2024-0117
INTRODUCED BY: HOLLY FONSECA, COUNCILWOMAN-AT-LARGE, DIVISION B
LA SANDRA D. WILSON, COUNCILWOMAN, DISTRICT I
BOB FISHER, COUNCILMAN, DISTRICT VI
ORDINANCE NO. ___________
Title
An ordinance to amend the St. Charles Parish Code of Ordinances, Chapter 2, Administration, Article I. In General, Section 2-12. Procedures for procurement of architects and engineers. I. Special Provisions., (a) and (b), to increase the contract fee threshold amount for consulting engineers and architectural services handled administratively to $50,000.00 and to revise the required notice to the Parish Council of the award of contracts handled administratively.
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WHEREAS, Ordinance 93-2-20 was adopted on February 15, 1993, by the St. Charles Parish Council, establishing the Qualification Based Selection procedures for the procurement of architects and engineers; and,
WHEREAS, the procedure originally required that projects of less than $10,000.00 would be handled administratively; and,
WHEREAS, subsequently on April 6, 1998, Ordinance 98-4-3 amended Section 2-12 of the Code of Ordinances to provide that projects less than $20,000.00 would be handled administratively; and,
WHEREAS, the cost of consulting engineers and architectural services has increased in the nearly 25 years since the contract fee threshold was last increased; and,
WHEREAS, Ordinance 00-6-1 was adopted on June 5, 2000, by the St. Charles Parish Council, to require notice to the Parish Council of the award of any Administrative contracts; and,
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Parish Council to increase the contract fee threshold amount for consulting engineers and architectural services handled administratively to $50,000.00 and to revise the required notice to the Parish Council to require that a copy of any such contract be forwarded to the Council Secretary upon execution by the Parish President.
THE ST. CHARLES PARISH COUNCIL HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION I. That the St. Charles Parish Code of Or...
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