For many years the City Council, as the legislative body of the City and also in its capacity of Board of Control, as provided in Article III, Section 3, of the City Charter, and the various departments of the City, have followed the policy of requiring certified checks drawn upon any solvent bank in the amount of five percent of the bid price of any bidder, to accompany a bid for the purchase of equipment, material, labor or services. The exception to such policy has been only in those instances when the City was contracting for substantial improvements, such as buildings or sewers, when costs would be in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000). In such latter instances a bid bond would be allowed to be given by the bidder. It is the purpose of this chapter to establish new policies for the use of bid checks and bid bonds.
(Ord. 87-93. Passed 12-21-87.)