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Annualized purchases above the purchasing threshold for the fiscal year

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The City Council approved, on its consent agenda, the list of annualized purchases expected to exceed the City Manager's purchasing authority, where competitive bidding was waived or contracts were evergreen. Staff put the total at $1,065,311; the largest line was a legal retainer with $195,000. The consent agenda vote was 7–0.

Documented status: Approved (recorded), Jan 9 2023. Evidence dated . Later outcomes require a later source.

What changed, and when did it take effect?

  1. · Approved · Recorded in minutes

    Council approves the annualized purchase list

    Meeting date: Jan 9 2023. Item VI: the motion carried (7 to 0). Estimate: $1,065,311 a year for an unstated scope.

    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-01-09, City Council, Jan 9 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2023-01-09, City Council, Jan 9 2023. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve Annualized Purchases Estimated to Exceed $20,000 in Fiscal Year 2023 (Memorandum), City Council, Jan 9 2023. Open the quote and source.

What was requested, recommended, approved, contracted, reported paid and completed?

Amounts are read from the cited pages and added up by code. A recommendation, an award or an authorized amount does not establish that money was paid.

  • Estimate · Jan 9, 2023 · FY2023

    $1,065,311 per year

    An unstated scope

    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve Annualized Purchases Estimated to Exceed $20,000 in Fiscal Year 2023 (Memorandum), City Council, Jan 9 2023. Open the quote and source.

  • Estimate · FY2023

    $195,000 per year

    legal retainer and general law

    ANCEL GLINK, P.C. (counterparty)
    • p. 2 · Staff memo of Approve Annualized Purchases Estimated to Exceed $20,000 in Fiscal Year 2023 (Memorandum), City Council, Jan 9 2023. Open the quote and source.

Contracts, payments and completion

No contract, payment or completion record is published for this item. Approval alone does not establish completion.

Which parcels, agencies, businesses and projects are explicitly connected?

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Organizations and public bodies

What remains unresolved?

No condition or deadline is published for this item. That is a limit of the published research, not evidence that none exist.

Open questions

No open question is recorded for this item.

What does the evidence suggest, and what would change it?

No conflicting records are published for this item.

Official source records

  1. City Council minutes, 2023-01-09

    City Council, Jan 9 2023

  2. Approve Annualized Purchases Estimated to Exceed $20,000 in Fiscal Year 2023 (Memorandum)

    City Council, Jan 9 2023

Editions and corrections

Each published change is a new edition. Corrections say what changed and why.

  1. Edition 3(current)

    Edition 3: 3 revised.

  2. Edition 2Read this edition

    Edition 2: 1 added, 2 revised.

  3. Edition 1Read this edition

    First edition.

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Suggested citation: GroundSignal, “Annualized purchases above the purchasing threshold for the fiscal year,” sources reviewed 2026-09-27, source records listed on this page.

Initial permanent evidence page published September 10, 2026. Follow the dated evidence above for later additions and changes. A source-check date alone does not establish a government action or project outcome.