Title
To authorize and direct the Finance and Management Director to issue a purchase order for janitorial supplies for the Fire Division from an existing Universal Term Contract established for such purpose by the Purchasing Office with Key-4 Cleaning Supplies, and to authorize the expenditure of $120,000.00 from the General Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($120,000.00)
Explanation
BACKGROUND:
Need: The Fire Division is in need to purchase janitorial supplies; this legislation is to authorize and direct the Finance and Management Director to issue a purchase order for janitorial supplies for the Fire Division from an existing Universal Term Contract established by the Purchasing Office for such purpose with Key-4 Cleaning Supplies.
Bid Information: A Universal Term Contract exists for these purchases; FL003028 expires 3/31/09.
Contract Compliance: 311417716
Emergency Designation: Emergency action is requested to make funding immediately available for pending requests.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Budgeted Amount: Funds exist within the Division's current 2008 General Fund Operating Budget specifically for this purchase. This legislation is contingent upon passage of the 2008 General Fund Operating Budget.
Body
WHEREAS, the Fire Division is in need to purchase janitorial supplies; and
WHEREAS, a Universal Term Contract established by the Purchasing Office exists for these purchases; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Safety, in that it is necessary to make funding immediately available for pending requests for the purchase of supplies, for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS
SECTION 1. That the Finance and Management Director be and is hereby authorized and directed to issue a purchase order for the purchase of janitorial supplies for the Fire Division in accordance with the existing Universal Term Contract established by the Purchasing Office with Key-4 Cleaning Supplies.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $120,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from the Fire Division's General Fund Budget, Fund 010, Division of Fire No. 30-04, Object Level One 02, Object Level Three 2212, OCA 301531.
SECTION 3. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.