BOLINAS  COMMUNITY PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT

Resolution No. 585

Approving Form of Contract Documents for the Mesa Road Pressure Reducing Valve Station Reconstruction Project and Awarding a Contract for the Project to the Lowest Responsible Qualified Bidder, Subject to Certain Conditions.

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BE IT RESOLVED  by the Board of Directors of the Bolinas Community Public Utility District (“BCPUD”) as follows:

1. The Board of Directors hereby finds that the reconstruction of the Mesa Road Pressure Reducing Valve Station (“the Project”) is Categorically Exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”), based on CEQA Guidelines, Section 15301 Class 1 (Existing Facilities) and Section 15302 (Replacement or Reconstruction).

2.  The BCPUD has initiated a competitive bid process for proposals to install the Project, with proposals due by 12:00 p.m. on September 23, 2009. 

3. The Contract Documents for the Project are attached to this resolution as Exhibit A and are hereby approved as to form.

4. The Board of Directors hereby awards a contract for installation of the Project in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, to the lowest responsible qualified bidder, conditioned upon:

    (a)  satisfactory completion of the competitive bid process and the identification of the lowest responsible qualified bidder,

    (b)  the General Manager’d determination that it is in the BCPUD’s best interest to award the contract, and

    (c) the BCPUD’s receipt of all requisite bonds, certificates and agreements.

5. The Board of Directors hereby authorizes the BCPUD President of the Board and/or the General Manager to:

 (a) make minor technical amendments to the Contract Documents that do not affect the amount of the Contract;

(b) execute all Contract Documents;

(c) issue a Notice to Proceed; provided, however, that no Notice to Proceed shall be issued unless and until:

        (i) the BCPUD receives the required encroachment permit from the County of Marin to proceed with the Project, and

        (ii) the President of the Board and/or General Manager determines it is in the best interest of the district to proceed with the Project; and

(d) to take all other actions necessary to implement the Project under the terms of the Contract Documents attached hereto as Exhibit A. 
                 
     IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that this resolution was duly introduced and adopted by the Board

of Directors of the Bolinas Community Public Utility District this 16th day of  September, 2009, by the

following vote:

AYES:    Amoroso, Kimball, Smith, McClellan, Siedman

NOES:  None

ABSTAIN: None

ABSENT:   None                         

      
  __                      Jack Siedman__               ___
                         President, Board of Directors
Attest:

_______Jennifer Blackman___
    Secretary