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To authorize the Director of Public Safety to modify and extend the current contract with Mount Carmel Occupational Health for testing services for the Division of Fire's Health and Physical Fitness Program; to authorize the expenditure of $200,000.00 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($200,000.00)
Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Safety to modify and extend the current contract with Mount Carmel Occupational Health for testing services for the Division of Fire's Health and Physical Fitness Program. The Physical Health and Fitness program is a part of the current collective bargaining agreement between the City of Columbus and IAFF Local 67 Firefighters Union. The intent of the program is to ensure the overall general health and fitness of the fire fighters. This is the final modification to this contract, which terminates in March 2012.
Contract Compliance: MCOH ~ 314379602-013 exp.
Emergency Designation: Emergency action is requested so that this testing service can continue uninterrupted pursuant to the collective bargaining contract between the City of Columbus and the IAFF Local 67 Firefighters Union.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $200,000.00 from the General Fund for a contract with Mount Carmel Occupational Health for testing services for the Division of Fire Health and Physical Fitness Program. The Division of Fire budgeted $822,240.00 in the General Fund operating budget for this contract in 2011, and has thus far in 2011 spent $613,136.50. The division spent $719,485.69 in 2010, and $754,462.95 in 2009 for these services.
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WHEREAS, the City is required to provide Health and Physical Fitness Testing Services and related Education and Wellness Programs to the Division of Fire pursuant to the collective bargaining contract between the City and the International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 67; and
WHEREAS, it is in the City's best i...
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