Explanation
NEED:
This legislation authorizes the Department of Finance and Management to purchase seventeen (17) vehicles for the Division of Fire from the Capital South Fund number 481, in accordance with the terms and conditions of Purchasing Office contracts FL002826 and FL002828 with Byers Chevrolet, LLC, and FL002854 with 32 Ford Mercury, Inc. These new vehicles will replace old and deteriorated ones that have exceeded their useful lives.
Contract Compliance: Byers Chevrolet, LLC 314139860; 32 Ford Mercury, Inc. 311285506
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is needed to make the funds available as soon as possible to expedite delivery time of these vehicles.
FISCAL IMPACT: The funding source is the Capital South Fund, number 481. This arrangement eliminates the need to use General Funds for the purchase of Division of Fire vehicles in 2006.
Title
To authorize and direct the Finance and Management Director to enter into contracts for the purchase of vehicles with Byers Chevrolet, LLC and 32 Ford Mercury, Inc.; to authorize the appropriation and expenditure of $298,793.00 from the Capital South Fund and to declare an emergency. ($298,793.00)
Body
WHEREAS, a need exists to purchase vehicles for the Division of Fire to replace high mileage vehicles; and
WHEREAS, the Purchasing Office has current contracts with Byers Chevrolet, LLC and 32 Ford Mercury, Inc. for the purchase of said vehicles; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual and daily operation of the Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary to enter into a contract to purchase said vehicles to expedite delivery 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 enter into contracts for the purchase of vehicles from Byers Chevrolet, LLC and 32 Ford Mercury, Inc. in accordance with the term and conditions of the contracts therefore.
Section 2. That the appropriation and expenditure of $298,793.00 or so much thereof as may be needed, be and same is hereby authorized as follows:
DIV FD Obj. Level 1 Object Level 3 OCA Code AMOUNT
30-03 481 06 6650 330481 $298,793.00
Section 3. That for reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part thereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from the after its passage and approval by the Mayor or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.