Explanation
Background: This legislation authorizes and directs the Finance Director to issue a purchase order to Ohio Cat of Columbus for a rebuilding to BT-16411, a 1994 Caterpillar Articulating Wheel Loader owned by the Sewerage & Drainage Division. Ohio Cat has provided Fleet Management with a written estimate. This service rebuild strips the vehicle down to the frame and replaces all wiring, hydraulics, controls, pumps and drive train components with remanufactured exchange components providing a new vehicle with a 2000 hour / 1 year all parts and labor warranty. Useful life of this loader ranges between 10,000 and 15,000 hours. This particular loader has 19,000 hours of service. A complete replacement of a wheel loader would cost an estimated $333,000.00. Therefore this legislation is to authorize and direct the expenditure of $126,145.30 from the Fleet Maintenance Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($126,145.30). Contract Compliance No. 34-0672362; expiration date 06/05/2006.
Fiscal Impact: Fleet Management budgets annually for repair services, however, significant repairs and rebuilds may require a supplemental appropriation later this year. These expenditures are offset by invoicing Sewerage & Drainage Division for this repair.
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To authorize and direct the Finance Director to establish a purchase order for the Fleet Management Division for the rebuilding of an Articulating Wheel Loader owned by the Sewerage & Drainage Division, to authorize and direct the expenditure of $126,145.30 from the Fleet Maintenance Fund, to waive the competitive bidding requirements of the Columbus City Codes, and to declare an emergency. ($126,145.30)
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WHEREAS, BT-16411, a Caterpillar Articulating Wheel Loader, is in need of a rebuilding, and
WHEREAS, Ohio Cat is the Central Ohio Caterpillar authorized dealership, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Fleet Management Division, Public Service Department, in that it is immediately necessary to establish a purchase order for the rebuilding of BT-16411, 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 Finance Director be and hereby is authorized and directed to issue a purchase order to Ohio Cat for the rebuilding of BT-16411, a Caterpillar Articulating Wheel Loader.
Section 2. That the expenditure of $126,145.30, or so much thereof as may be needed, is hereby authorized and directed to be expended from the Fleet Maintenance Fund, 513, Department No. 59-05, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3373, OCA Code 591347 to pay the cost thereof.
Section 3. That in accordance with Section 329.27 of the Columbus City Codes, City Council finds it to be in the best interest of the City of Columbus that the competitive bidding requirements of Section 329.06 of the Columbus City Codes be and are hereby waived.
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.