Explanation
Background: This ordinance authorizes the City Auditor to set up a certificate in the amount of $1,745,000.00 for the purchase of equipment for the Recreation and Parks Department. These purchases will be made through the City of Columbus Purchasing Office. All bids will be obtained and contracts awarded in compliance with the relevant provisions of the Columbus City Code, Chapter 329. This ordinance will set up all of the funding required to enter into contracts with the vendors on an as-needed basis. Competitive bids will be solicited and opened by the Purchasing Office, obtained through any current universal term contract, or state term contract as authorized by ordinance number 582-87. The new equipment will replace aging equipment used by the Building Maintenance, Forestry, Golf, Parks, and Sports Sections of the Recreation and Parks Department.
The list below outlines the equipment expected to be purchased as soon as possible as a result of this ordinance:
Building Maintenance:
Skid Steer Loader (1 each) - Estimated Expenditure $125,000.00
Bulb Crusher (1 each) - Estimated Expenditure $7,000.00
Wood Flattener (1 each) - Estimated Expenditure $25,000.00
Building Maintenance Estimated Total: $157,000.00
Forestry:
Wheel Loader (1 each) - Estimated expenditure $91,000.00
Loader Tilt Trailer (1 each) - Estimated expenditure $10,000.00
Trash Grapple (2 each) - Estimated expenditure $27,000.00
Tandem Axle Trailer (1each) - Estimated expenditure $19,000.00
Tilt Deck Trailer (1 each) - Estimated expenditure $11,000.00
Skid Steer (1 each) - Estimated expenditure $50,000.00
Forestry Estimated Total: $208,000.00
Parks:
Tractor with side-arm boom mower (1 each) - Estimated expenditure $180,000.00
Tractor (1 each) - Estimated expenditure $80,000.00
Rotary deck mower (1 each) - Estimated expenditure $105,000.00
144” Zero-Turn mower (3 each) - Estimated expenditure $210,000.00
61” Zero-Turn mowers (8 each) - Estimated expenditure $120,000.00
48” Walk Behi...
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