City of Seattle Reorganizes Contracting and Purchasing

As part of a budget-cutting measure, the City of Seattle has merged their Purchasing Division and Contracting Services Division into one consolidated division.   Nancy Locke, the City's Purchasing Director, has been appointed as the director of the combined Purchasing and Contracting Services Division.

The City's previous Director of Contracting Services, Linneth Riley-Hall, left in April to take a position at Sound Transit, and City officials decided to not fill the position after she left but to combine the two divisions.  The change became effective late last week.