Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the City of Columbus to accept, appropriate and expend payments totaling up to $88,540.87 through the 2013 Market Development Grant Program of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. The ordinance also authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into an agreement with Rain Brothers, Inc. (cc# 51-0642924, expiration 5/2015) for the implementation of the 2013 Market Development Grant Program. Rain Brothers, Inc. was the specified vendor in the Ohio EPA grant agreement after being selected through the Ohio EPA request for proposals process. Therefore, the City’s agreement will be based on Section 329.07 (e) -Sole Source Procurement.
Rain Brothers, Inc., headquartered in Columbus Ohio, is Ohio’s largest supplier of rainwater harvesting products. It also offers services as professional, experienced, licensed, and accredited contractors for the installation of all sizes of rainwater harvesting systems from residential rain barrel installs, to above-ground rainwater tank set-ups, to large-scale underground cistern excavation and installation. Rain Brothers also installs sustainable irrigation systems for residential, commercial, and agricultural use.
The 2013 Market Development Grant will include the provision of recycling tools, equipment, infrastructure and on-site renovations when working on the City’s vacant and abandoned housing deconstruction initiative.
This legislation is submitted as an emergency to allow the program’s activities to begin immediately.
FISCAL IMPACT: This legislation authorizes the acceptance of a $88,540.87 grant from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and the appropriation and expenditure of those funds from the General Government Grant Fund.
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To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to accept payments totaling up to $88,540.87 from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for the 2013 Market Development Grant Program; to authorize...
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