Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Finance and Management Director to issue purchase orders and associate a budget reservation to AT&T for telephone services for the Department of Public Safety, Division of Fire. These phone services are used in the Division of Fire and other Public Safety facilities for Centrex services and data lines.
Bid Information: The Purchasing Office has set up a universal term contract with AT&T for telephone and data services.
AT&T is not debarred according to the excluded party listing system of the Federal Government or prohibited from being awarded a contract according to the Auditor of State Unresolved Findings for Recovery Certified Search.
Contract Compliance: Vendor #006413
Emergency Designation: Emergency action is requested as funds are needed immediately to ensure these services can continue without interruption and to pay existing invoices.
FISCAL IMPACT: $305,000.00 is needed for this purpose. The funding for this ordinance is contingent upon passage of Ordinance 2954-2024 (Public Safety Transfer 2024).
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to issue purchase orders on behalf of the Department of Public Safety, Division of Fire, for telephone services from an existing Universal Term Contract with AT&T; to authorize the expenditure of $305,000.00 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($305,000.00)
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WHEREAS, there is a need to purchase telephone services for the Division of Fire in the Department of Public Safety; and,
WHEREAS, a Universal Term Contract with AT&T has been established by the Purchasing Office for these services; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Public Safety has a need to expend $305,000.00 for outstanding AT&T invoices; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Safety, Division of Fire, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Finance and Management Director to issue purchase orders for telephone services to ensure these services can continue without interruption and to pay existing invoices, all for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, and safety; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of the Department of Finance and Management be and is hereby authorized to issue purchase orders to AT&T for telephone services for the Department of Public Safety, Division of Fire, on the basis of the City’s universal term contract with AT&T.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $305,000.00, or so much thereof as may be needed, is hereby authorized in the General Fund 1000 in object class 03 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such account codes as necessary.
SECTION 4. 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.