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Weselaco keeps city manager spending limit at $25,000, adopts wider procurement changes and formalizes 5% local preference
Summary
The Weselaco City Commission approved revisions to the city purchasing policy to reflect recent state changes, keep the city manager's transaction authority at $25,000, expand small-purchase thresholds, require finance approval at all levels and adopt a 5% local bid preference for in-city businesses.
The Weselaco City Commission on Oct. 8 approved a package of revisions to the city purchasing policy that staff said will speed routine procurements while preserving oversight.
Staff recommended multiple threshold changes after recent state legislative updates. The commission kept the city manager's spending authority at $25,000; commissioners approved a structure in which purchases over $25,000 come to the commission with three formal quotes, and the formal competitive-bid threshold was discussed as either $50,000 or the state's $100,000 standard. "The statute does allow us to go all the way to $100,000," a staff presenter said, "but we want to be more conservative and say . . . under $50,000, then we will do three formal quotes." (Staff later clarified…
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