Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Safety to dispose and destroy the Division of Police’s Used/Expired Body Armor and enter into contract with Fiber Brokers/Brent Industries to provide this service at no cost. No other agencies can benefit from the expired body armor as it has reached is usefulness and cannot be worn with the utmost guarantee of protection. The destruction of this armor will render the armor useless and allows the material to be recycled instead of placed in landfill. The armor will not breakdown so Fiber Brokers located in Brent, Alabama offers a shredding service to law enforcement agencies and military without cost. Fiber Brokers subsidiary company Brent Industries will pick up, transfer, and recycle the Kevlar and use it in vehicle parts, gloves, ropes, and similar items. The recycled Kevlar is not used in the manufacturing of new body armor.
Fiber Brokers/Brent Industries will shred all ballistic panels and provide the Division of Police with a destruction certification letter that contains the serial numbers of all the ballistic panels they destroyed on behalf of the Division of Police. Fiber Brokers has been providing this service to military and law enforcement for many years. The Division of Police confirmed that the US Marshall Service has used Fiber Brokers shredding service for the past seven years without incident.
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is requested so the Division of Police can properly dispose of the body armor and relieve space within the Division of Police Property Room.
FISCAL IMPACT: There is no fiscal impact to the City of Columbus.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Public Safety to dispose and destroy the Division of Police used/expired body armor and to enter into contract with Fiber Brokers/Brent Industries to provide said service at no cost, and to waive the relevant provisions of Chapter 329 relating to the Sale of City Owned Pers...
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