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Final Passage of Ordinance Amending the Alameda Municipal Code by Amending Various Sections of Article IV (Contracts) and Article V (Administrative Procedures and Policies) Concerning Conformance of Alameda’s Bidding Procedures on Public Works Projects to Public Contract Code 22032 and California Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting. (Public Works 310)
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CITY OF ALAMEDA ORDINANCE NO. ____
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AMEND THE ALAMEDA MUNICIPAL CODE BY AMENDING VARIOUS SECTIONS OF ARTICLE IV (C0NTRACTS) AND ARTICLE V (ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES AND POLICIES) CONCERNING CONFORMANCE OF ALAMEDA’S BIDDING PROCEDURES ON PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS TO PUBLIC CONTRACT CODE 22032 AND CALIFORNIA UNIFORM PUBLIC CONSTRUCTION COST ACCOUNTING
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Alameda as follows:
Section 1. Section 2-59.2 of the Alameda Municipal Code is hereby amended as follows: “2-59.2 - Submission of Terms to Council. Whenever any public works contract with the City of Alameda must be approved or authorized by the City Council, the head of the department or other employee of the City entering into such contract shall submit to the City Council for its approval the plans and specifications for the work, services and materials to be furnished the City under such contract.
2-59.2 - Approval of Plans and Specifications
In accordance with Government Code 830.6 the City Council hereby delegates to the City Engineer, or his or her designee, the authority to approve plans, specifications, and designs, and all amendments and addenda thereto, field changes through the change order process and/or approval of as-built plans for all city public works projects.”
Section 2. Section 2-61.1 of the Alameda Municipal Code is hereby amended as follows:
“2-61.1 - Informal Bid Procedures. Public projects, as defined by the Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act, of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000.00) or less may be let to contract by informal procedures as set forth in Section 22032, et seq., of the Public Contract Code.
Public projects, as defined by the Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act and in accordance with the dollar amount limitations listed in Section 22032 of the California Public Contract Code, as amended from time to time, may be let to contract by informal procedures as set forth in Section 22032, et seq., of the Public Contract Code.
Section 3. Section 2-61.4 of the Alameda Municipal Code is hereby amended as follows:
“2-61.4 - Award of Contract. The City Manager or his or her designee is authorized to award informal contracts pursuant to this subsection to the lowest responsible bidder. In the event that all bids received are in excess of seventy-five thousand ($75,000.00) dollars, the City Council may, by a resolution passed with a four-fifths (4/5) vote award the contract, at eighty thousand ($80,000.00) dollars or less, to the lowest responsible bidder, if it is determined the cost estimate of the City was reasonable.
The City Manager or his or her designee is authorized to award informal contracts pursuant to this subsection to the lowest, responsive, responsible bidder.
If all bids received are in excess of the informal bid limits stipulated in PCC Section 22034(d), as amended from time to time, the City Council may, by passage of a resolution by a four-fifths vote, award the contract to the lowest, responsive, responsible bidder if it determines the cost estimate of the City was reasonable. “
Section 4. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after the expiration of 30 days from the date of its final passage.
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Mayor of the City of Alameda
Attest:
Lara Weisiger, City Clerk
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was duly and regularly adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in a regular meeting assembled on the 5th day of April, 2016, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTENTIONS:
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City this 6th day of April, 2016.
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Lara Weisiger, City Clerk
City of Alameda
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Janet C. Kern, City Attorney
City of Alameda