Explanation
Background: This legislation authorizes and directs the Finance Director to issue a purchase order for the purchase of automotive tires for the Public Service Department, Fleet Management Division per terms and conditions of State Contract STS260 with Wingfoot Commercial Tire.
Fiscal Impact: The Fleet Management Division budgeted $9.6 million for automotive fuel, parts, supplies and accessories in the 2005 operating budget. This legislation authorizes an expenditure of $20,000.00 with Wingfoot Commercial Tire to purchase automotive tires through September 2005. Expenditures for like items and time frames were $25,000.00 in 2004 and $24,000.00 in 2003. Year to date, the Fleet Management Division has spent approximately $105,000.00 for automotive tires.
Emergency action is requested in order to ensure an uninterrupted purchase of automotive tires, especially police pursuit tires.
Title
To authorize the Finance Director to issue a purchase order for automotive tires for the Fleet Management Division per the terms and conditions of a State Contract, to authorize the expenditure of $20,000.00 from the Fleet Maintenance Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($20,000.00)
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WHEREAS, State Contract STS260 is available for the purchase of automotive tires, and
WHEREAS, the Fleet Management Division, Public Service Department, has a need to purchase automotive tires, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Fleet Management Division, Public Service Department, in that it is immediately necessary to issue this purchase order for automotive tires, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare, now, in which the emergency is set forth and defined in a preamble thereto therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Finance Director is hereby authorized and directed to issue a purchase order for the Public Service Department...
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