3.65.100 Emergency purchases.
In case of an emergency which requires immediate purchases of supplies, materials, equipment or services the city manager may delegate the authority to secure, by informal procedure, at the lowest obtainable or advantageous price, any supplies, materials, equipment or services regardless of the amount of the expenditure. An emergency shall be deemed to exist if:
A. There is a great public calamity;
B. There is immediate need to prepare for national or local defense;
C. There is a breakdown in machinery or an essential service which requires the immediate purchase of supplies or services to protect the public health, welfare and safety; or
D. An essential departmental operation affecting the public health, welfare and safety would be greatly hampered if the prescribed purchasing procedure would cause an undue delay in procurement of the needed item or service. [Ord. 18-09 § 1; Res. 18-24; Code 2004 § 3-218.]