BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Public Service Director to enter into contracts for the installation and renovation of dog runs used by the Police Division. Installations and renovations will include putting up new kennels, removing kennels, and renovating old kennels. Each project will be competitively bid in accordance with the Columbus City Codes by the Facilities Management Division. Projects will typically cost under $5,000.
FISCAL IMPACT: The Safety Capital Fund has a total of $13,694.87 remaining for dog kennel renovations and installations. If the contracts cost less than this amount, the remaining balance will revert back to the Safety Capital Fund.
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To authorize the Public Service Director to enter into contracts for the installation and renovation of dog runs used by the Police Division, and to authorize the expenditure of $13,694.87 from the Safety Capital Improvement Fund. ($13,694.87)
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WHEREAS, it is necessary to install and renovate dog runs used by the Police Division; and
WHEREAS, once competitive bids are received, funds will be encumbered against the Auditor's certificate; and
WHEREAS, the Public Service Director will issue contracts for under $20,000 to the lowest and most responsible and responsive bidder subject to approval by the Executive Director of the Equal Business Opportunity Commission Office; and
WHEREAS, all expenditures from this project will be in compliance with competitive bid practices as set forth in the Columbus City Codes; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Public Service Director be and is hereby authorized to enter into contracts for the Facilities Management Division for the installation and renovation of dog runs used by the Police Division.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $13,694.87, or so much thereof as may be necessary in regard to the action in SECTION 1, be and is hereby authorized and approved as follows:
Division: 30-03
Fund: 736
Project: 330002
OCA Code: 642694
Object Level 1: 06
Object Level 3: 6620
Amount: $13,694.87
SECTION 3. The Public Service Director will issue contracts for under $20,000 to the lowest and most responsible and responsive bidder subject to approval by the Executive Director of the Equal Business Opportunity Commission Office and in compliance with competitive bid practices as set forth in the Section 329 of the Columbus City Codes.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.