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Charter review panel backs sending language to let Porterville self-perform more public works
Summary
Committeeers advanced draft charter language to give Porterville broader local control over contracting and allow the city to self-perform maintenance, repair and certain improvements while keeping financial thresholds for Council review.
The Porterville Charter Review Committee advanced draft charter language that would expand the city's ability to self-perform maintenance, repair and certain public-improvement work and to exercise charter-city procurement options such as design-build and local preference.
Wade Southwick, the staff presenter, described a rewrite of Section 61 to make Porterville "exempt from the requirements of the California Public Contracts Code" where the city chooses to exercise charter powers, while still allowing…
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