HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD-02-79 INCREASES THE AMOUNT OF PURCHASE EXEMPTED FROM BIDDING PROCEDURESORANGE CITY NEWS: Please publish Wednesday, January 24, 1979 only and send PROOF
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CHARLOTTE M. JOHNSTON, CMC, CITY CLERK
ORDINANCE NO. 2-
79 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF ORANGE AMENDING SECTION 2376 OF THE
ORANGE MUNICIPAL CODE INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF
PURCHASES EXEMPTED FROM BIDDING PROCEDURES PURSUANT
TO SECTIONS 2379 AND 2380 FROM $300.00 TO $500.
00.WHEREAS, since 1967, the National average increase of
inflation has been computed at 100.8 percent,
and WHEREAS, Section 2376 of the Orange Municipal Code was
last amended in 1969,
and WHEREAS, rising inflation costs have caused an increase
in items and services that could formerly be purchased on the
open market to be purchased under the bidding procedures,
and WHEREAS, during the past four months there were an
average of 46 purchase orders falling in the informal bidding area,
and of these, 25 purchase orders were in the $300.00 to $500.
00 category,
and WHEREAS, 6.5 manhours are required to process an
informal bid,
and WHEREAS, 6.5 manhours times 25 purchase orders per
month equals 162.5 manhours per month,
and WHEREAS, 162.5 manhours per month times $11.10 (the
approximate cost per hour) equals $1,803.75 per month,
and WHEREAS, .21 manhours are required to process a
routine purchase order,
and WHEREAS, for 25 purchase orders, 4.6 manhours are
required and at $11.10 per hour, the cost would be $51.06 per month,
and WHEREAS, the projected savings would be l57. 9 manhours
per month or $1,752.69 per month if the exemption from bid
procedures was increased from $300.00 to $500.
00.NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ORANGE
DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:SECTION
I:Section 2376 of the Orange Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as fo
llows :Section 2376
Bidding Purchases of supplies, services, equipment and the sale
of personal property shall be by bid procedures pursuant
to Sections 2379 and 2380. Bidding shall be dispensed
with only when an emergency requires that an order be placed
with the nearest source of supply, when the amount of the
purchase involved is less than $500.00, when the commodity can
be obtained from only one vendor, or when, pursuant to
Section 2383, the City Council has determined that the best
interests of the City would be served by dispensing with the
bid procedures required by Sections 2379 and
2380.
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SECTION II:This
ordinance shall
be published once within fifteen (15)days after its
passage in the Orange City News, a newspaper of general circulation, published
and circulated in the City of Orange, and shall
take effect thirty (30) days from and after the date of
its final passage.ADOPTED this 16th
day of January 1979.I:? ~Mayor of
the
City of Orange ATTEST:1 I?..,
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lll .Ci ty Clerk
of CMC Orange STATE
OF
CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
CITY OF ORANGE )
I, CHARLOTTE M.
JOHNSTON, CMC, City Clerk of the City of Orange, California, DO
HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced at
a regular meeting of the City Council duly held on the 9th
day of January, 1979, and thereafter at a regular meeting of said
City Council duly held on the 16th day of January, 1979, was
duly passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
ss AYES:NOES:
ABSENT:
COUNCILMEN:
COUNCILMEN:
COUNCILMEN:
BARRERA,
SMITH,
MAYOR
HOYT, PEREZ, BEAM.NONE.NONE.WITNESS
my
hand
and seal this 17th day of January, 1979.Jr--tt;~ )//- ClrA .'-?~
Charlotte M. Jdh~;ton,
CMC City Clerk of the
City of Orange 2-q~j,,;