Explanation
Background: The Fleet Management Division is responsible for procuring tires for approximately 3,000 on-road vehicles as well as numerous other pieces of wheeled equipment. This legislation authorizes and directs the Finance and Management Director to issue purchase orders for the purchase of tires for the Finance and Management Department, Fleet Management Division per terms and conditions of State Term Schedules with Wingfoot Commercial Tire and WD Tire Warehouse.
Fiscal Impact: The Fleet Management Division budgeted $500,000.00 for automotive and truck tires in the 2007 operating budget. Ordinance 0126-2007 passed Council on March 5, 2007, authorized $300,000 in tire purchases. Year-to-date, the Fleet Management Division has expended approximately $165,000 of this amount. This legislation authorizes an additional expenditure of $200,000.00 with Wingfoot Commercial Tire and WD Tire Warehouse to purchase automotive and truck tires. The Fleet Management Division spent $509,000.00 in 2006 for the purchase of tires and $494,000.00 in 2005.
Emergency action is requested in order to ensure an uninterrupted supply of tires, so that City-operated vehicles are operationally safe.
Wingfoot Commercial Tire Contract Compliance Number 31-1735402 expires 6/25/2008. W.D. Tire Warehouse Contract Compliance Number 31-1138036 expires 1/13/2008.
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To authorize the Finance and Management Director to issue purchase orders for the purchase of tires for the Fleet Management Division per the terms and conditions of State Term Schedules, to authorize the expenditure of $200,000.00 from the Fleet Management Services Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($200,000.00)
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WHEREAS, State Contract STS260 is available for the purchase of automotive and truck tires, and
WHEREAS, the Fleet Management Division, Finance and Management Department, has a need to purchase tires, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily ope...
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