(a) All contracts shall be executed in the name of the City, by the Mayor, and shall bear the certificate of the Director of Finance required of the fiscal officer by applicable sections of the Ohio Revised Code relating to the availability of funds. Except for contracts for the purchase of insurance coverage, or contracts for the performance of professional or personal services of a specialized nature requiring special skills and aptitudes, contracts which involve realty or an expenditure which exceeds fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) shall be authorized and approved by Council motion by a majority vote at any regular or special Council meeting, and shall be let only to the lowest and best responsible bidder, after advertising once a week for not less than two nor more than four consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the City. Contracts calling for the purchase of insurance coverage or for the performance of professional or personal services of a specialized nature requiring special skills and aptitude and/or contracts not involving realty or expenditures in excess of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) may be authorized and approved by Council motion by a majority vote at any regular or special Council meeting without advertising and/or bidding.
(Ord. 97-35. Passed 8-26-97; Ord. 2001-7. Passed 1-16-01; Ord. 2003-58. Passed 11-5-03; Ord. 2013-19. Passed 5-7-13.)
(b) The City shall advertise for and award single aggregate bids for public improvements without the necessity of seeking or obtaining alternative separate bids for each separate trade or kind of mechanical labor, employment or business or for furnishing materials.
(Ord. 96-19. Passed 4-2-96.)
(c) A person, company or corporation who or which is awarded a contract by the City shall attach to said contract a statement, affirmed under oath, that said contractor was not charged, at the time the bid was submitted, with any delinquent city income tax to this City, or if said contractor was charged with delinquent income tax, the contractor shall also set forth the amount of such due and unpaid delinquent taxes and any due and unpaid penalties and interest thereon, and that the contractor has complied with Chapter 193 of these Codified Ordinances.
(Ord. 95-15. Passed 5-16-95.)
(d) Except as otherwise provided in the Charter or in this section, the general laws of the State govern the procedure for advertising and awarding contracts of the City.
(Ord. 96-19. Passed 4-2-96.)