HomeMy Public PortalAbout74-133RESOLUTION NO. 74-133
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CARSON ACCEPTING THE WORK PERFORMED BY
LESTER LANDSCAPING & IRRIGATION COMPANY, CASH
CONTRACT NO. 82, MAIN STREET SERVICE MEDIANS
LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFICATION
WHEREAS, the City Council did on the 19th day of February, 1974, adopt
Resolution No. 74-036, awarding the cortract for the landscaping of the service median
located on Main Street between 223rd and Sepulveda in the City of Carson (Cash Contract
No. 82) to Lester Landscaping & Irrigation Company; and
WHEREAS, said work has been duly performed and completed by said
contractor; and
WHEREAS, said work has been inspected by the Parks and Recreation Director
and by him approved as constructed and completed in its entirety, in accordance with the
plans and specifications for such improvement project and authorized revisions therein; and
WHEREAS, said Director does now recommend and request the acceptance of the
work and the filing of a Notice of Completion thereof; and
WHEREAS, the final contract price for said work is the sum of $60,419.20,
which said sum the Director has approved as just and fair; and
WHEREAS, the contract documents provide that a total of 10% ($6,041.92) of
said total contract price shall be retained until thirty-five (35) days after the recording
of the Notice of Completion of said improvement project.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of Carson does hereby
accept the work performed by said contractor and approve the same as being completed
in accordance with the plans and specifications for said project and authorized revisimns
therein; and the City Administrator is hereby authorized to file Notice of Completion of said
project in the Office of the Los Angeles County Recorder; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City is authorized and directed to pay to
said contractor, Lester Landscaping & Irrigation Company, the sum of $60,419.20 in full
payment of said work performed by said contractor, less any sums held until the expiration
of thirty-five (35) days following the filing of said Notice of Completion, and then paid
contingent upon the absence of the filing of any stop notice against said project within thirty
(30) days after the filing of the Notice of Completion; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that upon expiration of said thirty-five (35) days
following the filing of said Notice of Completion, without any claim being ruled against
said project, that all bonds filed by the contractor in said project shall be exonerated and
discharged, excepting that the faithful performance bond shall remain in force until the
expiration of one year from the date of -filing said Notice unless a substitute bond approved
by the Director of Parks and Recreation and the City Attorney shall have been filed.
ATTEST:
PASSED, APPROVED and
CITY CLERK
PTED this 5th day of Aqgust,
Res. No. 74-133/Page 2 of 2
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF CARSON )
I, Helen S. Kawagoe, City Clerk of the City of Carson, California, do
hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Counci I of said City is five;
that the foregoing resolution, being Resolution No. 74-133, was duly and regularly adopted
by the City Council of said City at a regularmeeting of said Council, duly and regularly
held on the 5th day of August, 1974, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the
following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Bridgers, Calas, Marbut, Yamamoto and Smith
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None
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