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To authorize and direct the Finance Director to issue a blanket purchase order for fire fighting/safety supplies with The Fire House, and to authorize the expenditure of $10,000.00 from the General Fund. ($10,000.00)
Explanation
BACKGROUND:
Need: The Fire Division is in need to purchase fire fighting/safety supplies; this legislation is to authorize and direct the Finance Director to issue a blanket purchase order for fire fighting/safety supplies with The Fire House.
Bid Information: Competitive bidding is being waived for this purchase.
Contract Compliance: 310953722
FISCAL IMPACT:
Budgeted Amount: Funds exist within the Division's current 2004 General Fund Operating Budget specifically for this purchase.
Body
WHEREAS, the Fire Division is in need to purchase fire fighting/safety supplies from The Fire House via blanket purchase order; and
WHEREAS, a situation exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Safety, in that it is necessary to purchase said fire fighting/safety supplies, 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 the Finance Director be and is hereby authorized and directed to issue a blanket purchase order for the purchase of fire fighting/safety supplies with The Fire House.
Section 2. That the expenditure of $10,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from the Fire Division's General Fund Budget, Fund 010, Division of Fire No. 30-04, Object Level One 02, Object Level Three 2249, OCA 301531.
Section 3. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.
Section 3. This Council finds it is in the best interest of the City of Columbus to waive the provisions of Section 329.06 of the Columbus City Codes to permit the aforementioned purchase.
Section 4. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.