Purchasing and Central Stores is a service division which has been established to assist all City departments in the effective acquisition of needed goods and services in an orderly, fair, timely and economical manner. It also serves the public to assure that City business is transacted in an open and fair atmosphere.  

The centralization of purchasing and stores provides better control of the City’s resources, improved records keeping, and the economies of standardization, volume purchasing and warehousing.  

The Purchasing Division is also an administrative resource division establishing guidelines for City departments and providing control over the entire purchasing process in an effort to avoid inefficient or unauthorized purchases, meeting the needs of the City departments quickly and efficiently and insuring that all purchases are made in the best interest of the City. In addition, the Purchasing Division must assure that there is competition according to the City’s charter and administrative policies.  

Central stores is an integral part of, and subordinate to, the purchasing function. It exists to efficiently control purchased goods for the convenience of City departments and the public, providing those goods for both routine and emergency use in a timely and cost effective fashion.