(a) Emergency purchases, without recourse to requisition or purchase procedure, may be made by certain authorized employees, including the City Manager, Director of Finance, or a department head, when such emergency action is necessary. Examples of such emergency situations would be in times of military or civil disaster or during periods of the day or night when the required officials would not be available to approve normal purchase procedure and when the unavailability of such officials to approve such purchases would adversely affect the best interest and the day-to-day operations of the City.
(b) When an emergency purchase is made by the City Manager or an authorized employee(s) of the City, a written explanation of such purchase shall be made to the Director of Finance within twenty-four (24) hours after such purchase is negotiated or made. The Director of Finance shall subsequently prepare and sign a purchase order for the emergency purchase, and it shall be filed in the manner prescribed in Section 159.05.
(Ord. 2022-50. Passed 10-11-22.)