The Mayor subject to any regulations which the Commission may
prescribe, shall contract for and purchase, or issue purchase authorizations
for, all supplies, materials, and equipment for the officers, departments
and agencies of the city government. Every such contract or purchase
exceeding an amount to be established by ordinance, shall require
the prior approval of the Commission. The Mayor also may transfer
to or between offices, departments or agencies, or sell, surplus or
obsolete supplies, materials and equipment, subject to such regulations
as the Commission shall prescribe.
Before the purchase of, or contract for, any supplies, materials
or equipment, or the sale of any surplus or obsolete supplies, materials
or equipment, ample opportunity for competitive bidding, under such
regulations and with such regulations and with such exceptions, as
the Commission may prescribe, shall be given; but the Commission shall
not except a particular contract, purchase or sale from the requirement
of competitive bidding. The Commission by ordinance may transfer some
or all of the power granted to the Mayor by this section to an administrative
officer appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Commission.
The sale or lease of any city property, real or personal or
the sale or disposal of any interest therein, the value of which property,
lease, or interest is more than $10,000 shall be made only:
1.
By authority of an ordinance approved or enacted at an election by
an affirmative vote of a majority of the qualified electors of the
city who vote on the question of approving or enacting the ordinance
(the ordinance being submitted to the electors by the Commission or
by initiative of the electors); or
2.
By authority of a non-emergency ordinance passed by the Commission
which shall be published in full in a newspaper authorized by law
to publish legal publications within 10 days after its passage, and
which shall include a section reading substantially as follows:
"Section_____. If one or more referendum petitions with signatures
are properly filed within 30 days after passage and publication of
this ordinance, this ordinance shall not go into effect until the
petition or petitions are finally found to be illegal and or insufficient,
or, if any such petition is found legal and sufficient, until the
ordinance is approved at an election by a majority of qualified electors
voting on the question. If no referendum petition with signatures
is filed, this ordinance shall go into effect 30 days after its passage
and publication."
Public improvements may be made by the city government itself
or by contract. The Commission shall award all contracts for such
improvements; provided that the Commission may authorize the Mayor
to award such contracts not exceeding an amount to be determined by
the Commission and subject to such contracts not exceeding an amount
to be determined by the Commission and subject to such regulations
as the Commission may prescribe. Every contract for public improvements
of more than $7,500 shall be awarded to the lowest and best responsible
bidder after such notice and opportunity for competitive bidding as
the Commission may prescribe. Bids received by the Commission shall
remain on file in the office of the City Clerk and open for the contract.
All bids may be rejected and further notice and opportunity for competitive
bidding may be given.
[Amended at election on March 19, 1996]
The fiscal years of the city government shall begin on the first
day of January and shall end on the last day of December of every
calendar year.
[Amended at election on March 19, 1996]
The Commission shall designate a certified public accountant
or accountants to be duly licensed as such by the State of Oklahoma,
who shall make an independent audit of the accounts and evidence of
financial transactions of the financial department of the city, and
of all departments, offices and agencies keeping separate or subordinate
accounts or making financial transactions, as of the end of every
fiscal year, and who shall report to the Commission and Mayor. A quarterly
financial report of income and expenditures shall be made and published
in a newspaper of the City of Weatherford, not less than 30 days following
the end of each quarterly period.
The salaries of the City Attorney, Municipal Judge and City
Clerk shall be fixed by the Commission.
