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The City Council may authorize, by the affirmative votes of a <br />majority of its members, any officer of the City to bind the City <br />on contracts in writing without advertising and without previous <br />approval by the City Council of each specific item for the payment <br />of charges for supplies, labor, or other valuable consideration <br />furnished the City, in amounts not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars <br />($200.00) in any one contract. Further, the City Council may <br />authorize, by the affirmative votes of a majority of its members, <br />the City Manager to bind the City on contracts in writing without <br />advertising and without previous approval by the City Council of <br />each specific item for the payment of charges for supplies, labor, <br />or other valuable consideration to be furnished the City, in <br />amounts not exceeding Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00) in any one <br />contract. <br /> <br /> Every contract involving an expenditure of more than Four <br />Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00) for materials, supplies, or equipment, <br />or for public works construction (as hereinafter defined) shall be <br />made by the City Council with the lowest and best bidder after the <br />publication for at least two days in the official newspaper of a <br />notice calling for bids and fixing a period during which such bids <br />will be received, which shall be for not less than ten days after <br />the first publication of said notice. The City Council may reject <br />any and all such bids presented and may readvertise in its <br />discretion. After rejecting such bids, or if no bids are received, <br />the City Council may determine and declare that, in its opinion <br />based on estimates submitted by the City Manager, the work may be <br />performed better or more economically by the City with its own <br />employees, and after the adoption of a resolution to this effect <br />by the affirmative votes of at least two-thirds of the members of <br />the Council may proceed to have said work done in the manner stated,' <br />without further observance of the provision of this section. Such <br />contracts likewise may be let without advertising for bids, if <br />such work shall be deemed by the City Council to be of urgent <br />necessity for the preservation of life, health, or property, and <br /> <br />-4- <br /> <br /> <br />