Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the appropriation of $2,014,543 from the Special Income Tax Fund for the Finance and Management Department, Real Estate Management Office, for the payment of lease agreements entered into on behalf of the Departments of Public Safety and Development.
This ordinance also authorizes the Finance and Management Director to renew five separate lease agreements with four separate lessors. Two of the leases are for the Fire Division, two are for the Police Division, and one for the Development Department for Neighborhood Pride Centers.
This ordinance also authorizes the expenditure of funds for the payment of the first of twenty (20) one year terms of a lease with the Columbus Downtown Development Corporation authorized by City Council Ordinance 1121-2007 for office space at 50 West Town Street for the Department of Development, Economic Development Division and the expenditure of funds for the payment.
The leases authorized by this ordinance and Ordinance 1121-2007 with 2008 costs, are as follows:
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Emergency action is requested to provide funding to coincide with the commencement date for the leases.
Tom Zanteos Contract Compliance Number 27-8143514, expiration date 02/01/2009; Viking Properties Contract Compliance Number 31-1358552, expiration date 02/01/2009; King Lincoln Gateway, LLC Contract Compliance Number 38-3715517, expiration date 02/01/2009; and the Columbus Downtown Development Corporation Contract Compliance Number 76-0704655001.
Fiscal Impact: This ordinance appropriates $2,014,543 from the Special Income Tax Fund for leases for the fiscal year 2008. This ordinance authorizes the expenditure of $1,201,482.65 for six leases from the Special Income Tax (Fund 430) in 2008. In 2007, the Facilities Management Division spent $1,018,549.21 from the Special Income Tax Fund to cover these costs.
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To appropriate $2,014,543 within the Special Income Tax Fund for the Finance and Management Department, Real Estate Management Office; to authorize the Finance and Management Director to renew, extend, or enter into five lease agreements with various lessors for the lease of office and warehouse space for the Department of Public Safety and the lease of office space for the Department of Development; to authorize the expenditure of $1,201,482.65 from the Special Income Tax Fund; and to declare an emergency.
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WHEREAS, the Finance and Management Department, Real Estate Management Office, has the responsibility for managing various leases for General Fund agencies, and
WHEREAS, funding for these leases for the Real Estate Management Office, though not appropriated, are provided for with within the Special Income Tax Fund for 2008, and
WHEREAS, the appropriation of funds for these lease agreements from the Special Income Tax Fund is necessary, and
WHEREAS, the Departments of Public Safety and Development request the funding and execution of these lease renewals and extensions, and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize the Finance and Management Director to renew or extend said leases, and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to expend funds for the first of twenty (20) one year lease terms of the lease with Columbus Downtown Development Corporation authorized by City Council Ordinance 1121-2007, and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to expend funds for a Memorandum of Understanding between the Departments of Public Utilities and Finance and Management for the property used by the Deparment of Public Safety at 1250 Fairwood Avenue, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Finance and Management Department, Real Estate Management Office, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Finance and Management Director to renew six lease agreements with five lessors in order to provide funding for office and warehouse space for the Departments of Public Safety and Development to coincide with the beginning of lease terms, thereby ensuring that City operations continue uninterrupted, 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 the appropriation of $2,014,543, or so much thereof that may be necessary, is hereby authorized and approved as follows:
Division: 45-51
Fund: 430
OCA Code: 430459
Object Level 1: 03
Object Level 3: 3301
Amount: $2,014,543
SECTION 2. That the monies appropriated in SECTION 1 shall be paid upon order of the Finance and Management Director and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Council.
SECTION 3. That the Finance and Management Director be and is hereby authorized to enter into, renew or extend contracts and expend funds for the following lease needs per the attached chart identifying the current lessor, location, use, 2007 lease cost, and the 2008 lease cost.
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SECTION 4. That the expenditure of $1,201,482.65, or so much thereof that may be necessary in regard to the action authorized in SECTION 3, be and is hereby authorized and approved as follows:
Division: 45-51
Fund: 430
OCA Code: 430459
Object Level 1: 03
Object Level 3: 3301
Amount: $1,201,482.65
SECTION 5. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made 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.