City Commission Tweaks Handling of Contracts With Action Item

     The City Commission continues to review the way contracts come before the commission, the bidding process and qualifying those who are allowed to submit bids.  An action item introduced by Commissioner Zamora would require that any extensions to contracts first come before the City Commission before being extended.  The thinking is that performance, current pricing could all be reviewed before automatically and routinely extending contracts.

     Mayor Martinez suggested a commission workshop with the purchasing department to clarify procedures so that redundant questions would not come up each time a contract is submitted.  Commissioner Longoria suggested tabling the action item until after the workshop.  Commissioner Chavez-Vasquez countered, saying that a workshop was already in the works and would be helpful, but she favored voting now on the action item to not automatically extend contracts without review.

     Martinez called for a vote and the action item was approved.