City of Columbus - File #: 0654-2006

• File #: 0654-2006
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 3/21/2006
• In control: Safety Committee
• On agenda: 5/1/2006
• Final action: 5/3/2006
• Title: To authorize and direct the City Attorney to extend contracts with Linebarger, Goggan, Blair & Sampson LLP and Capital Recovery Systems, Inc.; to authorize the City Attorney to expend up to Two Hundred Seventy-Five and no/100 Dollars ($275,000) for services rendered pursuant thereto; to waive the competitive procurement provisions of Chapter 329 of the Columbus City Codes, 1959; and to declare an emergency. ($275,000)

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/3/2006	1	MAYOR	Signed
5/3/2006	1	CITY CLERK	Attest
5/1/2006	1	Columbus City Council	Approved	Pass
5/1/2006	1	COUNCIL PRESIDENT	Signed
4/21/2006	1	City Clerk's Office	Sent back for Clarification/Correction
4/21/2006	1	Atty Drafter	Sent to Clerk's Office for Council
4/14/2006	1	Atty Drafter	Sent for Approval
4/14/2006	1	CITY AUDITOR	Reviewed and Approved
4/14/2006	1	CITY AUDITOR	Reviewed and Approved
4/14/2006	1	Atty Drafter	Sent for Approval
4/14/2006	1	CITY ATTORNEY	Reviewed and Approved
4/14/2006	1	Atty Drafter	Sent to Clerk's Office for Council
4/13/2006	1	EBOCO Reviewer	Sent for Approval
4/13/2006	1	ODI DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
4/12/2006	1	Atty Drafter	Sent for Approval
4/10/2006	1	Finance Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
4/10/2006	1	FINANCE DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
4/6/2006	1	Atty Drafter	Sent for Approval

Explanation

The accounts receivables collection program within the City Attorney's Claims Division hs been ongoing since 1996. At that time, the City Attorney interviewed firms that had experience with governmental accounts receivable and chose Scoliere & Associates (now known as Linebarger, Goggan, Blair & Sampson LLP) and later Capital Recovery Systems, Inc. to provide these services.

This ordinance authorizes the City Attorney to extend the current contracts with the above mentioned collection firms.


Title

To authorize and direct the City Attorney to extend contracts with Linebarger, Goggan, Blair & Sampson LLP and Capital Recovery Systems, Inc.; to authorize the City Attorney to expend up to Two Hundred Seventy-Five and no/100 Dollars ($275,000) for services rendered pursuant thereto; to waive the competitive procurement provisions of Chapter 329 of the Columbus City Codes, 1959; and to declare an emergency. ($275,000)


Body

WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 3135-96 originally authorized the City Attorney to contract with Linebarger, Goggan, Blair & Sampson LLP (formerly Scoliere & Associates) and Ordinance No. 1833-98 originally authorized the City Attorney to contract with Capital Recovery Systems, Inc. for the collection of certain of the City's accounts receivables; and

WHEREAS, the City Attorney has annually renewed these contracts for collection services; and

WHEREAS, it is in the City's interest to continue to contract with Linebarger, Goggan, Blair & Sampson LLP and Capital Recovery Systems, Inc.; and

WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City Attorney's Office in that it is immediately necessary to authorize such agreements and payment in order to avoid interruption in services, 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 City Attorney is authorized and directed to extend ...