Explanation
The Public Service Department, Transportation Division, requires a portable nuclear moisture density gauge to test soils and asphalt pavement. The Department's pavement policy requires in-place pavement density and depth verification by the division subsequent to pavement installation by contractors before the work can be accepted by the City. The division presently has five of these units. This purchase will replace a unit that beyond its useful life and is cost prohibitive to repair. Bids for this item were solicited via requisition number RP018103 and it was determined that the quotation for $5,215.00 for a new unit submitted by Cline's Technical Services, Incorporated, is acceptable. Cline's Technical Services' contract compliance number is 311503542 and expires August 31, 2008.
Fiscal Impact: Funds for the purchase of this unit are available within the General Roadway Street Improvement project in the General Permanent Improvement Fund. This ordinance appropriates funding within this Fund and authorizes the expenditure.
Emergency action is requested to procure the needed equipment as soon as possible.
Title
To appropriate $5,215.00 within the General Permanent Improvement Fund; to authorize the Finance and Management Director to establish a purchase order with Cline's Technical Services, Incorporated, for the purchase of a new portable nuclear moisture density gauge for the Transportation Division; to authorize the expenditure of $5,215.00 from the General Permanent Improvement Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($5,215.00)
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WHEREAS, the Transportation Division requires a portable nuclear moisture density gauge to test soils and asphalt pavement; and
WHEREAS, bids for this item were solicited and it was determined that the quotation of $5,215.00 for a new unit submitted by Cline's Technical Services, Incorporated, is acceptable; and
WHEREAS, funds for the purchase of this unit are available within the General Roadway Street Improvement project in the General Permanent Improvement Fund; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Transportation Division, in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate funds and authorize this equipment's acquisition as soon as possible in order to make it available for testing asphalt installed as part of the division's on-going street resurfacing program, 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 sum of $5,215.00 be and hereby is appropriated from the unappropriated balance of Fund 748, the General Permanent Improvement Fund, and from any and 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, 2005, to the Transportation Division, Department No. 59-09, Object Level One Code 06, Object Level Three Code 6640, OCA Code 642315 and Project 537650.
SECTION 2. That the monies appropriated in Section 1 shall be paid upon order of the Public Service Director 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 3. That the Finance and Management Director be and hereby is authorized to establish a purchase order with Cline's Technical Services, Incorporated, 10883 Cincinnati-Zanesville Road, Amanda, Ohio 43102 for the purchase of a new portable nuclear moisture density gauge including trade-in of the existing Troxler Model 3440, Serial Number 17104 unit for the Transportation Division at a net cost not to exceed $5,215.00.
SECTION 4. That the expenditure of $5,215.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and hereby is authorized to be expended from Fund 748, the General Permanent Improvement Fund, Department 59-09, Transportation Division, Object Level One Code 06, Object Level Three Code 6640, OCA Code 642315 and Project 537650 for this purchase.
SECTION 5. 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.