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)
Body
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 City Auditor is hereby authorized to transfer $42,814.00 within the voted Recreation and Parks Bond Fund 702 for the projects listed below:
FROM:
Project OCA Code Object Level 3 Amount
510316-100111 (Planning Area 11) 716111 6621 $42,814.00
TO:
Project OCA Code Object Level 3 Amount
510316-100113 (Planning Area 13) 716113 6621 $42,814.00
SECTION 2. That the 2013 Capital Improvements Budget Ord. 0645-2013 is hereby amended as follows in order to provide sufficient budget authority for this legislation.
CURRENT:
Fund 702; Project 510316-100111 / Planning Area 11 / $4,787,688.00 (SIT Supported)
Fund 702; Project 510316-100113/ Planning Area 13 / $0 (SIT Supported)
AMENDED TO:
Fund 702; Project 510316-100111 / Planning Area 11 / $4,744,874.00 (SIT Supported)
Fund 702; Project 510316-100113/ Planning Area 13 / $42,814 (SIT Supported)
SECTION 3. That the Director of Recreation and Parks is hereby authorized to modify said contract with the URS Corporation for additional engineering services related to the Goodale Bike Street Improvements Project.
SECTION 4. That the expenditure of $42,814.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the cost thereof, be and is hereby authorized from the voted Recreation and Parks Bond Fund 702 as follows:
Project OCA Code Object Level 3 Amount
510316-100113 716113 6621 $42,814.00
(Planning Area 13 Trail Improvements/Acquisitions)
SECTION 5. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized to transfer the unencumbered balance in a project account to the unallocated balance account within the same fund upon receipt of certification by the Director of the Department administering said project that the project has been completed and the monies are no longer required for said project; except that no transfer shall be so made from a project account funded by monies from more than one source.
SECTION 6. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this legislation.
SECTION 7. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or 10 days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.