Explanation
Background: Heart disease is the number one killer of women in the nation. Here in Columbus, only 6% of sudden cardiac arrest victims survive. Effective CPR and automated external defibrillation can dramatically raise the survival rates of all cardiac arrest victims. For three years, Council member Patsy Thomas has led Project Second Chance, a collaborative effort to educate the community about the need for greater resources to combat heart disease, and to increase the cardiac arrest survival rate through a variety of methods, including greater access to automated external defibrillators and increasing the number of citizens trained in CPR and AED use. As a direct result of the program, a total of 138 AEDs have been deployed in the Columbus area and over 3,000 persons have been trained in CPR. Project Second Chance saves lives, and a big part of the program is improving access to AEDs and AED/CPR training within the City of Columbus itself.
Project Second Chance has trained over 1,000 City employees, and to date, sixty-four AEDs have been installed in various City facilities. Recreation & Parks' facilities are one high-traffic component of the City program, representing sites where individuals engage in physical activity that results in increased heart rates and increased risk for sudden cardiac arrest. Council provided permanent improvements funds in 2005 to equip 14 of Recreation & Park's sites. This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to contract with Medtronic Emergency Response Systems, Inc, to purchase 26 additional AED units for deployment within Recreation & Parks' remaining recreation centers thereby providing AEDs in all city Recreation & Parks facilities where physical activity, elevated heart rates, and increased risk for sudden cardiac arrest exist.
Previous legislation established a Universal Term Contract (Ordinance 0773-2005) for the City and other governmental entities to purchase AED units from Medtronic.
Contract Compliance: 910697691.
Fiscal Impact: Funds exist within the City's Permanent Improvement Fund to support this purchase.
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To authorize the appropriation of $62,000 within the General Permanent Improvement Fund; to authorize the City Clerk to enter into contract with Medtronic Emergency Response Systems, Inc, for the purchase of Automated Electronic Defibrillator Equipment, Supplies and Service for City recreation centers; to authorize the expenditure of $62,000 from the General Permanent Improvement Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($62,000.00)
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Whereas, Medtronic is a manufacturer of automatic external defibrillators and a provider of other medical devices and solutions including the LIFEPAK® Heart Safe Solutions Program; and
Whereas, The City earlier selected Medtronic to help provide an education and outreach program for Public Access Defibrillation within the Columbus Community, and in doing so, cite itself the "Official AED Provider to the City of Columbus"; and
Whereas, Columbus desires to save the lives of employees, citizens, and visitors at City owned sites, by enabling access to appropriate automated external defibrillation equipment, supplies, and service; and
Whereas, Ordinance 0773-2005 established a Universal Term Contract for the City and other governmental entities to purchase AED units from Medtronic; and
Whereas, new units will be placed in another 26 recreation centers to improve access for individuals experiencing increased heart rates due to physical activity; and
Whereas, In order to provide immediate access to life saving resources, the City is pursuing this authorization as an emergency measure; and
Whereas, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City in that it is immediately necessary for the City Clerk to contract with Medtronic Emergency Response Systems, Inc., for the purchase of Automated External Defibrillator equipment, supplies and service, for the immediate preservation of public peace, property, health, safety and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That from the unappropriated balance in Fund 748, the General Permanent Improvement Fund, and from all monies estimated to come into said Fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2006, the sum of $62,000.00 be and hereby is appropriated to Department No. 20-01, Office of the City Clerk Division, Object Level One Code 06, Object Level Three Code 6600, OCA Code 920748 and Project 748999.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to transfer funds within the General Permanent Improvement Fund as follows:
FROM:
Dept/Div: 20-01, Fund 748, Project: 748999, OCA 920748, OL3 6600, Amount: $62,000.00
TO:
Dept/Div: 20-01, Fund 748, Project: 200016, OCA 200016, OL3 6642, Amount: $62,000.00
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 1 shall be paid upon order of the City Clerk and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 4. That the City Clerk be and is hereby authorized to establish a purchase order in the amount of $62,000.00 with Medtronic Emergency Response Systems, Inc for the purchase of Automated External Defibrillator equipment, supplies and service in accordance with the terms and conditions of universal term contract FL002648 established for this purpose.
SECTION 5. That to pay the cost of the aforementioned purchase order, the expenditure of $62,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed is authorized from the General Permanent Improvement Fund, Fund 748, Department No. 20-01, Office of the City Clerk, Project: 200016, OCA 200016, OL3 6642.
SECTION 6. 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.