Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to amend contract EL010748 with the Shining Company (contract compliance # 31-1303398, expires 2/4/12), a Certified Emerging Minority Business Enterprise Company. Under this contract the Shining Company has provided lawn care service to City-owned property being held in the Land Bank. City Council approved Ordinance 0758-2010 on June 7, 2010 authorizing the expenditure of $95,000 from the 2010 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Fund for lawn care services through December 31, 2010. In order to provide uninterrupted lawn care service on city property in 2011, this legislation will extend the contract term until August 31, 2011 to allow the expenditure of the remaining contract balance of approximately $28,000.
Emergency action is required so these services can be available at the beginning of the season.
FISCAL IMPACT: No additional funds are required for this amendment.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to amend a contract with the Shining Company to provide continued lawn care service on City-owned property being held in the Land Bank; and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, this ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to amend a contract with the Shining Company, to provide lawn care services for property held in the city's Land Bank, and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 0758-2010 authorized the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a contract with the Shining Company to provide lawn care services for properties held in the Columbus Land Bank and authorized the expenditure of $95,000 from the 2010 Community Block Grant Fund; and
WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Development entered into contract EL-010748 and established a Contract Term until December 31, 2010; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Development desires to extending the original contract term from December 31, 2010 to August 31, 2011; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Development will expend the remaining balance of $28,000 from the $95,000 authorized by 0758-2010; and
WHEREAS, Shining Company was one of two contractors selected that responded to the request for bids (2010 SA003553); and
WHEREAS, Shining Company is a Certified Emerging Minority Business Enterprise company with Equal Business Opportunity Commission Office; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development, in that it is immediately necessary to amend said contract with the Shining Company so these services can be available at the beginning of the season, all for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety, and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. The Director of the Department of Development is hereby authorized to amend contract EL-010748 with the Shining Company to provide lawn care services for property held in the City's Land Bank by extending the Contract Term to August 31, 2011.
Section 2. That this modification is made pursuant to Section 329.16 of the Columbus City Code.
Section 3. That for the reasons stated in the preamble thereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is 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.