Explanation
Background: This ordinance authorizes the Finance and Management Director to establish purchase orders for the purchase of pursuit and response vehicles for the Police and Fire Divisions. These vehicles include thirty-seven (37) pursuit SUVs and one(1) K-9 vehicle for the Division of Police, as well as six (6) Battalion Chief and Emergency Medical Services vehicles for the Division of Fire. These purchase orders for the vehicle purchases will be issued from a Universal Term Contract (UTC) that has been previously established by the City of Columbus Purchasing Office. The vehicles will replace current vehicles that have high mileage and/or significant maintenance costs.
Statewide Ford Lincoln, Inc. vendor#006832, PA003232 - Police Pursuit Veh - expires 6/30/2020 - ($1,640,326.64 estimated)
Fiscal Impact: This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $1,640,326.64 from the Special Income Tax fund for the purchase of these vehicles for the Police and Fire Divisions. The Department of Finance and Management budgeted $4.0 million in the Special Income Tax Fund for 2019 Citywide Vehicle Acquisitions. The City expended $6.5 million in 2018 and $7.5 million in 2017 from the Special Income Tax Fund for the purchase of vehicles and associated up-fitting.
Emergency action is requested so that older high mileage vehicles can be removed from service and newer vehicles can be placed into service for immediate use.
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To authorize the Finance and Management Director, on behalf of the Fleet Management Division, to establish purchase orders from Universal Term Contracts for the purchase of pursuit vehicles for the Division of Police and Battalion Chief and Emergency Medical Services vehicles for the Division of Fire with Statewide Ford Lincoln; to authorize the appropriation and expenditure of $1,640,326.64 from the Special Income Tax fund; and to declare an emergency. ($1,640,326.64)
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WHEREAS, the City has a need to replace older high mileag...
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