We provide materials and services that are required by the City, beginning with the determination of requirements and usually ending with the disposal of the materials acquired. Purchasing manages the business relationship between the end user, City employees, and the supplier of goods and services.

Our office is staffed with well trained certified buyers. They continually do research to insure that the City is getting the best possible price on all goods purchased. They handle anything from ordering pencils to booking airline flights from one dollar purchases to multi-million dollar projects.

Our automated Purchase Order system has been streamlined through the years to the point that we issue PO's over the telephone instantaneously. The process is as follows. An employee goes to a vendor to purchase the items. Once the vendor has totaled the items the City employee calls our department. Each item is entered into the computer as the items are read off by the employee. Once all items have been entered our computer system checks all expense account balances. If the account in question has enough money to make the purchase the system issues a purchase order number that is then given out to the vendor. If there are not enough funds available the system issues an error message and the employee is instructed not to make the purchase.