For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the content clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CONTRACTUAL SERVICES. Any and all of the following services: telephone, gas, water, electric light and power services; equipment and machinery rentals and maintenance agreements; insurance coverage; professional services; and all other types of services required by the county but not furnished by its own employees.
DEPARTMENT HEAD. Any person appointed or designated by the Board as administrative head of any office, department or other organizational unit of county government and any special district whose affairs and funds are under the supervision and control of the Board of Supervisors acting as its ex officio governing body.
FIXED ASSETS. Any piece of tangible personal property having an estimated useful life of one calendar year or more, capable of being permanently identified as an individual unit of property, and belonging to one of the general classes of property considered a fixed asset in accordance with generally accepted accounting practices (i.e., equipment, machinery, vehicles, furnishings,) with an accounting value of $5,000 or more.
LOCAL BUSINESS. Any person or entity that regularly maintains a place of business and transacts business in, or maintains an inventory of merchandise for sale in, the County of San Benito.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES. An independent contractor's expert advice or professional services that involve extended analysis, personal expertise, the exercise of discretion and independent judgment in their performance, which are of an advisory nature, provide a recommended course of action, and have an end product transmitting information which is related to county programs. Providers are selected on the basis of qualification, subject to the negotiation of a fair and reasonable compensation. Classification as professional services may also require an advanced, specialized type of knowledge, expertise, technical skill or training customarily acquired either by a prolonged course of study or equivalent experience, such as accountants, financial advisors, auditors, grant writers, program specialists, physicians, mental health clinicians, and other medical and public health service providers, labor consultants and negotiators, investigators, law enforcement retained certified laboratories, attorneys and other litigation-related specialists, environmental consultants, appraisers, architects, landscape architects, surveyors, engineers, design professionals, and construction project management firms.
SUPPLIES AND MATERIALS. Articles or things which shall be furnished or used by any department, including any and all printing, binding, publication, stationery, forms, journals and reports, but excluding services or materials furnished "in kind", in lieu of cash expenditure, and excluding fixed assets.
(Ord. 853, § 1 (part), 2010; Ord. 983, § 1, 2019)