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ATTY/CHARTER AMENDMENTS/2018/2018 FINAL CHARTER AMENDMENTS REV: 07-18-18 VR Page 23 of 45 service or utility shall be fixed by the Board by ordinance. (7) To fix all rates, dockage, rentals, tolls, pilotage, wharfage, and charges, for the use and occupation of the public facilities or appliances of the Port and for services rendered by the Port Department, and to provide for the collection thereof. (8) To purchase materials and/or supplies without soliciting or advertising for bids in an amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars ($20,000). Every contract for any purchase of materials and/or supplies, the estimated cost of which is more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) but less than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder after solicitation of bids without public advertisement. Every contract for any purchase of materials and/or supplies, the estimated cost of which is fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) or more, shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder after public advertisement therefor. The Board shall have the power to reject any and all bids, and solicit or advertise again. All solicitations and advertisements as to purchases shall contain a reservation of the foregoing right. (9) To enter into contracts, agreements, leases, or stipulations, germane to the scope of its powers and duties. (10) To let all work by contract or order it done by day labor, as the Board may determine. (11) To employ and appoint a Port Manager, who shall hold his their position during the pleasure of the Board, and such other officers, employees and agents as may be necessary in the efficient and economical carrying out of its functions and to prescribe and fix their duties, authority and compensation, and to require such officers, employees and agents to give a bond in such an amount as the Board may require for the faithful discharge of their duties. All offices and places of employment in the permanent service of the Board shall be created by ordinance duly passed. (12) To provide and equip offices. (13) To expend all funds necessary to the carrying out of the powers and duties herein expressed. (14) To adopt and enforce such ordinances, orders, regulations and practices, as are necessary for the proper administration and discharge of its duties and powers, or for the management and government of the Port, and its facilities. (15) To prescribe fines, forfeitures and penalties for the violation of any provision of Sections 47 to 50a of this Charter, or of any ordinance, but no penalty shall exceed five hundred dollars ($500) fine, or six months imprisonment, or both. (16) To have and exercise the right of eminent domain within the "Port Area," on behalf of and in the name of the City of Redwood City, for Port purposes, harbor development or the carrying out of any of the powers granted to said Board, and to exclusively find and determine by ordinance adopted by a four-fifths (4/5ths) vote of all its members the public interest and necessity thereof.