..Explanation
Background: The Transportation Division is requesting to modify and increase the construction contract with Decker Construction Company for the Utility Cut & Restoration Project - 2002 in the amount of $400,000.00. This project consists of pavement restorations and backfilling necessitated by utility contractors excavating in the public right-of-way and streets. This contract is being modified using existing prices obtained through the formal competitive bidding process. This contract allows up to three extensions with approval between the City of Columbus and Decker Construction Company.
This is the third modification to this contract. The contractor is Decker Construction Company. Their contract compliance number is 31-0983557.
The original contract amount was for $335,000.00
The total of first modification is $300,000.00.
The total of the second modification is $250,000.00
The total of the third modification is $400,00.00
The contract amount including all modifications is $1,285,000.00.
Emergency action is requested due to the extreme hazard caused to motorists and pedestrians by the improper or incomplete reconstruction of excavations in the right-of-way.
Fiscal Impact: $200,000.00 is budgeted and available from the Transportation Division's General Permanent Improvement Fund and $200,000.00 is budgeted and available from the Sewerage & Drainage Division's Sanitary Operating Fund.
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To authorize the Public Service Director to modify and increase a contract for the Transportation Division with Decker Construction Company for the Utility Cut & Restoration Project- 2002; to appropriate and authorize the expenditure of $200,000.00 from the General Permanent Improvement Fund; and authorize the expenditure of $200,000.00 from the Sanitary Operating Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($400,000.00)
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WHEREAS: Contract Number EL002313 with Decker Construction Company was originally authorized by ordinance No. 0734-02, passed on May 6, 2002, executed on May 22, 2002, and approved by the City Attorney on May 28, 2002; and
WHEREAS, the contract between the Public Service Department and the Transportation Division with Decker Construction Company for the Utility Cut & Restoration Project -2002 authorizes up to three contract extensions upon approval of City Council and certification of funds by the City Auditor, and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to modify this contract to provide for additional work for the Utility Cut & Restoration Project - 2002; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Transportation Division, in that the contract should be modified and increase immediately so that hazardous conditions for motorists and pedestrians can be eliminated, thereby preserving the public health, peace, 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 to modify and increase contract EL002313 between the Transportation Division and Decker Construction Company, 3040 McKinley Avenue, Columbus, Ohio, 43204 in accordance with the terms as shown on the modification on file in the office of the City Engineer, which are hereby approved;
SECTION 2. That the sum of $200,000.00 is hereby appropriated in the General Permanent Improvement Fund, Fund No. 748, Dept./Div. 59-09, OCA Code 537650 and Object Level One Code 06, Object Level Three Code 6631
SECTION 3. That the sum of $200,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized to be expended from the General Permanent Improvement Fund, Fund No. 748, Dept./Div. 59-09, OCA Code 537650 and Object Level One Code 06, Object Level Three Code 6631 and $200,000.00 from the Sanitary Operating System, Fund No. 650, Dept./Div. 60-05, Object Level Three 3375, OCA Code 605089.
SECTION 4. 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 approved by the Mayor or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.