Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Public Service Director to enter into a $60,000.00 Guaranteed Maximum Cost Agreement with the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts (CAPA) for a feasibility and construction assessment of the Lincoln Theatre, located at 769 East Long Street. CAPA has agreed to act as fiscal agent and contract administrator on behalf of the City of Columbus in working with the Columbus Children's Theatre (CCT) and the King Lincoln Redevelopment Corporation to determine the scope and costs of alterations and additions required to provide a modern functional facility. Concurrent with this assessment, the King Lincoln Redevelopment Corporation is in negotiations with Columbus Children's Theater (CCT) for use of the third floor of the Lincoln Theatre facility as administrative and rehearsal space.
This study will establish the cost and specifications associated with renovating the existing facility into a fully functional theatrical facility. The cost of the assessment will be $60,000.00 and is anticipated to be completed within three months after a notice to proceed is issued.
Emergency action is requested so that the contractor will be able to complete the feasibility study quickly so that the building will operate more quickly, thereby bringing revenue to the City.
FISCAL IMPACT: The Facilities Management Division budgeted $750,000.00 in the 2004 Capital Improvements Budget for City Facilities Studies. This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $60,000.00.
Title
To authorize the Public Service Director to enter into a Guaranteed Maximum Cost Agreement with the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts for a feasibility and construction assessment of the Lincoln Theatre; to waive competitive bidding requirements of the Columbus City Code; to authorize the expenditure of $60,000.00 from the Facilities Management Capital Improvement Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($60,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the need exists to enter into a Guaranteed Maximum Cost Agreement for a feasibility and construction assessment of the Lincoln Theatre at 769 East Long Street, and
WHEREAS, a feasibility and construction assessment is necessary to determine the extent of the structural and mechanical repair needs of the Lincoln Theatre, and
WHEREAS, a feasibility and construction assessment will begin the process for construction improvement of the Lincoln Theatre that will restore it to its former usefulness and aesthetic splendor, and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the city to waive the formal competitive bidding requirements of the Columbus City Code and award this agreement in accordance with Section 186 of the Columbus City Charter, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Facilities Management Division, in that it is immediately necessary to enter into a Guaranteed Maximum Cost Agreement for a feasibility and construction assessment of Lincoln Theatre with the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts (CAPA), 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 Public Service Director be and hereby is authorized to enter into a Guaranteed Maximum Cost Agreement with the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts for a feasibility and construction assessment of the Lincoln Theatre at 769 East Long Street, in the amount of $60,000.00 pursuant to Section 186 of the Columbus City Charter.
SECTION 2. That in accordance with Section 329.27 of the Columbus City Code, City Council has determined that it is in the best interest of the City of Columbus that the formal competitive bidding requirements of Chapter 329 be and hereby are waived for the procurement of engineering and construction services pursuant to this Guaranteed Maximum Cost Agreement.
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $60,000.00, 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: 59-07
Fund: 733
Project: 570030
OCA Code: 643437
Object Level 1: 06
Object Level 3: 6601
Amount: $60,000.00
SECTION 4. 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.