Explanation
Background: A vendor that conducts business with the Transportation Division appears to do so under two names, "Gaddis and Son, Incorporated", and "Gaddis and Son, Incorporated, a joint venture with Decker Construction Company". However, these are two separate legal entities with different City Auditor's Office-assigned city vendor numbers.
Three prior year encumbering documents were originally inadvertently assigned to one entity when in fact they should have been assigned to the other entity. This ordinance attempts to clarify this situation by changing the vendor connected with three encumbering documents established in connection with the 1997-1998 Wheelchair Ramps Phase 3 project, EA026077-003, 005 and 007 from "Gaddis, and Son, Incorporated" to "Gaddis and Son, Incorporated, a joint venture with Decker Construction Company". The City Auditor's Office requires that City Council endorse and confirm this assignment.
Fiscal Impact: None. This assignment makes no change in the dollar amounts previously encumbered.
Emergency action is requested to clarify any ambiguity concerning what vendor is assigned to these encumbering documents.
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To authorize the City Auditor to change the vendor assigned to three encumbering documents from 'Gaddis and Son, Incorporated' to 'Gaddis and Son, Incorporated, a joint venture with Decker Construction Company' to clarify that these are two separate legal entities with different City Auditor's Office-assigned city vendor numbers for the Transportation Division, and to declare an emergency. ($-0-).
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WHEREAS, a vendor that conducts business with the Transportation Division appears to do so under two names, "Gaddis and Son, Incorporated", and "Gaddis and Son, Incorporated, a joint venture with Decker Construction Company"; and
WHEREAS, these are in fact two separate legal entities with different City Auditor's Office-assigned city vendor numbers; and
WHEREAS, three (3) prior year encumbering documents connected with the 1997-1998 Wheelchair Ramps Phase 3 project were originally assigned to one vendor when in fact they should have been assigned to the other entity; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance attempts to clarify this situation by changing the vendor connected with EA026077-003, 005 and 007 from "Gaddis and Son, Incorporated" to "Gaddis and Son, Incorporated, a joint venture with Decker Construction Company"; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Transportation Division, Public Service Department, in that it is immediately necessary that City Council endorse and confirm this assignment to eliminate any ambiguity concerning what vendor is assigned to these encumbering documents, 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 City Auditor be and hereby is authorized to change the vendor assigned to EA026077-003, 005 and 007 from "Gaddis and Son, Incorporated" (vendor number 31-0818069) to "Gaddis and Son, Incorporated, a joint venture with Decker Construction Company" (vendor number 31-1382988) to alleviate any possible confusion to this end by and for the Transportation Division.
SECTION 2. 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.