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File #: 2138-2013    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 9/3/2013 In control: Recreation & Parks Committee
On agenda: 9/23/2013 Final action: 9/26/2013
Title: To authorize the City Auditor to transfer $42,814.00 within the voted Recreation and Parks Bond Fund 702; to amend the 2013 Capital Improvements Budget Ordinance 0645-2013; to authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to modify Contract EL009331 with the URS Corporation for additional engineering services related to the Goodale Bike Street Improvements Project; to authorize the expenditure of $42,814.00 from the Voted Recreation and Parks Bond Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($42,814.00)
Explanation

Background:
Recreation and Parks entered into contract with URS Corporation in 2009 for engineering services for the Goodale Street Bike Improvements. Additional services will be used to provide updated final plans for steel fabrication, fencing and railings, and provide technical engineering review services during construction of the project.

Principal Parties:
URS Corporation
277 West Nationwide Boulevard
Columbus, OH 43215
(614) 464-4500
Contract Compliance # 34-0939859
200 Columbus employees

Fiscal Impact:
$42,814.00

Title

To authorize the City Auditor to transfer $42,814.00 within the voted Recreation and Parks Bond Fund 702; to amend the 2013 Capital Improvements Budget Ordinance 0645-2013; to authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to modify Contract EL009331 with the URS Corporation for additional engineering services related to the Goodale Bike Street Improvements Project; to authorize the expenditure of $42,814.00 from the Voted Recreation and Parks Bond Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($42,814.00)

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WHEREAS, it is necessary to modify Contract EL009331 with the URS Corporation for additional engineering services related to the Goodale Street Bike Improvements Project; and

WHEREAS, funds are being moved to alternate projects within Fund 702 to establish correct funding locations for this project and to make corrections to the Capital Improvement Budget; and

WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to modify said contract with the URS Corporation for additional engineering services related to the Goodale Bike Street Improvements Project so that engineering work can be completed in sixty (60) days maintaining construction schedule for this project thereby preserving 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 ...

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