3235-2023: To authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management, on behalf of the Fleet Management Division, to establish purchase orders from previously established Universal Term Contracts (UTCs) for the purchase of vehicles and vehicle up-fitting needs for use by the Departments of Public Safety, Development, Finance, Public Service, and Recreation and Parks with Byers Ford, Law and Order Technology LLC, Parr Public Safety, and Ricart Properties; to authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to establish purchase orders from DAS cooperative contracts for the purchase of related vehicle up-fitting; to authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to establish purchase orders for additional vehicle up-fitting needs which will be purchased in accordance with the competitive bidding provisions of Columbus City Code; to authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to establish purchase orders for additional vehicle costs, model year changes, or cost increases; to authorize the appropriation and expenditure of $500,000.00 from the Special Income Tax Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($500,000.00)