(a) As used in this section:
(1) "Construction mechanic" means a skilled or unskilled mechanic, laborer, worker, helper, assistant, or apprentice working on a City project, but shall not include executive, administrative, professional, office or custodial employees.
(2) "City project" means new construction, alteration, repair, installation, painting, decorating, completing, demolition, conditioning, reconditioning, or improvement of public buildings, works, or roads authorized by a contracting agent, the cost of which is clearly anticipated to be in excess of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000). "City project" shall not include work done pursuant to any collective bargaining agreement between the City and its employees.
(3) "Contracting agent" means any officer, board or commission of the City authorized to enter into a contract for a City project, or to perform a City project by the direct employment of labor.
(Ord. 485. Passed 10-24-90.)
(b) Every contract for a City project, as defined herein, which is executed between a contracting agent and a successful bidder as contractor, entered into pursuant to an advertisement and invitation to bid for that City project, which requires or involves the employment of construction mechanics, and which is financed, in whole or in part, by the City, shall contain an express term that the rates of wages and fringe benefits to be paid to each class of mechanics by the bidder and all of his or her subcontractors shall be not less than the wage and fringe benefits rate prevailing in the City as established by the most recent survey of the United States Department of Labor for prevailing wage determination under the Davis-Bacon Act, as amended.
(Ord. 5-97. Passed 10-30-96.)
(c) A schedule of the prevailing wage and fringe benefits for all classes of construction mechanics called for in a contract shall be made a part of the specifications for the work to be performed on a City project, and shall be printed in the bidding forms where work is to be done by contract.
(d) Every contractor and subcontractor on a City project shall keep posted in a conspicuous place on the construction site a copy of all prevailing wage and fringe benefit rates prescribed by the contract and shall keep accurate records showing the name, occupation, and actual wages and benefits paid to each construction mechanic employed by him or her in connection with said contract. This record shall be made available on demand for inspection by the contracting agent or City.
(e) The contracting agent, by written notice to the contractor and the sureties of the contractor known to the contracting agent, shall terminate the contractor's right to proceed with that part of the contract and City project, for which less than the prevailing rates of wages and fringe benefits have been paid or will be paid, and may proceed to complete the contract by separate agreement with another contractor. The contracting agent shall withhold payment for work done until liabilities for unpaid wages and excess costs to the City for reletting the work have been met.
(f) In addition to the penalty provided in Section 210.99, any contractor found to be in violation of this section by any contracting agent shall be disbarred for two years from bidding on any City project.
(Ord. 485. Passed 10-24-90.)