Explanation
The purpose of this legislation is to authorize the Director of Finance and Management to establish a blanket purchase order for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage to obtain Sodium Hypochlorite in accordance with an established Universal Term Contract that expires March 31, 2011.
Sodium Hypochlorite is an approved chlorine solution used at the Southerly and Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plants to disinfect effluent prior to its discharge to the Scioto River. The Ohio EPA requires that plant effluent be disinfected from May 1 through October 31 of each year. The chemical is being purchase in accordance with the existing Universal Term Contract, FL003910.
SUPPLIER: Bonded Chemicals (61-1162384); Expires 4-26-08
FISCAL IMPACT: $225,000.00 is required and budgeted for this expenditure. The Division of Sewerage and Drainage has exceeded the threshold per Columbus City Code for funding Universal Term Contracts without legislation.
$219,000.00 was spent in 2007
$230,000.00 was spent in 2006
Emergency legislation is being requested due to the fact that the disinfecting season starts May 1 and the new contract for the purchase of Sodium Hypochlorite was just recently established and the 30 day waiting period may cause the supply chain to be broken.
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To authorize the Director of Finance and Management to establish a Blanket Purchase Order with Bonded Chemicals for the purchase of Sodium Hypochlorite for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, to authorize the expenditure of $225,000.00 from the Sewerage System Operating Fund and to declare an emergency. ($225,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Purchasing Office established a Universal Term Contract, FL003910 with Bonded Chemicals for the Purchase of Sodium Hypochlorite for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage; and
WHEREAS, the Ohio EPA requires that effluent material be disinfected by the wastewater treatment plants prior to being discharged into the waterways, and
WHEREAS, Sodium Hypochlorite is an approved chlorine solution used for the disinfection process, and
WHEREAS, the blanket purchase order will be issued in accordance with the terms and specifications of FL002591 on file in the Purchasing Office, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities, in that it is immediately necessary to establish blanket purchase orders due to the fact that the disinfecting season starts May 1 and the new contract for the purchase of Sodium Hypochlorite was just recently established and the 30 day waiting period may cause the supply chain to be broken with Bonded Chemicals for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property and safety; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Director of Finance and Management be and is hereby authorized to establish a blanket purchase order for the purchase of Sodium Hypochlorite with Bonded Chemicals for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, in accordance with specifications on file in the Purchasing Office.
Section 2. That the expenditure of $225,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from the Sewerage System Operating Fund, Fund No. 650, as follows, to pay the cost thereof.
Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant
OCA: 605055
Object Level 1: 02
Object Level 3: 2204
Amount: $175,000.00
Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plant
OCA: 605022
Object Level 1: 02
Object Level 3: 2204
Amount: $50,000.00
Section 3. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, where is hereby made a part hereof, this Ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure, which 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.