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A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE CITY MANAGER TO ADVERTISE FOR BIDS FOR THE PURCHASE
OF ONE HUNDRED (100) PARKING METERS; DESCRIBING THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE CONTRACT
OF PURCHASE, AND THE MANNER IN WHICH BIDS SHALL BE SUBMITTED.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1 That the City Manager,be, and he is hereby, authorized and
empowered to advertise for bids for the purchase of one hundred (100) parking meters,
heads only, to be installed on the streets where parking meters are authorized.
Bidders. shall submitt in writing their offers stating the purchase price of meters,
which shall be operated so as to permit parking in periods of twelve (12) minutes for
each one (1) cent deposited, one (1) hour for each five (5) cents deposited, and each
meter shall be so constructed so as to allow a total legal parking time of two (2) hours.
One-half of the receipts from the operation of said parking meters Mall be paid monthly
to the successful bidder until the entire purchase price of all meters has been paid.
Bidders id.11 also state in their bids that delivery of said meters shall be made
within thirty (30) days from the execution of a contract.
SECTION 2 The City Manager shall advertise for the purchase of said meters
by posting up a notice at the City Hall door and by inserting a notice of the request
for bids in at least one (1) issue of the Sun -Democrat. The notice shall be posted
and published for at least seven (7) days prior to the opening of bids and the bids
shall not be opened within ten (10) days from the date on which this resolution is
adopted. No bids shall be received after hour fixed in the notice for the opening of
bids. All bids received by the City Manager up to the time fixed in the notice for
the opening of bids shall be filed with the Board of Commissioners who may let the
contract to the lowest responsible bidder. The right to reject any and all bids is
reserved and the City of Paducah shall not become legally obligated to purchase
said meters until the adoption of an ordinance authorizing the execution of a contract.
SECTION 3 This resolution shall be in full force and effect from and after
its adoption.
Mayor
Passed by the Board of Commissioners, August 12, 1952
Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, August 12, 1952