Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Public Safety Director to enter into contract with Leads Online LLC for access to the company's Automated Scrap Materials and Used Goods Transaction Information Management System. The company will maintain records from all participants operating as licensed scrap metal facilities located in the continental United States and make the information available to the Columbus Division of Police for investigative searches for stolen goods, especially scrap metal.
Ordinance 0441-2007, passed in July 2007, amended Columbus City Codes to provide licensing and regulation of scrap metal dealers and ensure that motor vehicles and metal sold as scrap are legitimately owned by the seller. This ordinance is to contract with a company that owns a scrap metal management system that will assist the Division of Police with transaction information and allow secure access to facilitate investigations and the recovery of stolen property. The system will facilitate the correlation of reported thefts with commercial transactions of stolen or similar materials and enable apprehension.
The term of this contract shall be from December 1, 2008 to December 1, 2009 and shall not exceed a maximum of $41,288.00.
This ordinance also appropriates $41,288 within the Photo Red Light Fund. This fund was established in 2005 through ordinance number 1015-2005 to receive deposits of revenue generated by the photo Traffic Enforcement Program. Proceeds from this source are earmarked for expenditures related to Public Safety Initiatives.
Bid Information: The Purchasing office advertised a bid for Automated Scrap Metal and Used Goods Transactions Information Management System SA002924, which opened on May 27, 2008. Two companies responded, Business Watch International and Leads Online LLC. Leads Online LLC met all the specifications and was the most responsible, responsive and best bidder.
Contract Compliance - 421720332, expiration date July 16, 2009.
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is requested in order to allow the Division of Police access to the data base as soon as possible for investigative purposes.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $41,288.00 from the Photo Red Light fund for an Automated Scrap Materials and Used Goods Transaction Information Management System (software). Current available balance in the Photo Red Light fund is $68,656. Therefore, enough funds are available for this expenditure.
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To authorize and direct the Public Safety Director to establish a contract with Leads Online LLC, owners of a Scrap Metal Information System, for access to the company's Automated Scrap Materials and Used Goods Transaction Information Management System; to authorize the appropriation and expenditure of $41,288.00 from the Photo Red Light Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($41,288.00)
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WHEREAS, the theft of motor vehicles, motor vehicle parts and various types of metal materials that have value as scrap metal is a significant and growing problem for law enforcement agencies, contractors and builders, utility providers , business owners, home owners and the citizens of Columbus; and
WHEREAS, ordinance 0441-2007 passed in July 2007 provides for licensing and regulation of scrap metal dealers to help ensure that motor vehicles and metals sold as scrap metal are legitimately owned by the seller and not stolen property; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance seeks to assist in the recovery of stolen property by contracting with Leads Online LLC for access to their online data base to help the Division of Police in their investigations; and
WHEREAS, funds of $41,288 are available in the Photo Red Light Fund to be appropriated for this contract; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Police, Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate funds and enter into a contract for immediate access to a data base that will accelerate the apprehension of criminals for the preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety, welfare; now therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Public Safety Director be and is hereby authorized and directed to establish a contract with Leads Online LLC for access to their Scrap Metal Information System.
SECTION 2. That funds in the Photo Red Light Fund in the Division of Police, Division Number 30-03 be appropriated as follows:
FUND 293|OBJ LEVEL ONE 03|OBJ LEVEL THREE 3336| OCA CODE 293001|AMOUNT $41,288.00.
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $41,288.00, or so much thereof as may be needed, be and the same is hereby authorized as follows:
|DIV 30-03 | FUND 293 | OBJ LEVEL ONE 03 | OBJ LEVEL THREE 3336 | OCA 293001|
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