Explanation
1. BACKGROUND:
A. Need. This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to modify the agreement with Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., for professional program management services for the 2006-2010 Capital Improvements Program of the Division of Sewerage and Drainage. The work in that program is a very substantial group of sewer capital improvements projects (CIPs), both collections systems and treatment works improvements, which has been agreed to by the City and Ohio EPA in order to conform to the requirements of the City's consent orders. The actual emplacement of the CIPs will be by construction contract; the professional program management contract is providing: program planning, scheduling, budgeting, and status reporting; construction management; design management; some design of critical projects; special services such as Value Engineering, and other services for this very large, important program, as directed by the City. The initial authorization of, and appropriation of monies to, this contract was accomplished by Ordinance No. 0731-2006, passed May 8, 2006. This contract was always planned to be funded incrementally, via approximately annual appropriations. The initial FY2006 appropriation will be exhausted at the end of 2006, and this modification provides monies to continue this important work into FY2007.
B. Contract Compliance No.: 132653703(MAJ).
D. Emergency Designation: The Division of Sewerage and Drainage hereby requests City Council to concur in the declaration of this ordinance as an emergency measure, in order to assure that these important management services continue to coordinate the design and construction of the Division's Wet Weather Management Plan infrastructure improvements within the schedule commitments made to Ohio EPA in the City's consent orders.
2. FISCAL IMPACT:
The probable total amount of this contract over the program duration through 2010 may be approximately $45,000,000.00. Th...
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