Explanation
Background: The Public Service Department, Refuse Collection Division, has contracted since 1994 to provide weekly yard waste collection services to Columbus residents. The current contract for yard waste collection with Rumpke of Ohio, Incorporated commenced March 01, 2006 for a five-year period contingent upon annual funding approval from Council. This ordinance authorizes the Public Service Director to modify and increase the existing yard waste collection contract with Rumpke for the period February 1, 2007 through January 31, 2008 in the amount of $3,989,204.
The current yard waste collection charge is $1.44 per month per household and is in effect until February 01, 2007. Effective February 1, 2007, Rumpke will increase the rate charged to $1.48 per month per household. This increase constitutes a 2.4416% percent increase over the existing rate. This rate will be in effect until February 01, 2008. It is estimated that the increase in the per household charge and new home growth will cost the Refuse Collection Division an additional $148,283 for yard waste collection in 2007.
Rumpke's contract compliance number is 31-1617611, expiring April 18, 2008.
Fiscal Impact: The Refuse Collection Division has a total of $4,052,240 budgeted in the General Fund for yard waste collection in 2007. In 2006, $3,840,921 was expended for yard waste collection.
Emergency action is requested to establish funding for this contract in a timely manner to avoid service interruptions to residents. Consideration of this ordinance as a thirty-day measure is impractical given the timing of passage of the General Fund budget and the projected exhaustion of existing contract funding.
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To authorize the Public Service Director to modify and increase a contract for the Refuse Collection Division with Rumpke of Ohio, Incorporated, for yard waste collection services, to authorize the expenditure of $3,989,204 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($3,989,204)
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WHEREAS, there is a need for the Public Service Department, Refuse Collection Division, to continue to provide yard waste collection to residents; and
WHEREAS, the existing contract for yard waste collection with Rumpke of Ohio, Inc., was authorized by Ordinance No. 0371-2006 and commenced March 1, 2006; and
WHEREAS, with approval of Council, this agreement can be extended for four one year periods, beginning February 01, 2007 through January 31, 2010; and
WHEREAS, the terms of the contract modification and increase were negotiated by the parties to their mutual satisfaction and with an eye toward minimizing costs to the City; and
WHEREAS, this is the first price increase in the yard waste collection contract since the original agreement in March 2006; and
WHEREAS, it is in the City's best interest to modify and extend the current yard waste collection contract with Rumpke of Ohio, Inc.; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Refuse Collection Division, Public Service Department, in that it is immediately necessary to modify and increase this contract in a timely manner to avoid service interruptions to residents, 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 Public Service Director be and hereby is authorized to modify and increase the existing contract with Rumpke of Ohio, Incorporated, for yard waste collection service for the Refuse Collection Division for the period February 01, 2007, through January 31, 2008, inclusive.
SECTION 2. That the sum of $3,989,204, or so much thereof as may be necessary for this purpose, be and hereby is authorized to be expended from the General Fund, Fund 010, Department No. 59-02, Refuse Collection Division, Object Level One Code 03 and Object Level Three Code 3336 as follows:
OCA Code/ Amount
591198/ $1,329,735
591727/ $1,329,735
591941/ $1,329,734
Total $3,989,204
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.