Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This legislation authorizes the sale of a 1989 Ford Pick-up and a 1994 Chevrolet Step Van, owned by the City of Columbus Department of Development, to Rebuilding Together Central Ohio. Both of these vehicles, designated Brass Tags 13912 and 18087 respectively, were used to implement the City-operated Mobile Tool Library Program. The Mobile Tool Library Program is designed to encourage low-cost home maintenance and improvements by lending tools and equipment free of charge to residents in designated service areas. The operations of the Tool Library program are being transferred by the City of Columbus to Rebuilding Together Central Ohio (RTCO), a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) organization. RTCO has secured funding from the City, the Columbus Foundation and the United Way of Central Ohio to continue providing many of the services of the Tool Library to eligible residents of Columbus.
Both of these trucks will be used by RTCO to deliver and pick up tools for eligible Columbus residents and community organizations using the Tool Library. City seals, radios, and license plates will be removed before delivey to RTCO.
The Fleet Management Division has approved this transfer.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This sale has no fiscal impact on the Department of Development.
Title
To authorize the Finance Director to sell a 1989 Ford Pick-up and a 1994 Chevrolet Step Van owned by the City of Columbus Department of Development, to Rebuilding Together Central Ohio for the sum of $2.00; and to waive the provisions of the City Code relating to the sale of City-owned property and to declare an emergency. ($2.00)
Body
WHEREAS, this legislation authorizes the sale of a 1989 Ford Pick-up and a 1994 Chevrolet Step Van, owned by the City of Columbus Department of Development, to Rebuilding Together Central Ohio; and
WHEREAS, both of these vehicles, designated Brass Tags 13912 and 18087 respectively, were used to implement the City-operated Mobile Tool Library Program; and
WHEREAS, Rebuilding Together Central Ohio (RTCO), a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) organization, has secured funding from the City, the Columbus Foundation and the United Way of Central Ohio to continue providing the services of the Tool Library to eligible residents of Columbus; and
WHEREAS, Rebuilding Together Central Ohio has expressed a desire and a need for using both of these vehicles to more efficiently and effectively provide Tool Library services to eligible Columbus residents; and
WHEREAS the Department of Development has determined that it is in the best interest of the City of Columbus and the citizens of the central Ohio area to allow the purchase of both the 1989 Ford Pick-up and the 1994 Chevrolet Step Van for the sum of $2.00, by Rebuilding Together Central Ohio; and NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Finance Director be and is hereby authorized and directed to sell a 1989 Ford Pick-up and a 1994 Chevrolet Step Van owned by the City of Columbus Department of Development, to Rebuilding Together Central Ohio for the sum of $2.00.
Section 2. That this Council finds it is in the best interest of the City of Columbus that the provisions of Section 329.30, of the Columbus City Code, relating to the sale of City owned personal property be and they are hereby waived to permit the sale of these vehicles to Rebuilding Together Central Ohio.
Section 3. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law. 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.