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September 17. IM I INVITATION TO BID Sealed bids for the construction of Forest Grove Senior Center, Phase II, will be received by the City of Forest Grove, Oregon, at the City Hail 1924 Council Street, Forest Grove, until 2:00 P .M ., Pacific Daylight Time, on O c tober 8, 1961 and thereafter publicly opened and reed aloud. Bids shall be received for one Project, consisting of the General Construe tion, including Mechanical and Electrical Work, for an addition (Phase II) to the Forest Grove Senior Center. All Work for the Project shall be executed under a single General Construction Contract. The Work to be performed under this contract is on a project receiving di rect Federal financial assistance from the Department of Housing and Ur ban Development, and is subject to the requirements of Section 3 of the Houamg and Urban Developm ent Act of 1968, as am ended, 12 U .S .C . 1071u. Section 3 requires that to the greatest extent feasible, opportunities for training and employment be given lower income residents of the project area (Forest Grove) and contracts for work in connection with the project be awarded to business concerns which are located in, or owned in sub stantial part by persons residing in the project area. Before the contract for this project is executed the proposed contractor will be expected to comply to the greatest extent feasible with the requirements of Section 3, as enum erated m 24 CFR 135, a copy of which is included in ita entirety in the bid documents Special attention of the bidder is directed to subparts B, C, D and E of these rules. For the purpose of acquainting all bidders with these requirements, and providing clarification where needed, a pre-bid confer- h8,d ° n ° CtOb#r ’ • 1981 at 10:00 A M ■* F o rM ’ Grove City Hall, 1924 Council Street, Forest Grove, Oregon. The Black United Front's Community Unity Day at Peninsula Park provided an opportunity for a barbeque in the shade. (Photo: Richard J. Brown) Unions know no borders walk or sitting in growers’ buses A F W U calls the biggest strike by tees already exist in many o f these undocumented workers in American villages. labor history. Union personnel have little access The TFU, unlike the AFU, has no to workers once they are in the field, contracts. Its victories have come in said Lupe Sanchez, the union’s ex the form o f employer concessions ecutive director. The alternative to after strikes and lawsuits. organizing workers before they trek In southern New Mexico, where north, he said, is to have “ a lot of the union is just beginning to make money to get people out of ja il" on itself felt, Marentes says he uses charges of trespassing. “ mini strikes.” According to M ar The Arizona union, which began entes, a two-hour work halt at in the late 1970s, has 15,000 dues- Pedro Jurado Farms near Las Cru paying members and contracts with ces last year led to an increase from three citrus growers in the Phoenix 40 cents to 70 cents a bucket for area. The three-part agreement with picking tomatoes—although Arturo Production Farm Management is Jurado, a partner in the family op the union showpiece. An A F W U eration, denied there was a strike or waiting to be driven to the few that the union had anything to do farms then hiring. He distributed with winning pay increases. copies of the T F U ’s bilingual news The successes of the Arizona and paper and chatted with workers. Texas unions have been achieved “ This is to increase our pay,” one without the help of the A F L -C IO , man told a neighbor sitting on a including the United Farm Workers, curb, urging the paper on him. which sometimes has charged that The TFU presently claims to have Mexican workers take jobs from 50,000 members, about 40 per cent citizens. But A F W U organizer of them undocumented. Adela Serrano pointed out that until Another Southwestern union, the recently no one but Mexican work A rizona Farm Workers Union ers ever worked in the Arizona (A F W U ), sent organizers in August citrus fields. In Texas and New to Mexican villages in Sinaloa, Que- Mexico much farm work also tradi retaro and Guanajuato that supply tionally is the exclusive province of many o f the laborers to Phoenix- Mexicans. area farms when harvesting begins Mexican union members, how in late September. Union commit- ever, are beginning to worry about staffer proudly showed a visitor pricing themselves out of U.S. jobs around air-conditioned bunkhouses by making them irresistibly attract for Mexican workers who once lived ive to American citizens who have in the lemon orchards, eating shunned the work. Last year 25 citi skimpy meals over campfires. They zen workers were hired at Produc now get three meals a day in an air- tion Farms Management— the first conditioned mess hall and earn up time anyone remembers non-Mexi to $350 a week. Jobs are protected cans harvesting citrus. by a seniority hiring system. Looking ahead, the A rizona Though the illegal residency sta Farm Workers Union contracts re tus of such workers might be thought quire employers to place 10 cents to make union organizing tough, or- per hour for each worker into an gznizers say that U.S.-citizen farm economic development fund des workers often are more afraid to tined for use by “ ejidos,” commun make demands. Citizens, among al farms in Mexico where many of them union harvesters whom the the workers came from. Arizona union now is trying to or The money will be dispensed for ganize, fear the loss o f food stamps the first time this year. Traveling and welfare which supplement their with A FW U organizers in Mexico is wages. Undocumented workers an economic development specialist “ don’t have those kinds of services assigned to help ejidos build irriga — nothing is given to them ,” San tion systems and make other agri chez said. cultural improvements, all in prepa Last October, undocumented ration for the day when the farmers workers struck two Phoenix-area can stop working ‘ ‘on the other growers. In 1977-78, two other ma side.” jor growers were struck in what the © 1981 Pacific News Service (Continued from page 1 column 2) We are not lumping all the prob lems of the Black and poor child on the mother but one parent can help or hurt. ‘ ‘ I f you care enough to want to see your children make it, then you have to make it or they aren’t going to be s— . We as par ents have to try to stay together be cause a family can improve with two incomes. Remember, love can con- querall.” Some parents feel that the change of times has introduced children to events and attitudes a lot sooner than their own introduction ten and twenty years ago. “ Kids are faster because they get into things quicker because they see a lot o f things in the home and the parents don’t try to hide it. The times are harder so it butch caorç 284-1897 Back To >-l»r Omqr far Men & School Special R eg $20 Haircuts.......... $10 C o n d itio n ewt b t ’ yto Curl fWkfcttoaAd) .. N o w $26 1406 N .E . B ro a d w a y , P o rtlan d . O re g o n 97212 Sealed proposals will be received in Room 412, City Hall, Portland. Oregon 97204 for items detailed herein until 2:00 P.M . on the dates indicated. Plans and specifications may be obtained at the above address. For a d ditional information telephone buyer at number listed. When Bid Surety is required, proposals shall be accompanied by a certified check, cashier's check or a bid bond, payable to the City of Portland for an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the aggregate amount of the bid as guaranty that the bid shall be irrevocable for the period specified in the proposal. Said bond to be forfeited as fixed and liquidated damages should the bidder seek to revoke his offer for any reason not authorized by law and no, consented to by City within the irrevocable period, or neglect or refuse to enter into contract and provide a suitable bond for the faithful perfor mance of the contract, in the event the said contract is awarded to him. N O N -DISCRIM INATION: No proposal or bid will be considered unless the bidder is certified as an EEO Affirmative Action Employer as prescribed by Chapter 3.100 of the Code of the City of Portland. All bidders not currently certified should file the required documentation with the Contract Com pliance Division. Room 209, City Hall. 1220 S W Fifth Avenue. Portland, Oregon 97204, 248 4696, at least five (5) days prior to the Bid Opening Failure to achieve certification by the Bid Opening Date and Time shall result in the return of your Bid Unopened. BID NO. 28 The Contractor will be required to comply with all applicable Equal Employ ment Opportunity laws and regulations. ThL C,tV ° f F° reSt GfOVe w iH n o t discriminate w ith regard to race, color, (Continued from page 1 column 6) Our children's future All bidders shall comply with the provisions of Chapter 279, Oregon Revised Statutes relating to the qualifications of bidders, and the provisions re quired by ORS 279.350 and as determined by the U .S . Secretary of Labor pursuant to the provisions of the Davis Bacon Act W age Decision, pertain ing to the payment of wages which are not less than the prevailing rates. CITY OF PORTLAND INVITATION TO BID 31 creed, sex, or national origin, in consideration for an award. Drawings and Specifications may be examined w ithout charge at Forest Grove City Hall. Builders Exchange Co-op, Construction Data Plan Center and Northwest Plan Center, each of Portland, Oregon and at the office of Yodogawa McCartan-Architects, P C., 213 S .W . Ash STreet. Suite 201 Portland, Oregon. One set of Drawings and Specifications may be obtained by General Con tractors only at the office of Yodogawa-McCartan-Architects. P.C. upon deposit of $75.00 Additional sets may be obtained from the Architects for the cost of reproduction. No bid shall be received or considered unless fully completed in the manner provided in Instruction to Bidders'' and on forms provided by the Archi tect. The bid shall be accompanied by a Surety Bond, Cashier's Check or Certi fied Check, executed in favor of the City of Forest Grove in an amount not less than ten per cent of the amount of the bid. to be forfeited as fixed and liquidated damages should the bidder refuse or neglect to enter into a con tract and provide suitable bond for the performance of the W ork in the event the Contract is awarded to him. The City of Forest Grove reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive any bid irregularities or informalities as its interests are best served. No bidder may withdraw his bid after the hour set for the opening thereof, until after the lapse of 30 days from the bid opening. f.M. Burnett City Recorder. City of Forest Grove, Oregon An Equal Opportunity Employer HCD PUBLIC MEETING A public meeting with the Housing and Community Development (HC D ) Citizens Advisory Committee has been scheduled for Wednesday. Septem ber 30, at 7:00 PM in the Water Bureau Auditorium, 510 S W montgomery. This meeting will give citizens an opportunity to discuss the 3-year HCD plan and process for meeting the needs of Portland's low and moderate in come neighborhoods. Background draft information is available prior to the meeting by calling the Bureau of Community Development, 248-5350. 32 DESCRIPTION BID OPENING DATE Labor, Material Et Equipment for Hayden Meadows Supply M ain. For information call Kent Petersen, Buyer, 248-4003. 10% Bid Surety Et Prequalification of Bidder Required. 09/29/81 RFP-Bond Counsel Services for General Obligation iT 1m ° Ve^ ecnt1BOnd’ ,Of FY 81 82 For information call Harold F. Vaughan, Purchasing Agent, 248-5375 Special Prequalification Required. M an agem ent Et O peration Services for M orrison Park East Parking Facility for General Services For ini Or^ ÌO,n C J ’,LCar,’On Chaver' Aaa f Purch M flr.. 248 5374. 10% Bid Surety Required. 10/01/81 09/29/81 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Notice is hereby given that the Housing Authority of the County of Clacka mas, will receive sealed bids until 2:00 PM , on October 2nd, 1981. for the •••d in g of lawns at 27 single family residential lots, located throughout the county. Bids shall Oe addressed to D. Robert M iller, Housing A uthority of the County of Clackamas. 2889 S.E. Hillside Street. Mifwaukie, Oregon 97222. Bidders are invited to attend the bid opening at the above time and place. No bids will be received or considered after that time Bid security in the amodnt of five per cent (5) is required in accordance with the Instructions to Bidders. The contract documents may be examined or obtained at the Housing Au thority at 2889 S.E. Hillside Street, Milwaukie. Phone 666 8272. This project is financed through Housing and Urban Development, and is subject to regulations of the Departments of Labor and Housing and Urban Development Attention is called to federal provisions for Equal Employment Opportunity Affirmative Action, HUD Section 3 Requirements, and payment of not lees than the minimum salaries and wages as set forth in the Documents. No bid will be received or considered unless it contains a statement that these pro visions will be met. The Housing Authority reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to waive any informalities in the bidding. 0 « 6 0 S K F U IM tS T Of tMNSPOtTITKM HicHwnr Diristox Charles E. Olson HCD Program Manager SUPPORTIVE SERVICES PROPOSAL 7W W If UOMM » . A c l m . M MtUMUmM. lm .» ... cowriter 0«s peer iMOusr in ? t$ M l»n MMmtm II» .» IM IM M I Sub-contractors Wanted Washington State - 500 Man Correction Center - Phase II Monroe, Washington Donald M. Drake Company in tim i ft, , Mum», In u m i M m m rn u M 1 « fly l« ll MM 2JÎ im i « tirria 71070141 Bid Date: October 1, 1981 1 «U li H im u im tu . r a m ti M u n H Otlafcm I IM I M *•» I m 7 »070141 M M U fT Il tl» , S umu . U n 0, u n i U IK M H . M . » U n i . tm .n l ,u n w h M Im I m •I » . atm. altftna m Im m irtunl ..lm .,lm . l M , lm . IM I) l l l l l l l tali l,M lO i.m u i,) 1 I M I ) ) I I I 1 C m M i . i I u . I i u i I 1 lim u n I t i l i 1740 N W Flanders Portland, Oregon 97209 226-3991 makes the kids harder and they end up caring only for self. But some times you never know. You can raise a child to be right and when the kids grow up they go wrong. So as parents we just do the best we can.” A former counselor says the main problems that the youth o f today face are drugs and a poor attitude about work. ‘ ‘ The availability o f drugs is devastating our community. Also they seem to have this depen dent psychology because of the fed eral overt and cover, welfare pro grams. They act like you owe them something. Well, thanks to Reagan, gimma got caught. ‘ ‘There are no useful recreational activities— events that stimulate the thought process. You can only shoo, hoop so much. The whole ed ucational arena needs to be restruc tured away from the agrarian ap proach of 9 to 3 so you can go home and do your chores and » ith the summer o ff for the »ummr Harvest. ‘ ‘ Also the women’ s movement has taken its toll on the family by re moving the woman. It used to be a time when you would have to spend wha, you make. Because it takes more to get by, the woman is also out there working and that stable image that I saw as a child is gone. The women have become too inde pendent. They have less children so that caring and understanding for others aren’t there. The child sees the frustration of the male. They see the drug dependency as a way to es cape. Because the woman is away from the home the T .V . has more control than the parent.” A 16-year-old youth says his problems are girls, money and wor rying about the future. “ I don’ t know if there’s a job out there when 1 turn 18. I looked all summer and found a job cleaning but I had to go back to school. I kinda worry about war because they will send us young- bloods. And like Prince says, you’re going to have to fight your own damn war ’cause we don’t want to fight no more.” . Next week: The Family. Sub-bids Requested For Washington State - 500 Man Correction Center Phase II Housing Unit Monroe, Washington Bid Date: October 1 ,1 9 8 1 ,3:00 pm Hoffman Construction Company 900 S W Fifth Portland, Oregon 97204 (603)221-8811 Equal Opportunity Employer HO-FF-MC-C218B5 Note: Our Rep will be at Camlin Hotel 8 & 9 at Pine, Seattle Washington Bid Phone (206)625-1081
