[Ord. No. 37 § 1124, c.a. 1918; Ord.
No. 1997 § 1, 2-17-1998]
No action shall be maintained against the City on account of
any injuries growing out of any defect or unsafe condition of or on
any bridge, boulevard, street, sidewalk or thoroughfare, in the City
until notice shall first have been given in writing to the Mayor,
within ninety (90) days of the occurrence for which said damage is
claimed, stating the place where, the time when such injury was received,
and the character and circumstances of the injury, and that the person
so injured will claim damages therefor from the City.
[Ord. No. 435 § 53, 12-4-1950]
Except as otherwise provided by this Code or other ordinance,
all bills, claims and accounts against the City shall be audited and
approved by the City Administrator prior to payment; except accounts
against the library fund and the park fund. No claim, bill or demand
against the City shall be paid, or warrant issued therefor, until
audited, approved and initialed by the City Administrator, and no
claim, bill or demand shall be allowed unless itemized and presented
in writing. No check shall be drawn, or warrant issued, for any sum
greater than the unexpended balance appropriated by the approved budget
for that year, or by ordinance.
[Ord. No. 788 § 1, 6-10-1963]
In the month of April in each calendar year, the Board of Aldermen
shall, upon motion duly made and seconded and carried by a majority
vote of the Aldermen present and voting at the meeting, which proceedings
shall be recorded in the minutes of the meeting of such Board of Aldermen
at which such motion shall have been made, select a depository for
its funds, which shall be a banking corporation or an individual banker
or a trust company doing business within the City. If such depository
cannot be selected, or satisfactory arrangements made, as herein provided,
then the money of the City, or such portion thereof as amounts to
that upon which satisfactory. arrangements cannot be made, may by
majority vote of the Board of Aldermen present and voting in a regular
or special called meeting, designating the depository, be loaned upon
the same terms and under the same conditions as provided by law for
the loaning of County and school money.
[Ord. No. 788 § 2, 6-10-1963; Ord.
No. 1530 § 1, 2-19-1990]
The funds of the City which are deposited in a designated depository
shall be secured by the deposit of securities by the depository of
the character prescribed by Section 30.270 of the Revised Statutes
of Missouri, and of the value of one hundred percent (100%) of the
actual amount of funds on deposit with the depository, less the amount,
if any, the depository is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation, which securities shall, at the option of the depository
banking institutions, be delivered either to the City Treasurer or
by depositing the securities with another banking institution or safe
depository as trustee, satisfactory to both the City and the depository.
The trustee may be a bank owned or controlled by the same bank holding
company as the depository banking institution. There shall be, at
all times, a written agreement between the City, the depository and
the trustee, which contract shall give the City the rights as are
conferred by Section 110.010 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri and
subsequent amendments.
[Ord. No. 788 § 3, 6-10-1963]
If no motion is made designating a new depository, the prior
designated depository shall continue. Nothing herein contained shall
prevent the Board of Aldermen from designating a new depository at
any time.
[Ord. No. 37 §§ 1125 to 1127, c.a. 1918; Ord. No. 1178 § 1, 6-8-1981]
The City Clerk shall be the custodian of all bids, of whatsoever
nature, which are submitted to the Board of Aldermen to secure any
contract for work to be done for the City or for supplies to be furnished,
and no one shall have the right or be allowed to withdraw, alter,
change, inspect, fortify or in any manner interfere with any bid after
the same has once been deposited with the City Clerk; provided, that
the person making any bid may have the privilege of finally withdrawing
the same with the consent of the City.
All bids must be accompanied by a certified check or cash, if
so requested in the call for bids, and shall be delivered to the City
Clerk not later than the time specified in the call for bids. All
bids shall remain valid and subject to acceptance for two (2) weeks,
to give the City time to investigate and determine the lowest and
best bid.
All contracts shall be awarded on the basis of the lowest and
best bid tendered, or rejected altogether, all at the sole discretion
of the Board of Aldermen. All contracts awarded shall be signed, sealed
and delivered and all bonds approved by the Mayor and the sureties
thereon duly qualified by the City Attorney at the time or next succeeding
meeting of the Board of Aldermen following the awarding of the contract.
Any contractor refusing or neglecting to so sign such contract may
be by ordinance debarred from performing such contract and his bid
declared a nullity, and such contract may, at the option of the Board,
be let to the next lowest bidder or re-advertised for bids, in which
latter case the contractor whose bid has been rejected under this
Section shall not be considered as a bidder for the work and his certified
check or deposit shall be forfeited to the City.
[Ord. No. 37 § 1128, c.a. 1918]
All bonds which may be given to the City to secure the faithful performance of any contractual obligation shall bear at least two (2) good and sufficient sureties, duly qualified and approved in accordance with the provisions of Section
9-6; provided, that in case a duly incorporated bonding and surety company is offered as surety on any bond, the surety company shall be considered sufficient.