Explanation
Background: This ordinance authorizes the Public Service Director to enter into an agreement to participate and fund a portion of the Northwest Regional Traffic Study. This study will be undertaken by the Mid Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC) and will be funded by Columbus, Franklin County, Dublin, Hilliard, and Washington Township. The study area will consist of the surface street system in an area bounded by SR161/ US33 to the north, Cemetery Rd./Scioto Darby Creek Rd. to the south, IR270 to the east and Madison County to the west as well as a possible limited examination of facilities leading out of or closely adjacent to the detailed study area to the south and west. This study will also be coordinated with the I-270 West Outerbelt/US 33 Major Investment Study. Using the Hilliard and Dublin thoroughfare plans as a basis, traffic assignments will be developed for the study area that will allow meaningful analysis of the existing traffic movements, estimate traffic impacts on the existing network by proposed traffic generators and make it possible to project traffic movements on alternative future road networks and configurations. This study will consider the base year (2003), 2030 and intermediate years as necessary for analysis.
Emergency action is requested in order to fund this study and allow for the study to maintain the schedule set by MORPC.
Fiscal Impact: The City of Columbus will be responsible for fifty percent (50%) of this project. Hilliard (15%), Dublin (15%), The Franklin County Engineer (15%), and Washington Township (5%) will also be contributing funding. Funds for this project are available from the unallocated balance of the Street Construction Maintenance and Repair Fund.
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To authorize the supplemental appropriation of $55,000.00 from the Street Construction Maintenance and Repair Fund; to authorize the Public Service Director to enter into an agreement for the Transportation Division with the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission to undertake the Northwest Regional Traffic Study to develop a strategic plan for the purpose of estimating traffic impacts on the existing network by proposed traffic generators and make it possible to project traffic movements on alternative future road networks and configurations, to authorize the expenditure of up to $55,000.00 from the Street Construction Maintenance Repair Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($55,000.00)
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WHEREAS, City of Columbus Transportation Division and MORPC have identified the need to improve the transportation system in the Northwest area which is described as follows:
An area bounded by SR161/ US33 to the north, Cemetery Rd./Scioto Darby Creek Rd. to the south, IR270 to the east and Madison County to the west as well as a possible limited examination of facilities leading out of or closely adjacent to the detailed study area to the south and west, and
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus Transportation Division, City of Hilliard, City of Dublin, the Franklin County Engineer, and Washington Township have agreed to a cost, funding shares and schedule for the Northwest Regional Traffic Study, to participate in the conduct of the study, and to provide funding to undertake the study, and,
WHEREAS, funds are available in the Street Construction Maintenance and Repair Fund for this reimbursement, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the Transportation Division, Public Service Department, in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate funds and to authorize a contract with MORPC for the Northwest Regional Traffic Study, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare, now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That from the unappropriated monies in the Street Construction Maintenance and Repair Fund, Fund 265, and from the monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2003, the sum of $55,000.00 be and hereby is appropriated to the Transportation Division, Department 59-09, Object Level One Code 03, Object Level Three Code 3336, and OCA Code 599138.
SECTION 2. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon order of the Public Service Director and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 3. That the Public Service Director be authorized to enter into an agreement with the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission, 285 East Main Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215, up to $55,000.00 for the Transportation Division to undertake the Northwest Regional Traffic Study to develop a strategic plan for the purpose of estimating traffic impacts on the existing network by proposed traffic generators and make it possible to project traffic movements on alternative future road networks and configurations.
SECTION 4. That the expenditure of $55,000.00 be and is hereby authorized from Fund 265, Street Construction Maintenance and Repair Fund, Department 59-09, Object Level One Code 03, Object Level Three Code 3336, and OCA Code 599138 to pay the cost of said study.
SECTION 5. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby 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 days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.