Resolution 094RESOLUTION 94
WHEREAS, numerous members of the public attend meetings
of the City Council of the City of Edmonds in the interests of
voicing an opinion on a specific matter, and
WIEREAS with the increase in complexity and size of the
City of Edmonds, Council meetings of the City of Edmonds are
correspondingly growing larger in attendance and larger in
agenda, and
WHEREAS, the opening of bids at the meetings of the
City Council of the City of Edmonds for public works or improve-
ments, or the purchase of supplies, materials, equipment or
services other than for public works or improvements, is unnec-
essarily time consuming to members of the City Council and mem-
bers of the public who are attending the Council meetings, and
WI ItEAS, it would be more expedient and efficient for
the department heads or other proper city officials of the City
of Edmonds to open bids where office machines and other aids are
more available than in the Council meetings.
NOW THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED that when contracts
are let by the City of Edmonds for the construction of any public
work or improvement, or for the purchase of materials, supplies
and equipment, for which bids must be called pursuant to revised
Code of Washington 35.23.352, the following procedure shall be
followed:
1. Notice of Call for Bid shall be given by posting
notice thereof in the Civic Centers in the City of Edmonds, and
by publication in the official newspaper once each week for two
consecutive weeks before the date fixed for opening the bids.
2. The City Council of the City of Edmonds shall have
power to reject any and all bids and to make further calls for
bids in the same manner as the original call.
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3. If no bid is received on the first call the City
Council may readvertise and make a second call.
4, The Notice of Call for Bids which is published
and posted as aforesaid shall set forth the time, the place,
and room and the department or city official requesting the
bid so that any interested bidder or other member of the public
may observe the bid opening and satisfy himself as to the extent
and nature of the competing bids.
5. All bids pursuant to this resolution shall be
opened in the presence of at least three city officials and
no members of the public shall be excluded.
6. After the bids have been opened the department
head, or other city official, having called said bids shall
tabulate the same in an orderly fashion and present such tab-
ulation, including the recommendation of the department head
or other city official:,calling the bidr, as to the best bid.,to
the City Council of the City of Edmonds at the next following
meeting of said Council,
DATED
,at Edmonds, Washington this 21st day of
April, 1964.
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Attest:
CITY CL1i;RK
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