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CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED RESOLUTION NO. 2023 — 86 By: Mayor Jones A RESOLUTION RATIFYING AND RETROACTIVELY AUTHORIZING THE SERVICE DIRECTOR TO PURCHASE FROM THORWORKS INDUSTRIES, INC. A CRACKPRO 125DA CRACKSEALER AND RELATED EQUIPMENT ATA TOTAL COST OF $69,638.39, PURSUANT TO STATE PURCHASING PROGRAM, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, this Council has authorized the expenditure of up to $78,000.00 for a cracksealer pursuant to its 2023 appropriations budget (Ord. No. 2023-10); and WHEREAS, the Director of Public Service determined that Thorworks Industries, Inc., had available the CrackPro 125DA in the amount of $69,638.39, pursuant to the State Purchasing program price (State Contract #153-23); and WHEREAS, this Council must authorize such purchase as an exception to public bidding via the state purchase list; and WHEREAS, it is the desire of this Council to ratify and retroactively authorize the Mayor to enter into a contract with Thorworks Industries, Inc., in the amount of $69,638.39, pursuant to the State Purchasing programs (State Contract #153-23). WHEREAS, pursuant to Ohio Revised Code Section 5705.41(D)(1), the City may not enter into any contract or give any order involving the expenditure of money unless there is attached thereto a certificate of the City's Finance Director that the amount required to meet the obligation has been lawfully appropriated for such purpose and is in the treasury or in the process of collection to the credit of an appropriate fund free from any previous encumbrances; and WHEREAS, Ohio Revised Code Section 5705.41(D)(1) further provides that in such circumstances when no certificate is famished as required and the expenditure is for $3,000.00 or more, the City's Council, as the City's taxing authority, may authorize the drawing of a warrant in payment of amounts due upon such contract or order upon certification by the Finance Director that there was at the time of the execution of such certificate a sufficient sum appropriated for the purpose of such contract in the treasury or in the process of collection to the credit of an appropriate fund free from any previous encumbrances; and WHEREAS, such certificate of the Finance Director is known as a "Then and Now Certificate", meaning that the funds were available when the contract was made and when the amount due under the contract was/is paid; and WHEREAS, the City is issuing Then and Now Certificates in connection with payments due and owing; and WHEREAS, City Council deems it to be in the best interest of the health, safety and welfare of the City to approve the execution by the Finance Director of Then and Now Certificates and to authorize the payment of amounts due under the contracts or orders, requiring the expenditure of $3,000.00 or more.