Explanation
BACKGROUND: Ordinance #0158-2005, passed March 28, 2005, authorized the Finance Director to modify and extend the existing city-wide contract for the option to purchase Centrex Telephone and Transport Services for the Department of Technology, the largest user, to and including December 31, 2006. However, this amendment is necessary to correct the federal identification number for SBC Ameritech, which was entered incorrectly in Section 1 of Ordinance #0158-2005.
FISCAL IMPACT: No funding is required for this amendment.
These services are vital to the City's daily operations. In order to provide uninterrupted Centrex telephone service, this ordinance is being submitted as an emergency measure.
Title
To amend Ordinance #0158-2005, passed March 28, 2005, with SBC Ameritech by correcting the federal identification number in Section 1. and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, the City requires telephone and transport services to support vital communication services; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance #0158-2005 passed March 28, 2005 authorized the Finance Director to modify and extend the City's existing contract with SBC Ameritech (CT09759) for these services to and including December 31, 2006; however, the supplier's federal identification number was entered incorrectly in Section 1; and
WHEREAS, the contract modification must be completed as quickly as possible to ensure vital communication services continue uninterrupted; now, therefore and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the Department of Technology in that it is immediately necessary to amend Ordinance #0158-2005 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 Ordinance #0158-2005, passed March 28, 2005, Section 1 be and is hereby amended by correcting the federal identification number for SBC Ameritech from 36-3251481 to 36-3258076.
SECTION 2. 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 That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.