Explanation
The Public Service Department, Transportation Division, is pursuing facility improvement projects at two outpost locations. Funds are needed to continue and/or complete these projects as identified below.
Pole barn kits were purchased previously using division operating funds. These kits will be assembled at the Division's Roberts Road and Lockbourne Road outposts using division labor. The assembled pole barns will shelter street maintenance equipment (dump trucks, street sweepers and so forth) from the elements to prolong their longevity. The labor costs incurred to construct these pole buildings will be capitalized. In addition, funds are needed for permits and electrical hook-ups for lighting and ancillary purposes.
The division has procured a trailer from the Water Division. This trailer is now located at the Roberts Road outpost where it will provide separate male/female employee shower facilities and locker space, additional meeting space and office space. Funds are needed for permits, foundation work and utility hookups to permanently install the trailer at the site.
Finally, the division plans to construct new salt storage facilities at the Roberts Road and Lockbourne Road outposts. These buildings will increase the City's salt storage capacity and make it less susceptible to delivery disruptions. Ordinance 1014-2005 passed by City Council July 25, 2005 authorized the purchase of architect-certified plans for these barns at a cost of $17,500.00. Funds are currently needed for pre-construction requirements: survey work, soil testing and permits. Funding for the construction of these buildings was included in the fall 2005 bond sale.
This legislation identifies and authorizes $105,000.00 for the purposes of payment of survey work, soil testing, permits, utility hook-ups and labor costs as appropriate for these facility improvement projects.
Fiscal Impact: These expenses are not specifically budgeted; however, funding has been identified within the Streets and Highways Improvement Fund from completed and closed-out capital improvement projects that is being transferred between grants and Funds within separate legislation that is being processed concurrently to this ordinance.
Emergency action is requested to make funding for these improvements available as soon as possible. Construction of the pole and salt barns is weather-sensitive.
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To authorize the Public Service Director to expend $105,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed for survey work, soil testing, permits, utility hook-ups and labor costs as necessary that will be incurred in connection with the Transportation Division's installation/construction of facility improvements at Roberts Road and Lockbourne Road outposts; to authorize this expenditure from the Streets and Highway Improvement Fund and to declare an emergency. ($105,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Transportation Division is pursuing facility improvement projects at two outpost locations; and
WHEREAS, spending authorization is needed for survey work, soil testing, permits, utility hook-ups and labor costs that will be incurred in connection with these improvements; and
WHEREAS, funding has been identified within the Streets and Highways Improvement Fund from completed and closed-out capital improvement projects that is being transferred between grants and Funds within separate legislation that is being processed concurrently to this ordinance; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Transportation Division, Public Service Department, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the expenditure of monies for pre-construction purposes associated with the weather-sensitive erection of pole and salt barns and permanent installation of a trailer, 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 Public Service Director be and hereby is authorized to expend $105,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary for survey work, soil testing, permits, utility hook-ups and labor costs incurred in connection with construction of pole and salt barns at the Transportation Division's Roberts Road and Lockbourne Road outposts and permanent installation of a trailer at the Transportation Division's Roberts Road .
SECTION 2. That the expenditures authorized within Section 1 be consistent with the City's established purchasing procedures and that all vendors be approved by the Executive Director of the Equal Business Opportunity Commission Office.
SECTION 3. That this expenditure be and hereby is authorized from Fund 766, the Streets and Highway Improvement Fund, Department No. 59-09, Transportation Division, Object Level One Code 06, Object Level Three Code 6621, OCA Code 766132 and Project 590132.
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 days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.