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A CHARTER RESOLUTION EXEMPTING SEDGWICK COUNTY, KANSAS, FROM K.S.A. 19-260a and 19-260b, RELATING TO ALL COUNTY PURCHASES AND CONTRACTS AND ADOPTING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS FOR THE SAME.
Presented by: Mike Scholes, County Manager and Misha Jacob-Warren, Assistant County Counselor.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve and adopt the charter resolution.
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As a general rule, the county home rule act provides that "the board of county commissioners may transact all county business and perform all powers of localegislationon and administration it deems appropriate . . . .", subject, of course, to those limits, restrictions and prohibitions listed in the act. K.S.A. 19-101a(a). County purchasing and contracting is generally governed by K.S.A. 19-260a and 19-260b, both of which are nonuniform statutes. Accordingly, pursuant to the home rule authority set forth in K.S.A. 19-101a, Kansas counties have the authority to create for themselves, via charter resolution, specific purchasing and contracting policies and procedures. A county charter resolution exempts a county from the whole or any part of a nonuniform act of the legislature and provides substitute and additional provisions on the same subject. See K.S.A. 19-101b(b). Any county may use a charter resolution to exempt itself from the whole or any part of any act of the legislature applying to the county unless the act is one of those concerned with the limitations, restrictions or prohibitions listed in K.S.A. 19-101a(a).
All Sedgwick County purchasing and contracting is currently governed by Charter Resolution No. 65, adopted by the Board of Sedgwick County Commissioners on December 14, 2011, and which became effective on February 27, 2012.
Since early 2016, County staff, specifically the County Manager's Office, the Department of Finance, and the Office of the County Counselor, have been working to revise, update, and expand current Charter Resolution No. 65 to provide additional managemen...
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