Note 4 — PART I SPECIFICATIONS FOR STREET ROADWAY PAVEMENTS

This section is intended as much for the control and limitation of city officials as of contractors. The practice of carelessly or purposely allowing municipal contracts to be expanded greatly beyond the stated limits or the original intended volume and cost without formal authorization by the proper municipal body in which the power to make contracts is lodged, is dangerous and wrong and should be prohibited. In one instance coming to the notice of the author a contract originally intended to cover $50,000 worth of work was expanded by the department head without any authority from the city council until the final estimate reached the enormous sum of over $400,000.