Affirmative action requires the determination, isolation and
elimination of those concepts, circumstances and practices which lead
to and permit discrimination. Affirmative action further requires
the establishment of firm objectives, the assignment of responsibility
and the establishment of procedures for the accomplishment of those
objectives and provision for review procedure to assure accomplishment
and continuance of the objectives once attained.
(O2119)
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings herein specified:
"Prime contractor"
means a person, firm, partnership or corporation who has been awarded a contract by the city which is subject to the requirements of Section
2.92.030 and which is in the sum of $25,000.00 or more.
"Principal subcontractor"
means a person, firm, partnership or corporation who has
a contract with a prime contractor to supply labor and/or materials
in the sum of $12,000.00 or more.
(O2119; O2140)
Every contract or subcontract of the city for public works, subject to Section 101 of the Charter, shall contain a clause obligating the contractor or subcontractor to observe the requirements of Section
2.92.040. The clause shall be in substantially the following form:
Contractor agrees to observe the provisions of Section
2.92.040 of the Napa Municipal Code obligating every contractor or subcontractor under a contract or subcontract to the City of Napa for public works, subject to Section 101, Napa City Charter, in the sum $25,000.00 or more, to refrain from discriminatory employment practices on the basis of sex, race, color, religious creed, national origin or ancestry of any employee of, or applicant for employment with, such contractor or subcontractor. Said Section
2.92.040 is by reference made a part of this contract.
(O2119; O2140)
Every contract or subcontract with the city for public works,
subject to Section 101 of the Charter, in the sum of $25,000.00 or
more, shall require the contractor to agree as follows:
A. That
the contractor will not, because of the sex, race, religious creed,
color, national origin or ancestry of any person, refuse to hire or
employ him or her, or bar or discharge him or her from employment,
or discriminate against him or her in compensation or in terms, conditions
or privileges of employment and that the contractor will take affirmative
action to insure that every applicant for employment and every employee
will receive equal opportunity for employment and will be granted
equal treatment with respect to compensation, terms, conditions or
other privileges of employment, without regard to his or her sex,
race, religious creed, color, national origin or ancestry.
B. That
the contractor will post in conspicuous places, where they may be
seen by every employee or applicant for employment, notices in such
form as shall be prescribed by the City Manager, setting forth the
provisions of this section.
C. That
the contractor will in all solicitations or advertisements for applicants
for employment include in such solicitation or advertisement language
which reasonably conveys that every qualified applicant will receive
consideration for employment without regard to his or her sex, race,
religious creed, color, national origin or ancestry.
D. That
the contractor will give written notice in such form as shall be prescribed
by the City Manager, of the contractor's commitments under this contract
to any labor union or employee's association with which he or she
may have a collective bargaining or other agreement.
(O2119; O2140)
Any contractor who shall be found by the City Manager to be
in violation of his or her agreement to pursue an affirmative course
of action or in violation of any provision of the affirmative action
guidelines pertaining to his or her contract shall be found in material
breach of such contract, and thereupon the city shall have power to
cancel or suspend the contract, in whole or in part, or to deduct
from the amount payable to such contractor the sum of $250.00 for
each calendar day during which the contractor is found to have been
in noncompliance, as damages for said breach of contract, or both.
(O2119)
Neither the provisions of this chapter nor the affirmative action
requirements adopted by the Council nor the remedies provided for
herein shall prevent the city from pursuing and obtaining any other
appropriate and additional remedy or relief.
(O2119)
Neither this chapter nor any portion thereof shall apply to
any contract to which this chapter would otherwise apply if such contract
is subject to the President's Executive Order No. 11478 (or any amendment
thereto or any executive order superseding said order) and the rules
or regulations promulgated pursuant to said order, except as may be
otherwise specifically provided by the contract documents to which
said order is applicable.
(O2119)
The provisions of this chapter shall not be applicable to negotiated
contracts already approved or authorized by the city prior to August
21, 1972, nor to those contracts proposed to be awarded pursuant to
sealed bids for which notice to bidders is authorized prior to September
20, 1972.
(O2119)