Explanation
1. BACKGROUND:
A. Need. This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to modify the agreement with Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., for professional program management services for the 2006-2010 Capital Improvements Program of the Division of Sewerage and Drainage. The work in that program is a very substantial group of sewer capital improvements projects (CIPs), both collections systems and treatment works improvements, which has been agreed to by the City and Ohio EPA in order to conform to the requirements of the City's consent orders. The actual emplacement of the CIPs will be by construction contract; the professional program management contract is providing: program planning, scheduling, budgeting, and status reporting; construction management; design management; some design of critical projects; special services such as Value Engineering, and other services for this very large, important program, as directed by the City. The initial authorization of, and appropriation of monies to, this contract was accomplished by Ordinance No. 0731-2006, passed May 8, 2006. This contract was always planned to be funded incrementally, via approximately annual appropriations. The initial FY2006 appropriation will be exhausted at the end of 2006, and this modification provides monies to continue this important work into FY2007.
B. Contract Compliance No.: 132653703(MAJ).
D. Emergency Designation: The Division of Sewerage and Drainage hereby requests City Council to concur in the declaration of this ordinance as an emergency measure, in order to assure that these important management services continue to coordinate the design and construction of the Division's Wet Weather Management Plan infrastructure improvements within the schedule commitments made to Ohio EPA in the City's consent orders.
2. FISCAL IMPACT:
The probable total amount of this contract over the program duration through 2010 may be approximately $45,000,000.00. This contract is planned to be modified, approximately annually, to provide needed monies as the program proceeds. Actual timing and modification amounts will depend upon the progress and development of the overall program. The amount of this modification is as programmed for the Fall, 2006 Bond Sale.
3. PROJECT LOCATION:
This project involves all of the Division's major facilities, City-wide.
Title
To authorize the Director of Public Utilities to modify the agreement with Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., for Professional Program Management Services for the 2006-2010 Capital Improvements Program under the Wet Weather Management Plan, for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage; to authorize the expenditure of $12,000,000.00 from the Voted Sanitary Bond Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($12,000,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Division of Sewerage and Drainage is undertaking a substantial program of large capital improvements to improve the Division's facilities, in conformance with a Wet Weather Management Plan submitted by the City to Ohio EPA, in conformance with the City's agreed-upon Consent Orders; and
WHEREAS, a program of the size and scope of that being undertaken by the Division to improve its facilities requires the best, most robust management to assure the success of the program; and
WHEREAS, the City has contracted for such professional program management services, under authority of Ordinance No. 0731-2006, passed April 8, 2006; and
WHEREAS, the initial funding of contract EL006055 was planned to be sufficient to provide the necessary services for the balance of 2006, with additional necessary funding to be added as the program proceeds in 2007 and subsequent years; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Department of Public Utilities, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director of Public Utilities to modify the agreement for professional program management services for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage's 2006-2010 capital improvements program in order to ensure that these important management services continue to coordinate the design and construction of the Division's Wet Weather Management Plan infrastructure improvements within the schedule commitments made to Ohio EPA in the City's consent orders; Now, Therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Director of Public Utilities be, and hereby is, authorized to modify contract EL006055 with Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., 1900 Polaris Parkway, Suite 200, Columbus, Ohio 43240-2020, for Professional Program Management Services for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage's 2006-2010 capital improvements program, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the modification on file in the offices of the Division of Sewerage and Drainage.
Section 2. That the said firm shall perform the work to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Utilities and the Administrator of the Division of Sewerage and Drainage.
Section 3. That for the purpose of paying the cost of the said modification, the following expenditure, or as much thereof as may be needed, be and the same hereby is authorized from the Voted Sanitary Bond Fund, Fund 664| Div.: 60-05 as follows: Project No. 650390| OCA Code 664390| Object Level Three 6678| Amount $12,000,000.00.
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 which 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.