Explanation
Background:
City of Columbus Department of Public Utilites (DPU) will install a three-phase primary switch in the existing vault next to Vault# 135, located at the Northwest corner of Town and Washington. They will then install three-phase primary cables in the customer installed 2-5" conduits, south to the new pad mount transformer, located between Town and Rich Streets, on the west side of the street. This is about 400-ft. south of Vault# 135. This new pad location is also 20' north of the existing underground fed street light in the area. DPU will supply and install the new pad mount transformer on the Recreation and Parks' concrete pad. DPU staff will install all the metering on the transformer. DPU will energize the service and install a meter after their receipt of the service contract, the electrical inspection tag number, and the CIAC payment for this work. The requested voltage of the pad mount transformer is 208Y/120v, 3-ph, 4w, and will be sized to feed up to 1000 amp service.
Improvements will be made by the City of Columbus, Department of Public Utilities Division of Power and Water. Payment in the amount of $26,118.08 will be made using the City of Columbus inter-departmental billing process.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency to allow the work to commence in order to be complete for summer festival season.
Fiscal Impact:
$26,118.08 from the Voted Recreation and Parks Bond Fund is available for this expense.
Title
To authorize the expenditure of $26,118.08 from the Voted Recreation and Parks Bond Fund; to authorize the payment of said funds to the Department of Public Utilities Power and Water Division; and to declare an emergency. ($26,118.08)
Body
WHEREAS, the Recreation and Parks Department shall make payment to the Department of Public Utilities in the amount of $26,118.08 for installation of electrical service as noted in background; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to make these improvements for summer festival season; NOW, THEREFORE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Recreation and Parks be and he is hereby authorized and directed to enter into agreement with the Department of Public Utilities for the installation of site electric in accordance with the plans and specifications on file in the Recreation and Parks Department as submitted by Public Utilities.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor be and is hereby authorized and directed to make payment to the Department of Public Utilities per the standard method of inter-departmental payment process.
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $26,118.08, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from the Voted Recreation and Parks Bond Fund, Dept. 51-01, as follows, to pay the cost thereof.
Fund Project Object Level 3 OCA Amount
702 510035-100000 (facilities) 6621 702035 $26,118.08
SECTION 4. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized to transfer the unemcumbered balance in a project account to the unallocated balance account within the same fund upon receipt of certification by the Director of the Department administering said project that the project has been completed and the monies are no longer required for said project; except that no transfer shall be so made from a project account funded by monies from more than one source.
SECTION 5. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for any contract or contract modification associated with the expenditure of the funds transferred in Section 3 above.
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 10 days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.