HomeMy WebLinkAbout06/21/1989 (2) VICE MAYOR'REFERRAL
(PROPOSED ORDINANCES ONLY)
DATE OF REFERRAL: June 21, 1989
REFERRED TO: BUDGET AND FINANCE - JOHN W. STINSON
ITEM:
(Proposed) An Ordinance of the Council of the City of Bakersfield
adding Section 3.20.105 to the Bakersfield Municipal Code
Relating to Formal Contract Procedure for Contracts Not Involving
the Purchase of Goods.
BACKUP MATERIAL ATTACHED: Yes
STATUS:
To Council Committee on
Committee Report No.
Sent to Council on
Public Hearing on
Ordinance Adopted
(date)
Proposed Ordinance Canceled
(date)
Other
cc: Carol Williams
Mary Ellen Gonzales
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M O R A N D U M
June 19, 1989
To: Vice Mayor Pat Smith
From: City Attorney ~/~
Arthur J. Saalfield/~'-'~.----~
Subject: REFERRAL OF PROPOSED ~DINANCE RE FORMAL CONTRACT
PROCEDURES FOR CONTRACTS NOT INVOLVING THE PURCHASE
OF GOODS.
Please refer the following proposed ordinance to whiChever com-
mittee you deem appropriate:
1. FORMAL CONTRACT PROCEDURE.
Background:
This-~rdinance covers matters'not ~now addressed by
the Municipal Code and formally establishes, rules
as to execution of contracts (other than those for
the purchase of goods).
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4:M.SMITH9
Attachment
cc: J. Dale Hawley
Trudy Thornton
Greg Klimko
DRAFT
ORDINANCE NO. , NEW SERIES
AN ORDINANCE'OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD ADDING SECTION 3.20.105 TO THE
BAKERSFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO
FORMAL CONTRACT PROCEDURE FOR CONTRACTS NOT
INVOLVING THE PURCHASE OF GOODS.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield
as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section] 3.20.105 is hereby added to the Bakersfield
Municipal Code to read as follows:
3.20.105 Formal contract procedure - Contracts not involving
the purchase of goods.
A. All contracts not involving the purchase of goods
shall be set forth in writing approved as to form by the City
Attorney, signed by the Mayor, a City department head, the Finance
Director and fi~ed with the City Clerk. Sections 3.20.090 and
3.20.100 of this Chapter shall not apply to contracts under this
section.
B. All such contracts under which the City is obligated
to pay $20,000.00 or more, whether or not such amounts will be
paid or reimbursed by a third party, shall be authoriZed only by
the City Council. Such contracts shall also require the signa-
tures set forth in subsection A. of this section.
C. Amendments.
1. No contract subject to the provisions of this
section may be amended or otherwise modified unless the terms of
sgch amendment are set forth in writing and signed by all of the
original signators. No contract requiring City Council authoriza-
tion may be amended except by council action.
2. Each public works contract to be amended by
change order in an amount of $10,000.00 or less shall reguire the
signatures set forth in subsection A. of this section, regardless
of whether the City's obligation under the original contract was
for $20,000100 or more. Each change order for more than
$5,000.00 shall be approved only by the City Council unless the
cumulative obligation remains less than $20,000.00.
D. The City of Bakersfield shall not be bound by any
represe~]tation of any employee or 'agent of the City which would,
serve to create or amend a contract unless and until such repre-
sentation has been set forth in writing and approved and signed
as set forth in this section.
SECTION 2.
This ordinance shall be posted in accordance with the
City Charter provisions and shall become effective thirty (30)
days from and after the date of its passage.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was passed
and adopted by the Cou,]cil of the City of Bakersfield at a regular
meeting thereof held on , by the
following vote:
CITY CLERK and Ex Officio Clerk o.~ the
Council of the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED
CLARENCE E. MEDDERS
MAYOR of the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED as to form:
ARTHUR J. SAALFIELD
CITY ATTORNEY of the City of Bakersfield
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