CC RESOLUTION 744RESOLUTION NO. 744
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, AWARDING
TO ORO GRANDE LIME & STONE CORPORATION
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 lax, duly and regularly advertised for bids
for furnishing said city with certain hydrated lime;
AND, WHEREAS, at the time for opening and
considering all of said bids, to -wit: the hour of 7 :15 o'clock
p. m. on Wednesday, the 3rd day of January, 1945, said Council
did publicly open, examine and declare all bids received,
and 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 ORO GRANDE LIME & STONE
CORPORATION, of Los Angeles, California, dated December 28,
1944, which said Council determines to be as follows, to -wit:
"SUBJECT: Quotation on Hydrated Lime for Filtration Plant.
Dear Sir:
In response to
1944, inviting bids on
calendar year 1945, to
plant of the City of E
loads of 20 tons each;
your advertisement of Dec 1421,
hydrated lime for your use, for the
be delivered to the water treatment
L Segundo, located at El Segundo, in
we offer the following quotation:-
We propose to furnish Colton Chemical Hydrated Lime,
packed in 50# paper bags and manufactured by the California
Portland Cement Company at Colton California. This lime is
of the same quality and fineness as that which we have
furnished during the current year.
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Any change in the applicable tax or freight rate
shall be for account of the purchaser.
$10.50 net per ton f.o.b. Colton, Cal.
.2625 Sales tax.
2.10 transportation.
$12.8625 Cost per ton at Filtration Plant.
We shall be glad to continue our pleasant relation.",-
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
calendar year 1945.
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 7th
day of December, 1944, pursuant to which the above mentioned
bid was received, and which said notice is in words and
figures as follows:
"NOTICE TO BIDDERS ON HYDRATED LINE.
"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 3rd day of January, 1945, for furnish-
ing the City of E1 Segundo with such hydrated lime as
said city may require during the calendar year 1945.
"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
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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 refection 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 ship-
ment 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 eom-
plianoe with all terms of these specifications. In case
any shipment or part of shipment is rejected, the con-
tractor 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.
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 con-
tractor will be required to make delivery of such 20 ton
lots on ten days notice of need therefor. If any con-
tractor 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 marked 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
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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.
"The City reserves the right to reject any and /or
all bids received.
"The successful bidder will be required to furnish
W a cod and sufficient bond
25 of the total amount of
faithful delivery of the m
bid.
"This notice is given
of said city, and is dated
in the sum of not less than
the bid, conditioned upon
iterials bid upon at the price
by order of the City Council
this 7th day of December, 1944.
Victor D. McCarthy
City Clerk of the City of
E1 Segundo, California. "
SECTION 2. That all bids received for said hydrated
lime, with the exception of the said bid of said Oro Grande
Lime & Stone Corporation, are hereby rejected, and the City
Clerk is hereby authorized 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
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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 El 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 El Segundo, and shall make a minute of
the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the pro.
oeedings 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 3rd day of January,
A. D., 1945.
PaoTtr+ Mayo- r of the City of El Segundo,
California.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO ))
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I. Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the City
of El 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.
744 , 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., 1945,
and that the same was passed and adopted by the following
vote:
AYES: Councilmen Hesser, Selby anct Mayor pro tem Peterson
NOES: Councilmen None
ABSENT: Councilmen Love and Skelley.
,,City lark of the i o
E1 Segundo, California.
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