33-14 Enact 111.15 Purchasing Consortiums

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PLACED ON 1ST READING & REFERRED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE 9/2/14. PLACED ON 2ND READINGS9 /15/14. ORDINANCE NO. 33 -14 By.-Anderson, Bullock, Juris, Madigan, Marx, Nowlin, O'Leary. AN ORDINANCE to enact a new section 111. 15, Purchasing Consortiums, of the Codi- fied Ordinances of the City of Lakewood to permit the city to join and participate in various pur- chasing consortiums organized for the purpose of facilitating governmental purchasing. WHEREAS, the City has joined multiple purchasing consortiums with the approval of Council, allowing purchases of supplies and services to be made in a timely and cost - efficient manner without the necessity of competitive bidding; and WHEREAS, Ohio Revised Code §125.04, Determining what supplies and services are purchased by or for state agencies, allows municipalities to purchase from suppliers where the same product or service is available at or below the cost on state purchasing contracts without the necessity of competitive bidding; and WHEREAS, the City wishes to extend that same exception to situations in which compet- itive pricing has been established through a consortium and the City is able to identify the same supplies or services at or below the pricing established by the consortium; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Constitution of the State of Ohio and the Ohio Revised Code, municipalities have the power of local self - government, and the power to enact laws that are for the health, safety, welfare, comfort and peace of the citizens of the municipality; now r' therefore BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO: Section 1. Section 111.15, Purchasing Consortiums, of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood is hereby enacted to read as follows: 111.15 PURCHASING CONSORTIUMS. When the City purchases supplies or services without the necessity of competi- tive bidding as a member of any purchasing consortium, and where the purchase of the same supplies or services can be made from another party upon equivalent terns, conditions and specifications, and at the same or at a lower price than through the purchasing consortium, the City may make purchases from the other party and those purchases are exempt from any competitive bidding procedures otherwise required by law. Section 2. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this ordinance were adopted in an open meeting of this Council and that all such deliberations of this Council and of any of its committees that resulted in such for- mal action were in meetings open to the public in compliance with all legal requirements.