CC RESOLUTION 573RESOLUTION N0, 573
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING
SPECIFICATIONS NUMBER B -1941 FOR SIDEWALKS
AND CURBS IN SAID CITY.
The City Council of the City of E1 Segundo,
California, does resolve, declare and determine as follows:
SECTION 1. That the following specifications,
being and to be known as "Specifications of the City of
El Segundo, California Number B- 19411' ( "Specifications
for Sidewalks and Curbs ", be, and the same are hereby
adopted:
"SPECIFICATIONS OF THE
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA
NUMBER H -1941
('SPECIFICATIONS FOR SIDEWALKS AND CURBS$)
SCOPE OF WORK
The work shall consist of furnishing all necessary
materials, tools, appliances, equipment, labor and trans -
portion for the construction of concrete sidewalks and curbs,
all to be completed as shown on the plans, profiles and
cross - sections and described herein.
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MATERIALS
CEMENT: All cement used, when not otherwise qualified, shall
be Portland Cement and shall conform to the 'Standard Speci-
fications and Tests for Portland Cement', (Serial Designation
C9-40) of the American Society for Testing Materials.
AGGREGATES: Aggregates shall be clean, well- graded and water.
washed. Pea gravel and crushed rock shall be hard, durable
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and of a quality satisfactory to the Engineer. All
aggregates shall be free from clay, loam, mica, organic
materials, or other impurities. Unless otherwise specified,
sand shall, when dry, pass a one - fourth (1/4) inch screen
with not more than thirty per cent (30%) of the bulk pass-
ing a 30 -mesh sieve, and not more than sixty per cent ( 60 %)
passing a 100 -mesh sieve. Gravel and crushed rock all shall
pass a one inch ring with not more than twenty -five per cent
(25 %) being retained upon a three - fourths (3/4) inch sieve.
Nominal proportions of the aggregate shall be as specified
on the drawings for each portion of the work.
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CONSTRUCTION
FOUNDATION: The foundation shall be brought to the proper
grade and all soft or spongy material shall be removed to a
depth of six (6) inches below said grade and replaced with
material of a quality that will pack when moistened. This
gravel shall then be moistened and the whole foundation
tamped or rolled until it is solid.
The material to be supplied
earth and the fill shall be
not exceeding one foot each
well packed by rolling or t4
upon a fill, the fill shall
to thoroughly settle it.
in case of a fill shall be good
built up in horizontal layers
in thickness, each layer to be
umping. Before placing any curb
be flooded with water in order
In all cases where the soil upon which the concrete is to
be laid is adobe, it shall be removed to the proper depth,
as specified hereinafter, below the sub- grade, and the space
filled to sub -grade with the material described hereinafter,
which shall be thoroughly compacted by ramming or rolling.
DIMENSIONS: SIDEWALK: All sidewalks shall be three (3)
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inches thick exclusive of the cement mortar finishing coat.
In all street intersections where there are concrete curb
returns, the sidewalk shall be laid so as to cover the
entire surface included within the prolongation of the
side lines of the intersecting streets and the curb returns,
unless shown otherwise on the plans. The width of sidewalk
shall be as shown on the plans.
CLASS A CURBS: Class A curb shall be six
(6) inches wide on top, ten (10) inches wide on the bottom,
eighteen (18) inches deep and shall have a batter of three
(3) inches on the front face and a batter of one (1) inch
on the rear face.
CLASS B CURBS: Class B curb shall be five
(5) inches wide on top, nine (9) inches wide on the bottom,
fifteen (15) inches deep, and shall have a batter of two
and one -half (2 -1/2) inches on the front face and a batter
of one and one -half (1 -1/2) inches on the rear face.
SPECIAL COMBINATION CURB AND SIDEWALK: See
Plan D- 410324 on file in the office of the City Engineer
of the City of E1 Segundo, California.
The radii of curb returns shall be ten (10) feet at street
intersections and three (3) feet at alley intersections,
unless otherwise shown on the plans.
PROPORTIONS: Curbs and sidewalks constructed of a concrete
body and a mortar finishing coat shall have the materials
proportioned as follows:
Concrete
1 part of Portland Cement
3 parts of sand
5 parts of rock
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Cement Mortar
1 part Portland Cement
1 -1/2 parts of coarse, sharp screened sand
Sidewalks and curbs constructed and finished without a
mortar finishing coat shall have the materials proportioned
as follows:
Concrete
1 part of Portland Cement
2 -1/2 parts of sand
3-1/4 parts of rock
A sack of cement weighing not less than ninety -four (94) pounds
net shall be deemed to have a volume of one (1) cubic foot.
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MIXING AND PLACING CONCRETE
All proportions shall be obtained by actual measurement, and
no material shall be used which has not been measured.
Mixing shall be done in an approved type of batch mixer.
Not more than six and one -half (6 -1/2) gallons of water per
cubic foot of cement shall be used.
No concrete shall be used or retempered that shows evidence
of having reached its initial set.
No more concrete body shall be placed at any one time than
Is to be covered and completed at practically one continuous
operation in the same day.
Forms for curb shall be of a width equal to the full depth
of the face, and shall be true and rigid in order that the
finished curb shall be true and even.
No form shall be removed from the curb less than one -half
(1/2) hour after the concrete body is tamped into place and
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the rear curb form shall be kept in place until the face
of the curb has been plastered.
After the body of the curb and sidewalk has been thoroughly
rammed, there shall be applied a finishing coat not less
than one -half (1/2) inch in thickness unless finishing is
to be done monolithically. The finishing coat shall be
well floated and thoroughly troweled, free from voids or
loose spaces, and shall then be smoothly polished and
marked unless otherwise called for on the plans. The
finish must be true and straight, free from humps, sags
or other inequalities.
Transverse expansion joints shall be constructed at the
ends of all curb returns and at uniform intervals of not
less than forty (40) feet between returns.
Concrete shall be protected and shall be thoroughly wetted
in order to insure uniform curing.
The Contractor shall stamp his name on all work done by him
at intervals of not more than one hundred (100) feet on con-
tinuous work, and not less than once on each job of less
than one hundred (100) feet in length.
The Contractor shall repair at his own expense any damage to
curbs, gutters or cross -walks caused by him in the perform-
ance of the work.
No concrete shall be placed, in forms until the forms shall
have been inspected and approved by the Street Superintendent."
SECTION 2. That the City Clerk shall certify to
the passage and adoption of this resolution; shall enter
the same in the book of resolutions of said City, and shall
make a minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the
records of the proceedings of the City Council of said City
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In the minutes of the meeting at which the same was passed
and adopted.
Passed, approved and adopted this 23rd day of
July, A. D., 1941.
Mayor of the -City of El
Segundo, California.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL 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 City Council of the said City is
five; that the foregoing resolution, being Resolution No.
573, was passed and adopted by the said City Council, approv bd
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 23rd day of July, A. D., 1941, and that
the same was passed and adopted by the following vote, to -wit:
AYES: Councilmen Gerow, Hesser, Love and Mayor Binder;
NOES: Councilmen None;
ABSENTf Councilman Selby.
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City Clerk of a City of
E1 Segundo, California.
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