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2/7/12 <br />(d) The bids shall be opened in public, at the time and place stated on <br />the "Invitation for Bid." All bids shall be publicly declared. <br />Section 7. Section 2-808 is added to Chapter 2 of the Santa Ana <br />municipal Code to read in full as follows: <br />Section 2-808 Local Preference in Contracts for Services <br />Except for those contracts for which the Charter of the City of Santa Ana <br />prohibits the provision of a local preference, and/or those contracts funded <br />through programs or partners which prohibit the use of a local preference, the <br />City Council authorizes the Agency to extend a preference to Local Business and <br />Orange County Business as set forth herein. <br />(a) Contracts for services shall be awarded on the basis of <br />demonstrated competence and on the professional qualifications necessary to for <br />the satisfactory performance of the services required. In evaluating proposals for <br />service contracts in amounts up to one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00), <br />proposers which qualify as Local Business or Orange County Business shall be <br />eligible for preference points. The preference shall be added to the proposal to <br />reach a final score in determining the most advantageous proposal. Said <br />preference shall be set by Resolution of the City Council. <br />(b). A non local proposer associating with a Local Business or <br />Orange County Business, shall be eligible for the local preference if a <br />minimum of fifty percent (50%) of the contract value will be performed by the <br />Local Business or Orange County Business. <br />Section 8. Any provision of the Code that is inconsistent with the <br />provisions of this Ordinance, to the extent of such inconsistencies and no <br />further, is hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary to effect the <br />provisions of this Ordinance. <br />Section 9. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of <br />this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision <br />of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the <br />remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana <br />hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, <br />subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that <br />any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions be <br />declared invalid or unconstitutional. <br />6 <br />11 A-6