..Explanation
The Transportation Division's mission includes the installation and maintenance of traffic control devices to promote pedestrian safety and expedite vehicular traffic flow. The Purchasing Office has solicited formal competitive bids for the purchase of traffic signals and is in the process of establishing universal term contracts (UTCs). This ordinance authorizes the expenditure of monies for traffic signals per the terms and conditions of these universal term contracts. The Transportation Division is utilizing technologically advanced, energy efficient light-emitting diode (LED) signals (versus incandescent signals) for new signal installations. A listing of the commodities, vendors, UTCs and dollar amounts is as follows: 8" and 12" LED 3-section signal heads, Path Master, Inc., $63,500.00; circular LED modules and green arrows, Dialight, Inc., $4,535.00, LED yellow arrows and single wire entrances, Traffic Control Products, Inc., $3,938.00; Total $71,973.00.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding for these commodities exists in the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund, resurfacing project. This ordinance transfers monies from this project to the signal installation project.
Emergency action is requested to procure the needed signal commodities as soon as possible to meet signal installation schedules.
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To authorize the transfer of funds between projects within the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund; to authorize the Finance Director to establish purchase orders with various vendors for the purchase of traffic signals per the terms and conditions of pending universal term contracts for the Transportation Division; to authorize the expenditure of $71,973.00 from the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund and to declare an emergency. ($71,973.00)
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WHEREAS, the Purchasing Office has solicited bids and established universal term contracts for the purchase of various traffic signal commodities, and
WHEREAS, the Transportation Division has need to procure these items in a timely manner so as not to delay scheduled signal installations, and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to transfer monies between projects to fund the purchase of said signal commodities, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Transportation Division, Public Service Department, in that it is immediately necessary to establish purchase orders for this purpose, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare, now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the transfer of monies between projects within the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund be and hereby is authorized as follows:
Transfer From:
Project No. Project O.L. 01/03 Codes OCA Code Amount
530282 Resurfacing 06/6600 644385 $71,973.00
Total Transfer From: $71,973.00
Transfer To:
Project No. Project O.L.01/03 Codes OCA Code Amount
540007 Signal Installation 06/6600 644377 $71,973.00
Total Transfer To: $71,973.00
SECTION 2. That the Finance Director be and hereby is authorized to establish purchase orders for the purchase of traffic signal commodities per the terms and conditions of pending universal term contracts for the Transportation Division as follows:
commodity vendor amount
8" and 12" LED 3-section signal heads
(item #3,4) Path Master, Inc. $63,500.00
circular LED modules and green arrows
(item #5-10, 12) Dialight, Inc. $ 4,535.00
LED yellow arrows and single wire
entrances (item #11, 13, 14) Traffic Control Products, Inc. $ 3,938.00
Total $71,973.00
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $71,973.00 be and hereby is authorized from the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund, Fund 704, Department No. 59-09, Transportation Division, Object Level One Code 06, Object Level Three Code 6622, OCA Code 644377, Project 540007 to pay the cost thereof.
SECTION 4. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.