TO: Honorable Mayor & Members of the North Port Commission
FROM: A. Jerome Fletcher II, ICMA-CM, MPA, City Manager
TITLE: Ratification of City Manager's Use of Emergency Authorization to Enter Into a Contract With Sylvester Excavating, Inc. to Perform Emergency Restoration to the Sumter Boulevard and Price Boulevard Water Main That Was Washed Out Due to Hurricane Ian Under Purchase Order No. 049734 Not to Exceed $147,840.00.
Recommended Action
Ratification of City Manager's use of emergency authorization to enter into a Contract with Sylvester Excavating, Inc. to perform emergency restoration to the Sumter Boulevard and Price Boulevard water main that was washed out due to Hurricane Ian under Purchase Order No. 049734 not to exceed $147,840.00.
Background Information
On September 23, 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis issued Executive Order Number 22-218, declaring that a state of emergency for 24 Florida counties, including Sarasota County due to Tropical Depression Number Nine, which became Hurricane Ian. On September 24, 2022, Governor DeSantis issued Executive Order Number 22-219, amending Executive Order Number 22-218 and expanding the state of emergency to the entire State. On November 1, 2022, Governor DeSantis issued Executive Order Number 22-268, renewing the state of emergency for an additional sixty (60) days.
On September 26, 2022, the City Commission adopted Ordinance No. 2022-30, declaring a local state of emergency and granting emergency authority to the City Manager. In his emergency authority, the City Manager entered into the following Purchase Order and attachments, which constitutes a legal Contract. The City Manager requests that the City Commission ratify this Contract approval.
> Purchase Order No. 049734 and Contract attachments Sylvester Excavating, Inc. for emergency restoration to the Sumter Boulevard and Price Boulevard water main that was washed out due to Hurricane Ian in the amount of $147,840.00.
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