Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will authorize the Public Service Department, Facilities Management Division to make various expenditures for labor, materials, and equipment in conjunction with various facilities improvements. Work may include any type of renovation of City-owned facilities, such as electrical, HVAC, and plumbing. All work will be based on three estimates obtained from qualified contractors and will not exceed $20,000.00 per job. Funding for these expenditures is from the Facilities Management Capital Improvement Fund.
Emergency action is requested to allow these projects to proceed in a timely manner and to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possible. Up-to-date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management. Emergency action is also requested to allow the necessary funding to be available for needed expenditures.
Fiscal Impact: $50,000.00 is required and budgeted in Facilities Management Capital Improvement Fund to meet the financial obligations of these various expenditures.
Title
To authorize the expenditure of $50,000.00 from the Facilities Management Capital Improvement Fund for various facility renovations, and to declare an emergency. ($50,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, various unexpected facility renovations will likely become necessary within the Public Service Department, Facilities Management Division; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department in that it is immediately necessary to transfer and establish these funds to have funding available for necessary expenditures to allow these projects to proceed in a timely manner, thereby preserving 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 purchase of labor, materials, and equipment will likely become necessary for ...
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