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Pepper Pike council ratifies $39,480 emergency repair for Fairmount Boulevard after December water main break; councilors fault split purchase order
Summary
Council approved payment to a contractor for emergency Fairmount Boulevard repairs after a Dec. 30 water-main break, but several council members said a purchase order had been intentionally split to stay under the mayor’s $25,000 authority and called for stronger internal controls.
Pepper Pike City Council on May 12 voted 4-3 to ratify $39,480.78 in labor and expenses to Roni (Neronian) Sons for emergency repairs to Fairmount Boulevard after a Dec. 30 water-main break undermined the roadway.
Council members said the repair itself was necessary and performed to acceptable standards, but several raised alarms that the city’s purchasing process was circumvented by splitting a single job into two purchase orders so part of the work would fall under the mayor’s $25,000 spending authority.
Councilmember Zaitrak, who led the complaints, said the invoice sequence and the exact $25,000 split “looked intentional” and called that practice “highly problematic” for internal controls. Finance staff Peter told the council the city had more than $10 million appropriated in the…
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