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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 12, Page 56, No Ordinance Number56 / AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CITE MANAGER TO ENTER INTO CONTRACTS WITH THE E. M. BAILEY DISTRIBUTING COMPANY AND THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY FOR THE PUR- CHASE OF GASOLINE TO BE USED IN ALL OF ITS GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS FOR A PERIOD OF FOUR (4) MONTHS BEGINNING MAY 16TH, 1950, AND PRESCRIBING THE TERMS AND UPON WHICH SAID PURCHASES SHALL BE MADE WHEREAS, pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Commissioners, the City Manager advertised for bids and received the bids of the E. M. Bailey Distributing Company, the Standard Oil Company, and the Shell Oil Company for the sale to the City of Paducah of gasoline to be used in all of its governmental operations for a period of four (4) months, beginning May 16, 1950; and WHEREAS, both the E. M. Bailey Distributing Company and the Standard Oil Company submitted bids for the sale of regular gasoline having an octane rating of 85 at 20.9 cents per gallon, and Ethyl gasoline having an octane rating of 91 at 22.4 cents per gallon, and said bids being the lowest and best bids which were received) NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COP+MISSIONERS OF TIE CITY I OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY: .SECTION 1. That the City cC Paducah purchase, for the period of four (4) months beginning May 16th, 1950, one-half of the gasoline required in all govern- mental operations from the E.M.Bailey Distributing Company and one-half thereof from the Standard Oil Company, and the City Manager is hereby authorized, for and on behalf of the City of Paducah, to enter into a contract with each of said com- panies, said contract with the E. M. Bailey Distributing Company to provide for th purchase from said company, as nearly as it is possible and practicable to do dura said period, of one-half of the gasoline requirements of the City of Paducah, the gasoline and the price therefor being described in the bid of said company as follows: "Regular gasoline minimum research octane rating of 85 to 86, a price of 20.9 cents per gallon, Trade name, Aetna. Ethyl gasoline minimum research octane ratiung of 91 to 92, a price of 22.4 cents per gallon, Trade name, Aero Aetna." and the City Manager is also authorized to enter into a contract with the Standard Oil Company to provide for the purchase from said company, as nearly as possible and practicable to do during said period, of one-half of the gasoline requirements of the city, the gasoline and the price therefor being described in the bid of sai company as follows: "CROWN GASOLINE (Regular) - Minimum Research Octane 85 - 20.9 per callon including 7.0� per gallon State Tax, but excluding 1.5� per gallon Federal Tax. CROWN EXTRA GASOLINE (Premium) - Minimum Research Octane 91 - 22.4¢ per gallon including 7.0� per gallon State Tax, but excluding 1,15� per gallon Federal Tax." 57 The aforesaid prices shall include states taxes but shall not include federal taxes, and the purchases shall be made subject to the further terms set forth in the bid of the E. M. Bailey Distributing Company dated May 8th, 1950 and in the bid of the Standard Oil Company dated May 5th, 1.950, which bids are filed herewith and made a part hereof to the same extent as if fully copied herein. SECTION 2. The gasoline shall be purchased upon the further condition that in the event of a decline in the consumer tank wagon price of said products at any time during said period, the City shall be given the benefit of such reduc- tion in price, and the City Tdanager shall include in said contracts such other terms and conditions as may be necessary to protect the interests of the city. SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be introduced at a regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners and remain on file at least one week for public inspection in the completed form in which it shall be put upon its final passage, and shall be in full force and effect ten (10) days from and after its adoption. R4a�yo C� Introduced by the Board of Commissioners May 9, 1950 Passed by the Board of Commissioners May 16, 1950 Recorded by Sarah Thprman, City Clerk, Triay 16, 1950.