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Council introduces ordinance to establish city purchasing policy (first reading)
Summary
At the Dec. 17 meeting the Board of Aldermen read Bill 2,601 by title for its first reading. The ordinance would amend Chapter 130 to enact a new Article 5 establishing a city purchasing policy; no final vote was taken.
The Board of Aldermen introduced Bill 2,601 for a first reading on Dec. 17, an ordinance to amend Chapter 130 of the municipal code and enact a new Article 5 setting a municipal purchasing policy.
The city attorney read the bill by title: the ordinance would amend Chapter 130 and establish a purchasing policy for the city. Council moved and seconded the motion to read Bill 2,601 by title for the first time; the motion carried. No final action or vote on adoption occurred—the item was introduced and read for the record as a first reading.
Nut graf: The ordinance establishes a purchasing-policy framework at the municipal-code level. A member of the public earlier urged limiting the city administrator’s purchasing authority to $5,000; that suggestion was raised during public comment and may relate to the purchasing-policy ordinance now before the council for further consideration.
The council did not provide detailed purchasing thresholds or implementation specifics during the first-reading session recorded in the transcript.
