Explanation
Background: This legislation authorizes the Finance and Management Director to modify a professional services contract for the Facilities Management Division with Harris Design Services for work related to the renovation of 2609 McKinley Avenue. This modification will call for Harris Design Services to design a building for the K-9 section of the Police Division. The building is to be 2,300 square feet, one story, made of brick and concrete masonry. It is to be located on the west side of the existing asphalt public parking area. The building will consist of offices, a grooming room, indoor kennels with runs, general kennel storage room, and officer restrooms and showers. The Department requests this be done through a modification, rather than a new RFP, in order to acheive consistency in the renovation of 2609 McKinley Avenue site. All pricing for increased work will remain consistent with original costs proposed in the original contract.
Ordinance No. 1088-2005, passed July 20, 2005, authorized the original contract. The original contract called for the design of a pre-engineered 7,700 square foot metal structure to maintain vehicle storage and the renovation of the existing office facility at 2609 McKinley Avenue. Harris Design Services is a Minority Business Enterprise.
Emergency action is requested so that the complete project of improving SWAT operations, K-9 operations, and reducing lease costs by relocating Precinct 1 is not delayed.
Fiscal Impact: The cost of this modification is $40,000.00. Funding for this is available in the Safety Voted Bond Fund. The amount of the original contract was $213,700.00. The total amount is $253,700.00. Harris Design Services Contract Compliance Number 31-6568390, exp. 06/15/2007.
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To authorize the Finance and Management Director to modify a contract for the Facilities Management Division with Harris Design Services in order to design a facility at 2609 McKinley Avenue to be used by the K-9 section of the Police Division, to authorize the expenditure of $40,000.00 from the Safety Voted Bond Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($40,000.00).
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WHEREAS, it is necessary for the Finance and Management Director to modify a professional services contract in order to design a facility for the K-9 section of the Police Division, to be located at 2609 McKinley Avenue, and
WHEREAS, the contract was originally authorized by Ordinance No. 1088-2005, passed July 20, 2005, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Finance and Management Department, Facilities Management Division, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Finance and Management Director to modify a contract Harris Design Services so that a facility can be designed for the K-9 section of the Police Division, 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 Finance and Management Director is hereby authorized to modify a contract with Harris Design Services in order to design a facility for the K-9 section of the Police Division, to be located at 2609 McKinley Avenue.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $40,000.00, or so much thereof that may be necessary in regard to the action authorized in SECTION 1, be and is hereby authorized and approved as follows:
Division: 30-03
Fund: 701
Project: 330021
OCA Code: 644476
Object Level 1: 06
Object Level 3: 6620
Amount: $40,000.00
SECTION 3. That for 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 or vetoes the same.