This District purchases goods and services each year for which a specific appropriation is made by the precise quantity or type of goods and services is not known at the time of appropriation.

The Board is permitted by law to acquire goods and services through the use of an "open purchase order" which is limited to a certain purpose and the money for which is in the treasury or in the process of collection to the credit of a specific line-item appropriation account free from previous and then outstanding obligations or certifications and for such purpose and from such line-item appropriation account, over a period not extending beyond the end of the fiscal year, expenditures may be made, orders for payment issued, and contacts or obligations calling for or requiring the payment of money made and assumed, provided that the aggregate sum of money called for by such expenditures, orders, contracts, and obligations shall not exceed the unencumbered sum in such line-item appropriation account.

The Board finds, determines, and declares that it is necessary and proper to authorize the use of and establish a maximum amount of such open purchase orders.

The Board hereby authorizes the use of open purchase orders, provided that no such open purchase order shall be in an amount in excess of $175,000 and no such open purchase order shall extend beyond the end of the fiscal year. The Treasurer is authorized to sign and shall sign any open purchase order only after determining that it complies with the limitations contained herein and the expenditures made, orders issued, and contracts or obligations entered into are within the aggregate unencumbered sum of money in the specific line-item appropriation account referenced in the open purchase order.

R.C. 5705.41(D)(3)

Adopted 9/03