Explanation
Background: This legislation authorizes the Public Service Director to enter into a professional services contract with TranSystems Corporation for the Cassady Avenue Traffic Study project for the Transportation Division. The project limits are Cassady Avenue from the Bexley corporate limit north to Agler Road. As development continues to occur in the corridor, this study will determine the number of lanes needed to satisfy future travel demand. This project will also develop typical section treatments for the adjacent residential and business communities. The City of Bexley has expressed an interest in creating a more aesthetic appearance of Cassady Avenue, including a gateway at the Columbus/Bexley border.
Requests for proposals (RFPs) for this work were solicited from design consultant firms and the proposal submitted by TranSystems Corporation was determined to be the lowest, best, most responsive and most responsible of the six (6) proposals received. Prices were determined through negotiation with this consultant. TranSystems' contract compliance number is 43-0839725 (expires December 3, 2005).
Fiscal Impact: Funds in the amount of $467,445.00 are budgeted and available within the Transportation Division's 2004 Capital Improvement Budget in the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Improvement Fund in various projects. This ordinance transfers monies from these projects to the Roadway Improvements project as appropriate. At the time that this ordinance is written the existing balance in the Roadway Improvements project is $274,336.85.
Emergency action is requested to allow this study to be completed as soon as possible so that design and construction issue-related decisions can be identified and decided without delay.
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To authorize the City Auditor to transfer $193,108.15 between projects within the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund; to authorize the Public Service Director to enter into a professional service contract with TranSystems Corporation for the Cassady Avenue Traffic Study project for the Transportation Division; to authorize the expenditure of $467,445.00 from the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($467,445.00)
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WHEREAS, the City has identified the need to engage a professional engineering services provider for the Cassady Avenue Traffic Study project; and
WHEREAS, the purpose of this project is to study the Cassady Avenue corridor to determine improvements needed and the costs of the improvements; and
WHEREAS, recommendations for typical pavement section treatments, landscaping and other improvements and an identification of the rights-of-way needed for the improvement will be included in this study; and
WHEREAS, funds are available within the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund to pay for the costs associated with said Cassady Avenue Traffic Study project; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Transportation Division, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Public Service Director to engage a professional services provider and begin the Cassady Avenue Traffic Study project so that so that design and construction issue-related decisions can be identified and decided without delay, 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 transfer $193,108.15 between projects within Fund 704, the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund, Department No. 59-09, Transportation Division, as follows:
TRANSFER FROM:
Project No. / Project /O. L. One/Object Level Three Codes / OCA Code / Amount
440005 / Urban Infrastructure / 06/6600 / 644385 / $12,170.64
530021 / Urban Infrastructure / 06/6600 / 644385 / $20.26
530058 / Neighborhood Commercial Revitalization / 06/6600 / 644385 $13,330.53
590127 / Spring Sandusky Interchange - OTMP / 06/6600 / 644385 / $167,586.72
Total Transfer From: $193,108.15
TRANSFER TO:
Project No. / Project /O. L. One/Object Level Three Codes / OCA Code / Amount
530161 / Roadway Improvements / 06/6682 /644385 / $193,108.15
Total Transfer To: $193,108.15
SECTION 2. That the Public Service Director be and hereby is authorized to enter into a contract with TranSystems Corporation, 5747 Perimeter Drive, Suite 240, Dublin, Ohio 43017 in an amount not to exceed $467,445.00 for the Cassady Avenue Traffic Study project for the Transportation Division.
SECTION 3. That for the purpose of paying the cost thereof, the sum of $467,445.00 or so much thereof as may be needed be and hereby is authorized to be expended from Fund 704, the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund, Department No. 59-09, Transportation Division, Object Level One Code 06, Object Level Three Code 6682, OCA Code 644385 and Project 530161.
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 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.