City managers and town councils fre...

City managers and town councils frequently try to find various ways to heed the desires of fire chiefs who argue about the ne for strange fire equipment in order to restrain up with the demands of growing and dramatically changing communities. Floating bondage issues in order to raise the coin required may be one answer, yet this opens the door to a number of questions.

Should the riches be turned over to a department head who has little or no knowledge as to in what way to proceed with the actual purchase? Do the city manager and the city council simply stand back and watch the proceedings - the bid specification preparations, the bid itself and its evaluation, the awarding of the contact and then its following delivery?

If in the way that the manager and the council as an oversight committee may be guilty of gros negligence.

Once funding is obtained for its apparatus, the