Explanation
Background: The State of Ohio, on the behalf for the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, desires to enter into a license agreement with the City of Columbus for the installation of air-monitoring equipment on a 1 acre +/- section of that City owned real property located at 4250 Groves Road (Groves Road Communications Tower site). In conjunction and collaboration with the United States Department of Homeland Security, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will be performing air monitoring and testing for contamination to provide an early warning system that can rapidly detect trace amounts of biological materials in the air, whether they are due to intentional release or due to minute quantities that may occur naturally in the environment. The Ohio E.P.A is working with the United States Department of Homeland Security to determine emergency response, medical care and those consequence management needs which are in the best interest of the public. Per the license agreement, all costs relative to the installation will be at the expense of the State. The City would agree to allow the State use of a 110 volt electrical connection at no charge to for the purpose of operating the air-monitoring equipment. The following ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Public Safety to enter into a license agreement with the State of Ohio in order to install air-monitoring equipment, on that City owned real property located at 4250 Groves Road (Groves Road Communications Tower site).
Fiscal Impact: N/A
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested as not to delay the immediate installation of air-monitoring equipment, and testing for contamination in order to provide an early warning system for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health and safety.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Public Safety to execute those documents necessary to enter into a License Agreement with the State of Ohio in order to install air-monitoring equipment, on a 1 acre +/- section of that City owned real property located at 4250 Groves Road (Groves Road Communications Tower site) for the benefit of Homeland Security and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, the State of Ohio, on the behalf for the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, desires to enter into a license agreement with the City of Columbus for the installation of air-monitoring equipment, on a 1 acre +/- section of that City owned real property located at 4250 Groves Road (Groves Road Communications Tower site), more fully described within the body of this legislation; and
WHEREAS, in conjunction and collaboration with the United States Department of Homeland Security, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will be performing air monitoring and testing for contamination to provide an early warning system that can rapidly detect trace amounts of biological materials in the air, whether they are due to intentional release or due to minute quantities that may occur naturally in the environment; and
WHEREAS, the Ohio E.P.A is working with the United States Department of Homeland Security to determine emergency response, medical care and those consequence management needs which are in the best interest of the public; and
WHEREAS, per the license agreement, all costs relative to the installation will be at the expense of the State. The City would agree to allow the use of a 110 volt electrical connection at no charge to for the purpose of operating the air-monitoring equipment; and
WHEREAS, it has no objection to the granting of said license, as it has been determined that its granting will not adversely affect the City; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City of Columbus, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director of the Department of Public Safety to execute those documents necessary to grant an license agreement to the State of Ohio for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health and safety; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Director of the Department of Public Safety be and hereby is authorized to execute those documents necessary to enter into a License Agreement with the State of Ohio in order to install air-monitoring equipment, on a 1 acre +/- section of that City owned real property located at 4250 Groves Road (Groves Road Communications Tower site) more fully described as the following, to-wit:
l.000 ACRE
Situated in the State of Ohio, County of Franklin, City of Columbus), part of the Southwest Quarter of Section 21, Township 12 North, Range 12, Refugee Lands, being a 1.000 acre tract, part of Land 0' Lakes, Inc. as recorded in Instrument No. 200111300277834 (all references refer to records in the Franklin County Recorder's Office, Ohio) and being more fully described as follows:
Beginning for reference at an existing rebar in the centerline of Groves Road, at the southwesterly corner of Section 21 and the southeasterly corner of Section 20;
Thence N 7° 21' 39" E, a distance of 1056.29 feet, along the westerly line of said Section 21, to an iron pi n set being the True Point Of Beginning;
Thence N 7° 21' 39" E" a distance of 139.98 feet, along the westerly line of said Section 21, to an existing iron pin on the southerly right-of-way of Conrail Railroad;
Thence S 81° 52' 01" E, a distance of 296.07 feet, along the southerly right-of-way of said Conrail Railroad, to an iron pin set;
Thence S 80° 07' 59" W, a distance of 100.00 feet to an iron pin set;
Thence S 62° 20' 55" E, a distance of 119.63 feet to an iron pin set;
Thence N 81° 52' 01" W, a distance of 406.94 feet to the True Point Of Beginning, containing 1.000 acre, more or less, according to an actual field survey made by Hockaden and Associates, Inc., Frank C. Long, P.S.# 6615, April 12,2001.
For the purpose of this description a Bearing of S 82° 21' 25" E was used on the centerline of Groves Road as described in the deed to Huntington National Bank as recorded in Instrument No. 199806230155316.
Prior Instrument Reference: Instrument Number 200111300277834;
D.B. Vol. 1269, Pg. 196;
Vol. 2800, Pgs. 566, 567, 568,
Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio.
Franklin County Tax Parcel No. 010-118507
Section 2. That for the reasons state in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor or ten days after its passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.