Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the City Auditor to transfer funds between object levels within the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund. This ordinance also authorizes the Director of Finance and Management to establish purchase orders with Byers Ford and Ricart Ford from existing universal term contracts for the purchase of light duty vehicles for the Division of Planning and Operations. There is a need to replace existing vehicles that are more than ten years old. Consideration of the Mayor's Green Initiative was made in the decision to purchase these specific vehicles.
2. FISCAL IMPACT
Funding is available within the Street Construction Maintenance and Repair Fund and the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund for the purchase of light duty vehicles and for the bridge maintenance contracts. Due to the light snow falls last winter the Department of Public Service used less than anticipated salt on Columbus roadways. It has been determined that this extra salt from last winter coupled with an additional 10,000 lbs., to be purchase this year, will cover the next winter season creating a surplus of $900,000 in the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund. This surplus will be used to purchase additional light duty vehicles of $500,000 and reallocate a bridge maintenance contract of $350,000 from the Street Construction Maintenance and Repair fund.
3. CONTRACT COMPLIANCE
The contract compliance numbers for these vendors are as follows:
Byers Ford - CC#31413960, expires 12/31/2014
Ricart Ford - CC#314398728, expires 9/21/12
4. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION
Emergency action is requested to make these funds available to the division as soon as practical to meet anticipated 2012 needs.
Title
To authorize the City Auditor to transfer $850,000.00 within the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax fund: to authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to establish purchase orders in an amount not to exceed $798,500.00 w...
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