Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Department of Public Safety, Division of Fire, requests approval to purchase a light duty truck or sport utility vehicle for use with the City’s Rapid Response Emergency Addiction Crisis Team (RREACT). RREACT is an innovative outreach service operated by the Division of Fire to actively address the opioid crisis. RREACT outreach includes firefighters/paramedics, Crisis Intervention Team certified peace officers, a substance use case manager, a registered SUD nurse, a family case manager, and a trauma specialist. Team members assess immediate health needs, provide resource referrals, and create opportunities for users and family/household members to link with harm reduction supplies, treatment programs, trauma services, and social benefit supports.
This legislation authorizes the City Auditor to appropriate existing funds within Grant Project G342000, and authorizes the Finance and Management Director to associate General Budget Reservation(s) resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate universal term contract(s) purchase agreement(s) with George Byers Sons Inc. (vendor 006008 / purchase agreement PA004948), on behalf of the Department of Public Safety, Division of Fire, for the purchase of a light duty truck or sport utility vehicle to be used in the aforementioned operations.
EMERGENCY ACTION: This ordinance is submitted as an emergency so this purchase may commence prior to automotive manufacturer order cutoff dates.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes the appropriation and expenditure of $53,182.00 from the General Government Grants Fund, Project G342000 United States Centers for Disease Control Overdose Data to Action; sufficient cash exists within this grant project to fund this authorized purchase.
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To authorize the City Auditor to appropriate $53,182.00 within the General Government Grants Fund Project; to authorize the Director of Finance and Management to associate General Budget Reservation(s) resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate universal term contract(s) purchase agreement(s) with George Byers Sons Inc. on behalf of the Department of Public Safety, Division of Fire, for the purchase of a light duty truck or sport utility vehicle for RREACT operations; to authorize the expenditure of $53,182.00 from the General Government Grants Fund 2220; and to declare an emergency. ($53,182.00)
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WHEREAS, the Division of Fire needs to purchase a light duty truck or sport utility vehicle for use with the City’s Rapid Response Emergency Addiction Crisis Team (RREACT);
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WHEREAS, RREACT outreach includes firefighters/paramedics, Crisis Intervention Team certified peace officers, a substance use case manager, a registered SUD nurse, a family case manager, and a trauma specialist; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary for the City Auditor to appropriate cash within General Government Grants Fund 2220 Project G342000 United States Centers for Disease Control Overdose Data to Action to accommodate this purchase; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary for the Finance and Management Director to associate General Budget Reservation(s) resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate universal term contract(s) purchase agreement(s) with George Byers Sons Inc. on behalf of the Department of Public Safety, Division of Fire; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the Department of Public Safety, Division of Fire, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the City Auditor to appropriate the necessary grant funds, and to authorize the Director of Finance and Management to associate said funds with the appropriate universal term contract(s)/purchase agreement(s) on behalf of the Department of Public Safety, Division of Fire so this purchase may commence prior to automotive manufacturer order cutoff dates, 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 City Auditor is authorized to appropriate $53,182.00 within the General Government Grant Fund Project G342000 as per the attached accounting document.
SECTION 2. That the Director of Finance and Management is authorized to associate General Budget Reservation(s) resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate universal term contract(s) purchase agreement(s) with George Byers Sons Inc. on behalf of the Department of Public Safety, Division of Fire for the purchase of a light duty truck or sport utility vehicle for Columbus Fire RREACT operations.
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $53,182.00 is authorized from the General Government Grants Fund No. 2220, according to the attached accounting document.
SECTION 4. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this ordinance.
SECTION 5. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 6. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Sections shall be paid upon order of the Director of Public Safety and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except upon voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 7. 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 nor vetoes the same.