Legal Documents of Gatlinburg

The city manager shall have and hereby is granted the authority to reject any or all bids, parts of all bids, or all bids for any one or more supplies or contractual services included in the proposed contract, when the public interest will be served thereby; shall have the right to reject any bid in any instance where there are not at least two bidders on the same invitation to bid; however, this shall not prevent the city manager from accepting a bid and presenting it to the commission to award a contract where there is only one bidder, if, in his opinion, the best interest of the city will be served by doing so. No contract shall then be awarded without commission's approval. The city manager is hereby authorized to execute contracts on behalf of the City of Gatlinburg without the board of commissioners' approval if the amount of the contract is less than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00). All contracts for an amount in excess of $20,000 shall be approved by the board of commissioners and executed either by the mayor or the city manager as authorized in the approval. All change orders to contracts approved by the board of commissioners shall likewise be approved by the board of commissioners prior to execution. Change orders to contracts not approved by the board of commissioners may be administratively approved and executed by the city manager provided the change order is in an amount less than seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500.00) and the funds for same have been approved by the board of commissioners. The city manager shall notify the board of commissioners of such change orders but their previous approval of same is not required. The city manager is further authorized to execute purchase orders on behalf of the city for such items or goods as approved and funded in the budget, without regard to amount. (1976 Code, § 1-1505, as amended by Ord. #2189, Sept. 1999)