Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into an Amendment to Contract Regarding Asbestos Abatement and Demolition at Columbus Coated Fabrics (the Amendment) with Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment (Campus Partners) to amend the Contract Regarding Asbestos Abatement and Demolition at Columbus Coated Fabrics (the Contract) with Campus Partners for the removal of asbestos and the demolition of buildings at the former Columbus Coated Fabrics site at East Fifth Avenue and Grant Avenue in Columbus. $1.6 million was originally authorized for the demolition and asbestos removal contract, based on pre-bid estimates of the costs of the demolition and asbestos abatement work and the associated professional services and oversight requirements. However, at the time the Contract was signed, bids had been received which indicated that the total cost would likely exceed $1.6 million, although the actual total of all the costs was not known at the time the Contract was signed. As a result, the Contract provided for a guaranteed maximum price of $1.6 million, "subject to increase to any larger amount hereafter authorized by Columbus City Council," with the verbal understanding between the City and Campus Partners that the Contract would be amended subsequently to amend the guaranteed maximum price to the total of all approved and appropriate actual costs once those costs were known. It is now known that the total of all such costs will be $1.75 million. This legislation allows the Amendment to increase the guaranteed maximum price to the total of all approved and appropriate costs for that asbestos removal and demolition, which is consistent with the understanding with Campus Partners at the time that the Contract was entered into.
FISCAL IMPACT: The expenditure of $150,000 from 2007 Capital funds.
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To authorize the Director of Development to enter into an Amendment to Contract Regarding Asbestos Abatement and Demolition at Columbus Coated Fabrics under Section 186 of the City Charter with Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment amending a contract for asbestos removal and demolition at the former Columbus Coated Fabrics site by increasing the guaranteed maximum price from $1.6 million to $1.75 million; to authorize the expenditure of up to $150,000 from the Northland and Other Acquisitions Fund; and to waive the competitive bidding provisions of Chapter 329 of the Columbus City Codes. ($150,000)
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WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 1864-2006, approved at Columbus City Council on October 16, 2006, permitted the Director of Development to enter into an agreement with Campus Partners to purchase the former Columbus Coated Fabrics site and to resell the site to Campus Partners after asbestos abatement and demolition were accomplished at the site in cooperation with Campus Partners; and
WHEREAS, the former Columbus Coated Fabrics site, in its condition in 2006, posed a significant threat to public health and safety and represented a blighting influence on the predominately residential neighborhood of Weinland Park; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Ordinance No. 2260-2006, the City entered into a Contract Regarding Asbestos Abatement and Demolition at Columbus Coated Fabrics with Campus Partners providing for asbestos removal and demolition work at the former Columbus Coated Fabrics site for a guaranteed maximum price of $1.6 million, "subject to increase to any larger amount hereafter authorized by Columbus City Council"; and
WHEREAS, at the time that Contract was entered into, the City and Campus Partners acknowledged, based on bids which had been received for the asbestos removal and demolition, that the total of all costs for the asbestos removal and demolition would likely exceed the $1.6 million pre-bid estimate and agreed that said Contract would be amended subsequently to provide for the funding of the total of all approved and appropriate costs of that asbestos removal and demolition; and
WHEREAS, it is now known that the total of all approved and appropriate costs for the asbestos removal and demolition at the former Columbus Coated Fabrics site is $1.75 million; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Director of the Department of Development is hereby authorized to enter into an Amendment to Contract Regarding Asbestos Abatement and Demolition at Columbus Coated Fabrics under Section 186 of the Charter of the City of Columbus with Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment to increase the Guaranteed Maximum Price under the Contract Regarding Asbestos Abatement and Demolition at Columbus Coated Fabrics with Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment by $150,000 for asbestos removal and demolition at the former Columbus Coated Fabrics site.
Section 2. To authorize the expenditure of up to $150,000 from the Economic & Community Development project in the Northland and Other Acquisitions Fund 735, Department 44, Project 590415, OCA 735020, Object Level One 06, Object Level 6621, to remove asbestos and demolish the site, and said funds are hereby deemed appropriated to carry out that purpose.
Section 3. That the competitive bidding provisions of Chapter 329 of the City Code be and hereby are waived.
Section 4. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.