Explanation
BACKGROUND
This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to renew the contract with Inservice Training Network for an additional year for professional development/certification services for city staff who administer the Lead Safe Columbus program.
Original contract amount $45,000 .00 PO222797
Modification No. 1 amount $ 0.00
Total contract amount $45,000.00
The city applied for and received a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Lead Hazzard Control and Healthy Homes grant in late 2019. The grant term is 3 ½ years. This HUD grant funds the Lead Safe Columbus program.
The Director of Development entered into contract with Inservice Training Network under the provision of Columbus City Code Section 329.19 in April 2020. The original contract has a term end date of December 31, 2020. This legislation will extend the contract an additional year, ending December 31, 2021. No additional funds are needed at this time.
This contract will be renewed annually, and modified if additional funds need to be added, through the term of the grant from HUD.
Emergency action is requested in order to continue to services without interruption.
FISCAL IMPACT: No funding is needed for this modification.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE: the vendor number is 005113 and expires 2/19/2022.
Title
To authorize the Director of Development to renew the contract with Inservice Training Network for an additional year for professional development/certification services for city staff who administer the Lead Safe Columbus program; and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, the Director of Development has identified the need to renew the contract with Inservice Training Network for an additional year for professional development/certification services for city staff who administer the Lead Safe Columbus program; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to renew this contract so program services can continue without interruption, 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 Development be and is hereby authorized to renew the contract with Inservice Training Network for an additional year, ending December 31, 2021.
SECTION 2. 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 approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.