Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
The Department of Public Service is responsible for routine and emergency maintenance and rehabilitation of the roadway system, snow and ice removal and control operations, the installation and maintenance of roadway signage and lighting, and refuse collection. To meet these responsibilities, the Department of Public Service employs an extensive and varied fleet of vehicles. In order to maximize utility of the fleet, it is necessary that a portion of these vehicles be equipped with voice radios. This enables greater coordination of fleet units by enhancing the ability of supervisors to dispatch vehicles to needed locations at a moment's notice. The department utilizes an 800 MHz radio system owned and operated by Franklin County and coordinated by the Central Ohio Communication Advisory Committee for voice transmissions.
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Service to modify an agreement with Franklin County to extend the contract through and including June 30th, 2016; and increase the contract total amount not to exceed $177,264.00. This legislation authorizes the expenditure of $39,264.00 from the General Fund for the Division of Refuse Collection and $138,000.00 from the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund for the Divisions of Infrastructure and Traffic Maintenance for the use of this system. The original contract was authorized under ordinance number 0337-2011 in the amount of $143,120.40; Contract Modification #1 authorized by ordinance 0064-2012 was in the amount of $150,297.20. Modification #2 authorized by ordinance 0477-2013 was in the amount of $146,000.00. Modification #4 authorized by ordinance 475-2014 was in the amount of $140,494.00. The total amount of this contract including this modification is $757,175.60.
2. FISCAL IMPACT
Funds for this expenditure are budgeted in the amount of $39,494.00 within the General Fund's 2015 appropriations and $138,000.00 within the Street Construction Ma...
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