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8/1/79
RESOLUTION NO. 79-133
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SANTA ANA AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF CONTRACTS
SETTLING A CERTAIN CLAIM AND FOR CERTAIN
COMPUTER EQUIPMENT DEEMED BY THE COUNCIL TO
BE OF URGENT NECESSITY FOR THE PRESERVATION
OF PROPERTY; AND DECLARING FACTS CONSTITUTING
SUCH URGENCY.
WHEREAS, this Council finds and determines as
follows:
1. That the City presently leases from Burroughs
Corporation a certain B2771 computer; that said computer is
a model first developed by the manufacturer in 1962; that
said model is no longer marketed; that said computer is
subject to frequent failures of mechanical and electrical
components thereof; that said failures result in unantici-
pated delays in production and expensive use of human labor;
and that repair and replacement parts needed to maintain and
repair said computer are rapidly becoming more and more
difficult to obtain due to said computer's state of techno-
logical obsolescence.
2. That the City's obligation and liability for the
remaining term of the lease of said computer is presently
approximately the sum of $250,000.
3. That conversion to another computer system of any
manufacturer other than Burroughs Corporation would result
in the costs therefor being increased to the extent of said
sum of $250,000, the City's obligation to pay which would
not then be waived by Burroughs Corporation, plus additional
costs of programming conversion made necessary by such
change in a sum estimated by the Director of Finance to be
in the range of $200,000 to $300,000.
4. That said obsolescent computer can be replaced by
novation of the present agreement with Burroughs Corporation
to effect the following transactions:
(a) until delivery of the computer hereinbelow
referred to as a "B3950 computer" can be received,
replace existing obsolescent B2771 computer temporarily
by leasing for a period of approximately 1 year from
Burroughs Corporation a B3890 central computer at an
annual cost of approximately $85,000 to overcome
present problems of delays and expense caused by break-
downs and unavailability of replacement parts;
(b) purchase a B3950 computer with peripheral
equipment and software for delivery in the 4th calendar
quarter of 1980 for a total cost of not more than
$420,000;
(c) relieve the City of its present contractual
obligation to pay Burroughs Corporation the sum of
approximately $250,000 still due and owing for said
obsolescent computer, thus settling any and all claims
that Burroughs Corporation may have for said sum or any
part thereof; and
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that said transactions will, if effected, not only settle
said claim but reduce the City's annual costs for leasing or
~$~ said equipment by the approximate sums of $20,000
during the current fiscal year and $90,000 per year thereafter.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF SANTA AIqA, as follows:
A. That each and all of the foregoing findings is and
are true and correct, and this Council so finds and determines.
B. That the City Manager is hereby authorized to
execute, on behalf of the City, contracts with Burroughs
Corporation to effect each and all of the transactions
specified in the finding numbered 4 above.
C. That said contracts, and the computer equipment to
be acquired thereby, are deemed by this Council to be of
urgent necessity for the preservation of property, to-wit:
public financial resources of the City, by reason of the
facts hereinabove stated in findings numbered i through 4,
inclusive, which are hereby declared to be the facts con-
stituting such urgency.
D. That, in the circumstances, going to bid for said
equipment would be an idle act, and that such is hereby
waived under and pursuant to the provisions of Section 421
of the Charter.
ADOPTED this
the following vote:
6th day of August , 1979, by
AYES: MEMBERS:
NOES: MEMBERS:
ABSENT: MEMBERS:
ATTEST:
Bricken, Griset, Luxembourger, Markel,
Serrato, Ward, Yamamoto
None
None
KEITH L. GOW,
CITY ATTORNEY
MAYOR