Explanation
1. BACKGROUND:
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to modify the professional engineering services agreement with R. D. Zande & Associates, Inc., for the Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant Digester Rehabilitation Project for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage. Engineering services for this project are being funded incrementally by contract modification as portions of the work are undertaken to advance the project through planning, engineering design, and construction of facilities. The Division has determined that these services cannot be performed by City personnel at this time, and has planned for the procurement of these services on a routine basis.
The contract modification now proposed primarily provides funding for technical, field, and construction management services now needed during construction. It also provides for additional design tasks that became necessary in the course of design development and revision to incorporate best current practices in the design for construction. These are planned continuations of services, which were included in the original contract's scope of service, but which are now due for funding. The cost of the modification is a continuation of the vendor's current pricing structure, as verified by City staff. Barring unexpected delay or problems in the construction phase, this is expected to be the final modification for this contract.
2. FISCAL IMPACT:
The Division will be receiving financial assistance for the project via an Ohio Water Pollution Control Loan Fund loan from the Ohio Water Development Authority. The Division has included requests for the necessaary amendment of Capital Improvement Budget (CIB) authority, and for the appropriation of loan proceeds, in companion legislation hereto, Ordinance No. 2180-2005.
3. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION:
The Division of Sewerage and Drainage requests that City Council concur in the designation of this ordinance as an emergency measure, in order to assure that monitoring the construction contract work may begin immediately to preserve the anticipated project schedule, and to comply with the schedule commitments in the Ohio Water Development Authority loan agreement.
Title
To authorize the Director of Public Utilities to modify the professional engineering services agreement with R. D. Zande & Associates, Inc., for the Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant Digester Rehabilitation Project; to authorize the expenditure of $5,760,122.25 from the Ohio Water Pollution Control Loan Fund, for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage; and to declare an emergency. ($5,760,122.25)
Body
WHEREAS, Contract No. EL900074 was authorized by Ordinance No. 2853-98, as passed November 16, 1998, to provide professional engineering services for the Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant Digester Rehabilitation Project, for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage; and
WHEREAS, in order to provide for timely and proper continuation of the Digester Rehabilitation project, and to meet the City's commitments to the agencies providing financial assistance to this project, it is necessaary to modify the subject contract to provide additional detailed design services and services during construction for the project; and
WHEREAS, an emeregency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Department of Public Utilities, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director of Public Utilities to modify the professional engineering services agreement with R. D. Zande & Associates, Inc., for the Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant Digester Rehabilitation Project, in order to provide necessary professional services pursuant to the proper management and timely completion of this vital sanitary infrastructure project, 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 Public Utilities be, and hereby is, authorized to modify the professional engineering services agreement, EL900074, with R.D. Zande & Associates, Inc., 1500 Lake Shore Drive, Columbus OH 43204, in a maximum amount of $5,760,122.25, in accordance with the terms and conditions as shown in the contract modification on file in the office of the Division of Sewerage and Drainage.
Section 2. That for the purpose of paying the cost of this modification, the expenditure of $5,760,122.25, or as much thereof as may be needed, be and the same hereby is authorized from the Ohio Water Pollution Control Loan Fund as follows:
Div.: 60-05| Fund 666| Proj. 650353| OCA Code: 666353| Obj. Level 3: 6678| $5,760,122.25
Section 3. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is herebgy 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.