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(d) PROFESSIONAL SERVICES.

Contracts for professional services shall not be subject to the competitive bidding requirements of this Section and shall not require authorization by Council if the current operating budget provides sufficient funding for the scope of services in any such contract.

(e) ALTERATIONS OR MODIFICATIONS OF CONTRACTS.

Council shall establish procedures for alterations or modifications of contracts. Modifications or alterations of contracts shall not require competitive bidding.

(f) CERTIFICATION OF FUNDS.

No contract involving the expenditure of money shall be entered into or authorized by the City Manager unless the Director of Finance or designee shall first certify that:

(1) funds required for the contract are in the City's treasury or in the process of collection; and

(2) funds have been appropriated by Council for the specified purpose and remain unencumbered.

The Director of Finance shall file and record the certification of availability and appropriation of funds in the accounting records of the City and shall furnish a copy to the vendor or contractor. Without the certification, a contractual obligation shall be void and unenforceable against the City unless recognized by Council as a moral obligation.

Article IX.

ELECTIONS, INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL

9.01. REGULAR MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

Regular municipal elections shall be held on the dates and at the times fixed by the election laws of the State of Ohio.

9.02 SPECIAL ELECTIONS.

Council may, at any time, order a special election by legislation which shall set forth the date and purpose of the election, including but not limited to the referral of pending legislation to the electors for their approval or rejection. Special elections may be held on any date.

9.03. CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS.

All regular and special elections shall be conducted by the election officials of the State of Ohio. Elections shall be held in conformity with the provisions of this Revised Charter or as otherwise provided by Council. Where not addressed by this Revised Charter or by Council, the provisions of the election laws of the State of Ohio shall be followed.

9.04. WARDS AND BOUNDARIES.

(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF WARDS.

No later than July 1, 2001 and no less frequently than every ten years thereafter, Council shall, by legislation, divide or redivide the City into four wards for the purpose of electing four ward Council members at the next regular municipal election. The division or re-division of the City into four wards shall provide for substantially equal population in each ward.

(b) WARD BOUNDARIES.

All wards shall be bounded, to the extent possible, by county lines, streets, alleys, avenues, public grounds, canals, water-courses, municipal boundary lines, center lines of platted streets or railroads, or lot lines of platted subdivisions. (c) EFFECT OF RE-DIVISION.

Re-division of the City into wards shall not terminate or otherwise affect the unexpired terms of ward Council members; however, at succeeding elections, ward Council members shall be elected from the wards as reapportioned or re-established under this Section.