Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a Guaranteed Maximum Reimbursement agreement with Kurtz Brothers Central Ohio, LLC (Kurtz) for the upgrades to the City's Trucked Waste Disposal Facility (TWDF).
The City's trucked waste disposal facility, on-site and operated by Kurtz Brothers Central Ohio, LLC, has experienced unforeseen problems. Due to the nature of the material being accepted at the site, the TWDF has experienced many blockages and overflows of the existing 8-inch diameter sanitary sewer serving the site. Sanitary sewer overflows (SSO) are in direct violation of the City of Columbus' SSO consent agreement and must be resolved immediately.
The proposed remedy is: 1) the addition of screen equipment, commonly called a Septage Receiving Station, to remove grit, rags, and other inert material from the waste stream before it enters the sanitary sewer collection system; and 2) upgrading the sanitary sewer lateral from 8-in to 18-in diameter and making a new direct connection into the 150-in diameter interconnecting sanitary trunk sewer.
Upon passage of this Ordinance the City of Columbus will agree to pay a guaranteed maximum reimbursement up to $1,846,000 to Kurtz Brothers Central Ohio, LLC for construction improvements at the City's Trucked Waste Disposal Facility. The contractor has agreed to construct the improvements at their cost and then obtain reimbursement from the City.
A guaranteed maximum cost reimbursement with Kurtz Brothers Central Ohio, LLC provides that they construct the public improvements on the City's behalf that are publicly bid and subject to reimbursement agreements with the City.
Emergency action is requested as the improvements to the City's Trucked Waste Disposal Facility are of immediate concern due to the potential for sanitary sewer overflows at the site and cannot happen until the City has entered into an executed guaranteed maximum reimbursement agreement with Kurtz.
FISCAL IMPACT
This ordinance identifies funds in the amount of $1,846,000.00 from the Sewerage System Operating Fund (Fund 650) to fund the necessary improvements. The maximum amount of reimbursement provided within the Guaranteed Maximum Cost Agreement authorized to be expended, by this Ordinance, is $1,846,000.00. There is a need to transfer $1,846,000 within the Sewer System Operating Fund to allow for the necessary improvements to proceed. Sufficient appropriation is available within Object Level Ones 01 and 03 for this requested transfer to Object Level One 06. No increase in the total budget appropriation will be needed.
SUPPLIER: Kurtz Brothers Central Ohio, LLC (20-3524137), expires 11/2/12, Majority
Title
To authorize the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a Guaranteed Maximum Reimbursement agreement with Kurtz Brothers Central Ohio, LLC for the construction of improvements to the City's Trucked Waste Disposal Facility; to authorize the transfer and expenditure of $1,846,000.00 within the Sewer System Operating Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($1,846,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Director of Public Utilities needs to enter into a Guaranteed Maximum Reimbursement agreement with Kurtz Brothers Central Ohio, LLC for improvements to the City's Trucked Waste Disposal System; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Public Utilities will pay a guaranteed maximum reimbursement up to $1,846,000.00; and
WHEREAS, the anticipated expenditure necessitates the transfer of funds within the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Sewer System Operating Fund for purposes of providing sufficient funding and spending authority for the aforementioned project expenditures; and
WHEREAS, available appropriation within Object Level Ones 01 and 03 can be transferred to Object Level One 06; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary for this Council to authorize the City Auditor to transfer funds within the Sewer System Operating Fund; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities, Division of Sewerage and Drainage, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a Guaranteed Maximum Reimbursement agreement with Kurtz Brothers Central Ohio, LLC for the construction of improvements to the City's Trucked Waste Disposal Facility as the construction of the improvements are necessary due to the potential for sanitary sewer overflows at the site and the improvements cannot happen until the City has entered into an executed agreement with Kurtz Brothers Central Ohio, LLC; 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 the Director of Public Utilities be and is hereby is authorized to enter into a Guaranteed Maximum Reimbursement agreement with Kurtz Brothers Central Ohio, LLC, pursuant to Section 186 of the Columbus City Charter for the construction of improvements to the City's Trucked Waste Disposal Facility, for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to transfer $1,846,000 within the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Dept/Div. No. 60-05, Sewer System Operating Fund, Fund No. 650, as follows:
TRANSFER FROM:
OCA Code Object Level One Object Level Three Amount
605006 01 1101 -$ 100,000.00
605006 01 1150 - 14,000.00
605006 01 1173 - 15,000.00
605014 01 1173 - 35,000.00
605030 01 1173 - 17,000.00
605048 01 1101 - 40,000.00
605055 01 1173 - 25,000.00
605063 01 1173 - 20,000.00
605075 01 1101 - 77,000.00
605075 01 1101 - 15,000.00
605077 01 1173 - 22,500.00
605089 01 1101 - 40,000.00
605089 01 1150 - 75,000.00
605089 01 1173 - 125,000.00
605105 01 1101 - 70,000.00
605105 01 1173 - 7,500.00
605113 01 1101 - 30,000.00
605113 01 1173 - 20,000.00
605378 01 1101 - 300,000.00
605378 01 1150 - 75,000.00
605378 01 1173 - 25,000.00
605592 01 1101 - 10,000.00
605592 01 1173 - 5,000.00
605899 01 1173 - 10,000.00
606202 01 1173 - 6,000.00
Transfer From 01 -$1,179,000.00
605006 03 3324 -$ 210,000.00
605006 03 3381 - 75,000.00
605006 03 3385 - 382,000.00
Transfer From 03 -$ 667,000.00
Total Transfer From -$1,846,000.00
TRANSFER TO:
OCA Code Object Level One Object Level Three Amount
604819 06 6630 +$1,846,000.00
Total Transfer To +$1,846,000.00
SECTION 3. That for paying the cost of this improvement, the Guaranteed Maximum Reimbursement up to and including $1,846,000.00 is hereby authorized from the Sewer System Operating Fund, Fund No. 650, Department 60, Division 05, OCA Code 604819, Object Level One 06, Object Level Three 6630, to pay the cost thereof.
SECTION 4. That the City Auditor is authorized to establish proper accounting project numbers and to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for any contract or contract modification associated with the expenditure of funds transferred in Section 2, above.
SECTION 5. 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.