CC RESOLUTION 598RESOLUTION NO. 598
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 con-
sidering all of said bids, to -wit, the hour of 7 :15 o'clock
p. m. on Tuesday, the 23rd day of December, 1941, 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 Tuesday, the 30th day of December, 1941,
at an adjourned 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
E1 Segundo, California, does resolve, declare and determine
as follows:
SECTION 1. That the bid of MEFFORD CHEMICAL
COMPANY, a Co- partnership, of Los Angeles, California,
dated December 22, 1941, which said Council determines to
oe as follows, to -wit:
"We submit, herewith, our bid for furnishing the
City of E1 Segundo with HYDRATED LIME for the
period ending December 31, 1942, as follows:
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"THE LIME to be supplied will be West End Hydrated
Lime produced in California, of which the average
test is as follows:
"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 23, 1941. ",
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.
The 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 1942.
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 11th
day of December, 1941, pursuant to which the above mentioned
bid was received, and which said notice is in words and
figures as follows:
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Calcium Hydroxide
95,%
Calcium Oxide
73,%
Magnesium Oxide less than
1%
Mesh 98 to 99% through 325 mesh
"PACKAGE:
50# Water - proofed paper bags
"QUANTITY:
Estimated at 300 tons for contractual
period.
"DELIVERY:
Minimum 15 ton lots, delivery
of each
lot to be completed in not to
exceed
ten (10) days from date order
is placed.
"PLACE OF
DELIVERY:
City Water Purification Plant
in City
of E1 Segundo, California
"PRICE:
$9.50 per ton F.O.B. West End,
California
.285 State Sales Tax
4.21 Freight
$13.995 Total
"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 23, 1941. ",
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.
The 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 1942.
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 11th
day of December, 1941, pursuant to which the above mentioned
bid was received, and which said notice is in words and
figures as follows:
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"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
Tuesday, the 23rd day of December, 1941, for furnish-
ing the City of E1 Segundo with such hydrated lime as
said City may require during the calendar year 1942.
"aUALITY: 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 pound bags or paper sacks, 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 (lo) 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 re-
ceipt 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 contractor shall remove the shipment or part
thereof from the water purification plant at his own
expense.
"It is estimated that approximately 250 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.
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"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 require-
ments in the open market and charge the con-
tractor 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
produced 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.
"This notice is given by order of the City Council
of said City, and is dated this 11th day of
December, 1941.
Victor D. McCarthy (Signed)
City Clerk of the City of
El 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.
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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 there-
of, 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, soapproved 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 author-
ized 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 re-
solutions of the said City of E1 Segundo, and shall make a
minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records
of the proceedings of the City Council of said City, in the
minutes of the meeting at which the same is passed and adopted.
Passed, approved and adopted this 30th day of
December, A. D., 1941.
Mavor of the Tity of E1 Segundo,
California.
(SEAL)
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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 Re-
solution No. 598, 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 an adjourned
regular meeting of the said Council held on the 30th day
of December, A. D., 1941, and that the same was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Gerow, Hesser, Selby and Mayor pro tem Love;
NOES: Councilmen None;
ABSENT: Mayor Binder.
(SEAL)
City Clerk of t e of
E1 Segundo, California.
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