The contractor selection requirement of Section 145.12 shall not apply and the City Commission may award a contract for professional design services without any competitive selection process in the following circumstances:
(a) The estimated cost for the design professional services is less than the project cost requiring formal bids pursuant to Section 45 of the City's Charter; or
(b) The City Commission finds that that the time required to perform the process described in Section 145.12 will jeopardize the feasibility of a project and selection of a design professional must be expedited to enable the project to be feasible and to promote the public welfare; or
(c) A real and present emergency exists as determined by a two-thirds vote of the members of the City Commission which requires a waiver of the competitive design professional selection process; or
(d) The requirements for competitive contractor selection are waived by the Ohio Revised Code.
(Ord. 02-318. Passed 8-6-02.)