Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation amends the 2007 Capital Improvement Budget and authorizes the transfer of $218,884.64 within the Construction Managment Capital Improvement Fund from the Facility Renovation Project to the Far East Neighborhood Policing Center (Police #14) Project for the construction of the Far East Neighborhood Policing Center. This legislation also authorizes the Finance and Management Director to enter into contract on behalf of the Office of Construction Management with 2K General Company, for the construction of the Far East Neighborhood Policing Center (Police #14), located at 2500 Park Crescent Drive. The Policing Center will also include space for community use. Formal bids were solicited on April 20, 2007. The following seven companies submitted bids by the May 17, 2007 deadline (1 MBE, 0 FBE):
2K General Company $1,884,860.00
Altman Company $1,966,500.00
Gutknecht Construction Company, Inc. $2,006,700.00
*Williamson Builders, Inc. $2,019,872.00
Weithman Bros., Inc. $2,077,000.00
Central Ohio Building Company, Inc. $2,123,700.00
Dunlop and Johnston, Inc. $2,171,355.00
*Minority Business Enterprise
The Office of Construction Management recommends that the bid be awarded to the most responsive and responsible bidder, 2K General Company.
EMERGENCY ACTION is requested so that the construction of the new neighborhood policing center may begin as soon as possible, thereby providing necessary safety services to City residents.
FISCAL IMPACT: The current unencumbered cash balance in the Department of Public Safety's Capital Improvement Fund for the Far East Neighborhood Policing Center (Police #14) is $1,670,975.36. The additional $218,885 will come from the Construction Management Capital Improvement Fund. The additional amount was necessitated by relocation of a sanitary sewer line beneath the property. This amount was accounted for in the Construction Management Capital Improvement Budget. The total construction cost is $1,884,860.00.
2K General Company's Contract Compliance # 31-1653018, expiration date 03/15/2009.
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To amend the 2007 Capital Improvement Budget, to authorize the City Auditor to transfer funds between projects in the Construction Management Capital Improvement Fund, to authorize an appropriation within Project 330024 in the Safety Voted Bond Fund, to authorize the Finance and Management Director to enter into contract on behalf of the Office of Construction Management with 2K General Company for construction of the new Far East Neighborhood Policing Center (Police #14), to authorize the expenditure of $1,670,975.36 from the Safety Voted Bond Fund, to authorize the expenditure of $213,884.64 from the Construction Management Capital Improvement Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($1,884,860.00)
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WHEREAS, it is necessary to amend the Capital Improvement Budget and transfer funds in order to construct a new neighborhood policing center, and
WHEREAS, formal bids were solicited for the construction of said new neighborhood policing center, and
WHEREAS, the Office of Construction Management recommends 2K General Company, Inc. as the most responsive and responsible bidder, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Finance and Management Department, Office of Construction Management, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Finance and Management Director to enter into contract with 2K General Company, for the construction of the Far East Neighborhood Policing Center (Police #14), thereby facilitating and 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 2007 Construction Management Capital Improvement Budget is hereby amended as follows:
CURRENT CIB:
Dept/Div: 45-50|Fund: 733|Project Number: 570030|Project Name: Facility Renovation
|Amount: $7,119,444
Dept/Div: 45-50|Fund: 733|Project Number: 450005|Project Name: Far East Neighborhood Policing Center|Amount: $0.00
REVISED CIB:
Dept/Div: 45-50|Fund: 733|Project Number: 570030|Project Name: Facility Renovation
|Amount $6,900,559
Dept/Div: 45-50|Fund: 733|Project Number: 450005|Project Name: Far East Neighborhood Policing Center|Amount $218,885.00
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to transfer funds within the Safety Capital Improvement Fund as follows:
FROM:
Dept/Div: 45-50|Fund: 733|Project Number: 570030|OCA Code:733000|OL1: 6|OL3: 6620|Project Name - Facility Renovation
|Amount $218,884.64
TO:
Dept/Div: 45-50|Fund: 733|Project Number: 450005|OCA Code: 733005|OL1: 6|OL3: 6620|Project Name - Neighborhood Policing Center (Police #14)|Amount $218,884.64
SECTION 3. To authorize the appropriation of $4,787.76 to Project 330024, OL3 6620, in Fund 701.
SECTION 4. That the Finance and Management Director is hereby authorized to enter into contract on behalf of the Office of Construction Management with 2K General Company for the construction of the Far East Neighborhood Policing Center (Police #14), located at 2500 Park Crescent Drive.
SECTION 5. That the expenditure of $1,884,860.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary in regard to the action authorized in SECTION 4, be and is hereby authorized and approved as follows:
Division: 30-03
Fund: 701
Project: 330024
OCA Code: 330024
Object Level 1: 06
Object Level 3: 6620
Amount: $1,670,975.36
Division: 45-50
Fund: 733
Project: 450005
OCA Code: 733005
Object Level 1: 06
Object Level 3: 6620
Amount: $213,884.64
SECTION 6. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this ordinance.
SECTION 7. 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.