39-96 Request Proposals for Performance Cont - Winterhurst HVAC

Home Browse Search

PLACED ON 1ST READING ~ REFERRED TO THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE ON 10/7/96. PLACED ON 2nd READING ON 10/21/96. ORDINANCE NO. 39-96 BY: Boscia, Corrigan, Flannery, Georgel Roth, Seelie, Smith AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE authorizing and directing the Mayor (Director of Public Safety), the Director of Public Works, and the Director of Finance to solicit Requests for Proposals and enter into a Performance Contract as outlined by the State of Ohio in House Bill 300 for the repair and modernization of existing heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting systems, and ice making plant at Winterhurst Ice Rink. WHEREAS, an emergency exists to provide for the immediate preservation of public property, health and safety, and to provide for the usual daily operation of municipal departments in that certain capital improvements projects are to be undertaken at Winterhurst in accordance with the Capital Improvement Plan, and WHEREAS, Winterhurst Ice Rink expends inexcess of $300,000 a year to purchase electric and natural gas which places Winterhurst in the top ten percent (10%) of energy consumption for ice rinks in North America, and WHEREAS, State of Ohio House Bill 300 allows municipalities to employ performance contracting based on guaranteed energy savings as a method of financing capital improvements, and WHEREAS, Winterhurst was built in 1975 prior to today's technological advances in energy conservation, and WHEREAS, qualified firms exist to repair or modernize existing heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting systems, and ice making plants and funding those improvements through guaranteed energy savings, now BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO Section 1. That the Mayor (Director of Public Safety), the Director of Public Works, and the Director of Finance are hereby authorized and directed to solicit Requests for Proposals and enter into a performance contract based on guaranteed energy savings with the best bidder in accordance with State of Ohio House Bill 300 and the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood for Energy Savings Improvements at Winterhurst Ice Rink. Section 2. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this Ordinance were adopted in an open meeting of this Council, and that all such deliberations of this Council and any of its committees that resulted in such formal action were in meetings open to the public in compliance with all legal requirements. Section 3. That this Ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure for the reasons stated in the preamble hereof and provided it receives an affirmative vote of two-thirds of all members elected to Council, it shall take effect and be in force immediately upon its adoption and approval by the Mayor; otherwise, shall take effect and be in force after the earliest period allowed by law. Presi dent