Explanation
BACKGROUND: The City of Bexley and the City of Columbus have a longstanding relationship whereby the Department of Public Safety, Division of Fire provides fire protection and emergency medical services to the City of Bexley. Pursuant to a contract in place between the Parties from 2018 to 2023 and the current contract which runs from 2024 through 2028, the City of Bexley compensates the City of Columbus for fifteen fire personnel and a portion of the costs for one fire engine. During a recent audit, the City of Bexley and the Division of Fire discovered that invoices submitted by the Division of Fire to the City of Bexley from 2018 through 2024 charged the City of Bexley for seventeen, rather than fifteen, fire personnel. Thus, the City of Bexley compensated the City of Columbus for two additional fire personnel for each year from 2018 through 2024. After revising the invoices to correctly reflect the number of fire personnel providing services, the City of Bexley and Division of Fire agree that the overpayment paid by the City of Bexley was one million five hundred seven thousand six hundred eighty three dollars and forty seven cents ($1,507,683.47) above the contractual amount from 2018 through 2024. To resolve this issue, the City of Bexley and the Division of Fire propose a credit of $1,507,683.47 to the amount the City of Bexley owes the City of Columbus for contractual services during calendar year 2025. The credit will be equally split between the invoices sent by the Division of Fire to the City of Bexley in April and October of 2025. The terms of this settlement shall be set forth in a Settlement Agreement and Addendum No. 1 Intergovernmental Agreement for Fire and Emergency Services between the Parties.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This ordinance authorizes a credit of $1,507,683.47 to be applied against amounts the City of Bexley will owe to the City of Columbus for the provision of fire protection and emergency medical services during calendar year 2...
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