Explanation
BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the City Auditor to make payment to Sauer Group, LLC., dba Sauer Control Systems, for services rendered, and to declare an emergency.
FISCAL IMPACT
Funding of $4,310.00 is available and appropriated for these expenditures within the Information Services Fund, Fund 5100. This is detailed in the attached Then and Now Certificate, which has been approved by the City Auditor.
EMERGENCY JUSTIFICATION
Emergency action is requested to avoid any delays in payment to the vendor for services rendered to the Department of Technology, in accordance with the Ohio Revised Code Section 5705.41 (D)(1).
Title
To authorize and direct the City Auditor to authorize payment to Sauer Group, LLC., dba Sauer Control Systems, per the invoice approved by the Director of the Department of Technology; and to declare an emergency. ($4,310.00)
Body
WHEREAS, Sauer Group, LLC., dba Sauer Control Systems, provided services to the City of Columbus, and
WHEREAS, after these services were rendered, the City received an invoice for which purchase orders, with a prior certification of availability of funds by the City Auditor attached, had not been obtained; and
WHEREAS, Section 5705.41 (D)(1) of the Ohio Revised Code provides that in certain circumstances a political subdivision may authorize payment on a contract executed without prior certification by the City Auditor; and
WHEREAS, the City Council now has before it a certificate from the City Auditor certifying there was, at the time of making the contract and at the time of the execution of such certificate, a sufficient sum appropriated for the purpose of the contract and in the treasury, or in process of collection to the credit of an appropriate fund free from any encumbrances (a “Then and Now Certificate”); and
WHEREAS, less than thirty days have passed since the City Council’s receipt of the certificate from the City Auditor; and
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to satisfy the obligations of the contract; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the daily operations of the Department of Technology in that it is immediately necessary to present this ordinance for the City Auditor to issue payment in accordance with the Ohio Revised Code Section 5705.41 (D)(1) all for the preservation of the public peace, property, health safety and welfare; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That City Council hereby acknowledges receipt of the “Then and Now Certificate” from the City Auditor and authorizes and directs the City Auditor to authorize payment to Sauer Group, LLC., dba Sauer Control Systems, per the invoice approved by the Director of the Department of Technology in an amount not to exceed $4,310.00.
SECTION 2. 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 approved by the Mayor or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.