Explanation
Background:
This ordinance authorizes the Finance and Management Department, Office of Construction Management, to make various expenditures for labor, materials, and equipment in conjunction with various facilities improvements that are unplanned but will be necessary. 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 Construction Management Capital Improvement Fund.
Emergency action is requested to allow these projects to proceed in a timely manner.
Fiscal Impact: The Office of Construction Management budgeted $1,000,000.00 for various projects in the Capital Improvement Budget. Prior to passage of this ordinance, $696,441.00 has been encumbered for other projects, leaving $303,469.00. The cost of this contract is $100,000.00.
Title
To authorize the expenditure of $100,000.00 from the Construction Management Capital Improvement Fund for various facility renovations, and to declare an emergency. ($100,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, various unexpected facility renovations will likely become necessary within the Finance and Management Department, Office of Construction Management; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Finance and Management Department, Office of Construction Management, in that it is immediately necessary to establish these funds to have 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 various facility renovations within the Finance and Management Department, Office of Constru...
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