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Resolution No. 2025-091 N.C.S.
of the City of Petaluma, California
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF TWO (2) HEART MONITORS AND
ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT FROM ZOLL MEDICAL CORPORATION
WHEREAS, the Petaluma Fire Department currently is equipped with multiple heart monitors that have
exceeded their intended service life and are in need of replacement; and
WHEREAS, the approved Fiscal Year 2025-2026 budget contains an allocation of $112,000 in capital
expenditures set aside for the replacement of two (2) heart monitors, funded by Measure H sales tax revenue; and
WHEREAS, Public works contracts and equipment purchases are subject to the requirements of the City
Charter, which requires competitive bidding for acquisitions above a certain threshold, according to bidding
procedures specified in the purchasing chapter in the Municipal Code. Section 4.04.050 of the Municipal Code
allows dispensing with formal bidding when a commodity can be obtained from only one vendor. This is known
as the “sole source” exception; and
WHEREAS, the common law recognizes a bidding exception for circumstances where competitive bidding
of public contracts otherwise required by statute may be excused, including circumstances where the contract is
such that competitive proposals would be unavailing or would not produce an advantage, and the advertisement
for competitive bid would thus be undesirable, impractical, or impossible (Graydon v. Pasadena Redevelopment
Agency [1980] 104 CA3d 631); and
WHEREAS, the Fire Department’s existing heart monitors are manufactured and sold by ZOLL Medical
Corporation and ZOLL is the only source practicably available to provide replacement heart monitors, thus
making the purchases of replacement heart monitors exempt from competitively awarded purchasing under the
City’s Charter and Municipal Code’s purchasing requirements; and
WHEREAS, ZOLL Medical Corporation submitted a quotation for $105,425.81 for the replacement of four
(4) heart monitors, related equipment, and a five-year service plan; and
WHEREAS, staff has reviewed the quotation from ZOLL Medical Corporation and found it to be complete
and within industry standards; and
WHEREAS, the proposed action is exempt from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality
Act (CEQA) in accordance with CEQA Guidelines Section 15378, in that replacing a fire station’s heart monitors
does not meet CEQA's definition of a “project,” because the action does not have the potential for resulting in
either a direct physical change in the environment or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the
environment, and because the action constitutes organizational or administrative activities of governments that
will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Petaluma as follows:
1. Declares that the above recitals are true and correct and are incorporated into this resolution as findings of the
City Council.
2. Finds that the proposed action is exempt from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act
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(CEQA) in accordance with CEQA Guidelines Section 15378, in that replacing a fire station’s heart monitors
does not meet CEQA's definition of a “project,” because the action does not have the potential for resulting
in either a direct physical change in the environment or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in
the environment, and because the action constitutes organizational or administrative activities of governments
that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.
3. Authorizes the City Manager to execute all documents necessary to purchase two (2) heart monitors from
ZOLL Medical Corporation in the total amount of $105,425.81; and
4. Finds that the City’s purchase of replacement heart monitors meets the City’s Charter and Municipal Code’s
purchasing requirements.
Under the power and authority conferred upon this Council by the Charter of said City.
REFERENCE: I hereby certify the foregoing Resolution was introduced and adopted by the
Council of the City of Petaluma at a Regular meeting on the 7th day of July 2025, by
the following vote:
Approved as to
form:
__________________________
City Attorney
AYES: McDonnell, Barnacle, Cader Thompson, DeCarli, Nau, Quint, Shribbs
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
ATTEST: ______________________________________________
City Clerk
______________________________________________
Mayor
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