Title
To authorize and direct the Finance and Management Director to issue a purchase order for fire uniforms from the existing Universal Term Contract with Roy Tailors Uniform Company, to authorize the expenditure of $100,000.00 from the General Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($100,000.00)
Explanation
BACKGROUND:
Need: This legislation is to authorize and direct the Finance and Management Director to issue a purchase order for fire uniforms from the existing Universal Term Contract established by the Purchasing Office for such purpose with Roy Tailors Uniform Company.
Bid Information: Universal Term Contract FL003164 exists for these purchases; this UTC expires 8/31/09 and has been in existence since 8/31/07.
Contract Compliance: 31-1261664, expiring 10/26/08
Emergency Designation: Emergency action is requested as funds are needed immediately to purchase said fire uniforms.
FISCAL IMPACT: The Fire Division budgeted $600,000 for uniforms in the 2008 General Fund budget. The Fire Division has encumbered or expended approximately $206,000 year to date. This ordinance authorizes another $100,000 for the purchase of uniforms for the Fire Division from the 2008 General Fund budget. This purchase order for uniforms for the Fire Division is intended to be sufficient until passage of the 2009 Budget.
Body
WHEREAS, there is a need to purchase fire uniforms from the Division of Fire's General Fund Budget; and
WHEREAS, a Universal Term Contract established by the Purchasing Office exists for these purchases; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary to purchase said fire uniforms, for the immediate preservation of 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 Finance and Management Director be and is hereby authorized and directed to issue a purchase order for the purchase of fire uniforms in accordance with the existing Universal Term Contract established with Roy Tailors by the Purchasing Office for such purpose.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $100,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from the General Fund 010, Division of Fire No. 30-04, Object Level One 02, Object Level Three Code 2221, OCA Code 301531.
SECTION 3. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared 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.