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(2) The city manager is authorized to bind the city to any one (1) written contract for emergency public works construction in an amount not exceeding the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000). (3) The city manager is hereby authorized to bind the city on change orders to any one (1) public works contract, when such change order for any one (1) public works contract, together with any previously approved change orders for said contract, do not cumulatively amount to an increase of the city's expenditure obligation under said contract of more than twenty (20) percent of the original contract amount. (c) Website access and search features. (1) All agreements approved by the City Manager shall be posted to the City's website on a quarterly basis. (2) The City's website shall provide search capabilities allowing users to search any and all agreements approved by the City Manager based on words, phrases, and dollar amounts. Sec. 2-749. Reserved. Section 3. Section 2-803.1 of Article VII.II (Purchasing Rules and Regulations) of Chapter 2 (Administration) of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended to read in its entirety as follows: Sec. 2-803.1. Local preference in contracts for materials, supplies, labor and equipment. Except for those contracts for which the Charter of the City of Santa Ana prohibits the provision of a local preference, and/or those contracts funded through programs or partners which prohibit the use of a local preference, the city council authorizes the purchasing manager to extend a preference to local business and Orange County business as set forth herein. (a) In the procurement of material, supplies, labor and equipment involving expenditures between fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) and one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00), the purchasing manager shall extend a preference to each local business and each Orange County business, which preference shall be applied to the bid which provides maximum quality at minimum price. Said preference shall be set by resolution of the city council. (b) If the bidder submitting the maximum quality at minimum cost bid is not a local business or an Orange County business, and if a local business or an Orange County business has submitted a responsive and responsible bid, and with the benefit of the applicable preference, the bid submitted by local business or Orange County business is equal to or less than the original maximum quality at minimum cost bid, the contract shall be awarded to the local business or the Ordinance No. NS-3041 Page 3of8