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• <br /> • <br /> Washington. When advertising for bids by City Council is required, the Council <br /> must accomplish at least one notice of the call for bids in the City official <br /> newspaper. The Council, however, may reject any and all bids; and nothing <br /> contained herein shall prevent the city from contracting for doing of work with <br /> patented processes or from purchasing patented appliances. The council shall <br /> regulate the matter of making bids and letting contracts by ordinance not in conflict <br /> with other provisions of this charter and the laws of the State of Washington. <br /> is recommended to be changed to: <br /> Advertising for Bids. <br /> The Council shall establish the procedures for making bids and letting contracts by <br /> ordinance not in conflict with other provisions of this charter and the laws of the <br /> State of Washington. When advertising for bids is required by city ordinance or state <br /> or federal law, at least one notice shall be published in the City official newspaper. <br /> PROPOSITION #4 <br /> Shall Charter Sec. 4.13, regarding advertising for bids on contracts, be simplified <br /> to only require compliance with applicable laws? <br /> CHARTER CHANGE YES <br /> CHARTER CHANGE NO <br /> Section 7: Change to Section 15.8 Section 15.8 of the City Charter, <br /> which reads as follows: <br /> Sale of Property. <br /> The council shall not sell property belonging to the city unless it first determines, by <br /> a majority plus one vote of the council, that the property is not and will not be <br /> needed for city purposes, and the council gives notice of intention to sell as in this <br /> section provided. The council shall not so determine until it has received the <br /> approval of the mayor, and shall have given three (3) days notice to all appointed <br /> officers and shall have reviewed any recommendations received from such officers. <br /> All sales shall be public, except that sales to other municipal corporations or political <br /> subdivisions may be by private sales. <br /> The notice of intention to sell shall be published once a week for three (3) <br /> consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the city. The last <br /> publication shall be at least twenty (20) days, but not more than thirty (30) days <br /> before the date of sale. The notice shall describe the property and state the time and <br /> CHARTER AMENDMENT ORDINANCE Page 6 <br />