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Council debates raising mayoral threshold and streamlining professional services approvals
Summary
Council discussed raising the mayor's spending threshold for professional services and eliminating a two-step selection/approval process for vetted vendors; staff will draft revised policy language for future council consideration.
Fairhope — Council members and staff debated whether to raise the mayor's purchasing authority for professional services and whether to streamline the selection-to-contract process for vetted firms.
Kim (city staff) summarized the current policy history: a 2017 threshold that was previously $15,000 had been reduced and then changed during the 2020 transition; currently…
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