15 o'clock p. m.
on Wednesday, the 27th day of December, 1939, said Council
did publicly open, examine and declare all bids received;
AND, WHEREAS, at said hour said Council did take
all of said bids under advisement until the hour of 7:15
o'clock p. m. on Wednesday, the 3rd day of January, 1940,
at a regular meeting of said Council;
AND, WHEREAS, said last mentioned hour has now
arrived and said Council has reached its decision in the
said matter;
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of
El Segundo, California, does resolve, declare and determine
as follows:
SECTION 1. That the bid of MEFFORD CHEMICAL COMPANY,
a Copartnership, of Los Angeles, California, dated December 23,
1939, which said Council determines to be as follows, to -wit:
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"Gentlemen:
"We submit, herewith, our bid for furnishing the
City of El Segundo, with HYDRATED LIME for the period
ending December 31, 1940, as follows:
THE LIME to be supplied will be West End Hydrated Lime
produced in California, of which the average test is
as follows:
Calcium Hydroxide 95%
Calcium Oxide 73%
Magnesium Oxide less than 1%
Mesh 98 to 99% through 325 mesh.
PACKAGE: 50# Water -proof paper bags
gUANTITY: Estimated at 300 tons for contractural period.
DELIVERY: Minimum 20 ton lots, delivery of each lot
to be completed in not to exceed 10 days
from date order is placed.
PLACE OF DELIVERY:
City Water Purification Plant in City of
E1 Segundo, Calif.
PRICE: $12.00 per ton Delivered, including all
Transportation charges and Tax.
TERMS: Net 30 Days after delivery
This proposal incorporates by reference all particulars
of the published request for bids on Hydrated Lime by
the City of El Segundo dated: To be opened up to 7:15
p. m. December 27th, 1939.",
be,and the same is hereby accepted, which said bid is now on
file in the office of the City Clerk of said City, and which
said bid so on file is hereby expressly referred to and by
this reference incorporated herein and made a part hereof for
all further particulars.
This contract is for the furnishing of such hydrated
lime as may be required by said City during the period from
date hereof to the end of the calendar year, 1940.
The lime to be furnished hereunder shall in all
respects be furnished in accordance with the requirements of
the notice to bidders on hydrated lime dated the 14th day of
December, 19390 pursuant to which the above mentioned bid
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was received, and which said notice is in words and figures
as follows:
"NOTICE TO BIDDERS ON HYDRATED LIME.
"PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council
of the City of E1 Segundo, California, will receive
sealed bids up to the hour of 7:15 o'clock p. m. on
Wednesday, the 27th day of December, 1939, for furnish-
ing the City of El Segundo with such hydrated lime as
said City may require during the calendar year 1940.
"QUALITY: All lime furnished hereunder shall be the
best quality of hydrated lime, West End Hydrated lime
or equal, and shall contain not less than 70.5 per
cent and not more than 73.5 per cent water soluble
oxide. It shall not contain more than one per cent
of magnesium oxide and not more than one -half of one
per cent of iron aluminum oxides.
"SIZE: The particle size, ninety -eight per cent (98%)
shall pass three hundred and twenty -five (325) mesh
screen.
"PACKAGE: The hydrated lime shall be in water proof
fifty pounds, and shall be free of all foreign matter
and substances. Care shall be exercised in handling
all packages. If more than two (2 %) per cent of the
bags received are broken, it will constitute grounds
for rejection of all broken packages in the shipment.
"TESTS: At least one (1 %) per cent of the number of
bags shall be sampled. They shall be taken from various
parts of the shipment, dumped, mixed, and sampled as
follows:
All bags to be sampled shall be dumped, mixed, and
"quartered" to provide two one pound samples, one of
which shall be used for immediate testing and the other
shall be kept carefully sealed for use in a possible
retest, as provided in the next paragraph.
"RETESTING: Notice of dissatisfaction with a shipment
based on these specifications must be in the hands of
the contractor within ten days after the receipt of the
shipment. If the contractor desires a retest, he shall
notify the city engineer within five days of receipt of
the notice of complaint. The duplicate sample shall
then be forwarded for a retest to some laboratory agreed
upon by both parties. This retest shall be made at the
expense of the contractor. The results of the retest
shall be accepted as final.
"ACCEPTANCE: Acceptance shall be based upon the com-
pliance with all terms of these specifications. In case
any shipment or part of shipment is rejected, the contrac-
tor shall remove the shipment or part thereof from the
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water purification plant at his own expense.
It is estimated that approximately 300 tons of such
hydrated lime will be required during the contract
period, but this amount is an estimate only and is
not to be construed as a contractual quantity.
The City reserves the right to call for delivery
of such lime in lots of approximately* 20 tons each
over the contract period, as its needs may require, and
the contractor will be required to make delivery of such
20 ton lots on ten days notice of need therefor. If
any contractor fails to furnish the lime required
within ten days after such notice, the City shall have
the right to purchase its requirements in the open
market and charge the contractor with any amount which
it may be required to pay in such case over and above
the amount of the contract price for the quantity of
lime so purchased.
All bids must contemplate the delivery of the lime
at the City water purification plant in said City. The
bid price must include all transportation and /or other
charges and /or taxes of any kind.
Bidders shall state the discount which will be
allowed, if any, for cash payment within thirty days
after delivery.
Pursuant to the laws of the State of California,
and to resolution of the City Council of said City,
notice is hereby further given that said Council, in
the purchase of any supplies, goods, wares, merchandise,
manufactures or produce for the use of said City, shall
always, price, fitness and quality being equal, prefer
such supplies, goods, wares, merchandise, manufactures
or produce as have been grown, manufactured or produced
in the State of California, and shall next prefer such
as have been partially so manufactured, grown or pro-
duced in said State.
All bids must be sealed, marked +Bid on Hydrated
Lime', and must be either mailed or delivered so as to
be in the hands of the City Clerk of said City at or
before the hour hereinabove specified, at which time
and in the Council Chamber in the City Hall of said
city all bids received will be publicly opened, examined
and declared by the City Council of said City.
Particular attention of all bidders is called to
the fact that the 'Notice to Bidders on Hydrated Lime',
dated November 30th, 19390, and which appeared in the
issue of the E1 Segundo Herald of December 7th, 1939
and which fixes the date for the declaration of bids
as the 21st day of December, 1939, must be disregarded,
as the true hour and date up to which bids may be filed
is the hour of 7:15 o'clock P. M., December 27th, 19390
as first hereinabove stated.
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This notice is given by order of the City
Council of said City, and is dated this 14th day
of December, 1939,
Victor D. McCarthy
City Clerk of the City o£��
E1 Segundo, California.
SECTION 2. That all bids received for said
Hydrated Lime, with the exception of the bid of said Mefford
Chemical Company, be and the same are hereby rejected, and
the City Clerk is hereby authorized and instructed to return
the checks of all unsuccessful bidders.
SECTION 3. That the City Clerk shall prepare
copies of this resolution after the passage and adoption
thereof, and shall affix to such copies at the end thereof
after the Clerk's Certificate, forms for the approval of the
successful bidder and on the part of the said City, and such
copies of this resolution, so approved and accepted by the
successful bidder and by and on behalf of said City, shall
constitute the contract for furnishing said Hydrated Lime to
said City, pursuant to the award hereinabove made, and the
Mayor of the City of E1 Segundo is hereby authorized on behalf
of said City to affix the approval and acceptance of said City
to such contract, and said City Clerk is hereby authorized and
instructed to attest the same on behalf of said City, and to
affix the seal of said City thereto.
SECTION 4. That the City Clerk shall certify to
the passage and adoption of this resolution; shall cause the
original of the same to be entered in the book of resolutions
of the said City of E1 Segundo, and shall make a minute of
the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the pro-
ceedings of the City Council of said City, in the minutes
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of the meeting at which the same is passed and adopted.
Passed, approved and adopted this 3rd day of
January, A. D., 1940.
Mayor of the City of El Segundo,
California.
ATrTEST ;
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
I, VICTOR D. MC CARTHY, City Clerk of the City
of E1 Segundo, California, do hereby certify that the whole
number of members of the City Council of the said City is
five; that the foregoing resolution, being Resolution No. 487,
was passed and adopted by the said City Council, approved and
signed by the Mayor of said City and attested by the City
Clerk of said City, all at a regular meeting of the said
Council held on the 3rd day of January, A. D., 1940, and
that the same was so passed and adopted by the following
vote:
AYES: Councilmen Gerow, Hesser, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder;
NOES: Councilmen None ;
ABSENT: Councilmen None
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City Clerk of the ity of
El Segundo, Cali ornia.
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