We would like to know if other municipalities are using their credit cards to pay for reoccurring charges, like cell phones and internet access? Does yourjurisdictions have policies that prohibit automatic reoccurring charges if so would you please send me a copy of your policy?
We don't currently use them for that, but we also don't prohibit..hadn't thought about it!
Cathy Till
Finance Director
City of Lemon Grove
619-825-3800 x 3803
Note: City Hall is closed on Fridays
Danville does allow these reoccurring charges. The purchasing card is to streamline purchases by reducing paperwork. All purchases still require back up information and are approved prior to payment.
I am curious about why you wouldn't allow reoccurring purchases?
Elizabeth Hudson
Finance Director/Treasurer
Town of Danville
No policy for South Pasadena, but definitely bad practice to do so.
My senior center wanted a Netflix account, and I told them to purchase a Netflix gift certificate enough to pay for one year’s service.
If the cell phone and internet account are for city owned devices and accounts, then you should work with the carrier to establish corporate accounts.
Chu Thai | Finance Director
City of South Pasadena
1414 Mission St
South Pasadena, CA 91030
(626) 403-7252 – office
Good Morning Veronica
We don’t use the credit cards for cell phone charges or internet access, however, we do have maintenance agreements with blackberry as well as monthly subscription charges that are set up on the credit cards. So far has not caused any issues.
Thomas W. Brown
Accountant I
Phone: 760-240-7000 ext. 7702
Hi Veronica,
We don't have a written policy - we just say no. Occasionally someone sets it up that way and we have to fix it. I usually explain to the credit card holder that it makes it difficult to look up payments as they are not under the correct vendor and just show up under the credit card vendor name….
Amy
City of Flarkspur
We are not, but as far as I know we don’t have a policy that prohibits us from doing so.
Good Luck.
Gina
Town of Paradise