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Goodyear finance staff propose procurement-code updates, including higher formal thresholds and larger job-order cap
Summary
Finance staff proposed raising the city's formal procurement threshold from $50,000 to $100,000, setting a $5 million cap for job-order contracting, and changing how council grants expenditure authority for budgeted items; council members generally supported efficiency gains while asking for safeguards and audit oversight.
Jared Askelson, the city finance director, and Deputy Finance Director Kevin Custer presented a proposed update to Goodyear's procurement code at the council work session, recommending higher dollar thresholds for formal procurement, a larger job-order contracting cap and procedural changes to speed capital projects.
Askelson told the council the procurement code has not been updated since 2008 and that the code governs stewardship of public funds, transparency and procurement oversight. The major recommendations are: increase the formal procurement threshold from $50,000 to $100,000; set the job-order contracting maximum at $5,000,000 (state statute currently references $1,000,000 as the common threshold); and adopt a process to grant expenditure authority for items at or above $500,000 during the annual budget adoption so such projects can proceed…
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