4856613 Resolution 20-454, "Office Depot Purchase Orders Nos. PO467381 and PO480871 Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014”

A RESOLUTION

 

20-454 

 

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 Office Depot Purchase Order Nos. PO467381 and PO480871 for the purchase of supply money cards for teachers to use to purchase instructional supplies for the 2013-2014 school year. 

 

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Office Depot Purchase Orders Nos. PO467381 and

PO480871 Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014”.

 

Sec. 2. (a) There exists an immediate need to approve Office Depot Purchase Order Nos. PO467381 and PO480871 for the purchase of supply money cards that were used by teachers to purchase start-up instructional supplies for the 2013-2014 school year.

(b) The District of Columbia Public Schools processed No. PO467381 on July 29, 2013, in the amount of $700,060 and No. PO480871 on September 10, 2013, in the amount of $765,000 to provide teachers with the ability to obtain supply money cards to purchase instructional supplies necessary for the start of the school year. 

(c) Council approval is necessary to allow payment for the purchase of the supply money cards for the period from July 29, 2013, through September 30, 2013, in the amount of $1,465,060.

 

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 Office Depot Purchase Order Nos. PO467381 and PO480871 Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Act of 2014 be adopted after a single reading.

 

Sec. 4.  This resolution shall take effect immediately.