Explanation
Background: This ordinance will authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks to donate a trash truck to the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium. The Columbus Zoo has a need for a compacting trash truck to service its site.
The Recreation and Parks Department is disposing of a used truck that was replaced in 2017 with a new unit. The truck still has some useful life, particularly if utilized on a stationary site versus traveling all over the city to various parks. As the Columbus Zoo is a non-profit, partner of the Recreation and Parks Department, serving many of the same residents, the department thinks it is in the best interest of the citizens we serve to be as efficient and economical as possible. To this end, the Recreation and Parks Department would like to donate the used trash truck to the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium to assist with their operational need in the service of our residents.
The name listed on the vehicle title should be "Columbus Zoo."
Emergency Justification: An emergency is being requested in order to get the truck to the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium as soon as possible for their busy summer season.
Fiscal Impact: None.
Principal Parties:
Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
4850 W. Powell Rd.
Powell, Ohio 43065
614.645.3400
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of the Recreation and Parks Department to donate to the Columbus Zoo a compacting trash truck; to waive the relevant provisions of Chapter 329 relating to the Sale of City Owned Personal Property; and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, the Columbus Zoo is in need of a compacting trash truck; and
WHEREAS, the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department is disposing of a used truck that was replaced in 2017; and
WHEREAS, it is in the City's best interest to waive the relevant provisions of Chapter 329 relating to the Sale of City Owned Personal Property to make this donation; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual and daily operation of the Department of Recreation and Park in that it is immediately necessary to donate this truck to the Columbus Zoo in order to use it for their busy summer season, for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of the Department of Recreation and Parks be and is hereby authorized and directed to donate a compacting trash truck.
SECTION 2. That this Council finds it to be in the best interests of the City to waive the relevant provisions of Chapter 329 of City Code relating to the Sale of City-Owned Personal Property in order to donate this compacting trash truck to the Columbus Zoo.
SECTION 3. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared 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.