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CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED ORDINANCE NO. 2016 — 60 BY: Mayor Kennedy AN ORDINANCE DISPENSING WITH A FORMAL RFP PROCESS AND AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT WITH HAZEN AND SAWYER, P.C. TO PERFORM A SEWER RATE STUDY AND RELATED PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FOR THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED IN ORDER TO EVALUATE FUNDING SOURCES AND ORDINANCES FOR THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND COLLECTIONS SYSTEM, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, this Council last addressed sewer rates, based upon a sewer rate study, by adoption of Ordinance No. 2011-74, amending rates imposed by Code Chapter 915; WHEREAS , the City had previously adopted Ordinance No. 2005-167 authorizing the Director of Public Service to request proposals from qualifying consulting engineer firms to conduct a rate and operations study of the North Olmsted Wastewater Treatment Plant and Collections System; and WHEREAS, the City's Board of Control had, based on said RFP, previously awarded a contract to ATS Engineering, Inc., a predecessor of Hazen and Sawyer, P.C., as the firm most qualified to conduct the rate and operations study for the City; and WHEREAS, based on the recommendations of the Administration and ATS Engineering, Inc., this Council, on November 20, 2007, adopted Ordinance No. 2007-123, which provided for an increase in user charges effective January 1, 2008; and WHEREAS, since April of 2009, Hazen and Sawyer, P.C. is the assignee/successor entity to ATS Engineering, Inc. and has been engaged by the City to perform engineering design services for the renovations and reconstruction of the Waste Water Treatment Plant and Collection Systems; and WHEREAS, Section 111.08 of the Administrative Code provides that personal services, including professional services, may be obtained by the City without following the formal RFP process established by Section 111.03 et seq. of the Administrative Code, when it is beneficial to do so due to a continuing relationship between the City and a professional services provider; and WHEREAS, it is accordingly the recommendation of the Director of Public Service and the desire of this Council, in light of the continuing professional relationship between the City and Hazen and Sawyer, P.C., to dispense with the RFP process and authorize the Mayor to enter into a contract with Hazen and Sawyer. P.C., for the purpose of providing the sewer rate study and other related professional services needed for the evaluation of Ordinances which provide funding sources for the Wastewater Treatment Plant and Collections System; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED, COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA, AND STATE OF OHIO: