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Regular City Council Meeting <br />July 14,2003 <br />Page 16 <br /> <br />requiring an expenditure of more than $25,000.00, the city must comply with <br />the competitive bid process; however, in the next page under Section 252.022, <br />General Exemptions, there are exemptions to that requirement, which exempts <br />completely from the chapter various procurements and under number five, a <br />procurement for work that is performed and paid for by the day as the work <br />progresses is exempted. City Attorney Schenk advised that he had highlighted <br />some language on the previous page where it talked about the governing body <br />of the municipality electing to have this chapter supersede the charter, so that <br />if you see that language at the top and then go over to the next document that <br />he has included, they will see Resolution No. 99-081, whereby the city did <br />exactly that as of July 1, 1999, and that is an important date that he would <br />touch on later. He said the city opted to assume the requirements of Chapter <br />252 in lieu of the limits of the Charter and that is why our $1,000.00 limits set <br />out in the Charter have been raised to $25,000.00 because the State Law allows <br />the city to make that option. City Attorney Schenk stated that the reason he <br />pointed those things out is he wanted to give them a connection to the next one <br />ofthe~questions that he was asked. Sometime within the first year he was the <br />City Attorney he was asked to talk about this issue of work by the day, and at <br />that time, his advice was that the essence of work by the day (and he has a <br />couple of Attorney General's Opinions to support that), is you do not have a <br />formal contract that each contractor performs that work on a daily basis and is <br />paid on a daily basis. City Attorney Schenk said he may have been the first one <br />to clarify that specific requirement regarding daily pay. He said he did not <br />know what the time frame was for the materials that you have now, but he <br />believed once he advised the department appropriately when they inquired, and <br />from that point forward, the city of Paris has been paying on a daily pay basis <br />for all the projects. Mr. Schenk said that he did not remember the time frame <br />when he gave the advice, but Mr. Anderson would have to say how long the <br />city has been making those payments on a daily basis. City Attorney Schenk <br />said that the other thing that he wanted to make the Council aware of was this <br />July 1 policy adopted by resolution. In his research on the issue he encountered <br />this resolution as well, and this resolution that would put a limit on the city in <br />terms of the numbers of days in a given month that the city would do work by <br /> <br /> <br />