Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Finance and Management Department to expend monies for labor, materials, equipment, and services in conjunction with various mail room facility improvements necessary to keep the mail room operational, functional, and safe. Work may include any type of renovation such as electrical, small scale renovation, professional services, HVAC, and plumbing. All work will be done in accordance with the competitive bidding provisions of the Columbus City Codes. Funding for these expenditures is from the Construction Management Capital Improvement Fund.
Fiscal Impact: This legislation authorizes the expenditure of $79,431.00 from the Construction Management Capital Improvement Fund.
Emergency action is requested so that needed renovations to the City Hall Mail Room can commence immediately, thereby ensuring a safe and efficient working environment for Mail Room employees.
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To authorize the Finance and Management Director to expend monies for labor, materials, equipment, and professional services in conjunction with the mail room facility improvement project; to authorize the expenditure of $79,431.00 from the Construction Management Capital Improvement Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($79,431.00)
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WHEREAS, various mail room facility renovations have become necessary to make the work environment flow more efficiently and to ensure that working conditions are safe; and
WHEREAS, an Auditor's Certificate is necessary to provide funding so that contracts can be established for these renovations; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Finance and Management in that it is immediately necessary to enter establish an Auditor's Certificate so that varioius mail room facility improvements are made as soon as possible so as to keep this operation functional and safe, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; Now, therefore,
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