Explanation
BACKGROUND This ordinance authorizes the Public Service Director to enter into a contract with Columbus Heating and Ventilating Company to renovate the air filtration system for the indoor firing range at the Police Training Academy. Indoor firing ranges generate concentrations of lead dust that impact air quality and may be hazardous to the health and safety of the building occupants and visitors. The current system requires frequent labor-intensive filter changes using expensive HEPA filters and air quality does not meet EPA standards. Renovations include new air supply motors, air filters, and a motor control center.
Formal competitive bids were opened on June 17, 2003 and three bids were received (0 FBE, 0 MBE) as follows:
Columbus Heating and Ventilating Company $80,518.00
Gateway Mechanical $93,135.00
Fox Mechanical $105,740.00
Fiscal Impact: The Police Division has $88,000.00 available in their CIP budget for these renovations.
Emergency action is requested because the firing range will only be available for renovation from September 8-13, 2003.
Title
To authorize the Public Service Director to enter into a contract for the Facilities Management Division with Columbus Heating and Ventilating Company to renovation the indoor firing range at the Police Training Academy, to authorize the expenditure of $80,518.00 from the Police Division's Capital Improvement fund, and to declare an emergency. ($80,518.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the air quality of the indoor firing range does not meet EPA air quality standards; and
WHEREAS, formal competitive bids were opened on June 17, 2003; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Facilities Management Division, Public Service Department, in that it is immediately necessary to enter into a contract with Columbus Heating & Ventilation for renovation of the air filtration system at the indoor firing range at the Police Training Academy, 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 is hereby authorized to enter into contract for the Facilities Management Division with the Columbus Heating and Ventilating Company for renovation of the air filtration system at the indoor firing range at the Police training Academy.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $80,518.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized and approved as follows:
FROM:
Division: 30-03
Fund: 701
Project: 330021
OCA Code: 644476
Object Level One: 06
Object Level Three: 6620
Amount: $80,518.00
SECTION 3. That for the reason 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.