II-7. SMALL DIVERSE BUSINESS PARTICIPATION SUBMITTAL. To receive credit for being a Small Diverse Business or for subcontracting with a Small Diverse Business (including purchasing supplies and/or services through a purchase agreement), an Offeror must include proof of Small Diverse Business qualification in the Small Diverse Business participation submittal of the proposal, as indicated below: A Diverse Business verified by BSBO as a Small Diverse Business must provide a photocopy of their verification letter. In addition to the above verification letter, the Offeror must include in the Small Diverse Business participation submittal of the proposal the following information: All Offerors must include a numerical percentage represents the total percentage of the work (as a percentage of the total cost in the Cost Submittal) to be performed by the Offeror and not by subcontractors and suppliers. All Offerors must include a numerical percentage which represents the total percentage of the total cost in the Cost Submittal that the Offeror commits to paying to Small Diverse Businesses (SDBs) as subcontractors. To support its total percentage SDB subcontractor commitment, Offeror must also include: The percentage and dollar amount of each subcontract commitment to a Small Diverse Business; The name of each Diverse Business. The Offeror will not receive credit for stating that after the contract is awarded it will find a Small Diverse Business. The services or supplies each Diverse Business will provide, including the timeframe for providing the services or supplies. The location where each Small Diverse Business will perform services. The timeframe for each Small Diverse Business to provide or deliver the goods or services. A subcontract or letter of intent signed by the Offeror and the Small Diverse Business (SDB) for each SDB identified in the SDB Submittal. The subcontract or letter of intent must identify the specific work, goods or services the SDB will perform, how the work, goods or services
year, so that City Council may act on it at least thirty (30) days prior to the next ensuing fiscal year. The capital budget and forecast shall include a showing of the nature of the proposed capital additions and replacements, the amounts needed therefor and how the funds required are to be supplied as between funds generated within the business through charges to customers or otherwise; and funds to be obtained through capital loans. At any time during the fiscal year, or before the budget accounts are closed for the year, the division between (i) and (ii) may, if conditions so warrant, be changed or the total thereof increased upon recommendation of the Director of Finance and the Gas Commission and upon approval by City Council. In the event that capital loans are required in any year under (ii) above, plans therefor shall be submitted to the Director of Finance for approval of the amount of loan and the method of effecting it, and then transmitted to City Council for its approval. (c) Expenditures Pursuant to Budgets All expenditure and commitments therefor shall be made pursuant to such approved budgets and subject to rules and regulations, if any, promulgated by the Gas Commission in connection therewith. 3. Temporary Financing Short-term loans not exceeding twenty million dollars in amount or twelve months in duration may be negotiated in anticipation of revenues, except that short-term loans exceeding twenty million dollars but not exceeding forty-five million dollars in amount may be negotiated in anticipation of revenues for Fiscal Year 1982 of the Gas Works and may be outstanding during the period July 1, 1981 through June 30, 1982. If such loans are required, plans therefor shall be submitted to the Gas Commission and the Director of Finance for approval of amount of loan. The amount of any such loan shall also be subject to the approval by resolution or by ordinance of City Council. The Gas Works may also receive temporary advances from the City in anticipation of revenues which are anticipated to be received by the Gas Works provided that such advances do not exceed twenty million dollars in amount or twenty-four months in duration; provided further, however, that during the period June 30, 1981 through June 30, 1983, and the period September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2002, such advances may exceed twenty million dollars but shall not exceed forty-five million dollars in amount, and may exceed twenty-four months but not exceed seventy-two months in duration. The amount of each such advance shall