Archive for March, 2010
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
The Local Government Academy is offering a course on the legal and ethical obligations of local government to follow proper purchasing procedures. The program, called Purchasing Power!, will review the basic purchasing rules for local government, and also information about competitive bidding, emergency purchasing and special purchasing requirements. This program is being offered free of charge to all officials and employees of municipalities that have been designated as Act 47, fiscally distressed.
Visit the website for more information.
Developing and enforcing purchasing guidelines is beneficial for taxpayers, and works to ensure that taxpayer money is spent wisely and efficiently. It is important to have a transparent system that allows everyone the opportunity to bid, and such systems ultimately save money for local governments.