Explanation
BACKGROUND: To authorize the Director of the Recreation and Parks Department to enter into contract with an instructor who will provide visual arts studio instruction between March 1, 2013 and February 28, 2014 at the Cultural Arts Center. The Cultural Arts Center has been a leader in visual arts studio instruction for 30 years and the public has come to rely on the center. This instructor, Kathy Grace, has unique skills, abilities and teaching experience; therefore, the Department is requesting that the bidding requirements of Columbus City Code Chapter 329 be waived pursuant to Section 329.27.
In 2012, the Department spent $24,552.03 for Ms. Grace’s contracts. In 2013, the Department anticipates the need to encumber an amount not to exceed a total of $28,000.00. Expenditures for this contract will be entirely reimbursed by student registration fees. Individual purchase orders will be set up each session or a group of sessions not to exceed the amount of $28,000.00 payable to Ms Grace. Ms. Grace will receive $40 from each student that registers for one of her three-hour classes each held for eight weeks. The Cultural Arts Center offers six, eight-week sessions per year.
Contract compliance number Grace = 196444763
FISCAL IMPACT: $28,000.00 is budgeted from the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund to meet the financial obligation this contract.
Emergency action is requested so this contract can be processed as funding is in place for necessary expenditures, and so that no classes will need to be cancelled.
Title
To authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into contract with one visual arts studio instructor for the Cultural Arts Center throughout 2013 and the first two months of 2014; to set up an Auditor’s certificate to establish purchase orders for the 2013 budget year; to waive the competitive bidding requirements of Chapter 329 of the Columbus City Codes; to authorize the expenditure of $28,000.00 from the Recreatio...
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