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Durant City Council approves two emergency Dell server purchases
Summary
At a brief special meeting, the Durant City Council approved two emergency purchases for Dell servers — one listed as 37.023 in the agenda and a second for $31,930 — after staff said the city manager has authority to approve emergency purchases and outside counsel reviewed the procurement.
The Durant City Council approved two emergency purchases of Dell servers during a brief special meeting, voting separately to authorize an item listed as 37.023 in the agenda and a second purchase of $31,930.
Council members voted unanimously in favor of both purchases with Council member Fuller recorded as absent. The purchases were presented under a single administration item on the special-meeting agenda and were approved after a staff member explained the city manager’s emergency purchasing authority and said outside attorneys had reviewed the matter.
Pam, a city staff member, described the authority cited on the agenda and the legal review: “this emergency purchase is 37.023. If it's helpful, we will. And if it does say that the city manager has the authority to declare an emergency or call some event an emergency and that regardless that any supplies or contractual services bought regardless of the amount of the expenditure can be approved by the city manager. I, sent it all to OMEG attorneys, and they reviewed it and got back with me and said, since it had already gone this far that we should go ahead and do he said we could have put it under just our PO process claims.”
Council members made separate motions and roll-call votes for each line item. For item 1a (listed in the agenda as 37.023) the roll-call votes were recorded as: Council member Miller — yes; Council member Shear — yes; Vice Mayor Similescu — yes; Mayor Tucker — yes. For item 1b (listed at $31,930) the roll-call votes were the same. Each motion carried. No “no” votes or abstentions were recorded.
After the votes the council immediately moved to adjourn the special meeting.
The agenda materials identify the purchases as Dell servers intended for the City of Durant’s infrastructure; staff described the purchases as emergency procurements under the city manager’s authority and said outside attorneys (identified in the transcript as OMEG attorneys) reviewed the procurement. The agenda did not include additional technical specifications or vendor contract numbers in the portions of the record provided.
The special meeting included roll call, the two procurement votes and adjournment; public comment and other substantive agenda items were not recorded in the transcript provided.
