The City shall have all powers of local self-government and home rule, and all powers possible for a city to have under the Constitution of the State of Ohio. The City shall have all powers that now or hereafter may be granted to municipalities by the laws of the State of Ohio. All such powers shall be exercised in the manner prescribed in this Charter, or if not provided herein, in such manner as shall be provided by ordinance or resolution of the Council.
(a) All personal property of the City, including personal property grown or produced in City operations, and all real property and interests therein, which is not needed for public use and/or which has been otherwise determined surplus by the City manager, may be sold by the City pursuant to the terms below.
(b) Opportunity for competition. If the City Manager determines the best interests of the City are served by competition as most likely to produce the best price, terms and conditions for the City, then the following options are available:
(1) Open competitive bidding after at least one advertisements for bids which has been published in the newspaper with which the City had a contract for Public advertisement; or
(2) Sealed bids as after advertisement as provided for in subsection (1); or
(3) Oral or written bids from any source after failure of the property to sell by competitive bidding as provided in subsections (1) and (2).
(c) Deeds and other documents of conveyance. Unless otherwise restricted, all deeds conveying real property or interests herein, as well as leases, bills of sale, purchase agreements, and other instruments of conveyance, shall be signed on behalf of the City by the City Manager or his/her authorized designee.
(d) Certain sales or property dispositions without competition authorized. In the event the City Manager determines that the cost of advertising certain property, either real or personal, is greater than the expected return, or in the case of personal property that the City Manager determines is essentially without value, then, upon his/her certification to Council of the same, waiving Subsection (B) above, said property can be disposed of upon such conditions as the City Manager deems best. The sale, exchange, or disposition of City owned real property or interest therein to the State or its subdivisions, or to the Federal government or its instrumentalities, or to the other public bodies or private corporations having the power of eminent domain, or to any corporation organized or qualified under R.C. Sections 1724 or 1728, or to any public or private body or corporation to which the general laws of the State authorize municipal corporations to sell property at private sale and without competition, or sales for urban renewal or economic development purposes, may be sold, exchanged, or disposed of, without opportunity for competition or other requirements except as may be provided by the Council in authorizing the sale, exchange, or disposition.
(Amended 11-8-22)