For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) "Public Contract" or "Construction Project" means either of the following:
(1) Any new construction of any public improvement, the total overall project cost of which is estimated to be more than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) and performed by other than full-time employees of the City who have completed their probationary periods in the classified service. Determination of project cost shall be subject to the biennial increase or decrease provided for by Ohio R.C. 4115.034; or
(2) Any construction, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement, renovation, alteration, repair, painting or decorating of any public improvement, which is estimated to be more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) and performed by other than full-time employees of the City who have completed their probationary periods in the classified service. Determination of project cost shall be subject to the biennial increase or decrease provided for by Ohio R.C. 4115.034.
(b) "Public improvement” includes all buildings, roads, streets, alleys, sewers, ditches, sewage disposal plants, water works and all other structures or works constructed by the City or by any person or entity, who, pursuant to a contract with the City, constructs any public improvement for the City. A public improvement shall be considered as one project where a review of the nature, scope and objective, as well as the interrelationship of time and purpose of the project, evidences the undertaking of a single public improvement pursuant to Ohio R.C. 4115.033 and O.A.C. 4101:9-4-17.
(c) "Local employee" means:
(1) A person residing within the City of Massillon or Stark County;
(2) A person working for a contractor or from a pool of labor located within the City of Massillon or Stark County; or
(3) Due to the specialty nature of the employment to be performed, where a suitable person meeting either subsection (c)(1) or (2) hereof is not available, a person residing or working within a location as close to Massillon as is available. A "suitable person" means a person who is qualified to perform the work or trainable within a reasonable period of time. (Ord. 31-2011. Passed 4-4-11.)