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Charter & Ordinance committee advances bid-threshold changes, ties fines to state statute; short-term rental ordinance remains in committee
Summary
The Charter and Ordinance Committee voted to remove a $3,000 charter bid trigger and reference the city purchasing policy instead, set a $10,000 competitive-bid threshold in policy, and to tie local ordinance penalties to state statute maximums; a draft short-term rental ordinance remains under development.
On Jan. 6 the Board of Aldermen received the Charter and Ordinance Committee’s December report recommending several changes to purchasing thresholds and ordinance penalties and reporting ongoing work on a short-term rental registration ordinance.
The committee reviewed subsection 9-7.3 of the charter, which currently requires competitive bids for purchases over $3,000. Committee members and city staff said that $3,000 is no longer realistic for routine purchases and proposed removing the fixed dollar reference from the charter and instead identifying a bid threshold within the city’s purchasing policy.
The committee voted to amend the charter language…
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