Explanation
This legislation serves to modify and increase the construction contract with Decker Construction Company for the Utility Cut and Restoration Project - 2002 in the amount of $250,000.00. This project consists of pavement restorations and backfilling necessitated by utility contractors excavating in the public rights-of-way and streets. This contract is being modified using existing prices obtained through the formal competitive bidding process. This existing contract allows up to three extensions and this is the second modification. The contractor is Decker Construction Company, contract compliance number 31-0983557 that expires July 7, 2006.
The original contract amount was for $335,000.00. The first modification amount was $300,000.00. The second modification amount is $250,000.00. The total contract amount including all modifications will be $885,000.00.
The sum of $50,000.00 is budgeted and available within the General Roadway Street Improvements project of the Transportation Division's General Permanent Improvement Fund and $200,000.00 is budgeted and available within the Sewerage and Drainage Division's Sanitary Operating Fund. This ordinance appropriates the General Permanent Improvement Fund cash. Over the past four years $2,300,000.00 has been expended on this project.
Emergency action is requested to minimize the extreme hazard caused to motorists and pedestrians by the improper or incomplete restoration of excavations in the rights-of-way.
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To appropriate $50,000.00 within the General Permanent Improvement Fund; to authorize the Public Service Director to modify and increase an existing contract with Decker Construction Company for the Utility Cut and Restoration project - 2002 for the Transportation Division; to authorize the expenditure of $50,000.00 from the General Permanent Improvement Fund and $200,000.00 from the Sanitary Operating Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($250,000.00)
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WHEREAS, Contract Number EL002313 was authorized by Ordinance 0734-2002, passed by City Council on May 6, 2002, executed on May 22, 2002, and approved by the City Attorney on May 28, 2002; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to modify this contract to provide for additional work for the Utility Cut and Restoration Project - 2002; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Transportation Division, in that the contract should be modified and increased immediately so that work can proceed without delay, 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 sum of $50,000.00 be and hereby is appropriated from the unappropriated balance of the General Permanent Improvement Fund, Fund 748, and from all monies estimated to come into said Fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2003, to Department No. 59-09, Transportation Division, Object Level One Code 06, Object Level Three 6631, OCA Code 537650 and Project 537650.
SECTION 2. That the Public Service Director be and hereby is authorized to modify and increase contract EL002313 with Decker Construction Company, 3040 McKinley Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43204 by $250,000.00 for additional work for the Utility Cut and Restoration project - 2002 to be completed in accordance with the terms and conditions as shown on the modification on file in the office of the City Engineer, which are hereby approved.
SECTION 3. That the sum of $50,000.00 is hereby authorized to be expended from the General Permanent Improvement Fund, Fund 748, Department No. 59-09, Transportation Division, Object Level One Code 06, Object Level Three 6631, OCA Code 537650 and Project 537650 and $200,000.00 from the Sanitary Operating Fund, Fund 650, Department No. 60-05, Sewerage and Drainage Division, Object Level One Code 03, Object Level Three Code 3375 and OCA Code 605089.
SECTION 4. 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.