RESOLUTION NO. _____________

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, COUNTY OF SAN MATEO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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RESOLUTION ADOPTING PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS, INCLUDING CONFORMANCE WITH PREVAILING WAGE SCALE REQUIRMENTS AND CALLING FOR SEALED PROPOSALS, AND DIRECTING PUBLIC WORKS TO FILE A NOTICE OF EXEMPTION FOR A CEQA CATEGORICAL EXEMPTION FOR THE

REPAIR OF SANITARY SEWER LINES DAMAGED BY LANDSLIDES IN THE VICINITY OF PARK ROAD AND SPRINGDALE WAY IN THE EMERALD LAKE HILLS AREA, CALIFORNIA
(PROJECT NO. SE002, F-351 [25C])

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RESOLVED, by the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Mateo, State of California, acting as the governing board of the Emerald Lake Heights Sewer Maintenance District, that

WHEREAS, plans and specifications have been prepared and approved by the Director of Public Works for the Sanitary Sewer Repair, Emerald Lake Heights Sewer Maintenance District, Park Road and Springdale Way Slides Project, and said plans and specifications have been filed in the office of the Director of Public Works (the “plans and specifications”); and

WHEREAS, the plans and specifications require that the contractors performing the work pay not less than the general prevailing rates of wages, as established by the Department of Industrial Relations, in the locality in which said work is to be performed for each type of workman needed to execute the contract; and

WHEREAS, Public Works staff has determined that this project qualifies for a Categorical Exemption pursuant to Section 15301 of the Guidelines for Implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

NOW THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY DETERMINED AND ORDERED as follows:

1.

The plans and specifications are hereby approved and adopted as the plans and specifications to be adhered to in letting and performing the work under a contract for the improvements described therein.

2.

The Department of Public Works is authorized and directed to issue a call for sealed bids to be received by the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, San Mateo County, on or before 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 29, 2008, in said Office in the Hall of Justice, Redwood City, California. Said bids will then be transmitted to the County Manager’s office in said Hall of Justice and be publicly opened and declared.

3.

The Department of Public Works, at the discretion of the Director of Public Works, may postpone the issue of a call for sealed bids up to a date no later than sixty (60) days after the date as stated in Paragraph 2 above, by giving notice of said postponement to all persons that have taken out plans prior to said postponement, or by re-advertising in the same paper of general circulation if a Notice Inviting Sealed Proposals is published prior to the determination of a postponement in the issuance of a call for sealed bids.

4.

The Department of Public Works is further directed to cause the Notice inviting sealed bids to be published two (2) times in the Independent Newsgroup, a newspaper printed and published in this County, and to obtain an affidavit of said publication, a copy of which shall be placed on file with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors.

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The Department of Public Works is further directed to file a Notice of Exemption, for a CEQA Categorical Exemption, with the County Clerk Recorder.

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