Explanation
Background: This ordinance will authorize the Director of Public Safety to donate ten (10) sets of outdated personal protective equipment (PPE) to Eastland-Fairfield Career Center for their high school Firefighting Program. The ten (10) sets of PPE are no longer usable for the Division in our training capacity. The sets will include ten (10) coats and ten (10) pairs of pants. The donated PPE will be used by the students to help offset the PPE rental cost.
Principal Party:
Eastland-Fairfield Career Center
4465 Hamilton Road
Groveport, OH 43125
Fiscal Impact: No Fiscal Impact
Emergency Designation: The Division of Fire requests emergency legislation to allow the Division of Fire to immediately donate outdated PPE to Eastland-Fairfield Career Center for their high school Firefighting Program.
Title
To authorize the Director of Public Safety to donate ten (10) sets of outdated personal protective equipment (PPE) to Eastland-Fairfield Career Center for their high school Firefighting Program; and to waive the relevant provisions of Columbus City Code relating to the Sale of City-Owned Personal Property; and to declare an emergency. ($0.00)
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WHEREAS, the Public Safety Department, Division of Fire, will donate ten (10) sets of outdated personal protective equipment (PPE) to Eastland-Fairfield Career Center for their high school Firefighting Program. The ten (10) sets of PPE are no longer usable for the Division in our training capacity; and
WHEREAS, this donation will provide high school firefighting students with the ability to train more efficiently without the additional costs associated with PPE rental; and
WHEREAS, it has become necessary in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Safety to authorize the Public Safety Director to donate ten (10) sets of outdated PPE; and
WHEREAS, this Council finds it to be in the best interest of the City to waive the relevant provisions of Chapter 329 relating to the Sale of City Owned Personal Property to allow for this donation; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Safety in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to donate ten (10) sets of PPE to Eastland-Fairfield Career Center which donated PPE will be used by the students to help offset the PPE rental cost and to waive the relevant provisions of Chapter 329 of City Code relating to the Sale of City-Owned Personal Property, all for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; and now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Public Safety is hereby authorized to donate ten (10) sets of outdated PPE to Eastland-Fairfield Career Center.
SECTION 2. That the Council of the City of Columbus finds it to be in the best interests of the City to waive the relevant provisions of Chapter 329 of City Code relating to the Sale of City-Owned Personal Property, to permit the donation of the outdated PPE to Eastland-Fairfield Career Center.
SECTION 3. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.
SECTION 4. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared 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.