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INVITATION FOR BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received via electronic transmission on the City of Santa Barbara PlanetBids portal site until the date and time indicated below at which time they will be publicly opened and posted for:

BID NO. 5823

DUE DATE & TIME: March 19, 2020 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

SECURITY PATROL SERVICES AT CABRILLO PAVILION

Scope of Work: The qualified firm will provide uniformed, unarmed security guard officers at the Cabrillo Pavilion facility located at 1118 E. Cabrillo Blvd.in downtown Santa Barbara on a daily basis Monday through Sunday.

Bidders must be registered on the city of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. The receiving deadline is absolute. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete Bid will not be accepted.

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on March 5, 2020 at 3:00 p.m., at the Cabrillo Pavilion located at 1118 E. Cabrillo Blvd., Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Please be punctual since late arrivals may be excluded from submitting a bid. Bids will not be considered from parties that did not attend the mandatory meeting.

The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a valid State of California, Bureau of Security and Investigative Services, Private Patrol Operator's license and be accredited by CALSAGA, California Association of Licensed Security Agencies, Guards and Associates. No private patrol operator shall provide services within the City of Santa Barbara without first having registered with the Commission in the manner provided in this Chapter. (Ord. 4499, 1988; Ord. 3748, 1975.), per City of Santa Barbara Municipal Code 5.07.030.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained electronically via PlanetBids.

FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE ACT Contractor agrees in accordance with Section 1735 and 1777.6 of California Labor Code, and the California Fair Employment Practice Act (Sections 1410-1433) that in the hiring of common or skilled labor for the performance of any work under this contract or any subcontract hereunder, no contractor, material supplier or vendor shall, by reason of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation, discriminate against any person who is qualified and available to perform the work to which such employment relates. The Contractor further agrees to be in compliance with the City of Santa Barbara’s Nondiscriminatory Employment Provisions as set forth in Chapter 9 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code.

LIVING WAGE Any service purchase order contract issued as a result of this request for bids or quotes may be subject to the City’s Living Wage Ordinance No 5384, SBMC 9.128 and its implementing regulations.

CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE Contractor must submit to the contracted department within ten (10) calendar days of an order, AND PRIOR TO START OF WORK, certificates of Insurance naming the City of Santa Barbara as Additional Insured in accordance with the attached Insurance Requirements.

____________________________ Published: 2/19/2020 William Hornung, C.P.M. Montecito Journal General Services Manager

ary 17, 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 Thomas Brian. FBN No. 2020- 0000191. Published February 5, 12, 19, 26, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Clearwater Engineering, INC., 28 El Arco Dr., Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Clearwater Engineering, INC., 28 El Arco Dr., Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January

• The Voice of the Village • MONTECITO JOURNAL 47 13, 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 Maria F. Sanchez. FBN No. 2020- 0000132. Published February 5, 12, 19, 26, 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sotero Landscaping, 104 Los Aguajes Ave Apt. #1, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Raul Sotero, 104 Los Aguajes Ave Apt. #1, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 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 Maria F. Sanchez. FBN No. 2020-0000274. Published January 29, February 5, 12, 19, 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Locals; The Locals, Santa Barbara, 209 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Evokelife LLC, 804 Grove Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 21, 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. 2020-0000201. Published January 29, February 5, 12, 19, 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Orchid Cleaning, 104 Los Aguajes Ave Apt. #1, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Orquidia Hernandez, 104 Los Aguajes Ave Apt. #1, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 22, 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 Maria F. Sanchez. FBN No. 2020-0000224. Published January 29, February 5, 12, 19, 2020. Born London, 1933. Mother Canadian. Father a British civil servant. World War II childhood spent mostly in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Berkeley PhD. in American History, 1964. Living in Santa Barbara since 1973. No children. Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000. Email ashleigh@west.net or visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com Brilliant Thoughts by Ashleigh Brilliant What About God? S ome people seem to need a “Supreme Being” in their lives. Others appear to get along quite well without one. If these were only private matters, the world of human society would have been a much less troubled place than it has always been over the past millennia. But unfortunately, such matters are anything but private. The first thing a person wants to do, once he or she has become infused with a God idea, is to share it with others. People’s ideas about God, and particularly about how God wants them to live, bring them together in all sorts of religious groups. But those same ideas also divide those groups from each other, sometimes peacefully, sometimes in the most hideously violent ways. Even today – hard as it is to believe in a world of highly advanced science and technology – there are religious groups whose God not only condones, but commands, acts of mass murder. And there are still countries, like India and Pakistan, which, although neighbors, are separated by their Gods.

At the same time, there are people whose Gods impose upon them very difficult duties, which require whole-hearted service of all kinds to the most needy and unfortunate of their fellow creatures. Ultimately these benevolent individuals have no other reason for this kind of selfless devotion, other than “the will of God.” Some people need a God in human form. In fact, most of the world’s great religions trace their origins to some historical character. Others, like Hinduism, mingle animals with people in their pantheon. Then again, there are those who find it impossible, and perhaps irreverent, to visualize God at all.

But Gods serve various purposes in human lives, and one of them is to swear by – which ironically has two very different meanings, both of which involve what we call “oaths.” On the one hand, taking an oath is a sort of semi-sacred means of pledging oneself to do something promised. For example, in the courtroom, a witness was traditionally required to promise to tell the truth by taking an oath, which might begin by saying “I swear by Almighty God,” or might end with the words, “so help me God.” (But I’ve been unable to find any clear definition of what “so help me” actually means.) Then there are also the “oath of office” and various other oaths, connected with such procedures as getting married or joining the military. Traditionally they invoked God, but nowadays God has been permitted to slip away, and oath-takers are allowed simply to “affirm.” Nevertheless, there is still some legal power in reminding a witness that he or she is “under oath.”

But “swearing” can also mean using foul language. The dividing line between a sacred “oath” and the other kind seems to come at the point at which one calls upon God to condemn whoever, or whatever, one has strong feelings against. Condemnation, of course, means, in religious terms, being consigned to Hell, or, as the expression has developed in vulgar speech, to be God-damned.

Nevertheless, in our supposedly secular society, references to God are to be found everywhere. The Declaration of Independence refers to God four separate times. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address speaks, in its final sentence, of “this nation, under God.” Even the money which we still use declares that “IN GOD WE TRUST.”

Of course, the United States is not the only country which claims a special relationship with God. In fact, the official motto of the British Monarchy is “DIEU ET MON DROIT,” which translates from the French as “GOD AND MY RIGHT,” and goes far back into the Middle Ages, when Britain claimed large parts of France.

My own writings have embraced the God phenomenon. In fact, God is to be found in no fewer than two hundred of my ten thousand published epigrams. You could not call any of them religious in any conventional sense – but neither are they calculated to offend anyone’s personal faith. For example, one of the earliest (and shortest) simply says “SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GOD.” Occasionally I do receive critical mail from persons who feel that I am not religious enough. But my doubts are never expressed more strongly than in #9598, which says, “MY THEOLOGIAN SAYS THERE IS A GOD – BUT I FEEL I SHOULD GET A SECOND OPINION.”

Let me conclude on a relatively upbeat note, with #9040: “GOD ALWAYS HAS THE LAST WORD – SO I CAN ONLY HOPE IT’S A GOOD WORD.” •MJ