Background
This ordinance authorizes a contract modification with Alvis, Inc. for the provision of Work Release Program services to the Franklin County Municipal Court.
The Court’s Work Release Program provides an alternative response to mandatory jail sentences and it has been an invaluable sentencing option. The program allows judges to consider this residential, community resource as a response to probation violations, while allowing the individual to maintain his/her employment by paying toward their court-ordered restitution, fines, costs and child support.
This ordinance modifies the contract associated with PO108350 to pay outstanding invoices and to extend the term of the contract through June 30, 2019.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Public Safety Initiatives subfund.
Emergency action is requested in order to immediately provide the Franklin County Municipal Court with resources in support of the Work Release Program to avoid any disruption in service provision.
Title
To authorize the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to enter into a contract modification with Alvis, Inc. for the provision of Work Release Program services; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Public Safety Initiatives subfund; to waive the competitive bidding provisions of City Code; and to declare an emergency. ($100,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Court’s Work Release Program provides an alternative response to mandatory jail sentences and it has been an invaluable sentencing option; and
WHEREAS, the program allows judges to consider this residential, community resource as a response to probation violations, while allowing the individual to maintain his/her employment by paying toward their court-ordered restitution, fines, costs and child support; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance modifies the existing contract with Alvis, Inc. and extends the term of the contract through June 30, 2019; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily business of the city in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the modification of the contract with Alvis, Inc. to provide the Franklin County Municipal Court with resources in support of the Work Release Program to avoid any disruption in service provision; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court is authorized to enter into a contract modification to modify and extend the existing contract with Alvis, Inc. through June 30, 2019, associated with PO108350.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $100,000.00 in the Public Safety Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100016, to the Franklin County Municipal Court per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $100,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed pursuant to the action authorized in SECTION 1 of this ordinance, is hereby authorized in the Public Safety Initiatives subfund, fund 1000, subfund 100018 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That this Council finds it is in the City's best interest to waive the competitive bidding provisions of Chapter 329 of Columbus City Code.
SECTION 5. That for the reason stated in the preamble here to, 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 ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.