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Payment/Performance BondFAmTrust Surety 17771 Cowan, Suite 100, Irvine, California 92614 - (949) 263-3300 AmTrust Surety www.AmTrustSurety.com An AmTrust Financial Company PAYMENT BOND - PUBLIC WORK (Florida Statute § 255.05) Bond. 482636P $ 8,025.00 (Premium is for contract term and is subject to adjustment based on final contract Price) KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: that T.E.M. Environmental & Mechanical Services Corp. 3210 Flagler Avenue, Key West, FL 33040 305-414-8290 (Insert full legal name, principal business address, and phone number of Contractor) as Principal ("Contractor") and Developers Surety & Indemnity Company 100 Second Avenue South, Ste 704S, St. Petersburg, FL 33701 727-822-5610 (Insert full legal name, principal business address, and phone number of Surety) as Surety ("Surety") are held and firmly bound unto Monroe County Board of County Commissioners 500 Whitehead Street, Key West, FL 33040 305-289-6038 (Insert full legal name principal business address, and phone number of Owner) as Obligee ("Owner") in the amount of Two Hundred Sixty Seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($ 267,500.00 ) (the "Penal Sum of the Bond"), lawful money of the United States of America, and for the payment whereof Contractor and Surety bind themselves, their heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. WHEREAS, Contractor has by written agreement dated June 21 entered into a contract with Owner (the "Contract") for Key West Library HVAC (Insert full legal name address, Contract number and description of Project) 2017 , NOW THEREFORE, THE CONDITION OF THIS OBLIGATION is such that, if Contractor shall promptly make payments to all Claimants as defined herein who furnish labor, services or materials for the prosecution of the work provided for in the Contract, then this obligation shall be null and void; otherwise it shall remain in full force and effect in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth below. ID -1729 (FL) (03/17) -Page I of 4 &AJ 1. Statutory Bond. This Bond is issued pursuant to Florida Statute §255.05, and not as a common law bond, and incorporates herein by reference the notice and time limitation provisions set forth in that statute (including, but not limited to, Florida Statute §255.05(2) and (10)). 2. Definitions. The following terms, as used herein, are defined as follows: 2.1 Claimant. An individual or entity defined in Florida Statute §713.01, who furnishes labor, services or materials for the prosecution of the work provided for in the Contract. 2.2 Final Furnishing. The last date that the Claimant furnishes labor, services, or materials for the prosecution of the work provided for in the Contract. Such date may not be measured by other standards, such as the issuance of a certificate of occupancy or the issuance of a certificate of final completion, and does not include correction of deficiencies in the Claimant's previously performed work or materials supplied. 3. Conditions Precedent. The Surety's obligation under this Bond shall arise only after the following conditions precedent, set forth herein are satisfied: 3.1 Claimants in Privity. Claimants, who have a direct contract with the Contractor, shall: 1. Ninety (90) Day Notice of Non Payment. Deliver to the Contractor and the Surety written notice of the performance of the labor or delivery of the materials or supplies and of the nonpayment at any time during the progress of the work or thereafter, but not later than 90 days after the final furnishing of the labor, services, or materials by the Claimant, or with respect to rental equipment, not later than 90 days after the date that the rental equipment was last on the job site available for use. Any Notice of Non Payment which includes sums for retainage must specify the portion of the amount claimed for retainage; and 2. Statute of Limitation. Institute action against the Surety on the Bond within one (1) year after the final furnishing of the labor, services, or materials by the Claimant. 3.2 Claimants Not in Privity. Claimants, who do not have a direct contract with the Contractor, shall: Notice to Contractor. Before commencing or not later than 45 days after commencing to furnish labor, services, or materials for the prosecution of the work, furnish the Contractor with a written notice that he or she intends to look to the Bond for protection; and Ninety (90) Day Notice of No Payment. Deliver to the Contractor and the Surety written notice of the performance of the labor or delivery of the materials or supplies and of the nonpayment at any time during the progress of the work or thereafter but not before 45 days after the first furnishing of labor, services, or materials, and not later than 90 days after the final furnishing of the labor, services, or materials by the Claimant, or with respect to rental equipment, not later than 90 days after the date ID -1729 (FL) (03/17) • Page 2 of 4 that the rental equipment was last on the job site available for use. Any Notice of Non Payment which includes sums for retainage must specify the portion of the amount claimed for retainage; and I Statute of Limitation. Institute action against the Surety on the Bond within one (1) year after the final furnishing of the labor, services, or materials by the Claimant 4. Limitation of Liability. This obligation shall be null and void if the Contractor or Surety promptly makes payment, directly or indirectly, for all sums due. In no event shall the Surety's total obligation exceed the penal sum of this Bond, and the amount of this Bond shall be credited for any payments made by the Surety. 5. Trust Funds. Amounts owed by the Owner to the Contractor under the Contract shall be used for the performance of the Contract and to satisfy claims, if any, under any Performance Bond and or this Bond. By the Contractor furnishing and the Owner accepting this Bond, each agrees that all funds earned by the Contractor in the performance of the Contract are dedicated to satisfy obligations of the Contractor and the Surety under this Bond. 6. No Third Party Beneficiary Claims. The Surety shall only be liable for the obligation of the Contractor to pay for labor, services, materials furnished for use in the prosecution of the Contract No right of action shall accrue on this Bond to those not within the description of Claimants as defined in Section 2.1. 7. Attorneys' Fees. The prevailing party in any action under this Bond shall be entitled to recover its reasonable attorneys' fees and costs incurred in connection with the action, and any subsequent appeals. The parties waive trial by jury as to any such litigation arising under this Agreement. 8. Priority of Bond. This Bond shall govern the liability of the Surety. In the event of any conflicts between any contract, purchase order, invoice or other writings and this Bond, this Bond shall control. 9. Venue. No suit or action shall be commenced by a Claimant under this Bond other than in a court of competent jurisdiction in the location in which the work or part of the work is located. 10. Construction of Bond. The provisions of this Bond shall be applied and interpreted in a manner consistent with each other and with the applicable statutory authorities. If for any reason any provision of this Bond is legally unenforceable or invalid, such provision shall be deemed severed from this Bond and the remaining provisions shall be carried out with the same force and effect as if the severed portion had not been a part hereof [THIS SECTION INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK] ID -1729 (FL) (03/17) • Page 3 of 4 II. Notice. Notice to the Surety, the Owner or the Contractor shall be mailed or delivered to the address shown on the signature page. CONTRACTOR AS PRINCIPAL T.E.M. Environmental & Mechanical Services Corp. full legal name of Principal) (Corporate Seal) / W'; � * z' A/" (Signature of Authorized Thomas E. McKechnie President (insert full name and title of signatory) SURETY of Principal) Developers Surety & Indemnity Company (Insert full legal name of Surety) (Corporate Seal) (Signature of Authorized Representative of Surety) Robert Barra Attorney In Fact (Insert full name and title of signatory) ID -1729 (FL) (03/17) -Page 4 of 4 ' 482636P POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR DEVELOPERS SURETY AND INDEMNITY COMPANY PO Box 19725, IRVINE, CA 92623 (949) 263-3300 { --\I KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS that except as expressly limited, DEVELOPERS SURETY AND INDEMNITY COMPANY, does hereby make, constitute and appoint: ***Robert Barra*** as its true and lawful Attomey(s)-in-Fact, to make, execute, deliver and acknowledge, for and on behalf of said corporation, as surety, bonds, undertakings and contracts of suretyship giving and granting unto said Attomey(s}in-Fact full power and authority to do and to perform every act necessary, requisite or proper to be done in connection therewith as each of said . corporation could do, but reserving to each of said corporation full power of substitution and revocation, and all of the acts of said Attomey(s)-in-Fact, pursuant to these presents, are hereby ratified and confirmed. This Power of Attorney is granted and is signed by facsimile under and by authority of the following resolution adopted by the Board of Directors of DEVELOPERS SURETY AND INDEMNITY COMPANY, effective as of January 1st, 2008. RESOLVED, that a combination of any two of the Chairman of the Board, the President, any Executive Vice -President, Senior Vice -President or Vice -President of the corporation be, and that each of them hereby is, authorized to execute this Power of Attorney, qualifying the attomey(s) named in the Power of Attorney to execute, on behalf of the corporation, bonds, undertakings and contracts of suretyship; and that the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the corporation be, and each of them hereby is, authorized to attest the execution of any such Power of Attorney; RESOLVED, FURTHER, that the signatures of such officers may be affixed to any such Power of Attorney or to any certificate relating thereto by facsimile, and any such Power of Attorney or certificate bearing such facsimile signatures shall be valid and binding upon the corporation when so affixed and in the future with respect to any bond, undertaking or contract of suretyship to which it is attached. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, DEVELOPERS SURETY AND INDEMNITY COMPANY has caused these presents to be signed by its officers and attested by its Secretary or Assistant Secretary this 6th day of Febuuary, 2017. KIAND/N•''. 1 .e = yJ°ot�OTFcFa'ti By. Daniel Young, Senior Vice -President w=• 1936 ° - 'CquFoc a c Mark Lansdon, Vice -President A notary public or other officer completing this certificate verifies only the identity of the individual who signed the document to which this certificate is attached, and not the truthfulness, accuracy, or validity of that document. State of California County of Orange On February 6, 2017 before me, Lucille Raymond, Notary Public Date Here Insert Name and Tine of the Officer personally appeared Daniel Young and Mark Lansdon Name(s) of Signer(s) who proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person(s) whose name(s) is/are subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he/she/they executed the same in his/hedtheir authorized capacity(ies), and that by hislher/their signature(s) on the instrument the person(s), or the entity upon behalf of CLUCILLE RAYWIONO which the person(s) acted, executed the instrument Commission #r 20e1915 zqp Notary Public - California I certify under PENALTY OF PERJURY under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing paragraph is Z Orange County true and correct. 4 Comm. Expires Oct 13, 2018 � WITNESS my hand and official seal. Place Notary Seal Above Signature Lucille' Idavirlond, Notary Public CERTIFICATE +� The undersigned, as Secretary or Assistant Secretary of DEVELOPERS SURETY AND INDEMNITY COMPANY or INDEMNITY COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, does hereby certify that the foregoing Power of Attorney remains in full force and has not been revoked and, furthermore, that the provisions of the resolutions of the respective Boards of Directors of said corporations set forth in the Power of Attorney are in force as of the date of this Certificate. This Certificate is executed in the City of Irvine, California, this 2 8 day of June 2017 ; ��k4o a ./NOF By. = 1936 Casste J61nisford, Assistant Se tary fir: . � • . IF a , ATS-1004 (02117) ".r.* "���, AmTrust Surety ����� ��E�3t (�;. 17771 Cowan, Suite 100, Irvine, California 92614 — (949) 26994D ��'�; AmTrust Surety www.AmTrustSurety.com FINAL. CONTRACT An AmTrust Financial Company PERFORMANCE BOND - PUBLIC WORK (Florida Statute § 255.05) Bond. 482636P $ 8,025.00 (Premium is for contract term and is subject to adjustment based on final Contract Price) KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: that T.E.M. Environmental & Mechanical Services Corp. 3210 Flagler Avenue, Key West, FL 33040 305-414-8290 (Insert tulI legal name and address of Contractor) as Principal ("Contractor") and Developers Surety & Indemnity Company 100 Second Avenue South, Ste 704S, St. Petersburg, FL 33701 727-822-5610 (Insert full legal name and address. of Surety) as Surety ("Surety") are held and firmly bound unto Monroe County Board of County Commissioners 500 Whitehead Street, Key West, FL 33040 305-289-6038 (Insert full legal name and address orOwner) as Obligee ("Owner') in the amount of Two Hundred Sixty Seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars (S 267,500.00 ) (the "Penal Sum of the Bond"), lawful money of the United States of America, and for the payment whereof Contractor and Surety bind themselves, their heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. WHEREAS, Contractor has by written agreement dated .tune 21 2017 entered into a contract with Owner (the "Contract") for Key Wes Library HVAC (Insert full name and address and description of Project) which Contract is hereby referenced for the purpose of identifying the scope of work to be performed in the event the conditions of this Bond are triggered. NOW THEREFORE, THE CONDITION OF THIS OBLIGATION is such that, if Contractor shall promptly and faithfully perform said contract, then this obligation shall be null and void; otherwise it shall remain in full force and effect in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth below. ID -1728 (FL) (03/17) •Page I of 4 1. If the Contractor performs the Contract, the Surety and the Contractor shall have no obligation under this Bond except to participate in conferences as provided in Section 2.1. 2. if there is no Owner Default as defined in Section 2.4, the Surety's obligation under this Bond shall arise only after the following conditions precedent, set forth in Sections 2.1 through 2.3, are satisfied: 2.1 The Owner has notified the Contractor and the Surety at its address described in Section 10 below that the Owner is considering declaring a Contractor Default as defined in Section 2.5 and has requested and attempted to arrange a conference with the Contractor and the Surety to be held not later than fifteen (15) days after receipt of such notice to discuss methods of performing the Contract. If the Owner, the Contractor and the Surety agree, the Contractor shall he al lowed a reasonable time to perform the Contract, but such an agreement shall not waive the Owner's right, if any, subsequently to declare a Contractor Default; and 2.2 The Owner has declared a Contractor Default and formally terminated the Contractor's right to complete the Contract and notify the Surety in writing of such Contractor Default and termination. Such Contractor Default and termination shall not be declared earlier than twenty (20) days after the Contractor and the Surety have received notice as provided in Section 2.1; and 2.3 The Owner has agreed to pay the Balance of the Contract Price as defined in Section 5 to the Surety or to a contractor selected to perform the Contract, the timing of which shall be governed in accordance with the terns of the Contract or other mutually agreed upon arrangement. 2.4 Owner Default: A material breach of the Contract by the Owner, which has neither been remedied nor waived, to pay the Contractor as required by the Construction Contract or to perform and complete or comply with the other terms thereof. 2.5 Contractor Default: A material breach of the Contract by the Contractor, which has neither been cured, remedied or waived, warranting the Owner to terminate the Contractor, provided that the Owner has complied with the default provisions of the Contract. 3. When the Owner has satisfied the conditions precedent of Section 2, the Surety shall promptly and at the Surety's expense take one of the following actions: 3.1 Arrange for the Contractor, with consent of the Owner, to perform and complete the Construction Contract: or 3.2 Undertake to perform and complete the Contract itself, through its agents or through independent contractors; or 3.3 Obtain bids or negotiated proposals from qualified contractors acceptable to the Owner for a contract for performance and completion of the Contract, and arrange for a contract to be prepared for execution by the Owner and the contractor selected with the Owner's concurrence, to be secured with performance and payment bonds executed by a qualified surety equivalent to the bonds issued on the Contract; or 11)-1728 (FL) (03/17) -Paoc 2 o1*4 3.4 Waive its rights to perform and complete, arrange forcompletion, or obtain anew contractor and with reasonable promptness under the circumstances: After investigation, determine the amount for which it may be liable to the Owner and, as soon as practicable after the amount is determined, tender payment therefor to the Owner; or 2. Deny liability, in whole or in part, and notify the Owner citing the reasons therefor. 4. If the Surety (toes not proceed as provided in Section 3 with reasonable promptness, the Surety shall be deemed to be in default on this Bond fifteen (15) days after receipt of an additional written notice from the Owner to the Surety demanding that the Surety perform its obligation under this Bond, and then the Owner shall be entitled to enforce any remedy available to the Owner. Such fifteen (15) day notice shall constitute a condition precedent under this Bond. If the Surety proceeds as provided in Section 3.4, and the Owner refuses the payment tendered or the Surety has denied liability, in whole or in part, without further notice the Owner shall be entitled to enforce any remedy available to the Owner. 5. After the Owner has terminated the Contractor's right to complete the Contract, and if the Surety elects to act under Section 3.1, 3.2 or 3.3 above, then the responsibilities of the Surety to the Owner shall be to perform the scope of work under the Contract and shall not exceed the Penal Sum of the Bond. In the event the Owner completes the scope of work under the Contract, the Surety's liability shall be limited to the reasonable cost of completion less the Balance of the Contract Price, subject to the Penal Sum of the Bond. The term "Balance of the Contract Price" shall mean the total amount payable by Owner to Contractor under the Contract as if the was no default, including any amendments thereto, less the amount validly and properly paid by Owner to Contractor. 6. The Surety shall only be liable to the Owner for obligations of the Contractor that are directly related to the construction of the Contract. No right of action shall accrue on this Bond to any person or entity other than the Owner or its heirs, executors, administrators or successors. 7. The prevailing party in any action under this Bond shall be entitled to recover its reasonable attorneys' fees and costs incurred in connection with the action, and any subsequent appeals. The parties waive trial by jury as to any such litigation arising under this Agreement. 8. This Bond shall govern the liability of the Surety. In the event of any conflicts between. the Contract and this Bond, this Bond shall control. 9. Any proceedings, legal or equitable, under this Bond shall be instituted in any court of competent jurisdiction in the location in which the work or part of the work is located and shall be instituted within two years after Contractor Default or within two years after the Contractor ceased working or within two years after the Surety refuses or fails to perform its obligation under this Bond, whichever occurs first. if the provisions of this Paragraph are void or prohibited by law, the minimum period of limitation available to sureties as defense in the jurisdiction of the suit shall be applicable. 10. Notice to the Surety, the Owner or the Contractor shall be mailed or delivered to the address shown on the signature page. [D -1728 (FL) (03/17) -Page 3 o r 4 11. This Bond shall be construed as a statutory bond in accordance with Florida Statute §255.05, and not as a common law bond. When this bond has been furnished to comply with a statutory or other legal requirement in the location where the construction was to be performed, any provision in this Bond conflicting with said statutory or legal requirement shall be deemed deleted here from and provisions conforming to such statutory or other legal requirement shall be deemed incorporated herein. CONTRACTOR AS PRINCIPAL T.E.M. Environmental & Mechanical Services Corp. (I ert full legal name of Principal) (Corprn•ale Seal) (SignatureofAuthorized Repres tative of Principal) Thomas E. McKechnie President (Insert full name'and title of signatory) SURETY D velopers Sur y Indemnity Company In, rt full legal name of Surety) (Co)porate Seal) (Sigi ature of Authorized Representative of Surety) Robert Barra Attorney In Fact (Insert full name and title of signatory) ID -1728 (17L) (03(17) -Page 4 of 4