RecDoc 2018-099611 Charter Amendments Reso

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••e-k er- improvement aireetbThe City Council shall establish by ordinance the conditions and procedures for contracts for public works and improvements and establish advertising and bidding requirements. The ordinance may provide that under specified conditions, which the awarding authority must find and determine to exist in each applicable instance, advertising and bidding may be dispensed with, except the ordinance may provide that where the expenditure The eCity eCouncil shall have the power to reject any and all bids, and solicit or advertise again. All solicitations and advertisements as to contracts shall contain a reservation of the foregoing right. All contracts entered into by the eCity shall be signed by the eCity 111Manager and any other officer or officers of the eCity as the eCouncil may by ordinance provide. (As amended April 13, 1954, ratified by Legislature January 13, 1975, Stats.1955, Chapter 27; as amended March 4, 1975; certified by Secretary of State March 20, 1975; as amended April 13, 1982, certified by Secretary of State June lo, 1982; as amended November 4, 2003, certified by Secretary of State March 5, 2004.) Section 68: CITY MAY PERFORM ITS OWN WORK, ETC.: If the eCity eCouncil shall reject all bids, it may, in lieu of soliciting or advertising for new bids, determine and declare by a five -sevenths (5/7ths) vote of all its members that the work in question may be more economically or satisfactorily performed by day labor, or the materials or labor purchased at a lower price in the open market, and after the adoption of a resolution to this effect, it may proceed to have the same done in the manner stated without further observance of the provisions of Section 67 hereof, and Provided that, in the case of a great public calamity, such as extraordinary fire, flood, storm, epidemic, or other disaster the eCouncil may, by resolution passed by a vote of five -sevenths (5/7ths) of all its members, determine and declare that the public interest or necessity demands the immediate expenditure of public money to safeguard life, health, or property and thereupon they may proceed, without soliciting or advertising for bids or receiving the same, to expend, or enter into a contract involving the expenditure of any sum required in such emergency, on hand in the eCity treasury and available for such purpose. (As amended March 4, 1975; certified by Secretary of State March 20,1975•) Section 69 deleted April 11, 1978, certified by Secretary of State June 12, 1978) ATTY/CHARTER AMENDMENTS/2018/2018 FINAL CHARTER AMENDMENTS REV: 07-18-18 VR Page 36 of 45