Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to modify to extend the term of the agreement from December 31, 2024 until December 31, 2025, with Home & Commercial Inspections LLC to continue to provide radon testing services.
Original $ 14,612.50 Ord. 1115-2022 PO379816
Mod 1 $ 0.00 Ord. 2877-2023 PO379816
Mod 2 $ 0.00 Ord. 3119-2024
Total $ 14,612.50
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded nearly $104.7 million to 60 non-profit organizations, and state and local government agencies located in 29 states to protect children and families from home health hazards. HUD is providing these grants through its Healthy Homes Production Grant Program which will help grantees identify health and safety hazards in low-income families’ homes. The grants will protect children and families with incomes at or below eighty percent of the area median income level by targeting significant lead and health hazards in over 7,400 low-income homes for which other resources are not available. The Healthy Homes Production Grant Program takes a comprehensive approach to addressing multiple childhood diseases and injuries in the home by focusing on housing-related hazards in a coordinated fashion, rather than addressing a single hazard at a time. The program builds upon HUD’s successful Lead Hazard Control programs to expand the Department’s efforts to holistically address a variety of high-priority housing-based health and safety hazards, such as mold and moisture, poor indoor air quality, pests, carbon monoxide, injury, and safety hazards, in addition to lead-based paint.
This modification will extend the term of the contract to continue to provide radon testing services as authorized per the Healthy Homes Production Grant through December 31, 2025. This is a planned modification to continue to provide the services needed for the term of the grant. When the contract is initially entered into we do not know exactly how many homes at the time will require radon mitigation versus other Healthy Homes services and thus we know there will be additional legislation throughout the entire term of the grant to either increase funding to the various radon mitigation contractors or extend the term of the contracts. The City actually has several radon mitigation vendors and they are on a rotation schedule within the program so no additional procurement efforts are needed as that was done at the beginning of the grant for the term of the grant.
This is a planned modification to continue to provide the services needed for the term of the grant.
Emergency Designation: Emergency action is needed to extend the term of the agreement through the period of performance of the grant in order to continue to support those who are living in a home with a health and or safety hazards such as lead, mold and moisture, poor indoor air quality, etc. by addressing the issues to assure they can stay in their homes.
FISCAL IMPACT: No additional funding is necessary.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE: the vendor number is 040111 and expires 11/10/2025.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to modify the contract with Home & Commercial Inspections LLC to extend the term of the agreement from December 31, 2024 to December 31, 2025; and declare an emergency. ($0.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Development executed an agreement with Home & Commercial Inspections LLC for radon testing services; and
WHEREAS, the agreement term needs to be extended in order to expend all the funds originally appropriated within the period of performance of the grant; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development in that it is necessary to extend the term of the agreement through the period of performance of the grant in order to continue to support those who are living in a home with a health and or safety hazards such as lead, mold and moisture, poor indoor air quality, etc. by addressing the issues to assure they can stay in their homes thereby preserving the public, health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; and NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of the Department of Development is hereby authorized to modify a contract (PO379816) with Home & Commercial Inspections LLC to extend the agreement term to December 31, 2025, in order to expend all the funds original appropriated.
SECTION 2: 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 approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.