City of Columbus - File #: 1792-2005

• File #: 1792-2005
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 10/19/2005
• In control: Public Service & Transportation Committee
• On agenda: 11/14/2005
• Final action: 11/16/2005
• Title: To appropriate $222,387.98 within the General Permanent Improvement Fund; to authorize the City Auditor to transfer $64,627.02 between projects within the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund; to authorize the Finance and Management Director to modify and increase existing purchase orders for the purchase of traffic signal controllers, street name sign brackets and overhead school flashers for the Transportation Division per the terms and conditions of five existing citywide universal term contracts with four vendors; to authorize the expenditure of $222,387.98 or so much thereof as may be necessary from the General Permanent Improvement Fund and $64,627.02 or so much thereof as may be necessary from the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund and to declare an emergency. ($287,015.00)

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
11/16/2005	1	MAYOR	Signed
11/16/2005	1	CITY CLERK	Attest
11/14/2005	1	Columbus City Council	Approved	Pass
11/14/2005	1	COUNCIL PRESIDENT	Signed
11/2/2005	1	CITY ATTORNEY	Reviewed and Approved
11/2/2005	1	SERVICE DIRECTOR	Sent to Clerk's Office for Council
11/1/2005	1	EBOCO Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
11/1/2005	1	ODI DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
11/1/2005	1	SERVICE DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
10/28/2005	1	SERVICE DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
10/28/2005	1	Auditor Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
10/28/2005	1	CITY AUDITOR	Reviewed and Approved
10/28/2005	1	SERVICE DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
10/27/2005	1	Finance Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
10/27/2005	1	FINANCE DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
10/26/2005	1	SERVICE DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
10/25/2005	1	Service Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
10/21/2005	1	Service Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
10/19/2005	1	Service Drafter	Sent for Approval

Explanation
The Public Service Department, Transportation Division, requires a wide range of traffic commodities to perform its mission of promoting pedestrian safety and traffic control. Funding for the purchase of these items exists in the division's 2005 Capital Improvements Budget but is not anticipated to be available until the fall 2005 bond sale that is now scheduled for late November 2005. City-wide contracts exist for the purchase of traffic signal controllers, street name sign brackets and overhead school flashers that expire at the end of the year. There is real concern that these contracts will expire before bond sale funding is made available for their purchase, leaving the division in a precarious position by virtue its deleted inventory.

These commodities are available for purchase per the terms and conditions of five (5) existing citywide universal term contracts with four (4) vendors. This ordinance authorizes the purchase of traffic signal controllers, street name sign brackets and overhead school flashers these contracts to meet the Transportation Division's anticipated needs for the balance of 2005 and early 2006 in the amount of $287,015.00.

Fiscal Impact: Funds for these expenditures are budgeted within the Transportation Division's Capital Improvements Budget in the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund in the traffic signal installation, sign upgrading/street name sign and pedestrian safety improvements projects. Pending the fall bond sale, existing cash that has been cancelled from no longer needed contracts is available within various projects and this ordinance transfers $64,627.02 between projects in this fund as appropriate. The balance needed, $222,387.98, is available within the General Roadway Street Improvement project in the General Permanent Improvement Fund. This ordinance also provides for the appropriation and expenditure of these monies from the latter fund.

The division was authorized to spend $722...