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Finance committee calls for payments and ordinance changes including larger blanket purchase orders and $70,810.84 body‑camera appropriation

5238489 · July 7, 2025
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Barberton’s finance committee on July 7 called for payment of past‑due invoices, moved to appropriate a $70,810.84 body‑camera grant to the police department, and voted to amend a 2006 ordinance raising the blanket purchase‑order threshold from $5,000 to $1,005,000 to reduce monthly PO work.

The Barberton Finance and Personnel Committee on July 7 called for several pieces of legislation including payment of four past‑due invoices, an appropriation to pay for police body cameras and an amendment to increase the allowable blanket purchase order threshold.

Stacy Carr, planning director (not present at the meeting), had requested legislation to pay four past‑due invoices to Rental Consulting Solutions; the committee called that legislation for one reading with emergency wording. Council discussion indicated the planning department has a new invoice‑payment…

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