Explanation
This ordinance appropriates $395,200.00 within the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund, Transportation Division, Public Service Department, for anticipated expenditures that will be incurred by the Transportation Division for the balance of 2005. It authorizes the Finance Director to modify and increase existing purchase orders asphalt ($300,000.00), gravel ($57,000.00), and concrete ($38,200.00).
Fiscal Impact: The Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund can support this additional appropriation based on actual and anticipated revenues. The original $2,800,000.00 2005 appropriation within this Fund was authorized by Ordinance 0034-2005 passed by City Council January 24, 2005.
Emergency action is requested to make these funds available to the Transportation Division as soon as possible for actual and anticipated 2005 expenses.
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To appropriate $395,200.00 within the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund for anticipated expenses that will be incurred by the Transportation Division during the balance of 2005; to authorize the Finance Director to modify and increase existing purchase orders for asphalt, gravel and concrete; to authorize the expenditure of $395,200.00 or so much thereof as may be needed from the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund. and to declare an emergency. ($395,200.00)
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WHEREAS, there is a need for additional appropriation of $395,200.00 within the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund for anticipated expenses likely incurred by the Transportation Division during the balance of 2005; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to modify and increase existing purchase orders for the purchase of asphalt, gravel, concrete, rock salt and liquid calcium chloride for the remainder of 2005; now, therefore and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Transportation Division, Public Service Department, in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate said funds, modify and increase existing purchase orders for commodities, 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 $395,200.00 be and hereby is appropriated from the unappropriated balance of Fund 266, the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax 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, as follows:
OCA Code / OL 03 Code / Amount
599115 / 2197 / $57,000.00
599115 / 2198 / $38,200.00
599115 / 2262 / $300,000.00
Total $395,200.00
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 Director be and hereby is authorized to modify and increase the following existing purchase orders previously established on the basis of existing citywide contracts (these dollar amounts are approximate and subject to change between vendors at the Transportation Division's discretion so long as the $395,200.00 total is not exceeded):
Vendor / Amount / Commodity(ies) / Object Level Three Code
Wilson-Michaels Trucking Company / $20,000.00 / Gravel / 2197
Shelly Materials, Incorporated / $20,000.00 / Gravel / 2197
Olen Corporation / $17,000.00 / Sand, gravel / 2197
F.W. Sloter, Incorporated / $36,200.00 / Concrete / 2198
Anderson Concrete Corporation / $2,000.00 / Concrete / 2198
Apple-Smith Corporation / $26,400.00 / Asphalt concrete / 2262
Shelly and Sands, Incorporated / $75,000.00 / Asphalt concrete / 2262
Kokosing Materials, Incorporated / $89,000.00 / Asphalt concrete / 2262
Miller Pavement Materials, Limited / $68,400.00 / Asphalt concrete / 2262
QPR / $41,200.00 / Asphalt concrete / 2262
Total $395,200.00
SECTION 4. That the expenditure of $395,200.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary be and hereby is authorized to be expended from Fund 266, the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund, Department 59-09, Transportation Division, OCA 599115, Object Level One Code 02, Object Level Three Codes 2197 ($57,000.00), 2198 ($38,200.00), and 2262 ($300,000.00).
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 that same.
That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.