Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) contract with Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment (Campus Partners) to remove asbestos and to undertake the demolition of buildings at the former Columbus Coated Fabrics site at East Fifth Avenue and Grant Avenue in Columbus (the site). The GMP contract will be in an amount not to exceed $1.6 million funded under the City's November 30, 2006, municipal bond sale.
Under Ordinance No. 1864-2006 approved at Columbus City Council on October 16, 2006, the Director of Development was authorized to enter into an agreement with Campus Partners to purchase the site and resell the site to Campus Partners.
The agreement with Campus Partners provided the City to undertake certain activities at the site to include asbestos abatement and demolition estimated at $1.6 million in cooperation with Campus Partners.
This legislation allows the City to proceed with the commitment to clean the site and prepare it for redevelopment in cooperation with Campus Partners.
FISCAL IMPACT: The expenditure of $1.6 million from municipal bond funds.
Title
To authorize the Director of Development to enter into a Guaranteed Maximum Price contract under Section 186 of the City Charter with Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment for asbestos removal and demolition at the former Columbus Coated Fabrics site; to authorize the expenditure of up to $1.6 million from the Northland and Other Acquisitions Fund; to waive the competitive bidding provisions of Chapter 329 of the Columbus City Codes; and to declare an emergency. ($1,600,000.00)
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WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 1864-2006, approved at Columbus City Council on October 16, 2006, permitted the Director of Development to enter into an agreement with Campus Partners to purchase the former Columbus Coated Fabrics site and to resell the site to Campus Partners after asbestos abatement and demolition have been accomplished at the site in cooperation with Campus Partners; and
WHEREAS, the estimated cost of asbestos abatement and demolition at the former Columbus Coated Fabrics site is $1.6 million, of which amount was provided for under the City's November 30, 2006, municipal bond sale; and
WHEREAS, the former Columbus Coated Fabrics site in its current state, poses a significant threat to public health and safety and represents a blighting influence on the predominately residential neighborhood of Weinland Park; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Ordinance No. 1208-2006, the City authorized funding for part of the costs of Campus Partners' Phase II environmental assessments of the site, assessment of costs of environmental remediation and demolition of the site and preparation of a Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund grant application for the site; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a Guaranteed Maximum Price contract with Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment for asbestos removal and demolition of the former Columbus Coated Fabrics site, all for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Director of the Department of Development is hereby authorized to enter into a Guaranteed Maximum Price contract under Section 186 of the Charter of the City of Columbus with Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment for asbestos removal and demolition at the former Columbus Coated Fabrics site.
Section 2. To authorize the expenditure of up to $1.6 million from Fund 735, Northland and Other Acquisitions Fund, Department 44, Project 440104, OCA 735020, Object Level One 06, Object Level 6621, to remove asbestos and demolish the site and said funds are hereby deemed appropriated to carry out that purpose.
Section 3. That the competitive bidding provisions of Chapter 329 of the City Code be and hereby are waived.
Section 4. For reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is made a part hereof, this ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten (10) days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes this Ordinance.