Label
Blight Equipment
DPS/FAFO/UB
Megan Robson (x2306)
Revised
Title
Amending ordinance 490-22 for the purchase of equipment for blight clean-up operations; and declaring an emergency.
Body
SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
The Division of Urban Beautification is charged with the responsibility of cleaning up blight within the City of Toledo. Although Urban Beautification has many pieces of equipment, it is necessary to purchase new equipment specifically for blight clean-up. Ordinance 490-22 authorized the purchase of several pieces of equipment, however due increased build times and cost changes, the division would like to amend the original ordinance to expand the types of equipment purchased.
Summary
NOW, THEREFORE, Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Toledo:
SECTION 1. That Section 2 of Ordinance 490-22 which reads as follows:
SECTION 2. That the appropriation of $1,200,000 is authorized from the Local Fiscal Recovery Fund to Account Code 2021-27100-2C1EANTOLDNEI and the expenditure of same is authorized for the purchase of equipment for blight clean-up operations.
is amended to read as follows:
SECTION 2. That the appropriation of $1,200,000 is authorized from the Local Fiscal Recovery Fund to Account Code 2021-27100-2C1EANTOLDNEI and the expenditure of same is authorized for the purchase of equipment for blight clean-up operations including but not limited to trucks, packers, loaders, trailers, pick up and lift equipment and buckets.
SECTION 2. That this Ordinance, being an emergency measure, shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. The reason for the emergency lies in the fact that it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety and property, and for the further reason that the Ordinance must be immediately effective in order to ensure that equipment for blight clean-up operations is timely procured and deployed to address neighborhood blight.
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