Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Public Safety to modify contract number EL011449 with the Community Crime Patrol, Inc. by increasing the contract amount by $80,000.00 and increasing the number of neighborhoods to be patrolled by the organization to include segments of the downtown area. Ordinance 0260-2011 passed by City Council on 2/28/2011 allocated $278,000 to the Community Crime Patrol, Inc. for the patrol of Hilltop, Franklinton, Merion Southwood and the Ohio State University Area. This legislation will modify the list of patrol areas to include Columbus Commons, Scioto Mile and North Bank Park and increase the total amount of the original contract to $358,000.00.
Emergency Designation: This legislation is presented as an emergency to ensure that the community crime patrollers can begin work in the designated areas as soon as possible.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $80,000.00 from the General Fund. The Public Safety Department originally budgeted $278,000 in 2011 from the General Fund for the Community Crime Patrol. The Community Crime Patrol was funded at $200,000 in the Photo Red Light Fund and $50,000 from General Government Grant Funds in 2009. A total of $278,000 from the General Fund was expended in 2010.
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To authorize the Public Safety Director to modify a contract with the Community Crime Patrol, Inc. to provide citizen patrollers to assist the Division of Police in the control and prevention of crime in the downtown area; to authorize the expenditure of $80,000.00 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($80,000.00)
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WHEREAS, this ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Public Safety to modify contract number EL011449 with the Community Crime Patrol, Inc. to provide additional funds and neighborhoods to be patrolled; and
WHEREAS, an initial contract was established in the amount of $278,000.00 to provide patrol activities in the Hilltop, Franklinton, Merion Southwood and Ohio State University areas, as well as the Metro Parks Greenway Trails along the Olentangy River and Alum Creek.; and
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus's contract with the Community Crime Patrol is viewed as an aid in the control and prevention of crime in the designated areas; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary to modify a contract with the Community Crime Patrol, Inc. to ensure the control and prevention of crime in the added areas downtown, for the preservation of 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 Director of the Department of Public Safety is hereby authorized to modify contract EL011449 with the Community Crime Patrol, Inc for the purpose of providing citizen patrollers to assist the Division of Police in the identification and reporting of suspicious activity in the Columbus Commons, Scioto Mile and North Bank Park areas and increasing the contract amount by $80,000.00.
SECTION 2. That for the purpose as stated in Section 1, the expenditure of $80,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized to be expended from the Department of Public Safety, Division No. 30-01, General Fund, Fund 010, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337, OCA Code 300111.
SECTION 3. That this contract is awarded pursuant to Section 329.15 of the Columbus City Codes, 1959 as amended.
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 approval by the Mayor, or ten (10) days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.