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Section 4-2 Purchases And Sales.
   1. The city manager, subject to any regulations which the council may prescribe, shall contract for the purchase, or issue purchase authorizations for, all supplies, materials and equipment for the offices, departments and agencies of the city government. Every such contract or purchase exceeding an amount to be established by ordinance, shall require the prior approval of the council. The city manager also may transfer to or between offices, departments and agencies, or sell, surplus or obsolete supplies, materials and equipment, subject to such regulations as the council may prescribe;
   2. Before the purchase of, or contract for, any supplies, materials or equipment, or the sale of any surplus or obsolete supplies, materials or equipment, ample opportunity for competitive bidding, under such regulations, and with such exceptions, as the council may prescribe, shall be given; but the council shall not except a particular contract, purchase or sale from the requirement of competitive bidding; and
   3. The council by ordinance may transfer some or all of the power granted to the city manager by this section, relating to purchases and sales, to an officer appointed by and subordinate to the city manager.
Section 4-3 Sale Of Utilities And Of Property Valued At More Than $10,000.
   1. The sale of the electric generating plant of the city, the electric distribution system to the entire electric utility, or of the water utility, shall be made only by authority of a special non-emergency ordinance. Such ordinance shall be published in full in a newspaper of general circulation within the city within ten days after its passage, and shall not become effective until it shall have been referred to the qualified electors of the city at a general or special election and approved by a majority of the qualified electors voting on the question of approving the ordinance; and
   2. The sale of any other property, real, personal or mixed, or of any interest therein, the value of which is more than $10,000, shall be made only by authority of a special non-emergency ordinance. Such ordinance shall be published in full passage, and shall include a section reading substantially as follows: Section--. This ordinance shall be referred to a vote of the electors of the city if a proper referendum petition is properly filed within thirty days after its passage; otherwise it shall go into effect thirty days after its passage.
Section 4-4 Public Improvements.
   Public improvements may be made by the city government itself or by contract. The council shall award all contracts for such improvements; provided that the council may authorize the city manager to award such contracts not exceeding an amount to be determined by the council and subject to such regulations as the council may prescribe. Every contract for public improvements of more than $1,000 shall be awarded to the lowest and the best responsible bidder after such notice and opportunity for competitive bidding as the council may prescribe. All bids may be rejected, and further notice and opportunity for competitive bidding may be given.
Section 4-5 Fiscal Year.
   The fiscal year of the city government shall begin on the first day of January and shall end on the last day of December of every calendar year, with January 1, 2011 being the first date the new fiscal year becomes effective. (Res. 1517, 8-11-2009)
Section 4-6 Independent Annual Audit; Inventory System.
   a. The council shall designate a certified public accountant or accountants who shall make an independent audit of the accounts and evidences of financial transactions of the department of finance and of all other departments, offices and agencies keeping separate or subordinate accounts or making financial transactions, as of the end of every fiscal year at least, and who shall report to the council and to the city manager. In lieu of the above, the council may arrange with an appropriate state authority for such an audit when and if permitted by law.
   b. The council, by ordinance, shall prescribe a reasonable system for inventory of, and accounting all fixed assets and property of the city, both real and personal, having a value per individual item exceeding the sum of five hundred ($500.00) dollars. The inventory and accounting system prescribed by the council shall conform to generally accepted accounting practices relating to municipal corporations or other local governmental entities. (Amendment adopted March 1986)