Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This Ordinance allows the Finance and Management Director to establish a purchase order per the terms and conditions of a Universal Term Contract (UTC) with WW Williams in the amount of $1,464.00 for the Fleet Management Division. This amount is for the installation of diesel oxidation catalysts (DOCs) on select diesel vehicles. DOCs are estimated to reduce particulate matter by 25 percent, carbon monoxide by 50 percent, and hydrocarbons by 50 percent. This project is part of a grant awarded by the US Environmental Protection Agency to fund the Mid-Ohio Public Diesel Fleet Initiative, a collaborative partnership between the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission, the Ohio Environmental Council (OEC), the City of Columbus, and the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA). The grant is funding Fleet Management's portion of the "Mid-Ohio Public Diesel Fleet Initiative: Leading the Way to Cleaner Air" project.
WW Williams, Contract Compliance Number 31-1024851, expiration 09/08/2010.
FISCAL IMPACT: The necessary funding of $1,464.00 is available from a previously established Auditor's Certificate (AC028653) via the authority of ordinance 0888-2008, passed 06/16/2008.
EMERGENCY ACTION is requested in order to allow the necessary installation of diesel oxidation catalysts (DOCs) on select diesel vehicles, thereby ensuring quick compliance with the awarded grant.
Title
To authorize the Finance and Management Director to establish a purchase order from an existing Auditor's Certificate in the amount of $1,464.00 for the Fleet Management Division with WW Williams in order to install diesel oxidation catalysts (DOCs) on select diesel vehicles for a Midwest Clean Diesel Initiative grant; and to declare an emergency. ($1,464.00)
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WHEREAS, the Finance and Management Department has a need to establish a purchase order in the amount of $1,464.00 with WW Williams from an existing Auditor's Certificate (AC028653) per the terms of a Universal Term Contract; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Finance and Management Department, Fleet Management Division, in that it is immediately necessary to establish said purchase order in order to quickly comply with the grant, 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 Finance and Management Director is hereby authorized to establish a purchase order from AC028653 with WW Williams per the terms and conditions of a Universal Term Contract in order to install diesel oxidation catalysts (DOCs) on select diesel vehicles for a Midwest Clean Diesel Initiative grant under the project heading "Mid-Ohio Public Diesel Fleet Initiative: Leading the Way to Cleaner Air."
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.