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Council asks staff for justification before raising city purchasing thresholds

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Council members delayed approval of updated purchasing guidelines that would raise approval thresholds to improve ERP efficiency and cited the need for documentation showing how new threshold numbers were chosen and adjusted for inflation.

City finance staff and consultants presented revised purchasing guidelines on Tuesday that would raise approval thresholds at several levels to streamline approvals in a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Council members asked staff to return with documentation explaining how the proposed threshold figures were chosen and how they relate to inflation and…

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