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Whiteville officials describe contractor payment process, single-bid engineering award and end-of-year spending freeze
Summary
City staff told the Whiteville City Council they will pay contractors on receipt of invoices, recommended awarding an engineering services contract after receiving a single bid, and warned that a hiring and spending freeze could prevent some projects from finishing this budget year.
Whiteville City Council members heard from staff that the city will pay contractors on receipt of invoices, that an engineering services contract may be awarded after only one bid, and that a hiring and spending freeze is limiting what can be completed before the end of the current budget year.
A staff member said, “Basically, what we're gonna do is when we get an invoice, we'll go ahead and write a check to them because the contract action will be between the city and the contractors. So we'll go ahead and make payment to the contract and then we'll turn around and send the invoice over to the counter. So there might be a few days there that we're don't have that money…
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