Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Finance and Management, on behalf of the Department of Technology, to associate all general budget reservations resulting from this ordinance with pre-established universal term contract (UTC)/purchase agreement (PA) PA000901, with AT&T for data services.
Per Ordinance 2557-2017 (and all exhibits) passed by City Council on October 30, 2017, this on-going project is a collaborative partnership between the city and the Columbus City Schools. As the city expands its VOIP solution, services and equipment are made available to the schools and the schools are, in turn, reimbursing the city for incurred costs. These costs include maintenance and license renewals, phone and data charges, staff augmentation, etc. The funds are deposited into a special subfund, created expressly to account for the project’s revenues and expenditures. Periodic appropriations from the unappropriated balance of this subfund are sought as needed and as funds are received by the city.
Finally, this ordinance authorizes the expenditure of $120,000.00 for the above noted AT&T data services.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE:
Vendor Name: The Ohio Bell Telephone Company
Vendor Acct. #: 006413
FISCAL IMPACT:
Funds for the above-described purpose are available and budgeted in the Information Services Operating Fund, Columbus City Schools Telephone Services subfund.
EMERGENCY JUSTIFICATION:
DoT requests emergency action on this ordinance so that funds are in place to continue implementation of the above-described VOIP project without interruption.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management, on behalf of the Department of Technology, to associate all general budget reservations resulting from this ordinance with a pre-established universal term contract/purchase agreement with AT&T for data services; to authorize the expenditure of $120,000.00 for the above-described purpose to continue the City of ...
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