06-1213_WHISPERING HILLS, LLC_Grading Surety Agreement (4)• L) ORIGINAL
GRADING SURETY AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT is made by and between the CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, a
municipal corporation, hereinafter referred to as the "City" and
Whispering Hills, LLC I a California Corporation (General
Partnership, Limited Partnership, California Corporation, etc.) referred to as "Developer".
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WHEREAS, City will issue a Grading Permit to Developer to construct certain
designated improvements which constitute a portion of that real property at the location of
Tract 16634 commonly referred to as
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WHEREAS, San Juan Capistrano Municipal Codes Section 8-2.08 requires the
posting of financial security to secure the faithful performance and labor and materials for
the grading and installation of improvements connected with issuance of grading permits
including the construction of drainage and protection devices and any other corrective work
to remove and eliminate engineering and geological hazards.
WHEREAS, San Juan Capistrano Municipal Code Section 8-2.09 authorizes the
Building Official to require additional bonding as security to ensure against adverse
aesthetic impacts arising from incomplete grading and/or improvements from development
projects which have not been completed.
WHEREAS, the Building Official finds that the proposed project site is highly
prominent and visible to the community, has unique topographic features or involves
substantial grading of slope areas.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and promises hereinafter
contained, City and Developer agree as follows:
1. Developer's Improvements Obligations. Developer shall, at its sole cost and
expense, provide and furnish all labor, materials and equipment for the construction of
grading improvements as approved by the City Engineer. The grading permit and plans
which describe all the work to be constructed per this agreement are on file in the office of
the City's Building Official,
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2. Developer's Security. Developer shall provide a cash depositor a bond by a
duly authorized corporate surety, subject to the approval as to form of the City Attorney, or
as approved by the City Engineer, to secure Developer's improvement obligations required
under this agreement.
The amount of the bond shall be $ 1,330,000.00 for all onsite grading
improvements as approved by the City Engineer. This security shall also serve as security
for restoration of the site. A copy of the surety instrument, as approved by the City
Attorney, is attached as Exhibit "A".
3. Completion of Improvements. To ensure the protection of the public safety,
health and welfare, Developer shall construct all said improvements in accordance with
the schedule as set forth in Exhibit "B", and the conditions as set forth in Exhibit "C".
4. Developer Default. In the event Developer does not complete the required
improvements, including erosion and silt control measures within the time required, using
Best Management Practices (BMP) in implementing a Water Quality Management Plan in
full compliance with Orange County National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
(NPDES) Storm Water Implementation Agreement and San Juan Capistrano Municipal
Code Section 8-14, or abandons the project site, or suspends work for more than twenty
working days other than previously prescribed, City shall have the right to immediately
declare a default and to make demand on the surety for performance.
5. Restoration of Site. San Juan Capistrano Municipal Code Section 8-2.09
allows the City to require bonding as security to ensure against adverse aesthetic impacts
arising from uncompleted grading, drainage and/or improvements which includes illicit non -
storm drain water discharge. The purpose of this bonding shall be to restore the property
to a safe and acceptable condition if the Developer defaults. This restoration shall include
but not be limited to the following:
A. Dismantle and/or demolish improvements;
B. Grade property to its original contours as shown on the approved
grading plans
C. Remove all debris and construction materials from the site; and
D. Install erosion and silt control devices, including hydroseeding, to
insure a uniform vegetative cover, or equivalent stabilization
measures which include the use of such Best Management Practices
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as blankets, fiber matrices, catch basin filters, or other erosion
resistant soil coverings or treatments to satisfaction of the Director of
Engineering and Building,
6. Attornev's Fees. Developer agrees to pay City such sum as the court may
judge as reasonable for the legal services of an attorney representing the City in an action
brought to enforce or interpret the obligations of this agreement, and such sum shall be
made a part of anyjudgment in such action against Developer if such action is determined
in favor of said City.
7. Developer's Work in Safe Condition. Developer shall perform all work in a
safe workmanlike manner and shall take such precautions as may be necessary to warn
and protect the public from any dangerous condition caused by the construction of said
improvements.
8. Liability. Developer shall hold City, its officers, and employees harmless from
any and all claims, demands, causes of action, liability or loss of any sort because of, or
arising out of, the acts or omissions of Developer, his contractor, subcontractors, agents or
employees in the performance of this agreement.
In witneggs whereof, the parties have executed this agreement as of
December 13,
20 06 at San Juan Capistrano, California.
Developer
By: (Signee) Dennis Gage
(Title) Principal
Approved a to For1n:
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By: khn Shaw
City Attorney
City of San Juan Capistrano
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By: Sam Shoucair
Senior Engineer
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EXHIBIT "B"
SCHEDULE FOR COMPLETION OF IMPROVEMENTS
Completion Date
,3- ?1-07
&-30-07
Task
Rough Grade Certification
Landscape Irrigation
Landscape Planting
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CONDITIONS FOR COMPLETION OF IMPROVEMENTS
1. The grading for this project shall be in strict conformance with the approved grading
plans as well as the San Juan Capistrano Municipal Code.
2. Grading operations shall commence within fourteen (14) calendar days after
issuance of a grading permit.
Winter grading will be conducted in strict accordance with the dynamic erosion and
silt control plan submitted by the Developer, and approved by the City. This erosion
and silt control plan reflects erosion and silt mitigation measures for expected
grading conditions as the work progresses through the winter season and shall not
be amended except with the permission of the City.
In the event Developer does not wish to implement winter grading, or permission for
winter grading is rescinded, static erosion and silt control plans reflecting current
conditions of grading shall be submitted within ten (10) days of cessation of work.
These plans shall:
1. Identify all pollutant sources including sources of sediment that may affect
the quality of storm water discharges associated with the construction
activity.
2. Include the erosion and sediment control planting and hydroseeding to
insure a uniform vegetative cover or equivalent stabilization measures which
include the use of such Best Management Practices as blankets, fiber
matrices, catch basin filters or other erosion resistant soil covering or
treatments to the satisfaction of the City Engineer.
3. Except as specified in item " " below, suspension in excess of twenty (20)
working days of work authorized by the approved grading plans and grading permit
for subject property, including erosion and sediment control measures and
landscaping and irrigation, shall constitute default of this agreement.
4. The supervising civil engineer and soils engineer shall file biweekly progress reports
of all grading operations with the Building Official. An interim compaction report, for
that work completed at the time work is suspended for the rainy season, shall be
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filed with the Building Official. This interim report shall conform to the grading code
requirements for final compaction reports.
5. Contractor shall control dust to the satisfaction of the Building Official or his deputy.
During grading, Contractor shall keep water truck on site and dampen work area,
grounds, and loaded trucks.
6. Grading operations suspended during the rainy season shall be resumed no later
than 15 days from date of suspension termination.
7. Installation of interim erosion and sediment control devices and systems shall
commence within seven (7) days after rough grade certification has been approved
by the Building Official and must be completed within fifteen (15) days of rough
grade certification. Final erosion and sediment control devices, planting,
landscaping and irrigation systems shall be installed prior to final inspection of the
grading permit.
8. All work shall be performed in strict observation of the Hours of Operation in
accordance with San Juan Capistrano Municipal Code Section 8-1.03.
9. Contractor shall adhere to conditions of haul route permit and encroachment permit
issued by the City Engineer.
10. Parking for construction crew is to be on-site.
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Bond No. SU5022196
Premium: $13,300.00
PERFORMANCE BOND
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that Whispering Hills, LLC
as principal (hereinafter
called "contractor", and Arch Insurance Company
as Surety (hereinafter called "Surety"), are
held and firmly bound unto the City of San Juan Capistrano, as oblige
(hereinafter called . "city"), in the amount of
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Surety bind themselves, their heirs, executors, administrators, successors and
assigns, jointly and severally, fairly by these presents.
WHEREAS, contractor has, . by written agreement - dated
entered into a (describe agreement):
Whispering Bills - East Canyon Tract 16634 - Grading Bond
which contact is, by reference; made apart hereof.
NOW, THEREFORE, the ' conditlon of this obligation is such that, if
contractor shall promptly and faithfully perform said agreement then this
obligation shall be null and. void, otherwise it shall remain in full force and effect.
Surety waives whatever :legal right it may haus to require that a demand be made
first against the Contractor in the event of default.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that:
As a part of the obligation secured hereby, and in addition to the
face amount specified, there shall be Included. costs and
reasonable expenses and fees, including reasonable attorney's
fees, incurred by the City In successfully enforcing such obligation,
all to be taxed as costs and Included in any judgment rendered,
Said Surety, for valve received, hereby stipulates and agrees that
no change, or extension of time, alteration, or modification of the
contract documents, or of the work to be performed thereunder,
shall in any way affect Its obligation or this bond, and. it does hereby
waive the notice of any such change., extension of time, alteration
or modification of the contract documents or of work the be
performed thereunder.
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0 2004 National Notary Association • 9350 De Soto Ave., P.O. Box 2402 • Chatsworth, CA 91313-2402 Item No. 5907 Reorder, Call Toll -Free 1-800-876-682]
POWER OF ATTORNEY 0 1) ORIGINAL
Know All Men By These Presents:
That the Arch Insurance Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Missouri, having its
principal office in Kansas City, Missouri (hereinafter referred to as the 'Company") does hereby appoint
Victoria M. Campbell, Thomas G. McCall and Janina Monroe of Irvine, CA (EACH
Christine Marotta of Chicago, IL
its true and lawful Aifomey(s)-in-Fact to make, execute, seal, and deliver from the date of issuance of this power for and
on its behalf as surety, and as its act and deed:
Any and all bonds and undertakings
EXCEPTION: NO AUTHORITY is granted to make, execute, seal and deliver bonds or undertakings that guarantee the
payment or collection of any promissory note, check, draft or letter of credit
This authority does not permit the same obligation to be split into two or more bonds in order to bring each such bond
within the dollar limit of authority as set forth herein.
The Company may revoke this appointment at any time.
The execution of such bonds and undertakings in pursuance of these presents shall be as binding upon the said
Company as fully and amply to all intents and purposes, as if the same had been duly executed and acknowledged by its
regularly elected officers at its principal office in Kansas C'
s; r ymp.
This Power of Attorney is executed by authority of resolutions adopted by unanimous consent of the Board of Directors of
the Company on March 3, 2003, true and accurate copies of which are hereinafter set forth and are hereby certified to by
the undersigned Secretary as being in full force and effect
"VOTED, That the Chairman of the Board, the President, or any Vice President or their appointees designated in writing
and filed with the Secretary, or the Secretary shall have the power and authority to appoint agents and attomeys-in-fact
and to authorize them to execute on behalf of the Company, and attach the seal of the Company thereto, bonds and
undertakings, recogniizances, contracts of indemnity and other writings, obligatory in the nature thereof, and any such
officers of the Company may appoint agents for acceptance of process."
This Power of Attorney is signed, sealed and certified by facsimile under and by authority of the following resolution
adopted by the unanimous consent of the Board of Directors of the Company on March 3, 2003:
VOTED, That the signature of the Chairman of the Board, the President or any Vice President or their appointees
designated in wrifing and filed with the Secretary, and the signature of the Secretary, the seal of the Company, and
certifications by the Secretary, may be affixed by facsimile on any power of attorney or bond executed pursuant to the
resolution adopted by the Board of Directors on March 3, 2003, and any such power so executed, sealed and certified
with respect to any bond or undertaking to which it is attached, shall continue to be valid and binding upon the Company.
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authorized �s •+ _day or April 20 DS
Attested and Certified
Martin J. Nilseraecretary
STATE OF NEW YORK SS
COUNTY OF NEW YORK SS
Arch Insurance Company
Edward M. T s President
I Peter J. Callso, a Notary Public, do hereby certify that Edward M. Titus and Martin J. Nilsen personally known to me to
be the same persons whose names are respectively as Vice President and Secretary of the Arch Insurance Company, a
Corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Missouri, subscribed to the foregoing instrument,
appeared before me this day in person and severally acknowledged that they being thereunto duly authorized signed,
sealed with the corporate seal and delivered the said instrument as the free aKvoluntary act said corporation and as
their own free and voluntary acts for the uses and purposes therein set forth_ I Ii./I h r _
PETER J. CALLEo, ESO.
Notary Public, State of New York
No. 02CA6108336
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comrnfwlon Expires May 3, 2008 1 slQj expires 5-03-2008
CERTIFICATION
1, Martin J. Nilsen, Secretary of the Arch Insurance Company, do hereby certify that the attached Power of Attorney dated
on behalf of the person(s) as listed above is a true and correct copy and that the same has been in full force and effect
since the date thereof and is in full force and effect on the date of this certificate; and I do further certify that the said
Edward M. Titus, who executed the Power of Attorney as Vice President, was on the date of execution of the attached
Power of Attorney the duly elected Vice President of the Arch Insurance Company.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have h°.eunr^ subscribed my name and afftwd.the corporate se I of the Arch Insurance
Company on this day of nr 20_�_ )(
Martin J. Nils , Secretary
This Power of Attorney limits the acts of those named therein to the fronds and undertakings specifically named therein
and they have no authority to bind the Company except in the manner and to the extent herein stated.
PLEASE SEND ALL CLAIM INQUIRIES RELATING TO THIS BOND TO THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS:
Arch Contractors & Developers Group
135 N. Robles Ave., Ste. 825
Pasadena, CA 91101
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MEMORANDUM February 1, 2007
TO: Meg Monahan, City Clerk
FROM: Deena Berens, Permit Technician
SUBJECT: Performance Grading Bond, Whispering Hills East & West Canyon
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Please find attached for your records, the original Grading Surety Agreements and
Performance Bonds #SU5022196 in the amount of $1,330,000.00 & SU5022197 in the
amount of $1,148,000.00 for the placement of bond for the purpose of grading for the East
and West Canyons for the Whispering Hills Development, Tract 16634.
Attachment