For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and terms, shall be construed with the following definitions:
A. “Alternative delivery” means a procurement method for a public project other than traditional delivery, including but not limited to, design-build, progressive design-build, and construction manager at risk.
B. “General services” means the furnishing of labor, time, or effort by a vendor for non-professional services as the city may, from time to time, find necessary and proper for the functioning of the city.
C. “Goods” means any and all supplies, materials, equipment, articles, things, or property, other than real property, furnished to be used by the city.
D. “Maintenance services” means:
1. Routine, recurring, and usual work for the preservation or protection of a publicly owned, or publicly operated facility for intended purposes;
2. Minor repainting;
3. Resurfacing streets and highways at less than one inch;
4. Landscape maintenance, including mowing, watering, trimming, pruning, planting, replacement of plants, and servicing of irrigation and sprinkler systems;
5. Work performed to keep, operate and maintain publicly owned water or waste disposal systems; and
6. Other similar services that are generally classified as maintenance and are not public projects.
E. “Professional services” means services provided by a person, company, corporation, or firm engaged in a profession based on a generally recognized special knowledge, skill, license, and/or certification to perform the work including, but not limited to, the professions of accountant, attorney, artist, architect, landscape architect, construction manager, engineer, environmental consultant, dentist, physician, training or educational consultant, or land surveyor, and whose services are considered distinct and unique.
F. “Public project” or “public works project,” means:
1. A project for the erection, improvement, painting, or repair of public buildings and works;
2. Work in or about streams, embankments or other works for protection against overflow;
3. Street or sewer work except maintenance or repair; and
4. Furnishing supplies or materials for any such project, including maintenance or repair of streets or sewers.
G. “Services” means general services, maintenance services, and professional services.
H. “Traditional delivery” means a procurement method for a public project whereby the city prepares, or causes to be prepared, complete plans and specifications prior to constructing, or causing to be constructed, the project. This is commonly referred to as design-bid-build. (Ord. 2021-06-1524 § 2 (part))