HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 301 2004 0505ORDINANCE NO. 301
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING
SECTION 2.12.120 OF CHAPTER 2.12 (CITY
MANAGER) OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE, PROVIDING
AUTHORITY TO SIGN WRITTEN CONTRACTS
WHEREAS, Government Code Section 40602 states that the
legislative body may provide by ordinance that written
contracts made or entered into by the City may be signed by
an officer other than the mayor; and
WHEREAS, it is administratively expeditious that the
City Manager and the City Manager's designee be authorized
to sign certain contracts;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
MOORPARK DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That Section 2.12.120 of the Moorpark
Municipal Code is hereby amended in its entirety to read as
follows:
Section 2.12.120 Authority to sign written contracts.
A) The city manager may execute on behalf of the city any
contract which has received prior approval of the city
council.
B) The city manager shall be authorized without prior
approval to execute contracts up to a maximum of fifty
thousand dollars ($50,000) for which a budget
appropriation has already been approved by the city
council.
C) The city manager's designee shall be authorized
without prior approval to execute contracts up to a
maximum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for which a
budget appropriation has already been approved by the
city council.
D) A list of contracts executed by the city manager
and /or his designees pursuant to subsections B and C
of this section shall be presented to the council for
their information in a subsequent monthly report.
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SECTION 2. If any section, subsection, sentence,
clause, phrase, part or portion of this Ordinance is for
any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by any
court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not
affect the validity of the remaining portions of this
Ordinance. The City Council declares that it would have
adopted this Ordinance and each section, subsection,
sentence, clause, phrase, part or portion thereof,
irrespective of the fact that any one or more section,
subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, parts or portions
be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 3. This Ordinance shall become effective
thirty (30) days after its passage and adoption.
SECTION 4
passage and
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The City Clerk shall certify to the
adoption of this ordinance; shall enter the
book of original ordinances of said City; shall
make a minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the
records of the proceedings of the City Council at which the
same is passed and adopted; and shall, within fifteen (15)
days after the passage and adoption thereof, cause the same
to be published once in the Moorpark Star a newspaper of
general circulation, as defined in Section 6008 of the
Government Code, for the City of Moorpark, and which is
hereby designated for that purpose.
PASSED AND ADOPTED T
ATTEST:
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Deborah S. Traffenstedt, City Clerk
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF VENTURA ) ss.
CITY OF MOORPARK )
I, Deborah S. Traffenstedt, City Clerk of the City of
Moorpark, California, do hereby certify under penalty of
perjury that the foregoing Ordinance No. 301 was adopted by
the City Council of the City of Moorpark at a regular
meeting held on the 5th day of May, 2004, and that the same
was adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Harper, Mikos, Millhouse,
Parvin, and Mayor Hunter
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City this 7th
day of May, 2004.
Deborah S. Traffenstedt, City Clerk
(seal)