2112                                  Municipal Charters

prescribe by ordinance before making any purchase or contract for
supplies, materials, equipment or contractual services.

All expenditures for supplies, materials, equipment or contractual
services, except professional services, involving more than $1,000.00 [, or

any larger amount if fixed by ordinance, shall be made on written con-

tract, and such contract shall be awarded to the bidder who offers the

lowest or best bid, quality of goods, time of delivery, and responsibilities of
bidder being considered, after such public notice and competition as may
be considered by ordinance, provided the City Manager shall have the
power to reject all bids and advertise again; provided; however, a copy of
all public notices or invitations for bids shall be furnished to each Council

member at the same date as the public notice or invitation to bid is

released, and a memorandum summarizing the bids received shall be
furnished to each member of the City Council.] hall be made on written
contract which shall be awarded by the Council on the basis of competitive
bids, except whenever it is determined to be in the best interests of the
City, the Council may waive the bidding procedure and authorize by reso-
lution, a negotiated purchase or contract. The Council shall prescribe
competitive bid procedures by ordinance and such procedures may author-
ize participation with other agencies in the joint taking of bids and award
of purchases. The purchase or contract awards shall be made to the
bidder submitting the best bid, in the judgment of Council, after con-
sideration of all factors, including price, quality of goods or services
offered, time of delivery and responsibility of bidder.

Section 2. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the date of the
adoption of the Resolution is May 19, 1969 and that the amendment to the
Charter of the City of Greenbelt, hereby proposed by this enactment, shall
be and become effective on July 8, 1969 unless a proper petition for a
referendum hereon shall be filed as permitted by law. A complete and exact
copy of the Resolution shall be posted in the City office until June 28, 1969,
and a copy of the title of this Resolution shall be published in a newspaper
of general circulation in the City of Greenbelt not less than four (4) times
at weekly intervals before June 28, 1969.

Section 3. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that as soon as the
charter amendment hereby enacted shall become effective, either as herein
provided or following a referendum, the City Manager shall send separately,
by registered mail to the Secretary of the State of Maryland, to the
Department of Legislative Reference, the following information con-
cerning the Charter amendment; (1) the complete text of this Resolution;

(2)  the date of the referendum election, if any, held with respect thereto;

(3)  the number of votes cast for and against the question contained in
the charter amendment, whether by the Council of the City of Greenbelt
or in a referendum; and (4) the effective date of the Charter amend-
ment.

Section 4. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City
Manager of the City of Greenbelt be, and he is specifically enjoined and
instructed to carry out the provisions of Sections 2 and 3 as evidence of
compliance herewith, the said City Manager shall cause to be affixed to the
minutes of this meeting (1) an appropriate certificate of publication of
the newspaper in which the title of this Resolution shall have been pub-