Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into a contract with Bonnie Weir, 3216-D Indianola Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43202, for instructing painting and drawing classes at the Cultural Arts Center.
This contract will be for services from February 1, 2010 through February 28, 2011, and will be entirely reimbursed by student registration fees.
In 2009 we expended $32,854.21 for Ms. Weir's contracts. In 2010 we anticipate the need to encumber a total of $37,557.00 from which all expenditures will be entirely reimbursed by student registration fees. This contract will be for services between February 1, 2010 through February 28, 2011. Ms. Weir will receive $40 for each student that registers for one of her three-hour classes each held for eight weeks. We offer six, eight-week sessions per year.
The Cultural Arts Center has been a leader in visual arts studio instruction for 30 years and the public has come to rely on the center. Due to Ms. Weir's unique skills, abilities and teaching experience necessary, the department is requesting the waiver of the bidding provisions of the Columbus City Code.
Contract compliance number = 286508343
Emergency action is requested so this contract can be processed as funding is in place for necessary expenditures, and so that no classes will need to be cancelled.
Fiscal Impact:
$37,557.00 is budgeted from the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund to meet the financial obligation of this contract. (contingent on passage of 2010 Other Funds appropriation
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into a contract with Bonnie Weir for instructing painting and drawing classes at the Cultural Arts Center, to waive the competitive bidding provisions of Columbus City Codes, to authorize the expenditure of $37,557.00 from the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($37,557.00)
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WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the City of Columbus to waive the requirements of competitive bidding and contract with Bonnie Weir for the purpose of instructing painting and drawing classes at the Cultural Arts Center from February 1, 2010 through February 28, 2011; and
WHEREAS, the Director of Recreation and Parks be and is hereby authorized and directed to enter into contract with Bonnie Weir to provide instruction of painting and drawing classes at the Cultural Arts Center from February 1, 2010 - February 28, 2011; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to enter into said agreement as funding is in place for said expenditures and so that no classes will need to be cancelled; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That this Council finds it in the best interest of the City of Columbus to waive requirements of competitive bidding for professional services for the instruction of painting and drawing classes at the Cultural Arts, and does hereby waive provisions of Section 329.06(b) of the Columbus City Codes.
SECTION 2. That the Director of Recreation and Parks be and he is hereby authorized and directed to enter into contract with Bonnie Weir to provide instruction of painting and drawing classes at the Cultural Arts Center from February 1, 2010 - February 28, 2011 .
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $37,557.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund as follows, to pay the cost thereof:
Object
Fund Type Division Fund OCA Code Level 3 Amount
Operating 51-01 285 510628 3346 $37,557.00
SECTION 4. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this legislation.
SECTION 5. 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.