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City Council limits general manager contracting authority to $150,000 per contract
Summary
The Los Angeles City Council amended an ordinance to restrict general managers’ delegated contract authority to $150,000 per contract and asked proprietary boards to apply the same limit to prevent serial renewals that skirt board review.
The Los Angeles City Council voted to amend an ordinance to limit a general manager’s delegated authority to enter contracts to $150,000 per contract and to encourage proprietary boards to treat the $150,000 cap as a total-per-contract limit rather than permitting repeated 150K renewals that avoid board review.
Council Member Holden moved the amendment, which the council adopted after debate. The council clerk recorded 14 ayes on the roll call and the presiding officer declared the item approved.
Holden said the amendment was prompted by repeated instances in which contractors received…
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