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Council reviews updates to purchasing policy, seeks alignment with city ordinance and ethics rules
Summary
City staff presented proposed updates to the procurement/purchasing policy (not updated ~27 years) including raising approval thresholds, aligning materiality thresholds with the ethics ordinance, changing requisition timing, and setting a 10% aggregate change-order threshold; several numeric figures in the transcript are unclear and are noted as such.
City finance/procurement staff told the council the city's purchasing policy has not been updated for approximately 27 years and presented a draft to align policy with current practice and the city's ethics ordinance.
Staff described major proposed changes: raising approval thresholds for purchase orders; establishing layered approval for purchases (department-level approval for smaller purchases,…
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