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To authorize the Director of Public Safety to modify and extend the current contract with Mount Carmel Occupational Health for testing services for the Division of Fire's Health and Physical Fitness Program; to authorize the expenditure of $750,000.00 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($750,000.00)
Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Safety to modify and extend the current contract with Mount Carmel Occupational Health for testing services for the Division of Fire's Health and Physical Fitness Program. The Physical Health and Fitness program is a part of the current collective bargaining agreement between the City of Columbus and IAFF Local 67 Firefighters Union. The intent of the program is to ensure the overall general health and fitness of the fire fighters. This is the first of two (2) one-year extensions to this contract. The initial contract was for three years.
Contract Compliance: MCOH ~ 314379602 exp. 12/15/2010
Emergency Designation: Emergency action is requested so that this testing service can continue uninterrupted pursuant to the collective bargaining contract between the City of Columbus and the IAFF Local 67 Firefighters Union.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $750,000.00 from the General Fund for a contract with Mount Carmel Occupational Health for testing services for the Division of Fire Health and Physical Fitness Program. The Division of Fire budgeted $822,240.00 in the General Fund operating budget for this contract in 2010. The division spent $754,462.95 in 2009 and $894,045.97 for these services in 2008.
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WHEREAS, the City is required to provide Health and Physical Fitness Testing Services and related Education and Wellness Programs to the Division of Fire pursuant to the collective bargaining contract between the City and the International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 67; and
WHEREAS, it is in the City's best interest to extend the professional services contract with Mount Carmel Occupational Health to assist with the implementation of the Health and Physical Fitness Program for the Division of Fire; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Fire, Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary to modify and extend the current contract with Mount Carmel Occupational Health, 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 Director of Public Safety is hereby authorized to modify and extend the current contract between the City and Mount Carmel Occupational Health to provide Health and Physical Fitness Testing Services and related Education and Wellness Programs for the Division of Fire.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $750,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized to be expended from the General Fund 010, Department of Public Safety, Division of Fire 30-04, OCA 301499, OL3 Code 3336 to pay the cost thereof.
SECTION 3. 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.