Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Finance and Management Director to associate all General Budget reservations resulting from this ordinance with the following Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements listed below for the purchase of Water Meters, Yokes and Meter Setters and Appurtenances for the Division of Water. The supplies purchased from the contracts will be used to replenish yokes, horns and other materials used for daily operating and new customer development.
UNIVERSAL TERM CONTRACT PURCHASE AGREEMENTS:
Water Meters, Yokes and Meter Setters and Appurtenances
The company is not debarred according to the Excluded Party Listing System of the Federal Government or prohibited from being awarded a contract according to the Auditor of State Unresolved Findings for Recovery Certified Search.
FISCAL IMPACT: $150,000.00 is budgeted and needed for this purchase. This ordinance is contingent on the passage of the 2018 operating budget, Ordinance 3009-2017.
$260,536.82 was spent in 2017
$363,698.33 was spent in 2016
Title
To authorize the Finance and Management Director to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements for the purchase of Water Meters, Yokes and Meter Setters and Appurtenances for the Division of Water; and to authorize the expenditure of $150,000.00 from the Water Operating Fund. ($150,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Purchasing Office has established Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements for the purchase of Water Meters, Yokes and Meter Setters and Appurtenances; and
WHEREAS, the supplies purchased from the contracts will be used to replenish yokes, horns and other materials used for daily operating and new customer development; and
WHEREAS, it has become necessary in the usual daily operation of the Division of Water to authorize the Finance and Management Director to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements for the purchase of Water Meters, Yokes and Meter Setters and Appurtenances; 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 Finance and Management Director be and is hereby authorized to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements for the purchase of Water Meters, Yokes and Meter Setters and Appurtenances.
SECTION 2. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $150,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed, be and is hereby authorized in Fund 6000 (Water Operating); in object class 02 Materials & Supplies per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That this Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.