Committee backs raising small-purchase threshold to $100,000; staff recommends uniform code update
Staff recommended increasing the town's small-purchase threshold from $25,000 to $100,000 (benchmarked to Bluffton and state practice) while keeping Tyler Munis controls and procurement approvals; the committee voted to recommend the ordinance amendment to full council.
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Town staff recommended amending procurement code section 11-1-315 to raise the small-purchase threshold to $100,000, citing inflation and regional benchmarks. Staff explained existing internal controls (requisition approvals, procurement review in Tyler Munis) would remain in place and that the increase would affect relatively few transactions — staff said only 15 transactions fell between the prior $50,000 proposal and the proposed $100,000 threshold.
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