Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Public Safety to expend $300,000.00 from the Safety Bond Fund for tenant improvements and furnishings for the new building being leased by Police IAB and Fire PSU; and to declare an emergency.($300,000.00)
Explanation
BACKGROUND
Need: There is an immediate need to authorize the expenditure of $300,000.00 from the safety Bond Fund for tenant improvements and furnishings for the new building being leased by Police IAB and Fire PSU. This ordinance will pre-encumber said funds for payment to the lessor of the building to complete the necessary tenant improvements; funds for furnishings will be expended after competitive bids have been solicited.
Bid Information: N/A ~ this ordinance is only to pre-encumber funding; funds for furnishing will be expended only after a competitive bidding process has taken place.
Contract Compliance: N/A
Emergency Designation: Emergency action is requested to make funding immediately available to pay for said tenant improvements in a timely fashion.
FISCAL IMPACT
Budgeted Amount: Funds are specifically earmarked for this project within the Safety Bond Fund, Fire Facility Renovation~ Lease Improvements Project.
Body
WHEREAS, there is an immediate need to pre-encumber funding for tenant improvements and furnishings for the new building being leased by Police IAB and Fire PSU; and,
WHEREAS, it is now necessary to pre-encumber funds for miscellaneous tenant improvements to be completed by the lessor of the new constructed building and furnishings that will be competitively bid at a later time; and
WHEREAS, a emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary to pre-encumber funding for the aforementioned reasons, for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS
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