Jefferson City departments now have a way to purchase items quickly, as well as keep up with ongoing expenses.

The City Council recently approved a credit card policy, where each department head would receive a credit card with a $5,000 limit. City Administrator Mike Palmer describes why the finance committee recommended to the Council to push forward with a credit card system.

“In today’s world, there’s a lot of things like on the internet that you can’t buy without a credit card, or there’s maybe some ongoing technical services that you need to have a credit card. All of these funds would normally, it takes a lot of fangirling, or have an account for it to come out of their budget. This way, they would just be charging it, the policy states they’d have to have the recipients in hand (and) justify what their costs were and it would then come out of their (each department’s) budget.”

Palmer notes that before, each department head would put a charge on their personal credit card and have that reimbursed or open a separate account to purchase an item. He adds, the credit limit of $5,000 for each department is an annual limit. Click the link below to see the full policy.