Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Finance and Management Director to accept a grant award on behalf of the Facilities Management Division. The Facilities Management Division received a grant from the Franklin County Office of Homeland Security for the purchase of fifty-nine (59) cameras and six (6) digital video recorders. This grant allows for the upgrade of existing video surveillance equipment located inside 90 West Broad Street, 50 West Gay Street, and 109 North Front Street. The upgrade is necessary as the equipment is beyond its useful life.
Fiscal Impact: This is a one hundred percent (100%) grant award. There is no matching requirement from the City.
Emergency action is requested so that the purchases of the equipment may be made within the grant cycle.
Title
To authorize the Finance and Management Director to accept a grant on behalf of the Facilities Management Division from the Franklin County Office of Homeland Security for the purchase of security equipment for various City-owned facilities; and to declare an emergency. ($156,100.00)
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WHEREAS, it is necessary for the Facilities Management Division to update security equipment in various City-owned facilities; and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interest for the Director of Finance and Management to accept a grant award for the Facilities Management Division for the purchase of security equipment; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Finance and Management Division, Facilities Management Division, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize and direct the acceptance of the grant so that the purchase of equipment may be made within the grant cycle, 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 Finance and Management Director is hereby authorized to accept a grant award in the amount o...
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