Department heads may initiate purchases in amounts under twenty-four thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollars ($24,999) without Council or other approval if funds have been appropriated in the budget and are available for such purposes and the unencumbered balance of the account is sufficient to include the cost of the item. (Ord. 196-96. Passed 11-11-96; Ord. 73-2010. Passed 6-28-10; Ord. 22- 30. Passed 4-11-22.)