Explanation
BACKGROUND: As part of the overall development of the City Hall Campus, 77 North Front Street (the former Central Safety Building) is being renovated, the 109 N Front Building is slated to be demolished later this year due to its functional obsolescence, and a new building will eventually be constructed to replace it. The Finance and Management Department, Office of Construction Management is nearing the completion of the renovation of 77 North Front Street (the former Central Safety Building) which will be occupied by Offices of the City Attorney, the Civil Service Commission, the Department of Human Resources, the Public Safety Director, the City Auditor’s Income Tax Section, and the Purchasing Office of the Department of Finance and Management.
The Civil Service Commission, the Public Safety Director, the City Auditor’s Income Tax Section, and the Purchasing Office of the Department of Finance and Management will be vacating space in the Beacon Building. The vacancies created by the move of these offices will create “swing space” to allow the City to move the Equal Business Opportunity Office, much of the Department of Public Service, and the Department of Development’s Planning Division and Land Redevelopment Office offices from the 109 N. Front Street to the Beacon Building.
This legislation authorizes the Finance and Management Director to expend funds for labor, materials, equipment, and services in conjunction with the relocation of various City offices from the 109 North Front Building to the 50 W. Gay Beacon Building. To effectively and efficiently move these various City offices, it will be necessary to purchase items and services such as, but not limited to, VOIP telephones, VOIP switching equipment, data wiring & outlets, moving services, carpeting, possibly hazardous material remediation services, purchase of used furniture, modular furniture disassembly and reassembly, and light demolition and renovation work. Contracts will be es...
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