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19150824 Regular City Council Meeting - Minutes ,....,."'...~""'";);':"-...*,;;~:'J"~.~-.'.'..._;.,,_,-'- ADJOURNED REGULAR MEETING. An adjourned regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Oity of Vernon" Couety of Los Angeles" State of california. was held on the 24th day of August 1915, at 2 0 I olook P. M. of said day at the regular meeting plaoe of said Board in said Oity of Vernon, whioh said plaoe is the plaoe fixed by ordi- nanoe for regular meetings of said Board to be held, pursuant to adjournment from the regular meeting held the 17th day of August 1915 , There were present at suoh meeting Trustees"Furlong. stevens and Kniffen. Also City Attorney Williams. There were absent from suoh meeting Trustee, Leonis and Durbin. President Trustee Furlong presiding. Th", minutes of the meeting s, held on August 3rd, 6th, and 17th 1915, were: laid over. Ordinance No. 16eLentitled an ordinance fixing the amount of money necessary to be raised by taxation upon taxable property in the City of Vernon, as a revenue to carryon the various departments of said city for the current year, not to exceed the limit fixed by law and to pay the bonded or other indebtedness of said city, was read for the second time and adopted. I "! Ordinance No. 161 entitled an ordinance declaring the intention of the Board of Trustees of the City of Vernon, california, to change and establish the grade of Ross Strre t, was read for the second time and adopted. Ordinance No. 162 entitled an ordinance fixing the tax rate for the year 1915-16 to carryon the various departments of the muni- cipal government of the City of Vernon, California, was read for the second7~me and adoP);:.d~ . .u-Avr~;1r:-'u ~..vv~ ~JZ- Tu~tust 17th, 19l~ the day set for receiving sealed bids for material to be furnished and work to be performed for doing ~ the improvement work on East Twenty-eighth street, formerly Joy street, in the City of Vernon, from the Easterly line of Santa Fe Avenue to the Easterly line of the Day star Tract, as per map recorded in Book 25, page 66 of Miscellaneous Records; but as there was no quorum presept and no business attended to on August 17th, 1915, the opening of said bids was postponed until this meeting. Thereupon the Clerk reported that he had received one bid from the L. A. Paving Company. ...... t '--#... in August 24th, 1915 -1- Said bid was in words and figures as follows, to-wit: "CONTRACTOR'S PROPOSAL, WITH BOND . .. City of Vernon, Aug. l?th, 1915. To the Honorable Board of Trustees of the City of Vernon: In compliance with the annexed advertisement we hereby propose and agree to perform the work and furnish materials in accordance with the specifications and to execute the contract therefor, to the satisfaction and under the supervision of the Street Superinten- dent of the City, at the follo\ring prices, viz: Dollars Cents. Paving per square foot, Eighteen and five. tenths cents Grading, per lineal foot, seventy cents Curb, per lineal foot, thirty-four Gutter, per square foot, eighteen cents Sewer, complete with manholes, flush,)One Dollar & tanks and other appurtenances, per ) sixty- six i lineal foot ) 18-5/10 ?O cents 34 cents. 18 cent s $1.66 cents Signed L. A. PAVING CO., Contractor E. R. Werdin, President and Gen. Mgr. WHEREAS, I am about to hand in and submit to the Board of Trus- tees of the City of Vernon the foregoing bid or proposal, accompanied with a certified check in the sum of $1000.00 for the performance of the work therein mentioned (which includes the furnishing of neces- sary and proper materials therefor,) under an invitation of said Board of Trustees, contained in the notice or advertisement attached to thi s bid or proposal. Now if thi 13 bi d or proposal shall be accepted, and said work be awarded to me thereupon by said Board of Trustees, and I shall fail or neglect to enter into a contract there- for, and to execute the bond required, to the satisfaction of the Street Superintendent, with two or more good and sufficient sureties , for the faithful performance of such contract on my part, as re- qui red by the act of the Legislature of the State of California, en- ti tIed "An act to provide for work upon streets, Ian es, alleys, courts, places and sidewalks, and the construction of sewers in municipalities" approved the 18th day of March 1885 and of the Acts mandatory thereof, then and in that case, I hereb~ authorize the President of the Board ~~'2 August 24th, 1915. -2- .. of Trustees of the City of Vernon to present the certified check deposited with him and collect the sum of One Thousand and ~0/100 ($1000.00) as LI~UI~ED DAMAGES for such failures and neglect, and pay the same into the City Treasury to the credi t of the fund pro- vided for in said Act. (Signed) L. A. PAVING CO. E. R. Werdin, President and Gen. Mgr. Contractor." The Bond attached to the above bid is in words and figures as follows, to-wit: "BOND II "KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we, L. A. Paving Co., as principal and National Surety Company, a corporation of ~ew York, as sureties are held and firmly bound unto the President of the Board of Trustees of the City of Vernon, aforesaid, in the just and full sum of One Thousand and 00/100 ($1000.00) Dollars, for the payment whereof we hereby bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and adminis- trators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. Given under our hands and sealed with our seals, on this 17th day of Au€~st, A. D. 1915. Now the condition 0 f the foregoing obligation is such that whereas, the above bounden principi L. A. Paving Co., is about to hand in and submit to the Board of Trustees of the City of Vernon, the foregoing bid or proposal, for the ~formance of the work therein mentioned which includes the furnishing of all materials in compli- ance with the specifications therefor, under an invitation of said Board of Trustees, contained in the notice or advertisement, attached to said bid or proposal: Now if the bid or proposal of said principal L. A. Paving Co. shall be accepted and the said work awarded to said Princip:i L. A. Paving 'Co. thereupon by said Board of Trustees, and if said Principal L. A. Paving Co. shall fail or neglect to enter into a contract therefor, and to execute an adequate bond to the satisfac- tion of the Superintendent of streets of said City with two or more good and sufficient sureties, conditioned for the faithful performance of such contract on its part, in such case required by Statute, then August 24th, 1915 -3- 'i""~' "'> ~.; .!l and in that case the above named obligors will pay to the said President of the Board of Trustees, of said City, the full sum of One Thousand and 00/100 (11000.00) Dollars, as liquidated damages for such failure and neglect. L. A. PAVING CO. (SEAL) E. R. Werdin, President and Gen. Mgr. Principal. NATIONAL SURETY COMPANY (SEAL) By Catesby C. Thom Its attorney in fact. STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) ~ ss. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES On this 16th day of August, in the year one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, before me, William M. Curran, a Notary Public in and for said County and state, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared Catesby C. Thom, known to me to be the duly authorized Attorney in Fact of National Surety I Company, and the same person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument as the Attorney in Fact of said Company, and the said Catesby C. Thom acknowledged to me that he subscribed the name of National Surety Company thereto as princi~ and his ovm name as Attorney in Fact. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this Certificate first above written. (Signed) William M. Curran, Notary Public in and for Lo s Angeles County, State of California." Attached to the face of said bid is a copy of the Notice to (SEAL) Contractors inviting said bids, which said Notice is spread in full upon the minutes of the proceedings of the Board of Trustees had on the 20th day of July, 1915 and reference is hereby made to the minutes of that date for a full, true and correct transcript of said Notice. Thereupon after duly and regularly considering said bid of the L. A. Paving Company, the Board adop~d the fo11ovdng resolution awarding the contract for said work to the L. A. Paving Company, to-wit: 1":;.'}i1 . , '.t:, August 24th, 1915. -4- RESOLUTION NO. 143. Resolution and Award of Contract for the Improvement of East 28th Street in the City of Vernon. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees of the City of Vernon, Cal- ifornia, have, in open session on the seventeenth day of August, 1915, opened, examined and publically declared all sealed proposals or bids offered for the following work, to-wit, that East 28th Street, formerly Joy Street, in the said city of Vernon, from the easterly line of Santa Fe Avenue to the easterly line of Day Star Tract, as per map recorded in Book 25, at page 66, in Miscellaneous Records of Los Angeles County, be improved in the manner described in Resolution No.141, that the Board of Trustees of the City of Vernon adopted May 18th, 1915, to which resolution reference is hereby made for further description of the said work, and hereby rejects all of said bids, except that next herein mentioned, and hereby awards the contract for said work to the lowest regular responsible bidder, ",o-wit: L. A. Paving Co., at the prices mentioned in its proposal, on file for said work, to-wit: Paving per square foot Eighteen &5/10 cents Grading per lineal foot seventy cents Curb per lineal foot thirty-four cents Gutter per square foot eighteen cents Sewer complete with manholes, flush tanks and other appurtenances per lineal foot .le~5110 .70 .34 .18 $1.66 Bonds will be issued to cover the cost and expense of said work and improvement, as described in Resolution No. 141 of the Board of Trustees, to which reference is hereby made for a discription of said bonds. The City Clerk is hereby directed to post notice of this award in the manner requiree by law in three of the most public places in the City of Vernon, to-wit: one at the north-west corner of Santa Fe Avenue and 37th Street; one at the north6west corner of Santa Fe Avenue and 38th Street; and another at the front door of the City Hall of said City of Vernon. Adopted and approved this seventeenth day of August, 1915. ,J. J. Furlong President of the Board of Trustees of the City of Vernon, California. August 24th, 1915. -5- ",' "'" .... r:'" , V I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was adopted by the Board of Trustees of the City of Vernon, California, at its meeting August 24th, 1915, and on said date was approved by the President of the Board of Trustees. (Signed) T. J. Furlong, City Clerk of the City of Vernon, California. " Thereupon tIle following Notice of Award of Contract was ordered posted. Said Notice of Award being in words and figures as follows, to-wit: "NOTICE OF AWARD OF CONTRACTI1 "Pursuant to statute, and Resolution No. 143 of the Board of Trustees of the City of Vernon, adopted August 24th, 1915, directing this notice, notice is hereby given that the said Board in open session on August 24th, 1915, opened, examined and publical1y declared all sealed proposals offered for the following work, to-wit, that East Twenty-eighth Street, formerly Joy Street, in said City of Vernon, from the Easterly line of Santa Fe Avenue to the Easterl;y line of Day star Tract, as per map recorded in Book 25, at page 66, Miscel- laneous Records of Los Angeles County, be improved in the manner described in Resolution No. 141 of the Board of Trustees o~the City of Vernon adopted May 18, 1915, to which resolution reference is hereby made for a further description of said work. The Board of Trustees determines that serial bonds shall be issued to represent assessments of Twenty-five Dollars or over for the cost of said work or improvement; said serial bonds shall extend over a period ending nine years from and after the second day of January next succeeding thedate of said bonds, and an even annual proportion of the principal sum thereof shall be payable by coupon on the 2nd day of January every year after their date until the whole is paid; and the interest shall be paid semi-annually by coupon on the second days of January and July, respectively of each year at the rate of seven per cent per annum on all sums unpaid until the whole of said principal and interest is pid. Said bonds shall be issued in accor- dance with the provisions of an act of the legislature of the State of California, entitled "An act to provide a system of street im- provementbondsto represent certain assessments for the cost of work ~;'6 August 24th, 1915 -6- and improvements within municipalities and also for the payment of said bonds," approved February 27th, 1893, and all acts supplementary thereto or amendatory thereof. And thereafter, on the 24th day of August, 1915, by Resolution of award No. 143 awarded the contract for said work to the lowest regular responsible bidder, to, to-wit: L. A. Paving Co., at the prices named in its proposal for said work on file, namely: Paving per square foot Eighty and 5/10 cents .18-5/10 Gutter per dquare foot, Eighteen cents Sewer complete with manholes,flush tanks and other appurtenances, per lineal foot .70 .34 .18 Grading per lineal foot Seventy cents Curb per lineal foot thirty-four cents $1.66 Said award has been approved by the President of the Board of Trustees of said city. Clerk's office, City of Vernon. (~igned) T. J. Furlong. City Clerk of the City of Vernon, California." The foregoing Resolution No. 143 and the Notice of Award of Contract wem prepared by Crouch and Crouch and were accompanied by the following letter in words and figures as follows, to-wit: "CROUCH & CROUCWI Attorneys at Law "August 17, 1915. Clerk of Board of Trustees, Ci ty of Vernon, Vernon, California. Dear Sir:- Enclosed please find for the attention of Mr. Gesner Williams, yourself and the Board of Trustees, two copies of Resolution of Award on 28th Street and four copies of Notice of Award. In the Resolution of Award fill in the blanks, the first one being the name of the successful bidder, the one left before the word "proposal," to be filled in with the word "its, II or the word "their," according to whether the bidder is a corporation or an individual; right below insert the prices in the successful bid in detail; have ";~)? August 24th, 1915. -7- it signed by the President of the Board of Trustees, and then certify to it over your signature. This docs not need to be posted. You will also find four copies of Notice of Award of Contract. Fill in the first blank the number of the resolution of award, and the other blanks corresponding to those in the Resolution of Award already explained. Certify to it, being careful to sign and fill in the copies. Then post in the three places mentioned, a copy of the Notice of Award. With the one posted at the Council Chamber door, you should attach the specifications referred to in the Resolution of Intention, which are numbers 11, 10, 9, 12. GWC/MB enc. Very truly yours, (Signed) CROUCH & CROUCH By George W. Crouch. P. S. Kindly advise the Board that we will take care of the pro- ceedings on ROBS street for $75. The following Warrants were audited and ordered paid. Howard McCurdy, City Engineer $126.50 A. Frank, street signs, 3.00 T. J. Furlong, salary etc. for July, 1915 34.00 otto G. Nesser, plumbing, 9.60 Helen J. Canby, typewriting minutes etc. July,19l5 23.20 T. W. Garr, Board for prisoners 6.50 T. W. Garr, salary for July, 1915. 80.00 Gesner Williams, salary etc. for July, 1915 121.00 Abbott' Printing Company, printing, 17.75 Fred Harris, salary for July, 1915. 150.00 J. B. Weil, salary for July, 1915 40.00 J. B. Weil, salary as Clerk in Recorder's Court 10.00 Herman Scheider, Salary July, 1915. 12.50 Thereupon the meeting adjourned. ~ o i y 0 "Ve non, Cal. Clerk of September 1/ ',. l of,)Trustees Cal. August 24th, 1915. -8- ~""'~8. s'