Explanation
This ordinance requests authority for the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a joint funding agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior, for the Division Sewerage and Drainage. This agreement is to maintain cooperation for a study to provide Microbial Source Tracking (MST) host-associated marker data to help understand background levels of select sources of contamination and to characterize the temporal and spatial trends in MST marker data during dry and wet weather events.
The amount to be contributed by the Department of Public Utilities, Division of Sewerage and Drainage shall be for a total amount of $155,336.00 and covers all the cost of the necessary field and analytical work directly related to this program for the period of May 1, 2011 to September 30, 2013. This amount will be billed quarterly and must be paid within 60 days after the billing date to avoid any interest charges at the current Treasury rate for each 30 day period, or portion thereof, that the payment is delayed. The total for each billing cycle will be $29,946.00 for work from the date of execution to 9/30/11; $109,349.00 for 10/1/11 - 9/30/12 and $16,041.00 for 10/1/12 to 9/30/13.
SUPPLIER: U.S. Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. The FID # is 53-0196950 (003), Federal Agency.
This legislation is being submitted as an emergency so as not to delay the start of the agreement or the processing of the quarterly payments so as to avoid any interest fees. This work is in conjunction with the City's Consent order with the State of Ohio and must proceed on schedule.
FISCAL IMPACT: $139,295.00 is needed for this agreement to cover the payments for work from the date of execution to 9/30/11 in the amount of $29,946.00 and 10/1/11 - 9/30/12 in the amount of $109,349.00. Funds are being re-prioritized to make the necessary funding available. No additional budget appropriation will be needed.
Title
To authorize the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a joint funding agreement with the US Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior for a study to provide Microbial Source Tracking host-associated marker data of select sources of contamination, to authorize the expenditure of $139,295.00 from the Sewerage System Operating Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($139,295.00)
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WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the City of Columbus, Department of Public Utilities to enter into a joint funding agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey, United States Department of Interior, and
WHEREAS, this agreement is to maintain cooperation for a study to provide Microbial Source Tracking (MST) host-associated marker data to help understand background levels of select sources of contamination and to characterize the temporal and spatial trends in MST marker data during dry and wet weather events, and
WHEREAS, the total amount to be contributed by the Department of Public Utilities, Division of Sewerage and Drainage shall cover all the cost of the necessary field and analytical work directly related to this program for work from the date of execution to September 30, 2013, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the Department of Public Utilities, in that it is immediately necessary to enter into the joint funding agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey, United States Department of Interior, so as not to delay the start of the agreement or the processing of the quarterly payments so as to avoid any interest fees for the 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 Public Utilities be and is hereby authorized to enter into a joint funding agreement between the U.S. Geological Survey, United States Department of Interior, and the City of Columbus, Department of Public Utilities, to maintain cooperation for a study to provide MST host-associated marker data to help understand background levels of select sources of contamination and to characterize the temporal and spatial trends in MST marker data during dry and wet weather events.
Section 2. That the expenditure of $139,295.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from the Sewerage System Operating Fund, Fund No. 650, OCA: 605113, Object Level One: 03, Object Level Three: 3407.
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.