Explanation
Background: The Transportation Division is responsible for routine and emergency maintenance and rehabilitation of the roadway system, snow and ice removal and control operations, the inspection of various construction projects and the installation and maintenance of roadway signage and lighting.
To meet these responsibilities, the Division employs an extensive and varied fleet of vehicles. In order to maximize usage of the fleet, it is necessary that these vehicles be equipped with radios. This enables greater coordination of fleet units by enhancing the ability of supervisors to dispatch vehicles to needed locations at a moment's notice. This is of particular importance during periods of emergency street repair and snow and ice removal operations.
The Division utilizes an 800 MHz radio system operated by the Franklin County Radio System and coordinated by the Central Ohio Communication Advisory Committee. A contract for this purpose was entered with the Franklin County Public Facilities Department on February 13, 1998. This legislation authorizes the expenditure of $75,000.00 to pay for the use of this 800 MHz radio system.
Fiscal Impact: The Transportation Division budgeted $75,000.00 in the 2005 Street Construction, Maintenance, and Repair Fund appropriation for the use of the Franklin County Radio System. The Transportation Division spent $64,127.00 and $66,806.76 in 2003 and 2004, respectively, for this service.
Emergency action is requested so that payment may be made to Franklin County as soon as practical.
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To authorize the Public Service Director to render payment to Franklin County, Ohio, for the Transportation Division's use of the Franklin County 800 MHz radio system; to authorize the expenditure of $75,000.00 from the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund for this purpose, and to declare an emergency. ($75,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Transportation Division is responsible for routine and emergency maintenance and rehabilitation of the roadway system and for the inspection of various construction projects affecting this system; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary that these vehicles be equipped with 800 MHz radios; and
WHEREAS, the Transportation Division has entered into an agreement with Franklin County to gain access to their 800 MHz communications system; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Transportation Division, in that it is immediately necessary to pay communication fees to Franklin County for use of the 800 MHz radio system, 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 Public Service Director be and hereby is authorized to render payment of $75,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary to Franklin County, Ohio, for the Transportation Division's use of the Franklin County 800 MHz radio system in 2005.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $75,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary for this purpose, be and hereby is authorized from Fund 265, the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund, Department No. 59-09, Transportation Division, Object Level One Code 03, Object Level Three Code 3321 as follows:
OCA Code/ Amount
559047/ $ 5,500.00
559079/ $ 5,500.00
559088/ $ 5,500.00
559106/ $ 5,500.00
559108/ $ 5,500.00
599120/ $ 5,000.00
599122/ $19,300.00
599139/ $10,000.00
599144/ $10,000.00
599146/ $ 1,100.00
599158/ $ 1,100.00
599159/ $ 1,000.00
Total $75,000.00
SECTION 3. 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.