3.16.240 Requirements for contracting public works projects.
A public works project means any of the following: (1) construction, reconstruction, erection, alteration, renovation, improvement, demolition, and repair work involving any publicly owned, leased, or operated facility; or (2) painting or repainting of any publicly owned, leased, or operated facility. A public works project does not include maintenance work, which includes the following: (1) routine, recurring, and usual work for the preservation or protection of any publicly owned or publicly operated facility for its intended purposes; or (2) minor repainting; or (3) resurfacing of streets and highways at less than one inch; or (4) landscape maintenance, including mowing, watering, trimming, pruning, planting, replacement of plants, and servicing of irrigation and sprinkler systems; or (5) work performed to keep, operate, and maintain publicly owned water, power, or waste disposal systems, including, but not limited to, dams, reservoirs, power plants, and electrical transmission lines of two hundred thirty thousand volts and higher.
A. Procurement of Public Works Projects—Force Account/Open Market Procedures. Public works projects of up to an amount established by resolution of the city council on a periodic basis, appropriations for which have been approved by the city council, may be performed by the employees of the town or its agencies by force account, or by negotiated contract or purchase order approved by the city manager.
B. Procurement of Public Works Projects—Informal Bidding Procedures. Public works projects greater than the amount qualifying for a force account/open market procedure up to and including an amount established by resolution of the city council on a periodic basis may be let to contract by the informal bidding procedures (alternative procedure) set forth in this chapter as prescribed in Section 3.16.250.
C. Procurement of Public Works Projects—Formal Bidding Procedures. Public works projects greater than an amount established by resolution of the city council on a periodic basis shall be let to contract by the formal bidding procedure set forth in the Uniform Construction Cost Accounting Act. (Ord. 595 § 1 (Exh. A (part)), 2012)