HomeMy WebLinkAbout1134 Open Market Purchasing and Informal Bidding ProceduresORDINANCE NO. 1134
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
UKIAH AMENDING SUBSECTION C.1.b OF UKIAH CITY
CODE SECTION 1522, ENTITLED: OPEN MARKET
PURCHASE AND INFORMAL BIDDING PROCEDURES
SECTION ONE.
The City Council of the City of Ukiah hereby ordains that Subsection C.1.a
and C.1.b of Ukiah City Code Section 1522 are amended to read as follows:
§1522 OPEN MARKET, INFORMAL BIDDING AND CONTRACTUAL SERVICES
PROCEDURE:
[Subsection A and B, and C.2 -D remain unchanged]
C. Other Contracts:
1. Public Projects Contracts:
a. Contracts for public projects shall be procured in accordance with the
California uniform public construction cost accounting act, as it now reads
and as it maybe amended from time to time.
b. Contracts for public projects costing forty-five thousand dollars
($45,000.00) or less or such other amount as may be periodically
established 'by the California uniform construction cost accounting
commission pursuant to Public Contracts Code section 22020 may be
procured by open market purchase.
i. Contracts costing twenty thousand dollars or less may be
awarded without prior city council approval, if the purchase is
included within an approved fund account and an unencumbered
appropriation exists in the fund against which payment of the
contract may be charged. Contracts costing more than twenty
thousand dollars ($20,000.00) shall be reported to the city council
at its next regular meeting following the purchase. The report shall
include the information described in the definition of "open market
purchase."
ii. Contracts costing more than thirty thousand dollars ($30,000)
must be awarded by the City Council based on a staff
recommendation.
c. Contracts to be performed for a city owned public utility, such as the
city's electrical system, which are not Public Projects or subject to
subsections C2 and C3 of this section, shall be procured in accordance
with procedures adopted by the public utilities department and approved
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by city council resolution from time to time. In the absence of a resolution,
the public utilities department may use the procedures specified in
subsections C1 a and C1 b of this section.
SECTION TWO
1. COMPLIANCE WITH CEQA. The City Council finds that this ordinance is not
subject to the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") pursuant to Sections
15060(c)(2) (the activity will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect
physical change in the environment), 15061(b)(3) (there is no possibility the activity in
question may have a significant effect on the environment.)
2. SEVERABILITY. If any provision of this ordinance or the application thereof to any
person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the ordinance and the
application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected
thereby. The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance
and any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase thereof irrespective of the fact
that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared
unconstitutional or otherwise invalid.
3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Ordinance shall be published as required by law in a
newspaper of general circulation in the City of Ukiah, and shall become effective thirty
(30) days after its adoption.
Introduced by title only on March 7 2012, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Thomas, Rodin, Vice Mayor Crane, and Mayor Landis. j
NOES: Councilmember Baldwin
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
Adopted on March 21, 2012, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Thomas, Rodin, Baldwin, Vice Mayor Crane, and Mayor Landis.
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
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Mary Ann andis, Mayo
ATTEST:
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OXALA A, AC-0
oAnne Currie, City Clerk
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