The Mayor may, within the amounts and items appropriated by the Council, make purchases and enter into contracts on behalf of the City involving total project expenditures not in excess of that amount authorized to be spent by the limitations of general State Law, except as may otherwise be provided by ordinance of the Council. No purchase or contract involving an expenditure or more than the limitations of general Ohio State law shall be made except with the lowest and best bidder as determined by Council after advertising for bids for a period of at least two (2) weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the City; provided, however, that the Council may authorize contracts for personal services without advertising for bids and the Council may authorize purchases or enter into contracts involving a total project expenditure of more than the limitation of general State law without advertising for bids if it determines and declares by an affirmative vote of five (5) members that an emergency exists and sets forth the nature of the emergency in its minutes.
(Amended November 3, 1981)