The following are exempt from competitive bidding requirements:
A. Professional Services. Includes, but is not restricted to, services of lawyers, architects, engineers, land surveyors, artists, and accountants;
B. Maintenance. Includes the maintenance and repair of streets and sewers, but does not include the furnishing of materials for such maintenance;
C. Emergency Work. If there is a great public calamity, such as an extraordinary fire, flood, storm, epidemic or other disaster, or if it is necessary to do emergency work to prepare for national or local defense, the City Council may pass a resolution by a four-fifths vote declaring that the public interest and necessity demand the immediate expenditure of public money to safeguard life, health or property. Upon adoption of the resolution, the City may expend any sum required in the emergency without complying with this chapter;
D. Small Contracts. Any contract for public works projects with an estimated dollar value equal to or less than the required dollar value for competitive bidding established by section 22032(a) of the California Public Contracts Code;
E. Meaningless Bids. Where the nature of the subject of the contract is such that competitive proposals would not produce an advantage and when the advertisement for competitive bidding would be undesirable, impracticable or impossible;
F. Performance of Project After Rejection of Bids. After rejection of bids presented, the City Council may pass a resolution by a four-fifths vote declaring that the project can be performed more economically by day labor or the materials or supplies furnished at a lower price in the open market. Upon adoption of the resolution, the City is relieved from further compliance with formal bidding requirements.
(Ord. 1897, § 2 (part), 2002; Ord. 1583, § 1 (part), 1992)