Title
To authorize and direct the Finance and Management Director to issue a purchase order on behalf of the Division of Fire for telephone services from an existing Universal Term Contract established for such purpose by the Purchasing Office with AT&T, to authorize the expenditure of $100,000.00 from the General Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($100,000.00)
Explanation
BACKGROUND:
Need: This legislation is to authorize and direct the Finance and Management Director to issue a purchase order on behalf of the Division of Fire for telephone services from an existing Universal Term Contract established by the Purchasing Office with AT&T for such purpose.
Bid Information: A Universal Term Contract exists for these services.
Contract Compliance: 363258076 - exp. 8/10/09
Emergency Designation: Emergency action is requested as funds are needed immediately to ensure these services can continue without interruption.
FISCAL IMPACT: The Division of Fire budgeted approximately $390,000 in the 2008 General Fund operating budget for services from AT & T. The Division spent and/or encumbered $297,248 in 2007, and $199,992 thus far in 2008 for these services. This ordinance authorizes an additional $100,000 in services with AT & T.
Body
WHEREAS, there is a need to purchase telephone services from unencumbered cash exiting in the Division of Fire's 2008 General Fund Budget; and
WHEREAS, a Universal Term Contract established by the Purchasing Office exists for these services; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary to purchase said telephone services, for the immediate preservation of 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 Finance and Management Director be and is hereby authorized and directed to issue a purchase order for telephone services in accordance with the existing Universal Term Contract established by the Purchasing Office with AT&T for such purpose.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $100,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from the General Fund, Fund 10, Division of Fire No. 30-04, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3320, OCA 301531.
SECTION 3. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared 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.