Explanation
The Director of Finance and Management is hereby authorized to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate Universal Term Contracts Purchase Agreements for Centrex and Data Services.
The following Purchase Agreement associations require approval by City Council in order for the Division of Power, the Division of Water, and the Division of Sewerage and Drainage to expend more than $100,000.00, per 329.19(g):
AT&T Centrex Service
AT&T Data Services
Supplier: AT&T (34-0436390), Vendor# 006413, (MAJ) expires 1/7/21.
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: $1,621,000.00 is budgeted in object class 03 Services and needed for this purchase. This ordinance is contingent on the passage of the 2020 operating budget Ordinance 2926-2019.
$1,894,811.62 was spent in 2019.
$1,828,397.72 was spent in 2018.
EMERGENCY DESIGNATION: This ordinance is being submitted as an emergency in order to align budget authority with projected expenditures to provide for the timely payment of the bills to ensure there will not be any disruption of services.
Title
To authorize the Director of Finance and Management to associate all General Budget reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements for the purchase of Centrex and Data Services with AT&T for the Division of Power, the Division of Water and the Division of Sewerage and Drainage; and to authorize the expenditure of $450,000.00 from the Electricity Operating Fund, $816,000.00 from the Water Operating Fund, and $355,000.00 from the Sewer Operating Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($1,621,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Purchasing Office established Universal Term Contracts for the purchase of Centrex and Data Services with AT&T; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director of Finance and Management to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate Universal Term Contact Purchase Agreements for the purchase of Centrex and Data Services with AT&T, 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 Finance and Management 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 Centrex and Data Services with AT&T for the Division of Power, the Division of Water and the Division of Sewerage and Drainage.
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 $1,621,000.00, or so much thereof as may be needed, is hereby authorized in Fund 6300 (Electricity Operating), Fund 6000 (Water Operating), and Fund 6100 (Sewerage Operating), in object class 03 Services per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, 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.