Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes and directs the Public Service Director to enter into a contract for the Facilities Management Division for critical electrical repairs at Fire Station #10, on behalf of the Public Safety Department, Division of Fire
Facilities Management will solicit informal bids and select a firm deemed most responsive. An important criterion is that the Fire Station be able to maintain full operational capacity during the work.
Emergency action is requested to ensure the project is completed in a timely manner to guard against any electrical service disruptions that might negatively impact the station's operational capacity and its ability to serve the public.
FISCAL IMPACT: Unencumbered cash is available within the Division's current 2003 Capital Improvement Budget, Safety Voted Bond Fund, Fire Facility Renovation Project for this project.
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To authorize and direct the Public Service Director to enter into a contract for the Facilities Management Division for critical electrical repairs at Fire Station 10, to authorize the expenditure not to exceed $100,000 from the Public Safety Voted Bond Fund, Fire Facility Renovation Project; and to declare an emergency. ($100,000)
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WHEREAS, there is a need for critical electrical repairs at Fire Station #10; and
WHEREAS, the Facilities Management Division will solicit informal bids for said repairs, and will select the most responsive firm to perform the necessary work in an expeditious manner to ensure the comfort and safety of personnel assigned to the facility and without disrupting the station's operational capacity and ability to serve the public; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Facilities Management Division, in that it is immediately necessary to enter into a contract for critical electrical repairs at Fire Station 10, for the immediate preservation of 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 Public Service Director be and is hereby authorized and directed to enter into a contract for critical electrical repairs for Fire Station 10.
Section 2. That the expenditure of $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from the Safety Voted Bond Fund, Fund 701, Division of Fire No. 30-04, Object Level One 06, Object Level Three 6682, OCA 644559, Fire Facility Renovation Project 340103.
Section 3. 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.