Explanation
This legislation will modify and increase the existing contract with Specialized Business Software for the ongoing development and implementation of an existing workflow tracking/imaging system specifically integrated with the existing Income Tax application.
Fiscal Impact:
$90,000 from Department 22-02, General Fund 010, Object Level Three 3347, OCA 220202, for e-file/e-payment modifications.
Title
To authorize and direct the City Auditor to modify and increase the current contract with Specialized Business Software to provide for the development and implementation of Phase Four of the Workflow application for the Office of the Auditor, Income Tax Division, which will provide for the online filings of taxpayers to be placed into the Workflow application and integrated with the existing Income Tax application, enhancing the function of the Workflow application to the benefit of the taxpayers and increasing efficiencies within the Income Tax Division; to authorize the expenditure of $90,000 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($90,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, The City Auditor wishes to modify and extend an existing contract for the continued development, enhancement and implementation of a workflow tracking/imaging system for the Division of Income Tax as outlined within the Request for Proposal issued December 3, 2005 with Specialized Business Software, Inc., and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Income Tax Division in that it is necessary to insure the efficient operations by entering into contract with Specialized Business Software, 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 is hereby authorized and directed to modify an existing contract with Specialized Business Software for the development, enhancement and implementation of a workflow tracking/imaging system specifically integrated with the Income Tax application.
Section 2. That the expenditure of $90,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary for the work of Specialized Business Software is hereby authorized from Department 22-02, General Fund 010, Object Level 3 3347, OCA 220202.
Section 3. That for the reasons stated in the preamble, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall be in force after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.