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21 – 28 May 2020 MONTECITO JOURNAL36 “An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.” – Dylan Thomas A Trail of Tears Rinaldo S. Brutoco is the Founding President and CEO of the Santa Barbara-based World Business Academy and a co-founder of JUST Capital. He’s a serial entrepreneur, executive, author, radio host, and futurist who’s published on the role of business in relation to pressing moral, environmental, and social concerns for over 35 years New Ways to Navigate a Pandemic A peek into the quirky world of post-pandemic dining. A s various parts of the world ease out of coronavirus lockdowns, restaurants are finding creative ways to ensure patrons feel safe while eating out during the coronavirus.

World,” we extensively reviewed the pre-Colonial origins, the subsequent history, and the modern evolution of the Federal government’s relationship with the individual states. That’s what the subject of “Federalism” usually means in a political context, as if the only governmental authorities in the United States are the Federal and respective state governments. However, this limited assessment totally ignores the existence of over 500 sovereign Native American reservations residing within national boundaries. For the most part these are sovereign nations which the US Supreme Court in its 1835 decision in Worcester v. Georgia held could not be regulated by any state.

Fast forward to 2020 and we have the unbelievable situation where Governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota “ordered” the Oglala and Cheyenne River Sioux to remove coronavirus checkpoints established on the perimeter of their reservations to prevent non-essential traffic from bringing in the disease. Not only are the Sioux doing a smart thing from a public health perspective, and something that is clearly guaranteed them under the 1835 case, but they are also providing a regional public service from which Governor Noem should learn. How could South Dakota take the absurd position that the federally ratified treaties with the Sioux Nation can be abrogated because a Governor is uninterested in controlling the spread of the coronavirus – at meat packing plants, in the general public, or particularly on reservation land? In a similar vein, how can the Trump Administration justify the arbitrary removal of over 300 acres of Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe lands which they’ve inhabited for over a thousand years?!

Observing this travesty unfold in two places even as we publish this column, it is worth recalling that Benjamin Franklin first proposed “The Albany Plan” in 1754 as a protoype structure for the evolving United States, a plan he adapted from the Iroquois Confederation which, he observed, started in the 1100s and lasted until the founding of our nation. He felt that tenets of government that could last so long, and be so stable, would be suitable to the “experiment” the Founding Fathers were creating for us.

The first significant treaty between the new American nation and the sovereign Native Americans was negotiated directly under George Washington’s instructions as the Pickering Treaty of 1794. Every treaty with the Native Americans from that day to the present re-affirmed that Native Americans lived in their own sovereign nations. In fact, the first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, John Marshall (the man appointed by Washington himself), wrote this: “Indian Nations had always been considered as distinct, independent political communities retaining their original natural rights as the undisputed possessors of the soil… the very term ‘nation’ so generally applied to them means ‘a people distinct from other.’”

Amsterdam’s Mediamatic Eten is servicing customers in a wholly different way than it did before the COVID-19 pandemic. The fine-dining restaurant has added five “quarantine greenhouses” to its outdoor patio area. Two people can sit in each of the glass structures, which the restaurant calls “serres séparées” – a play on the phrase “chambre séparée,” which denotes a private room in a restaurant or bar.

Restaurants in Sweden took an entirely different approach to keep within new restrictions. Stedsans in the Woods built two-person benches for pairs of diners to share. The restaurant also added plexiglass partitions to its communal tables to serve as “sneezing fences” between groups.

Another Swedish restaurant, Bord För En, only just opened, and it might offer the safest options for eating out during the coronavirus. It features a single table with a single chair, positioned in the middle of a field 50 yards away from the house where the food is cooked. The chef uses a basket hanging from a rope connected to the kitchen window to send a three-course meal to the table. Guests decide for themselves what they want to pay for the meal, and after they leave, the restaurant owners wait six hours before sanitizing the chair and table. Toronto Museum Will Offer a Drive-In Van Gogh Exhibit

Earlier this week, we read about Toni Ross’ drive-by art exhibit in the Montecito Journal. This story has a similar take on new ways to appreciate art when the world is still on lockdown. When a Toronto museum’s Vincent van Gogh exhibit was interrupted due to COVID-19, the museum staff had to pivot and came up with an ingenious way for people to visit the famous art: a drive-in exhibit.

Art lovers will be able to drive into a 4,000 square foot downtown industrial space and see more than 400 pieces from collections around the world. The space allows for 14 cars at a time and visitors simply drive in, turn off their engines, and are treated to a visual display of the pieces including Starry Night, Sunflowers, and many self-portraits.

The display was created with the help of Paris-based digital art project Atelier des Lumières and is set to open up on June 18. Entrance, however, costs a pretty penny, with the museum charging $100 per car – although that does include access to the walk-in exhibition when it eventually opens. If you can’t enjoy the world as you usually know it, why not take a drive into the world of Vincent van Gogh? •MJ I n our recent four-part series, “New Federalism in a Post COVID-19

So how did we get to this place where the best intentions of the Founding Fathers, including Franklin, Washington, and Marshall, result in a first term governor of South Dakota, or the current Department of the Interior, so cavalierly ignoring what the law clearly requires as “Treaty Obligations”?

It is often said that our nation’s “original sin” was the enslavement of black people to build the southern sugar cane and cotton economy, but this “sin” also includes the fact we literally stole our land from the Native Americans. We entered into over 350 formal treaties, and violated them even after each signing was ratified by the US Senate as solemn treaty obligations of the USA. Well, the fact we’ve been violating those treaties since the moment the ink was dry does not excuse or give permission to modern politicians to continue the land grab which has been a moral albatross around our nation’s neck. It wasn’t legal or morally justifiable to ignore these treaty obligations yesterday and it won’t be in the future. We must discontinue doing so at once. Why?

The coming period of the New Federalism we will enter once COVID19 is restrained will require the sovereign Native American nations to help the Federal and State governments develop comprehensive strategies for interactive engagement that will fundamentally alter the current relationships of political power. Properly restored to their legally entitled sovereignty, each Native American reservation could become a unique incubator of the solutions we must evolve to deal with: the food insecurity, public health challenges, and environmental sustainability issues presented by the current pandemic. Those individual “laboratories” would likely play a major role as the Federal and State governments, by necessity, re-establish the appropriate relative roles they will fill going forward. They cannot be left out simply because they are sovereign nations who pre-paid the U.S. government centuries ago for their treaties with the surrender of the land mass we now inhabit. They are sovereign nations within our borders and we have much to learn from them as we re-set the balance of power between the Federal, state, and sovereign nation governments – all which reside, like a three-legged milking stool, within our borders.

The Trail of Tears usually refers to the forced resettlement of 60,000 Cherokee natives (with many self-freed blacks included) to West of the Mississippi (with more than 4,000 lives lost along the way) in what was clearly President Andrew Jackson’s most morally outrageous act – which is saying something given the many moral challenges he inflicted on the U.S.

Those “tears” are symbolic of the moral stain we suffer as a people from our racist background that infects our politics to the present day. Until we face that moral stain, address it, and begin to heal it, we will not effectively live as one Nation. In order to create a healthy and prosperous future, sovereign states and sovereign Native American nations have to be brought into a just new alignment or we will never achieve our goal of E Pluribus Unum. Out of many, one. Is that not still our goal? Or will we opt to devolve again into open civil war? We get to choose. Let’s choose wisely. •MJ

• The Voice of the Village • 21 – 28 May 2020 MONTECITO JOURNAL 37 ON THE RECORD (Continued from page 16) Montecito, where hundreds of private wells have been drilled over the past century, with major impacts on the supply of groundwater that are often overlooked in debates over water usage.

It was only a few short years ago, that, during the peak of California’s most recent drought, many local residents were encouraged and even shamed into killing their grass lawns in favor of drought-resistant landscaping. The frenzy of conserving water became so ostentatious that for a time, once lushly lawn-lined residential streets in Montecito were replaced by a defoliated landscape with occasional yard signage proclaiming environmentally-conscious slogans such as “Brown is the New Green.”

Now, Montecito’s water district is on the verge of approving a plan to purchase a vast new supply of water from Santa Barbara. By law, the agency must first allow for a period of public comment. Accordingly, a public hearing is tentatively scheduled for June 3, although the agency hasn’t outlined exactly how this will happen, and it will presumably take place online. The water board is scheduled to meet again on June 25, at which time the board is expected to vote on whether to approve the plan. Water Rationing Wars

On its merits, the agency’s justification for the deal sounds solid: After all, who can argue against locally-sourced recycled ocean water in the wake of an epic statewide water shortage? But while both sides of the debate acknowledge that California is just beginning to emerge from one of the worst droughts in history, critics of MWD’s plan argue that Montecito should focus on conserving water rather than consuming more of it. They point out that, with roughly 85 percent of water going to landscaping and other exterior use, the community ranks among the most lopsided water users in the country.

“There is a question as to whether or not the deal is necessary,” said Dick Shaikewitz, who served on the MSD board of directors for 12 years until 2018. “My belief is that it is not needed, and it’s very expensive,” he continues, adding that during the past century, Montecito has typically used only about 25 percent of the water that was available each year even during major droughts. “Everyone is going to be paying an awful lot of money for water we won’t need.”

Shaikewitz lost his seat in the 2018 election when a slate of new candidates joined the water board after collectively raising more than $100,000 in campaign contributions. He believes the proposed deal with Santa Barbara stems from rumblings that began in 2010, during the peak of the recent drought, when the board penalized a handful of customers who used too much water for landscaping.

“We had to do something, or we knew we’d have water problems,” recalled Shaikewitz. “At that time, several wealthy individuals were very upset because they had expensive water during a drought. That situation was kind of the beginning of this new water board. They wanted to get rid of everybody [on the board] and get more water.” Longtime MJ readers may remember the “water rationing” brouhaha thanks to various op-eds and letters to the editor on the controversy that have appeared in the paper over the past few years. (More on this and the contentious 2018 water board election in a future story.) A Slam Dunk?

Although it has cost about $90 million in construction and maintenance fees so far, Santa Barbara’s desalination plant, which opened in 1991, operated for only a few months before being shut down for decades and was only brought back online in 2015. While MWD’s proposed water-sharing deal is a slam dunk for Santa Barbara, given that the city is desperate to pay off the plant’s enormous cost, critics say it’s a waste of money for Montecito. They point to the fact that the contract would force Montecito to purchase 1,400 acre feet of water per year at $3,000 per acre foot for five decades regardless of whether or not it needs the water during any particular year.

“What the current board did is find an organization that would help them with excess water,” Shaikewitz argued. “It doesn’t make sense to spend serious dollars when you don’t need it,” he concludes. “Sure, if everyone’s water all of a sudden turns off and there is no more water for the next 50 years, we’ll have a problem. Is that going to happen? Probably not. So, is it necessary to pay $4 million for the next 50 years? I don’t think so.”

Another MWD board member who lost his seat in 2018 is Charles Newman, who also opposes the WSA. “There are those in the community who believe they are entitled to receive as much water as they care to pay for, and there are those who believe it should be used sparingly and in an environmentally responsible way,” he said. “Of course, the more local the source and the more control you have over it, the better, unquestionably. However, the question is at what cost and not just financial but environmental? Desalination is an intense user of energy, specifically electricity. So, this deal comes at an enormous expense and is environmentally irresponsible.”

Bob Roebuck, MWD’s former general manager, also agrees with that assessment. “We had a 1,200-year drought this past decade,” he said. “That meant we had to take some drastic measures to conserve water, but it also led to this water-sharing agreement because some people would rather have more water, even if it’s expensive, rather than be told to conserve.” Roebuck believes that Montecito would be better off relying on state water as well as so-called “water banks,” essentially paper agreements that allow water districts such as Montecito to purchase state water from other districts that don’t need it. “There are a lot of districts that have their own supply of water and will never use all their state water,” he explained. “And it’s a lot cheaper to purchase that water from them than it is to pay for desalinated water for the next fifty years.” Unlikely Allies

California water politics make for some strange bedfellows, however, and not all conservation proponents oppose MWD’s water-sharing proposal, including CWIN’s Carolee Krieger. She believes that the State Water Project is too overburdened with competing claims and too unreliable in drought conditions for Montecito. “I believe desalination is a way more reliable source than the State Water Project,” said Krieger. And desalination, if done correctly, can be cost-effective and environmentally healthy. It’s the best insurance policy for any California coastal city.”

Krieger added that technological advancements, including in the area of underwater wave energy, show great promise for the future of desalination. And she supports the Water Board’s basic goal of achieving locally sourced water instead of depending on state water or unreliable water banks. “What they are saying is everything we are saying,” she concludes. “The solution for Montecito is to go local.” •MJ Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of Lompoc Federal Prison Inmates A lthough it houses just 1,162 people behind bars – not to mention a healthy supply of razor wire – Lompoc Federal Prison already has no less than 900 inmates who have tested positive for COVID-19. That’s not only well more than 70 percent of the prison’s population, it’s also roughly half the number of people in all of Santa Barbara County who are known to have the disease. A May 17 lawsuit filed on behalf of the inmates by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) argues that prison officials were negligent in allowing the virus to spread so widely.

The suit, which the ACLU filed on May 17 on behalf of inmates at both Lompoc and Terminal Island Federal Prison, claims that prison officials failed to take “sanctioned actions” in halting the virus. The crisis never needed to happen, the ACLU claims. “Through a series of unconscionable delays, blunders, and failures to follow official guidelines, the situation grew unimaginably worse,” the lawsuit argues. “And still, Terminal Island and Lompoc prison officials refuse to take adequate remedial actions, including those approved by the U.S. Congress and Attorney General’s office.”

Among the lawsuit’s demands: better social distancing, free hand soap, paper towels and hand sanitizers. Hard Work Pays Off for Local Scholars I n an otherwise dismal end to the academic year, there’s some late-breaking good news for nearly 2,000 local students heading on to college or graduate-school. On May 15, the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara awarded college scholarships totaling more than $6 million, providing an average $3,357 per recipient.

The foundation is the nation’s largest community-based provider of college scholarships, having so far awarded nearly $130 million to more than 53,000 county students since its founding in 1962. “This news could not come at a better time,” said Barbara Robertson, the foundation’s president and CEO, who added that she hoped to award even more scholarships next year. “In spite of everything our community has endured in recent months, we are helping almost 1,800 students get a college education.”

For additional information on the foundation, visit www.sbscholarship.org. •MJ

IN OTHER NEWS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, June 2, 2020 during the afternoon session of the meeting which begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. The hearing is to consider renewal of the Wildland Fire Suppression Assessment District and the levying and collection of assessments to fund the cost of wildland fire suppression services within the District for Fiscal Year 2020-21.

On May 12, 2020, the City Council adopted a Resolution of Intention, declaring its intention to hold this hearing (hereinafter referred to as the “Assessment Hearing”) and to consider renewal of the Wildland Fire Suppression Assessment District. All interested or affected property owners will be afforded the opportunity to be heard by the City Council at the Assessment Hearing. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s Office at Clerk@SantaBarbaraCA.gov.

The total cost of the Wildland Fire Suppression Assessment District is estimated to be $291,107 for Fiscal Year 2020-21. This cost results in a proposed assessment rate of $87.37 per single-family equivalent benefit unit in the Foothill Zone and $108.34 in the Extreme Foothill Zone for Fiscal Year 2020-21. Parcels located within the assessment area are assessed based upon their receipt of special benefits from the services over and above general benefits conferred on real property or to the public at large. The Assessments include a provision for an annual increase equal to the change in the Los AngelesRiverside-Orange County Area Consumer Price Index (CPI), not to exceed 4% (four percent) per year without a further vote or balloting process. The total allowable CPI adjustment for 2020-21 is 2.96%, and the rates have been adjusted accordingly.

An Engineer's Report for the Wildland Fire Suppression Assessment District has been prepared and was preliminarily approved by the City Council on May 12, 2020. The Council will consider final approval of the report during the Assessment Hearing. The updated Engineer’s Report is available for review by contacting jpoire@santabarbaraca.gov or cbraden@santabarbaraca.gov. Due to the current health crisis, the report will not be accessible at Fire Administration or the City Clerk’s office for public review.

On Thursday, May 28, 2020, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, June 2, 2020, will be accessible online at www.santabarbaraca.gov/CAP. Regular meetings of the Council are broadcast live and rebroadcast on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and on Saturdays at 9:00 a.m. on City TV Channel 18. These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet at www.santabarbaraca.gov/CouncilVideos. Please note that in order to promote social distancing, the Council Chambers will not be open to the general public. Information on how the public can participate during the Council Meeting will be made available on the cover page of the agenda packet that will be published prior to the meeting date. If you wish to challenge the Council's action on the appeal of the renewal of the Wildland Fire Suppression Assessment District decision in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City at, or prior to, the public hearing.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need auxiliary aids or services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at 564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange.

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/s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager May 13, 2020

2.

Bid Submission. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its FY20 Water Main Replacement Project (“Project”), by or before Wednesday June 17, 2020, at 3:00 p.m., through its PlanetBids portal. Bidders must be

registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to submit a Bid proposal and to receive

addendum notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids, so plan accordingly. The receiving time on the PlanetBids serverwill be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, paper, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids

Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located in the streets listed below, and is described as follows: Install new various sized ductile iron and PVC water main. Reconnect services and hydrants and obtain acceptance of the new lines.

Location State Street From

La Cumbre Plaza Drive

To

Constance Avenue

Modoc Rd

Anacapa St.

W. Canon Perdido

Las Positas

E. Padre St.

Santa Barbara St. Ferrara Way

E. Mission St.

Olive St.

2.2 Time for Completion. The Project must be completed within 130 consecutive working days from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed. City anticipates that the Work will begin on or about July 15, 2020, but the anticipated start date is provided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding.

2.3 Estimated Cost. The estimated construction cost is $2.9 Million

3. License and Registration Requirements.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A –General Engineering Contractor.

3.2 DIR Registration. Citymaynot accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

4. Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: http://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959 A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155.

5. Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that within ten days after City issues the Notice of Award, the successful bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and anyother submittals required by the Contract Documents and as specified in the Notice of Award.

6. Prevailing Wage Requirements.

6.1 General. Pursuant to California Labor Code § 1720 et seq., this Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.

6.2 Rates. These prevailing rates are on file with the City and are available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.

6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, underLabor Code § 1771.4.

7. Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bonds, each for 100% of the Contract Price, as further specified in the Contract Documents.

8. Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code § 22300.

9. Subcontractor List. Each Subcontractor must be registered with the DIR to perform work on public projects. Each bidder must submita completed Subcontractor List form with its Bid Proposal, including the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the base bid price) for each Subcontractor that will perform Workor service or fabricate or install Workfor the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.

10. Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders for more detailed information before submitting a Bid Proposal. The definitions provided in Article 1 of the General Conditions apply to all of the Contract Documents, as defined therein, including this Notice Inviting Bids.

11. Mandatory Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on Wednesday June 3, 2020 at 1:00 p.m., at the following location: David Gebhard Room, 630 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, to acquaint all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is mandatory. A bidder who fails to attend the mandatory bidders’ conference will be disqualified from bidding.

By: ___________________________________ Date: ________________

The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its CCTV INSPECTION SERVICES FOR FY21 (“Project”), by or before Wednesday, June 10, 2020, at 3:00p.m. through its PlanetBids portal. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids™ portal in order to submit a Bid Proposal and to receive addendum

notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that their Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Large files may take more time to be submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids so plan accordingly. The receiving time at on PlanetBids’ server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

If any Addendum issued by the City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a Bid Proposal. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from the City’s PlanetBids portal.

Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids.

Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at various locations within Santa Barbara city limits, and is described as follows: The work includes inspect approximately 12.3 miles of 6” –8” diameter sanitary sewer mains per NASSCO PACP standards and these specifications beginning approximately July 1, 2020.

2.2 Time for Completion. All sewer mains assigned to the contractor shall be inspected within 100 working days from the Notice to Proceed date, unless otherwise agreed upon. City anticipates that the work will begin on or about JULY 1, 2020 but the anticipated start date is provided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding.

2.3 Estimate. The estimate for this Project is $131,000.00

License and Registration Requirements.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): CLASS A –GENERAL ENGINEERING ORC36 PLUMBING LICENSE.

3.2 DIR Registration. City may not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions

Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959

Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security often percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that within ten days after Cityissues the Notice of Award, the successful bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and any other submittals required by the Contract Documents and as specified in the Notice of Award.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

6.1 General. Pursuant to California Labor Code § 1720 et seq., this Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.

6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.

6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code § 1771.4.

Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide separate performance and payment bonds for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount, as further specified in the Contract Documents.

Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code § 22300.

Subcontractor List. Each subcontractor must be registered with the DIR to perform work on public projects. Each bidder must submit a complete Subcontractor List WITH ITS Bid Proposal through the PlanetBids portal. Failure to do will result in rejection of your bid. The Subcontractors List shall include the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of onehalf of 1% of the bid price.

Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.

Retention Percentage. Retention will not be withheld from progress payments for this contract.

By: _____________________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager Date: ________________

MONTECITO JOURNAL 39

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sound Waves SB, 2062 Alameda Padre Serra, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Dennis S. Sands, 1243 Mesa Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 28, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL), by Jon Beck. FBN No. 2020-0001058. Published May 20, 27, June 3, 10, 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Nexem Staffing; Nexem Allied, 3820 State Street Suite B, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Partners Personnel-Management Services LLC, 3820 State Street Suite B, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 8, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2020-0001148. Published May 20, 27, June 3, 10, 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GW Wallcoverings, 346 Hot Springs Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Glenn Walter, 346 Hot Springs Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 29, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL), filed by Brenda Aguilera. FBN No. 2020-0001086. Published May 13, 20, 27, June 3, 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rothdeutsch & Associates Professional Fiduciary Services; SBGoats. com, 782 Acacia Walk Apt. G, Goleta, CA 93117. Khristine Sharon Rothdeutsch, 782 Acacia Walk Apt. G, Goleta, CA 93117. Scott Andrew Rothdeutsch, 782 Acacia Walk Apt. G, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 29, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL), filed by John Beck. FBN No. 2020-0001072. Published May 13, 20, 27, June 3, 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Niche Enterprises, 4040 Primavera Rd. #5, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Jason Erwin, 5068 San Lorenzo Dr., Santa Barbara, CA 93111. Brian Langlo, 410 W. Canon Perdido St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 24, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL), filed by John Beck. FBN No. 2020-0001042. Published May 13, 20, 27, June 3, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Eudaimon Wealth Management, 144 San Rafael Ave., Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Steve Daniels, 144 San Rafael Ave., Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 23, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL), filed by John Beck. FBN No. 2020-0001030. Published May 13, 20, 27, June 3, 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mission Canyon Mind Body & Soul, 2600 Foothill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Brigitta T Wissmann, 2600 Foothill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 24, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL), filed by John Beck. FBN No. 2020-0001038. Published May 6, 13, 20, 27, 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Bookstore at the Vedanta Temple, 925 Ladera Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Vedanta Society of Southern California, 1946 Vedanta Place, Los Angeles, CA 90068. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 29, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL), filed by John Beck. FBN No. 2020-0001075. Published May 6, 13, 20, 27, 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bam Playing Cards, 1914 Emerson Ave. Apt A, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Mackenzie Fixler, 1914 Emerson Ave. Apt A, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 16, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL), filed by John Beck. FBN No. 2020-0000978. Published April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2020.