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Regular City Council Meeting <br />July 14,2003 <br />Page 22 <br /> <br />Council that adopted this resolution in 1999. <br /> <br />City Attorney Schenk said, if he recalls, he read some of the minutes when they <br />were looking for the resolution. For example, it was the same discussion of the <br />one opting the state law, so there were two or three different procurement <br />issues that were apparently being looked at during that time. Mayor Fendley <br />said the only thing they were changing was going from the thousand dollars to <br />the twenty-five thousand dollars in that resolution. Councilwoman Neeley <br />asked if there was some reason that they voted to do that, or was it some <br />process to get to that to make that big jump from a thousand dollar purchase to <br />the twenty-five thousand dollar purchase before having to bid an item out. <br />City Attorney Schenk said it was to stay within the state statutes. He said that <br />the number has been raised since the City Charter was written. Under the state <br />statutes it went to ten thousand, fifteen thousand and then to twenty-five <br />thousand dollars. City Attorney Schenk said the City Council has amended the <br />state procurement statutes, which allowed City Councils to opt into the state's <br />upper limit by adopting the resolution. Instead of revising the charter, the <br />legislation allows an easier route for councils to follow. <br /> <br />Councilwoman Neeley wanted to know if that was when the City of Paris <br />started day work or was the city already doing day work. City Manger Malone <br />advised that the city has always done day work. City Attorney Schenk said that <br />was why he pointed out that from the City Charter, which allows the city to do <br />day work. Mayor Fendley said he did not have a problem with day work, but <br />he did have a personal problem with it being the size of the day work the city <br />is doing, and they may be paying it correctly on a day to day basis, but when <br />you are looking at an $800,000.00 job, that should be bid out in his estimation. <br /> He said that the City Engineer should be able to look at that and have <br />specifications that he knows that job should come in between $600,000.00 and <br />$650,000.00 and if the bids are out, he should tell the City Council and they <br />could throw those bids out. He said that when the Council does not have any <br />competitive bidding, they do not know what that is. The Mayor said it is a <br />perception issue and it does not look good when you don't have anything to <br /> <br /> <br />