[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Mendota
as Ch. 2, § 2.15, of the 1998 Code. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
All purchases of $1,000 or under must have a purchase requisition
before the purchase is made, signed by the department head. Purchase
requisitions are to be turned in for a purchase order at the City
Clerk's office in advance of the purchase. Purchases will not be allowed
unless proper requisition forms are filled out and signed by the person
requesting the purchase, including a signature of the City Clerk's
office.
Neither the Council, nor any department or officer of the City,
shall add to the corporate expenditures in any year anything over
and above the amount provided for the annual appropriation ordinance
of the year, except as herein otherwise specially provided; and no
expenditures for an improvement to be paid out of the general fund
of the corporation shall exceed, in any one year, the amount provided
for such improvement in the annual appropriation ordinance; provided,
however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the Council from
ordering, by a two-thirds vote, any improvement, the necessity of
which is caused by any casualty or accident happening after such annual
appropriation is made, nor from making expenditures or incurring liabilities
necessary to meet any emergency created by epidemic, happening after
and unforeseen at the time of making the annual appropriation, nor
from making appropriations necessary to care for such expenditures
and liabilities. The Council, for the purpose of providing for such
additional appropriations, may, by a like vote, authorize the Mayor
and the Committee on Finance, Ordinance, Building and Zoning to borrow
the amount of money necessary therefor for a space of time not exceeding
beyond the close of the next fiscal year, which sum, and the interest,
shall be added to the amount authorized to be raised in the next general
tax levy and embraced therein. "Emergency," as used herein, means
a condition requiring immediate action to suppress or prevent the
spread of disease or to prevent or remove imminent danger to persons
or property.
Should any judgment be obtained against the City, the Mayor
and the Committee on Finance, Ordinance, Building and Zoning, under
sanction of the Council, may borrow a sufficient amount to pay the
same, for a space of time not exceeding the close of the next fiscal
year, which sum and interest thereon shall, in like manner, be added
to the amount authorized to be raised in the general tax levy of the
next year and embraced therein.
