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PURCHASINGXXXX1LOCALPREFERENCE
Purchasing
Bryan Benner (x1194)
Revised
Title
Amending the Toledo Municipal Code by repealing Section 187.34, Local Preference, and enacting a new Section 187.34, Local Preference; making certain findings; and declaring an emergency.
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SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
The City of Toledo has a responsibility to work with and support private enterprise to foster and advance maximum employment opportunities for the residents of Toledo and Lucas County. The City also has a responsibility to encourage the growth of local businesses. Both of these ends not only benefit the local economy, but also generate additional tax revenue for the City. The benefits of those revenues extend to the population at large.
Amending the local preference language in the Toledo Municipal Code will serve the public interest because the growth and development of businesses whose primary location is within the corporate boundaries of the City of Toledo will have a significant positive impact on the economic health of the City. The public interest would be served by encouraging businesses to locate and remain in Toledo by adding an order of precedence to the preference for primary Toledo businesses in the award of City contracts, as is already done for all other business types in the existing code. This addition will also serve the goal of rewarding those businesses that contribute the most to the local economy. The preference, in affording businesses a competitive advantage when bidding on City contracts, does not exclude any potential contractor.
Formal bids and Request for Proposals will continue to be awarded based upon a determination of the "lowest and best" bidder. These considerations will also help foster full employment and encourage local growth.
The fiscal impact of this ordinance is as follows:
- The amount of funds requested: $0
- The expenditure budget line item: n/a,
- New revenue generated (operational revenue, grants, if an...
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