Jackson Municipal Code Ch. 3.09 Public Works Projects

For the purposes of this article the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:

“Act”

means the Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act (California Public Contracts Code Section 22000 et seq.).

“Commission”

means the California Uniform Construction Cost Accounting Commission.

“Facility”

means any plant, building, structure, ground facility, utility system, subject to the limitation of subsection (D)(4) of the definition for public project below, real property, streets and highways, or other public work improvement.

“Public project”

means any of the following:

Construction, reconstruction, erection, alteration, renovation, improvement, demolition and repair work involving any city-owned, city-leased or city-operated facility;

Painting or repainting of any city-owned, city-leased, or city-operated facility;

In the case of a city-owned utility system, "public project" shall include only the construction, erection, improvement, or repair of dams, reservoirs, power plants, and electrical transmission lines of two hundred thirty thousand volts and higher;

"Public project" does not include maintenance work. For purposes of this section, "maintenance work" includes all of the following:

a.

Routine, recurring and usual work for the preservation or protection of any city-owned or city-operated facility for its intended purposes,

b.

Minor repainting,

c.

Resurfacing of streets and highways at less than one inch,

d.

Landscape maintenance, including mowing, watering, trimming, pruning, planting, replacement of plants, and servicing of irrigation and sprinkler systems,

e.

Work performed to keep, operate, and maintain city-owned water, power or waste disposal systems, including, but not limited to, dams, reservoirs, power plants and electrical transmission lines of two hundred thirty thousand volts and higher.

(Ord. 710 §7, 2019)

The city shall follow the contracting procedures set forth in Article 3 of the Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act (Section 22030 et seq., of the Public Contracts Code).

(Ord. 710 §7, 2019)

The public works director shall compile and maintain a list of qualified contractors identified according to categories of work. This list shall comply with the requirements of the Act and the criteria promulgated, from time to time, by the commission.

(Ord. 710 §7, 2019)

A. When a public project is to be performed which qualifies for informal bidding, notice of such project shall be given as follows except where the product or service is proprietary:

1. Mailed notice shall be sent to all contractors on the contractors list for the category of work being bid; and

2. Mailed notice shall be given to all construction trade journals specified by the commission for the receipt of such notice for Amador County;

3. Additional notice to other contractors and/or trade journals may, in the discretion of the city, be given.

B. If the product or service to be acquired is proprietary in nature such that it can only be obtained from a certain contractor or contractors, notice inviting bids may be sent only to such contractor or contractors.

C. All mailing of notices to contractors and construction trade journals shall be completed not less than ten days before bids are due.

D. The notice shall describe the project in general terms, how to obtain more detailed information about the project and shall state the time and place for submission of bids.

(Ord. 710 §7, 2019)

The city manager is authorized to award contracts for public projects of sixty thousand dollars or less.

(Ord. 710 §7, 2019)

The city manager or the city council, as the case may be, may, in the manager's or council's discretion, reject all bids and proceed as authorized by the Act.

(Ord. 710 §7, 2019)

The city engineer, or designee, is authorized to approve plans and designs, and all amendments and addenda thereto, for performance of a public project of the city.

(Ord. 710 §7, 2019)

In situations determined by the city manager to constitute an emergency for a public project pursuant to Section 22035 of the Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act and Public Contract Code Section 22050, the city council hereby delegates to the city manager the power to declare a public emergency and take any directly related and immediate action required by the emergency. Work shall be performed without the benefit of competitive bidding, either formal or informal, only so long as necessary under those sections.

A report on the emergency and work performed shall be provided at the next regular meeting of the city council, and then at every meeting thereafter required by Section 22050. At such meetings, the city council shall determine, by a four-fifths vote, that there is a need to continue the action without the benefit of informal or formal competitive bidding in accordance with Section 22035 of the Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act and Public Contract Code Section 22050. The city council shall terminate the emergency action at the earliest possible date that conditions warrant, so that the remainder of the emergency action may be completed pursuant to a formal bidding procedure.

(Ord. 710 §7, 2019)