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Station 18’s Fire Damage Remediation Ordinance
Fire & Rescue Department
CFO Ted Sheares (x3515)
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Authorizing the Mayor to award contracts for Fire Station 18’s fire damage remediation and related repairs and service costs; authorizing the expenditure of $72,942.65 from the General Fund for said service and repair contracts; waiving the competitive bidding requirements of TMC Chapter 187; and declaring an emergency.
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SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
Toledo Fire and Rescue’s expenditure request of $72,942.65 sums the related remediation contracting costs of Station 18’s February 2, 2022 fire. TFRD personnel confined said Fire to the mechanical room, with moderate smoke damage extending station-wide. Returning the station to service was deemed mission-critical to maintaining public safety and welfare. Accordingly, Fire contacted and secured COT-approved vendors to accomplish such ends. Three contractors provided the majority of the required remediation services, which necessitates respective contracts for invoice payment: J&R Restorations at a total cost of $31,285.95, AAA Standard Services, INC. totaling $27,677.47, and Pneu-Matic Engineering, Inc. totaling $13,979.23.
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NOW, THEREFORE, Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Toledo:
SECTION 1. That the Mayor is authorized to enter into contracts necessary to complete the above stated fire damage remediations. Said contracts shall contain such terms and conditions as the Mayor deems requisite and proper and shall be subject to approval by the Department of Law and the Director of Fire.
SECTION 2. That an expenditure in an amount not to exceed $72,942.65 for said contracts is authorized from the General Fund, Account Code 1001-53000-3341002MAINTB, for the purposes authorized in Section 1.
SECTION 3. That this Council finds and determines it is in the best interest of the City to waive the competitive bid requirements of TMC Chapter 187 for the reason that a Fire Station’s timely return to community service is mission-critical to maintaining public safety and health.
SECTION 4. That the Director of Finance is authorized to draw warrant or warrants against the above Account Code in an amount not to exceed $72,942.65, in payment of the above-authorized obligations upon presentation of the proper voucher or vouchers.
SECTION 5. That this Ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure and shall be in force and effect from and after its passage. The reason for the emergency lies in the fact that the timely fire damage remediation of Fire Station 18 and the station’s prompt serviceability return is in the public’s best interest as is necessary to maintain community safety and protection from the perils of Fire and similar incidents.
Vote on emergency clause: yeas 12, nays 0.
Passed: April 12, 2022, as an emergency measure: yeas 12, nays 0.
Attest:
Gerald E. Dendinger Matt Cherry
Clerk of Council President of Council
Approved: April 13, 2022
Wade Kapszukiewicz
Mayor