Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Public Safety Director to donate Panasonic Toughbook computers to the Canal Fulton (Ohio) Police Department. The Canal Fulton, Ohio Police Department is in need of surplus equipment. The Canal Fulton Police Department is requesting these old Columbus Police computers for use in their agency. This equipment will give their officers access to basic law enforcement tools resulting in more effective patrol on the throughways.
Officer Greg Colarich, Technical Services Bureau within the Division of Police has identified fifteen (15) Panasonic Toughbooks and computer mounts that can be donated to the Canal Fulton Police Department. The Panasonic Toughbooks have reached their end-of-life and have since been replaced with new Fujitsu laptops. The Toughbooks currently fail to meet the minimum specifications within the Columbus Division of Police and would offer minimal value to any other City of Columbus agency given the current technology platform already in use throughout the city. The Division of Police and the Department of Technology have no plans to re-purpose the Toughbooks or their mounts for any future City of Columbus technology initiative.
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is requested so the Panasonic Toughbooks can be donated to the Canal Fulton Police Department as soon as practical.
FISCAL IMPACT: There is no impact on the General Fund due to this transfer of computers to the Canal Fulton Police Department.
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To authorize and direct the Safety Director to donate to the Canal Fulton, Ohio Police Department fifteen Panasonic Toughbook computers and mounts which have no further value to the Division of Police, to waive the relevant provisions of Chapter 329 relating to the Sale of City Owned Personal Property; and to declare an emergency.
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WHEREAS, the Canal Fulton, Ohio Police Department is in need of surplus equipment; and
WHEREAS, the Columbus Division of Police has fifteen (15) Panasonic Toughbook computers and mounts to donate to the Canal Fulton, Ohio Police Department; and
WHEREAS, there is no City of Columbus Government Agency that has a need for this surplus equipment; and
WHEREAS, this Council finds it to be in the best interest to waive the relevant provisions of Chapter 329 relating to the Sale of City Owned Personal Property; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual and daily operation of the Public Safety Department, Division of Police, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to donate these Panasonic Toughbook computers and mounts to the Canal Fulton, Ohio Police Department for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Safety Director be and is hereby authorized and directed to donate fifteen (15) Panasonic Toughbook computes and mounts to the Canal Fulton, Ohio Police Department.
SECTION 2. That the Council of the City of Columbus finds it to be in the best interests to waive the relevant provisions of Chapter 329 of City Code relating to the Sale of City-Owned Personal Property, to permit the sale of these specific police cruiser accessories to the Canal Fulton Police Department.
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.