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Santa Monica
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City Council Meeting: January, 2010
Agenda Item: ~
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Marsha Jones Moutrie, City Attorney
Subject: Ordinance Amending Section 2.24.080 of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code to Allow City Participation in Cooperative Purchasing Agreements
Recommended Action
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt the attached ordinance.
Executive Summary
At its meeting on December 8, 2009, the City Council introduced for first reading an
ordinance amending Section 2.24.080 of the Santa Monica Municipal Code to allow City
participation in cooperative purchasing agreements. The ordinance is now presented to
the City Council for adoption.
Prepared by: Marsha Jones Moutrie, City Attorney
Approved: Forwarded to Council:
City Council Meeting: 1-12-2010 Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 2303
(CCS)
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANTA MONICA AMENDING SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION
2.24:080 AS IT APPLIES TO EXCEPTIONS TO COMPETITIVE BIDDING
WHEREAS, Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 2.24.080(b) provides
an exception to the City's competitive bid procedures where competitive bid
procedures have already been utilized by other agencies and the materials and
services are supplied to the City at the same or better price; and
WHEREAS, cooperative purchasing agencies, including nationwide
cooperatives, consist of a pool of government agencies that competitively bid for
materials and services; and
WHEREAS, the City's participation in cooperative purchasing agencies
through cooperative purchasing agreements would allow the City to benefit from
favorable pricing; provide the City with more leverage in its purchasing power;
lead to significant cost savings; and reduce City staff time required to prepare
competitive bids; and
WHEREAS, based on the foregoing, the City finds that specifying.
cooperative purchasing agencies as exempt from the City's competitive bid
procedures under Section 2.24.080(b) would allow the City to participate in
nationwide cooperatives and substantially benefit the City,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES HEREBY
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Subdivision (b) of Santa Monica Municipal Code Section
2.24.080 is hereby amended as follows:
(b) Competitive bid procedures have already been utilized, such as in
purchasing from federal, state, county, city or special district government
agencies, or from cooperative purchasing agencies consisting of such
agencies, and these. materials and services are supplied to the City at the
same or better price, as was obtained through the competitive bid
procedures of federal, state, county, city or special district .government
agencies, or cooperative purchasing agencies consisting of such
government agencies;
SECTION 2. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal Code or
appendices thereto inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance, to the
extent of such inconsistencies and no further, is hereby repealed or modified to
that extent necessary to effect the provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of
this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a
decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the
validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council hereby
declares that it would have passed this Ordinance and each and every section,
subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not declared invalid or unconstitutional
without regard to whether any portion of the ordinance would be subsequently
declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 4. The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall attest to the
passage of this Ordinance. The City Clerk shall cause the same to be published
once in the official newspaper within 15 days after its adoption. This Ordinance
shall become effective 30 days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
M SHA; NE MOU RI
Ci Attor{~e
Approved and adopted this 19th day of January; 2010
{ Pam O'Connor, Mayor Pro Tem
State of California ) I
County of Los Angeles) ss.
City of Santa Monica )
I, Maria Stewart, City Clerk of the City of Santa Monica, do hereby certify that the
foregoing Ordinance No. 2303 (CCS) had itsintroduction on December 8th, 2009, and
was adopted at the Santa Monica City Council meeting held on January 19tt', 2010, by
the#ollowing vote:
Ayes: Council members:
Noes: Council members
Abstain: Council members:
Absent: Council members:
Bloom, Davis, Holbrook,-McKeown,
Mayor Pro Tem O'Connor
None
None
Shriver
A summary of Ordinance No. 2303 (CCS) was duly published pursuant to California
Government Code Section 40806.
ATTEST:
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Maria Stewart, Ci y Clerk