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Subcommittee 3 examines city manager settlement authority and public‑works contracting; Pasadena example cited
Summary
Subcommittee 3 reviewed how other California charter cities assign settlement authority and contract delivery methods. The group recommended allowing council to set settlement authority and contracting methods by ordinance (as Pasadena did), rather than fixing dollar amounts in the charter.
Subcommittee 3 presented a review of charter language and ordinances used by California cities to set settlement authority and alternative methods for public‑works contracting at the June 30 meeting, and described a likely approach for Sunnyvale: allow the council to set the person and dollar threshold by ordinance rather than hard‑coding a dollar limit in the charter.
The subcommittee reported that state law sets a default settlement threshold of $50,000 for cities that do not have a charter provision; a change to a higher limit generally requires a charter amendment. The subcommittee found three charter cities that address settlement authority through charter…
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