Explanation
The Refuse Collection Division requires eight (8) cubic yard containers with which to collect refuse from multi-family dwellings and other applications where the utilization of such containers is more efficient and less costly than utilizing 90-gallon or 300-gallon containers and/or is dictated by spatial considerations such as those found in the campus area. In instances where 8 cubic yard containers will replace existing 90 and 300-gallon containers the change-out will provide for more refuse capacity and serve to improve the cleanliness of neighborhood alleys.
The Purchasing Office established a universal term contract with Capital Resource Consultants for the purchase of eight cubic yard containers through the formal competitive bidding process in 2003 (bid #SA000447BGB). This ordinance authorizes the purchase of fifteen (15) of these eight cubic yard containers at a cost of $1,064.00 per container or a total cost of $15,960.00.
Fiscal Impact: Funds for this purchase are available within the division's General Permanent Improvement Fund. This legislation appropriates monies within that Fund and authorizes the purchase and the expenditure of the monies for this purpose. This expenditure is consistent with the 2005 Capital Improvements Budget.
Emergency action is requested to replace existing dilapidated containers in a timely manner.
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To appropriate $15,960.00 within the General Permanent Improvement Fund; to authorize the Finance Director to establish a purchase order for the purchase of fifteen (15) eight (8) cubic yard refuse collection containers for the Refuse Collection Division per the terms and conditions of an existing universal term contract with Capital Resource Consultants; to authorize the expenditure of $15,960.00 from the General Permanent Improvement Fund for this purpose and to declare an emergency. ($15,960.00)
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WHEREAS, the Refuse Collection Division is in need of eight (8) cubic yard containers; and
WHEREAS, the Purchasing Office established a multi-year universal term contract for their purchase through the formal competitive bidding process in 2003 with Capital Resource Consultants; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the Refuse Collection Division, Public Service Department, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the purchase of fifteen (15) eight cubic yard containers to replace existing dilapidated containers in a timely manner, 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 sum of $15,960.00 be and hereby is appropriated from the unappropriated balance of Fund 748, the General Permanent Improvement Fund, and from all monies estimated to come into said Fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2005, to the Refuse Collection Division, Department No. 59-02, Object Level One Code 06, Object Level Three Code 6651, OCA Code 642645 and Project 520757.
SECTION 2. That the monies appropriated in Section 1 shall be paid upon order of the Public Service Director and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 3. That the Finance Director be and hereby is authorized to establish a purchase order for $15,960.00 for the purchase of fifteen (15) eight (8) cubic yard refuse containers for the Refuse Collection Division from Capital Resource Consultants, 850 Woodrow Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43207 per the terms and conditions of the existing universal term contract for this purpose.
SECTION 4. That the expenditure of $15,960.00 be and hereby is authorized from Fund 748, the General Permanent Improvement Fund, Department No. 59-02, Refuse Collection Division, Object Level One Code 06, Object Level Three Code 6651, OCA Code 642645 and Project 520757 to pay the cost of said containers.
SECTION 5. 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.