Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Development Department to amend a contract with The Ransom Company for the demolition of structures found to be unsafe and public nuisances under the Demolition Program. The Development Department solicited competitive bids through Solicitation No. SA -002936 in 2008 and received one bid. The Ransom Company bid 24 cents per cubic foot. The contract allows for a one year extension.
Contract Compliance # is 26-9401266 and is effective until 2-26-2012.
Emergency action is requested so that the demolition of unsafe structures can continue uninterrupted.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding for this contract increase is available within the Development Department's General Fund budget and the General Permanent Improvement Fund. The contract amount was $165,000, with this increase of $89,975, the new total will be $254,975.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Development Department to amend a contract with The Ransom Company for the demolition of structures determined to be unsafe and public nuisances under the Demolition Program; to authorize the appropriation of $4,671.11 from the General Permanent Improvement Fund; to authorize the expenditure of $50,000.00 from the General Fund; to authorize the expenditure of $39,975 from the General Permanent Improvement Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($89,975.00)
Body
Whereas, this legislation authorizes the Director of the Development Department to amend a contract with The Ransom Company for the demolition of structures found to be unsafe and public nuisances under the Demolition Program by increasing the contract amount by $89,975.00; and
Whereas, the Columbus City Code, Chapter 4109, authorizes the demolition of unsafe buildings; and
Whereas, the Columbus City Code, Chapter 4701, authorizes the demolition of buildings declared to be public nuisances, and
Whereas, the Columbus City Code, Chapter 4509, authorizes the demolition of buildings posing an imminent danger to the public health and safety; and
Whereas, emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development, in that it is immediately necessary to amend the contract with the Ransom Company so that the demolition of unsafe structures can continue uninterrupted, all for the preservation of the public peace, health, safety and welfare; Now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Director of the Development Department is authorized to amend the contract with The Ransom Company in accordance with Columbus City Code for the demolition of structures determined to be unsafe and public nuisances under the Demolition Program.
Section 2. That the sum of $4,671.11 be appropriated from the General Permanent Improvement Fund, Fund 748, Department of Development, Code Enforcement Division, Division 44-03, OCA Code 743447, Project 748447, Object Level Three 3292.
Section 3. That the sum of $50,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized to be expended from the General Fund, Fund 010, Department of Development, Code Enforcement Division , Division No. 44-03, OCA Code 499046, Object Level Three 3292.
Section 4. That the sum of $39,975.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized to be expended from the General Permanent Improvement Fund, Fund 748, Department of Development, Code Enforcement Division, Division No. 44-03, OCA Code 743447, Project 748447, Object Level Three 3292.
Section 5. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon order of the Director of The Columbus Department of Development, 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 6. That this contract amendment is made pursuant to Chapter 329.16 of the Columbus City Codes, 1959.
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 approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.