…Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the Finance and Management Director to create various purchase orders for automotive parts on behalf of the Fleet Management Division in order to repair and service City vehicles and to properly respond to planned but unexpected emergencies that may arise with respect to the maintenance and repair of various City vehicles. During 2015, the Fleet Management Division is budgeted to spend in excess of $4.3 million for parts and over $1.3 million for services to keep the City's fleet of approximately 6,000 vehicles in operation. Fleet Management processes over 40,000 work orders annually for all City vehicles and equipment and requires purchase orders with over 400 vendors to help meet this need.
Fiscal Impact: The Fleet Management Division 2015 operating budget contains over $5.6 million for the purchase of automotive parts, supplies, and services. This legislation authorizes an expenditure of $400,000.00 with various vendors to purchase automotive parts and supplies.
Emergency action is requested to ensure an uninterrupted supply of vehicle parts and supplies, thereby keeping City-owned vehicles in operation, including Police, Fire, and Refuse Collection vehicles. This ordinance is contingent on passage of the 2015 operating budget.
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To authorize the Finance and Management Director to establish various purchase orders for automotive parts and supplies for the Fleet Management Division per the terms and conditions of various previously established Universal Term Contracts and to authorize the expenditure of $400,000.00 from the Fleet Management Fund for same; and to declare an emergency. ($400,000.00)
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WHEREAS, various Universal Term Contracts (UTC) have been established through the formal competitive bidding process of the Purchasing Office; and
WHEREAS, the Finance and Management Department, Fleet Management Division, has a need to purchase automotive parts and supplies for motorized equipment; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Finance and Management Department, Fleet Management Division, in that it is immediately necessary to issue various purchase orders for automotive parts and supplies for the repair of approximately 6,000 City vehicles, thereby preserving 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 Finance and Management Director is hereby authorized to issue purchase orders for the Fleet Management Division, per the terms and conditions of Universal Term Contracts for automotive parts, as follows:
Genuine Parts/NAPA- CC# 580254510 expires 11/05/15; Contract FL005246 expires 12/31/15, Annual expenditure projection: $200,000.00 (parts)
Refuse Parts Depot - CC# 273577270 expires 10/30/16; Contract FL006016 expires 09/30/16, Annual expenditure projection: $200,000.00 (parts)
SECTION 2. That the sum of $400,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary in regard to the action authorized in Section 1, is hereby authorized to be expended as follows:
Division: 45-05
OCA Code: 451347
Obj level 1: 02
Object level 03: 2284
Amount: $400,000.00
SECTION 3. That the monies in the foregoing Sections shall be paid upon order of the Director of Finance and Management, 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 4. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this ordinance.
SECTION 5. That for 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 enforced from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.