Explanation
BACKGROUND: Ordinance No. 0807-2011, passed May 23, 2011, authorized the City Clerk to enter into contract with Daystar Computer Systems, Inc. for the installation of Legistar for legislative tracking software. The Legistar system is the city's established citywide electronic system for writing and submitting legislation, creating and maintaining Council Agendas and Journals, recording Council votes, and assisting in the production of the City Bulletin. It has since been determined that Daystar Computer Systems, Inc. was purchased by Granicus, Inc. thereby making the name of the contracting entity in the original ordinance incorrect. The correct name of the contracting entity should be Granicus, Inc. This ordinance amends 0807-2011 to correct the name of the contracting entity to Granicus, Inc.
Emergency action is requested to provide for continuity in the daily operation of the City Clerk's Office requiring the immediate necessity to enter into a service contract with Granicus, Inc.
FISCAL IMPACT: No additional funds are required for this amendment.
Title
To amend Ordinance No. 0807-2011, passed May 23, 2011, by correcting the name of the contracting entity to Granicus, Inc.; and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, on May 23, 2011, Columbus City Council passed Ordinance No. 0807-2011, authorizing the City Clerk to enter into contract with Daystar Computer Systems, Inc. for the installation of Legistar for legislative tracking software; and
WHEREAS, it has since been determined that the name of the contracting entity in the ordinance was incorrect; and
WHEREAS, the correct name of the contracting entity should be Granicus, Inc.; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance amends 0807-2011 to correct the name of the contracting entity to Granicus, Inc.; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City Clerk, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the amendment to Ordinance No. 0807-2011, all for the immediate 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 Section 4 of Ordinance No. 0807-2011 shall be amended to read as follows:
That the City Clerk be and is hereby authorized to modify the existing agreement with Granicus, Inc. for the purchase of Legistar 5, the upgraded software to replace software no longer supported by the contactor.
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.