(A) The Town Board of Trustees shall contract for and purchase, or issue purchase authorizations for, all supplies, materials and equipment for the operation of the municipal government. 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 Town Board may prescribe, shall be given. The Town Board of Trustees shall not except a particular contract, purchase or sale from the requirement of competitive bidding.
(B) CONTRACTUAL SERVICES, for the purposes of this chapter, shall mean services performed for the town by persons not in the employ of the town and may include the use of equipment or the furnishing of commodities in connection with such services under express or implied contract. CONTRACTUAL SERVICES shall include travel, freight, express, parcel post, postage, telephone, telegraph, utilities, rents, printing and binding, repairs, alterations and maintenance of buildings, equipment, streets, bridges and other physical facilities of the town.
(C) Subject to the provisions of this section, surplus or obsolete supplies, materials or equipment belonging to the town may be sold by the Town Board of Trustees.
(D) No sale shall be made under this section until the Town Board of Trustees has declared the supplies, materials or equipment involved to be surplus or obsolete.
(E) Except as may otherwise be provided, the Town Board of Trustees shall advertise any sale under this section in a newspaper of general circulation in the town or county or in such other manner as deemed necessary to adequately reach prospective buyers to give them an opportunity to make bids. All bids shall be sealed and opened in public at a designated time and place, except when the sale is by auction. The Town Board of Trustees may repeatedly reject all bids and advertise again. The Town Board of Trustees shall sell such supplies, materials and equipment to the highest responsible bidder and, if necessary, shall cast lots in case of a tie to determine to whom to sell.
(F) The Town Board of Trustees may sell surplus or obsolete supplies, materials or equipment, the total value of which does not exceed $100 in a single transaction, without giving an opportunity for competitive bidding.
(G) The Utility Superintendent or designated city employees, subject to any regulations which the Town Board of Trustees may prescribe, shall contract for and purchase, or issue purchase authorization for, all supplies, materials and equipment for the offices, departments and agencies of the municipal government. Every such contract or purchase exceeding $2,000 shall require the prior approval of the
Town Board of Trustees. The Mayor may also transfer to or between offices, departments and agencies, or sell surplus or obsolete supplies, materials and equipment, subject to such regulations as the Town Board of Trustees may prescribe.
(`85 Code, § 1-50)