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SUBMISSION AND ACKNOWLEDGING RECEIPT OF THE CITY MANAGER'S CONTRACT AND CHANGE ORDER REPORT AND DIRECTING THE FILING THEREOF.
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BACKGROUND: City Council, in its meeting of November, 8, 2011, adopted Resolution R-1112-55 delegating administrative authority to the City Manager or his designee, at his discretion, to approve change order requests that result in adjustments up to forty thousand dollars ($40,000) or 10% of any contract, whichever is less. The resolution also required that the administrative approvals of change orders be reported to the City Council with the City Manager's Weekly Report at the next regularly scheduled Council meeting and then filed with the original contract in the permanent records of the City Clerk.
City Council, in its meeting of July 14, 2020, adopted Ordinance O-1920-40 raising the contract approval threshold for the purchase of supplies, equipment, or contractual services from $25,000 to $50,000 which would be consistent with the current state law. Ordinance O-1920-40 requires contracts and purchases valued between twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) and fifty-thousand dollars ($50,000) be reported to Council on a monthly basis.
DISCUSSION: On September 25, 2017, City Council approved Contract K-1718-61 with RAVE Mobile Safety to provide a mass notification service for the City of Norman for the period of September 29, 2017 through September 28, 2019. This was a three-year contract with an annual cost of $32,500. This contract is a renewal agreement for a period of five years at a cost of $30,875 per year.
Rave Mobile Safety provides mass alerting to the citizens of Norman, helping to mitigate public safety risks through the notifications of hazards like grass fires, emergent road closures, armed assailants, etc. Also provided is Rave911, critical 911 call-taking software that helps dispatchers and callers 2-way text communication, technology that better support our hearing impaired community, as well as vi...
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