Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Finance and Management Director to increase a contract with Kone, Inc. for the maintenance of elevators in various city buildings in the amount of $10,000.00, for a total of $178,000.00 for the Facilities Management Division, covering the period of August 1, 2007, through July 31, 2008. The original authorization for this renewal contract passed July 19, 2007, in the amount of $168,000.00. Additional money is necessary to correct problems that are covered by the contingency, which has already been used. Currently, a repair is necessary on the jail car elevator at the Municipal Court building, 375 South High Street. Without this increase, the contract would be short of necessary funding.
Emergency action is requested so that needed service on elevators is not delayed, thereby ensuring no disruption in service.
Kone, Inc. Contract Compliance Number 36-2357423, exp. 07/13/2008.
Fiscal Impact: The contract increase will cost $10,000.00. The Facilities Management Division budgeted $175,000.00 for this expense in 2008. The total amount of this contract after the increase will be $178,000.00. Of this, $168,000.00 was funded through 2007 money.
Title
To authorize the Finance and Management Director to increase a contract with Kone, Inc. for the maintenance and service of elevators for the Facilities Management Division; to authorize the expenditure of $10,000.00 from the General Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($10,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, Ordinance 1127-2007, passed July 19, 2007, authorized the Finance and Management Director to modify a contract with Kone, Inc. for the maintenance and service of elevators for the Facilities Management Division, and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to increase this contract so that proper funding is available for repairs and service that were unexpected, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Finance and Management Department, Facilities Management Division, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Finance and Management Director to increase a contract with Kone, Inc. for the maintenance and service of elevators as soon as possible, thereby ensuring that elevators are not put out of service, thereby preserving the public health, 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 is hereby authorized to increase a contract with Kone, Inc. for maintenance and service of elevators for the Facilities Management Division, for the period of August 1, 2007 to July 31, 2008.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $10,000.00, or so much thereof that may be necessary in regard to the action authorized in SECTION 1, be and is hereby authorized and approved as follows:
Division: 45-07
Fund: 010
OCA Code: 450044
Object Level 1: 03
Object Level 3: 3370
Amount: $10,000.00
SECTION 3. That for 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 or vetoes the same.