...Explanation
The Transportation Division operates several specialized traffic control computers. These computers expedite vehicular traffic flow and maximize pedestrian safety by synchronizing and coordinating traffic signals and interpreting information forwarded from buried loop detectors, overhead cameras and the like, allowing the signals to operate in either an automatic mode or manually as directed by traffic engineers from a central location. The software utilized by the downtown signal system processor (computer) is proprietary and requires unique maintenance that is offered by a sole-source provider, Computran Systems Corporation. This ordinance authorizes the Public Service Director to compensate Computran Systems Corporation $15,416.10 for a service call, including travel to Columbus from Hackensack, New Jersey. Along with other expenses previously paid to this vendor, the total amount of money spent with Computran Systems exceeds the $20,000.00 limit above which City Council's authorization is required. Computran's contract compliance number is 22-1890707 and expires May 29, 2006. The service was obtained per the sole-source provisions of the Columbus City Code, 1959.
This expenditure is budgeted within the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund as a normal operating expense of the Transportation Division. This ordinance appropriates funds as required.
Emergency action is requested in order to satisfy this liability as soon as possible in order to maintain future access to this vendor for maintenance of this critical system.
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To appropriate $15,416.10 within the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund; to authorize the Public Service Director to compensate Computran Systems Corporation for software maintenance of the Transportation Division's traffic signal system per the sole-source provisions of the Columbus City Codes, 1959; to authorize the expenditure of $15,416.10 from the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($15,416.10)
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WHEREAS, the Transportation Division operates several specialized traffic control computers; and
WHEREAS, the software utilized by the downtown signal system computer is proprietary and requires unique maintenance that is offered by a sole-source provider, Computran Systems Corporation; and
WHEREAS, maintenance was required to provide for the continued function of the system; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Transportation Division, Public Service Department, in that it is immediately necessary authorize the Public Service Director to compensate the vendor for services rendered in accordance with the sole source provisions of the Columbus City Code 1959, 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 $15,416.10 be and hereby is appropriated from the unappropriated balance of the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund, Fund 266, 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, 2003, to the Transportation Division, Department No. 59-09, Object Level One Code 03, Object Level Three Code 3375, OCA Code 599104.
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 Public Service Director be and hereby is authorized to compensate Computran Systems Corporation, 100 First Street, Hackensack, New Jersey 07601 the sum of $15,416.10 for software maintenance for the downtown signal system processor for the Transportation Division.
SECTION 4. That for the purpose of paying for the services provided the expenditure of $15,416.10 be and hereby is authorized from Fund 266, Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund, Department No. 59-09, Transportation Division, Object Level One Code 03, Object Level Three Code 3375, OCA Code 599104.
SECTION 5. That this expenditure is authorized in accordance with the sole source provisions of the Columbus City Codes, 1959.
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.