..Explanation
The Transportation Division is responsible for routine and emergency maintenance and rehabilitation of the roadway system, snow removal, street cleaning, the inspection of various construction projects, and the installation and maintenance of roadway signage and traffic signals.
To meet these responsibilities, the Division employs an extensive and varied fleet of vehicles. In order to maximize utility of the fleet, it is necessary that these vehicles be equipped with radios. The radios enable greater coordination of fleet units by enhancing the ability of supervisors to dispatch vehicles to needed locations at a moment's notice. This is of particular importance during periods of emergency street repair and snow removal operations.
The Transportation Division utilizes an 800 MHz radio system operated by the Franklin County Radio System and coordinated by the Central Ohio Communication Advisory Committee. This legislation authorizes the expenditure of $75,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay for the use of this system.
Funds for this expenditure are budgeted in the amount of $75,000.00 within the Transportation Division's 2004 Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund appropriation. Actual expenditures were $61,572.00 and $64,127.00 for 2002 and 2003, respectively.
Emergency action is requested to ensure that funds are available in a timely manner and that the service is not discontinued. Earlier submission of this legislation was not possible until the 2004 operating budget was adopted by City Council.
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To authorize the Public Service Director to expend $75,000.00 from the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund to pay Franklin County for the Transportation Division's use of the Franklin County 800 MHz radio system, and to declare an emergency. ($75,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Transportation Division is responsible for routine and emergency maintenance and rehabilitation of the roadway system and for the inspection of various construction projects affecting this system; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary that these vehicles be equipped with 800 MHz radios; and
WHEREAS, the Transportation Division has entered into an agreement with Franklin County to gain access to their 800 MHz communications system; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Transportation Division, in that it is immediately necessary to pay communication fees to Franklin County for use of the 800 MHz radio system to maintain ongoing radio contact essential for the maintenance and repair of roadways, 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 for the purpose of paying Franklin County, Ohio, for the use of the Franklin County 800 MHz radio system for the Transportation Division, the Public Service Director be and hereby is authorized to expend $75,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed from the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund, Fund 265, Department No. 59-09, Transportation Division, Object Level One Code 03, Object Level Three Code 3321 as follows:
OCA Code / Amount
559047 / $5,500.00
559079 / $5,500.00
559088 / $5,500.00
559106 / $5,500.00
559108 / $5,500.00
599120 / $5,000.00
599122 / $19,300.00
599139 / $10,000.00
599144 / $10,000.00
599146 / $1,100.00
599158 / $1,100.00
599159 / $1,000.00
Total $75,000.00
SECTION 2. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby 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.