As agent of the board of supervisors, it shall be the duty of the chief administrative
officer to supervise the expenditures of all departments, services, institutions or
districts placed under his/her supervision by Ordinance 4099, and also the departments
of the sheriff, district attorney, assessor, and civil service commission; to report
to the board of supervisors on whether such expenditures are necessary in his/her
opinion for the current needs of such departments, services, institutions or districts;
to report to the board on any proposed purchase by any department, service, institution
or district from funds appropriated thereto for capital outlay which in his/her judgment
should not be made. In order that the chief administrative officer may make such report,
every proposed purchase from capital outlay by any such department, service, institution
or district of the county shall first be submitted to said chief administrative officer
by the officer, person, board or commission in charge of said department, service,
institution or district. If the chief administrative officer disapproves any such
proposed purchase, the officer, person, board or commission which is the administrative
head of such department, service, institution or district proposing to make such expenditure
shall refrain from making such purchase for a period of 15 days from such disapproval.
