The City Clerk shall advertise for sealed bids for a City Garbage Collector to be employed by contract under this chapter by publication one time in a newspaper published or having a general circulation and distributed in the City; such publication shall not be less than twenty-five days prior to the opening of said bids. The published notice shall solicit sealed bids for a contract period to be designated in the notice and such bids may be called for in the alternative for different periods and the City shall accept that bid which, in its judgment, will best serve the interests of the City provided that no contract shall be let for a period of less than one year nor more than five years and said contract shall provide that the term may be extended by the mutual agreement of the City and its authorized collector. Each bid shall be accompanied by cash or certified or cashier's check on a bank in the County of Franklin, Illinois, payable to the City of Christopher in the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) as a guarantee that the successor bidder, upon the award being made, will enter into the contract hereinafter provided. The cash or checks of unsuccessful bidders shall be returned to them. The City may include such additional specifications for the contract as may be in the best interest of the City.
(Ord. 824. Passed 11-14-05.)