Explanation
BACKGROUND: This project provides for the construction of a 66 inch raw water line from Hoover Dam to the Hap Cremean Water Plant (HCWP). Total line length is approximately 3 miles. The line will allow the plant to be fed directly from Hoover Reservoir via gravity within a pipe, providing increased safety for the water supply. This ordinance will provide the City Attorney with funding for real estate acquisition services for the Hap Cremean Water Plant Raw Water Line project. This project is located in the vicinity of Big Walnut Creek from Hoover Reservoir to Hap Cremean Water Plant.
EMERGENCY PROVISION: Emergency legislation is being requested to allow the appraisal and acquisition of these parcels necessary for this project to proceed without delay in order to continue engineering design services for this project critical to providing increased safety to the water supply to the greater Columbus area.
FISCAL IMPACT: This project is included in the 2005-2010 CIP, and is being funded from current monies.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE NUMBER: N/A
Title
To authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests; to contract for professional services; to authorize the transfer and expenditure of $200,000.00 from within the Waterworks Enlargement Voted 1991 Bonds Fund for the HCWP Raw Water Line project; to amend the 2005 Capital Improvement Budget for the Division of Water; and to declare an emergency. ($200,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, This project provides for the construction of a 66 inch raw water line from Hoover Dam to the Hap Cremean Water Plant (HCWP). Total line length is approximately 3 miles. The line will allow the plant to be fed directly from Hoover Reservoir via gravity within a pipe, providing increased safety for the water supply; and
WHEREAS, the Division of Water, Department of Public Utilities, is performing engineering design and evaluation work in preparation for developing construction plans and specifications for the HCWP Raw Water Line project; and
WHEREAS, in order to continue with the engineering design and to construct the aforementioned water supply improvements and associated facilities, it has been determined necessary for this City Council to authorize the City Attorney to perform title search and appraisal services, and to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests in and to certain parcels of real estate and to contract for the professional services necessary to complete said acquisition; and
WHEREAS: An emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Water, Department of Public Utilities, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the transfer and expenditure of funds within the Waterworks Enlargement Voted 1991 Bonds Fund; to authorize the City Attorney to procure the required easements necessary to design and construct the aforementioned vital water supply improvements; and to amend the 2005 Capital Improvements Budget; and so as to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possible, therefore emergency legislation is being requested, for the preservation of public health, peace, property and safety now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS
Section 1. That the City Attorney be, and hereby is, authorized to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests in and to certain parcels of real estate and to contract for the professional services necessary in connection with the HCWP Raw Water Line project.
Section 2. That the City Attorney be, and hereby is, authorized to expend $200,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in order to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests in and to certain parcels of real estate and to contract for the professional services necessary, from Waterworks Enlargement Voted 1991 Bonds Fund, Fund No. 606, Department of Public Utilities, Division of Water, Dept./Division No. 60-09, Object Level Three 6601; within the following project:
Project No. 690265| HCWP Raw Water Line| OCA Code 690265| $200,000.00
Section 3. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized to transfer the unencumbered balance in a project account to the unallocated balance account within the same fund upon receipt of certification by the Director of the Department administering said project; that the project has been completed and the monies are no longer required for said project except that no transfer shall be so made from a project account funded by monies from more than one source.
Section 4. The City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to transfer funds from within the Waterworks Enlargement Voted 1991 Bonds Fund, Fund No. 606, Department of Public Utilities, Division of Water, as follows:
FROM:
690379 DRWP Chlorine Storage Facility
OCA Code 606379 $200,000.00
TO:
690265 HCWP Raw Water Line
OCA Code 690265 $200,000.00
Section 5. That Section 1, Public Utilities/Water 60-09 of Ordinance 1070-2005 is hereby amended as follows:
690265 HCWP Raw Water Line $200,000 *(1)*
690379 DRWP Chlorine Storage Facility $590,647 *(2)*
Section 6. 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.
2005 Original Budget 2005 Amended Budget Comments
*(1)* $0 $200,000 Authority Increased
*(2)* $790,647 $590,647 Authority Reduced