Explanation
1. BACKGROUND:
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into contract with Storts Excavating, Inc., for the construction services associated with the Sanitary System Rehabilitation-Cozzins Street Regulator Abandonment Project, and to pay a maximum of $97,062.50. This project will complete the removal of all sanitary sewer connections to the Cozzins St. Regulator, that had allowed combined sewer overflows during wet weather events. This contract will abandon the regulator chamber, and will ensure the discontinuation of all overflows.
2. FISCAL IMPACT:
The project accounts from which funds are being transferred from within this ordinance are residual funds from projects that are complete or no longer require additional funding.
3. EMERGENCY LEGISLATION:
The Division of Sewerage and Drainage is requesting this legislation to be made an emergency measure in order to allow for the immediate commencement of the project work that is necessary to ensure the termination of combined sewer overflows from the Cozzins Street Regulator.
Title
To authorize the Director of Public Utilities to enter into contract with Storts Excavating, Inc., for the construction of the Sanitary System Rehabilitation-Cozzins Street Regulator Abandonment Project, to authorize the transfer and expenditure of $97,062.50 from the 1991 Voted Sanitary Bond Fund; to amend the 2004 Capital Improvements Budget, for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage; and to declare an emergency. ($97,062.50)
Body
WHEREAS, the Director of Public Utilities publicly opened and read four competitive bids for the construction of the Sanitary System Rehabilitation-Cozzins Street Regulator Abandonment Project were received on February 16, 2005; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, in that it is immediately necessary for this City Council to authorize the Director of the Department of Public Utilities to award and execute a contract to fund the payment of construction services for the Sanitary System Rehabilitation-Cozzins Street Regulator Abandonment Project; to authorize the transfer and expenditure of the required funds within the 1991 Voted Sanitary Bond Fund and an associated amendment to the 2004 Capital Improvements Budget, for the preservation of 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 City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to transfer $97,062.50 from within the 1991 Voted Sanitary Bond Fund No. 664, for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage as follows:
FROM:
650323-Wastewater Plants Upgrade| $36,084.37
650510-Sewer Maint. Facility| $41,249.33
650600-Franklin/Main Interceptor| $19,728.80
TO:
650404-Sanitary System Rehabilitation| $97,062.50
Section 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to transfer any unencumbered balance in the project account to the unallocated balance account within the same fund upon receipt of certification by the Director of the Department administering said project that the project has been completed and the monies are no longer required for said project; except that no transfer shall be so made from a project account funded by monies from more than one source.
Section 3. That the Director of Public Utilities be, and hereby is, authorized to award and execute a contract for construction of the Sanitary System Rehabilitation-Cozzins Street Regulator Abandonment Project, with the lowest and best bidder, Storts Excavation, Inc., 1167 McCarley Drive West, Columbus, Ohio 43228, in the amount of $97,062.50 in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Contract on file in the office of the Division of Sewerage and Drainage.
Section 4. That for the purpose of paying the cost of construction contract, the expenditure of $97,062.50, or as much thereof as may be needed, is hereby authorized within the 1991 Voted Sanitary Bond Fund No. 664| Project: Sanitary System Rehabilitation| Proj. No.: 650404| OCA Code 655266| Object Level Three No.: 6630| Amount: $97,062.50.
Section 5. That the 2004 Capital Improvements Budget Ordinance No. 1059-2004 is hereby amended as follows, to provide sufficient budget authority for the construction contract services award stated in Section 3.
CURRENT:
Project 650404 - San. Sys. Rehab. - Cozzins St. Reg. - $0.00 (Fund 664 Carryover)
AMENDED TO:
Project 650404 - San. Sys. Rehab. - Cozzins St. Reg. - $97,062.50 (Fund 664 Carryover)
Section 6. 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.