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*Failed 6/20/94 ORDINANCE NO. 94-36 ' INTRODUCED BY: Mayor Rinker and Council as a Whole AN IIMERGENCY ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF AN ONE AND ONE-HALF TON INTERNATIONAL DUMP TRUCK FROM JONES EQUIPMENT . WHEREAS, the Service Department of the Village of Mayfield has been presented with a real and present emergency by the loss of certain vehicles necessary for the daily operation of the Department; and WHERFAS, to postpone the purchase of the needed dump truck for the time period necessary for public bidding will cause a real threat to the health, safety and welfare of residents in this community; and WFIEREAS, Jones Equipment has an one and one-half ton International dump truck available, and is willing to pay to the Village Fourteen Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($14,500.00) as and for the trade-in of an existing truck no longer suitable or capable of ineeting the needs of the Village of Mayfield; and WHEREAS, it is the desire of Council to authorize the purchase of the Jones Equipment one and one-half ton International dump truck pursuant to certain specifications of the Service Director, for a purchase price of Forty-Eight Thousand Dollars ($48,000.00), less a trade in of Fourteen Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($14,500.00) for a total payment to Jones Equipment of Thirty-Three Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($33,500.00); and WHEREAS, Section 735.051 of the Ohio Revised Code provides that in the case of a real and present emergency arising in connection with the maintenance and operation of any municipal department, the legislative authority may, by two-thirds (2/3) vote of all its members elected thereto, authorize the Mayor to enter into a contract without formal bidding and advertising; and WHEREAS, it has been deemed a real and present emergency to purchase the dump truck for the continuing operation of the Service Department in the Village of Mayfield without the necessity of formal bidding and advertising; and WHEREAS, it is the intent of Council to authorize the Mayor of the Village to enter into a contract for the dump truck without the necessity of legal advertisement and formal bidding, in order to immediately protect the Village and to prevent a threat to the health, safety and welfare of the Village residents, which will occur if there is a delay in the awarding of this contract. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF MAYFIELD VILIAGE, OHIO, THAT: SECTION 1: That the Mayor is hereby and herein authorized and directed to enter into an agreement with Jones Equipment as and for the purchase of a one and one-half ton International Dump Truck, and to trade in an existing Village vehicle for a net-purchase price of Thirty- Three Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($33,500.00). The Mayor is authorized to enter into such an agreement without advertising and formal bidding and that the same is necessitated by a real and present emergency.