Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Public Utilities to modify past, present, and future contracts and purchase orders with Ohio Basement Authority (AKA Basement Authority DBA Ohio Basement Authority) FEIN#38-3823702 to reflect their new legal name, Groundworks, OBA LLC FEIN#30-1147944 (DAX ID #030312).
No additional funds are necessary to modify the open contracts as requested. The original terms and conditions of all affected contracts remain in effect.
FISCAL IMPACT: No additional monies are required to modify the contracts.
EMERGENCY ACTION is requested in order to update all existing contracts for review and payment to the renamed firm and new Federal Tax ID number.
Title
To authorize the Department of Public Utilities to modify past, present, and future contracts and purchase orders with Ohio Basement Authority because of a corporate merger and name change to Groundworks OBA, LLC.; and to declare an emergency. ($0.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Department of Public Utilities has multiple contracts and open purchase orders for projects with Ohio Basement Authority (DAX ID# 015314); and
WHEREAS, Ohio Basement Authority has changed its legal corporate name to Groundworks OBA, LLC as the result of a corporate merger and has agreed to honor the past, present and future contracts and agreements; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities, in that it is immediately necessary to modify all contracts and purchase orders established and in process with, Ohio Basement Authority to reflect the new name and Federal Tax ID number for Groundworks OBA, LLC, 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 Director of the Department of Public Utilities is hereby authorized to modify all past, present and future contracts and purchase orders pu...
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