(a) Preconstruction Meeting and Work Schedule. A preconstruction meeting will be held with the City Engineer prior to the commencement of any project. At this time the project will be discussed in regard to procedure, plans, materials, inspections, including conditions of adjoining improvements within the Street R-O-W, etc.
(b) Construction Inspections.
(1) Responsible official. The City Engineer shall be responsible for the inspection of all improvements.
(2) Authority and duties of inspectors. Inspectors for the City shall be authorized to inspect any work done and all materials furnished. Such inspection may extend to all or any part of the work and to the preparation, fabrication or manufacture of the materials to be used. The inspector shall not be authorized to revoke, alter or waive any requirements of the specifications or plans. He shall be authorized to call to the attention of the contractor any failure of the work or materials to conform to the specifications and contract. He shall have the authority to reject materials which do not meet specification requirements or suspend the portion of the work involved until any question at issue can be referred to and decided by the City Engineer. Inspection during the installation of improvements shall be made by the inspector to insure conformity with the approved plans and specifications as contained in the subdivider's construction agreement. (See Section 1165.05 (b) for fees).
(3) Final inspection. Upon completion of all the improvements, the subdivider shall request in writing a final inspection by the City Engineer. The City Engineer shall make a final inspection of improvements.
(c) Construction Responsibilities.
(1) Cooperation of subdivider and/or contractor. The subdivider and/or contractor shall have available on the project, at all times, two approved copies of all required plans and specifications. He shall cooperate with the inspector and with other contractors in every way possible. The subdivider and/or contractor shall at all times have a competent superintendent acting as his agent on the project. The superintendent shall be capable of reading and thoroughly understanding the plans and specifications. He shall have full authority to execute the plans and specifications and to promptly supply such materials, tools, plant equipment and labor as may be required. A superintendent shall be furnished irrespective of the amount of work sublet.
(2) Work schedules. The subdivider and/or contractor shall submit weekly work schedules every Friday for the following week's work. Work which has not properly been scheduled shall not be accepted by the City Engineer. All work schedules must be inspected and approved by the City inspectors. Unsatisfactory progress reports will be returned for revision. The normal work week is assumed to be an eight-hour day, Monday through Friday; if overtime will be needed, it shall be indicated on the schedule.
(3) Grade stakes. Pavement and pipe grade stakes shall be set at twenty-five foot intervals on horizontal and vertical curves and for all grades less than one percent. Tangent pavement grades and pipe grades over one percent may be set at a maximum interval of fifty feet. Stakes shall be protected until their use is no longer needed. After the rough grading for the streets and utilities has been completed, the owner's engineers shall set a new set of line and grade stakes for the pavement. Stakes shall be set at a maximum of ten feet from the edge of the pavement, and at a maximum of twenty-five foot intervals on vertical and horizontal curves, and at a maximum of fifty foot intervals on tangents. Matters in question regarding the design or stake-out of the work shall be referred to the City Engineer for his interpretation.
(4) Repair of damage. Any damage done to the proposed or existing improvements by construction traffic, local traffic or by any other means shall be repaired or the damaged materials replaced before the next item of construction is begun.
(5) Final cleaning up. Upon completion of the work and before acceptance, the subdivider and/or contractor shall clean all ground occupied or affected by him in connection with the work. The entire area shall be left in a neat and presentable condition satisfactory to the inspector.
(6) Maintenance of improvements of dedicated streets. The subdivider shall be responsible for the maintenance of the improvements during the construction period and shall be responsible for providing the services necessary to guarantee access to all occupied lots, until final acceptance of the improvements by the City Engineer. The subdivider shall be notified by the City Engineer of the need for maintenance or service. If the subdivider fails to perform such necessary maintenance or service within a time specified by the City Engineer, the City may perform maintenance or service and bill the subdivider for such service. Payment shall be guaranteed by the performance bond. In addition, the subdivider shall maintain all improvements for such periods specified in Section 1173.08(e).
(7) City services. Services customarily rendered by the City to the residents thereof, such as garbage collections, snow removal and fire protection, will not be done by the City until the paving is completed. The owner shall so inform all prospective buyers by the erection of signs in conspicuous places at all entrances to the subdivision. Signs shall be not less than four square feet in area, with two-inch lettering. The furnishing of such services within the subdivision shall in no way obligate the City in the matter of maintenance of the pavement or any of the utilities until the expiration of the eighteen-month maintenance period as defined in Section 1173.08(e).