4856419 Resolution 20-456, “Scholastic Inc. Purchase Orders PO481712, PO466824, and PO466825 Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014”

A RESOLUTION

 

20-456 

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

April 8, 2014

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to approve Scholastic Inc. Purchase Order Nos. PO481712, PO466824, and PO466825 for the purchase of reading materials and instructional resources for the 2013-2014 school year.

 

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this

resolution may be cited as the “Scholastic Inc. Purchase Orders PO481712, PO466824, and

PO466825 Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014”.

 

Sec. 2. (a) There exists an immediate need to approve Scholastic, Inc. Purchase Order Nos. PO481712, PO466824, and PO466825 for the purchase of reading materials and instructional resources for classrooms for the 2013-2014 school year.

(b)    The District of Columbia Public Schools processed Purchase Order No. PO466824 on July 23, 2013, in the amount of $968,828.80, Purchase Order No. PO466825 on July 23, 2013, in the amount of $30,071.20, and Purchase Order No. PO481712 on September 23, 2013, in the amount of $630,360 to provide reading materials and instructional resources to students and teachers needed for the start of the school year.

(c) Council approval is necessary to allow for the payment of these purchase orders for the period from July 29, 2013, through September 30, 2013, in the amount of $1,629,260.

 

Sec. 3.  The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Scholastic Inc. Purchase Orders PO481712, PO466824, and PO466825 Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Act of 2014 be adopted after a single reading.

 

Sec. 4.  This resolution shall take effect immediately.