Explanation
Background: The following is an ordinance to authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests, contract for professional services, and to expend the monies for payment of acquisition costs in connection with the Maryland Avenue/Denver Avenue Stormwater Project.
Fiscal Impact: This legislation includes a transfer of funds within the Storm Sewer Bonds Fund and an amendment to the 2009 Capital Improvements Budget to allow sufficient cash and authority in the proper account for this project expenditure. The funds transferred and the authority amendment for this project is a result of encumbrance cancellations.
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested in order to provide for the immediate acquisition of real property interests necessary to the City's project in order to preserve public health, peace, property and safety.
Title
To authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests; to contract for professional services; to authorize the transfer of $45,000.00 within the Storm Sewer Bonds Fund; to amend the 2009 Capital Improvements Budget; to authorize the expenditure of $45,000.00 from the Storm Sewer Bonds Fund for the Department of Public Utilities, Sewerage and Drainage Division for costs in connection with the Maryland Avenue/Denver Avenue Stormwater Project; and to declare an emergency. ($45,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus is engaged in the Maryland Avenue/Denver Avenue Stormwater Project; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary for this Council to authorize the City Auditor to transfer funds within the Storm Sewer Bonds Fund; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize an amendment to the 2009 Capital Improvements Budget for purposes of providing sufficient budget authority for the aforementioned project expenditure; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities, Division of Sewerage and Drainage, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests in and to certain parcels of real estate and to contract for the aforesaid professional services necessary in connection with said project for the preservation of the 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 Maryland Avenue/Denver Avenue Stormwater Project, Project No. 610976.
Section 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to transfer and appropriate $45,000.00 from within the Storm Sewer Bond Fund, Fund No. 685, Div. 60-15, OL3: 6601, Division of Sewerage and Drainage as follows:
FROM:
Proj. No. | Proj. Name | OCA | Amount
610963-100000 | Hague Avenue (carryover) | 685963 | $45,000.00
TO:
Proj. No. | Proj. Name | OCA | Amount
610976-100000 | Maryland Avenue (carryover) | 685976 | $45,000.00
Section 3. That the expenditure of $45,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary from the Storm Sewer Bonds Fund, Fund No. 685; Dept./Div.60-15; Project No. 610976-100000; OCA Code 685976; Object Level Three 6601 for the aforesaid purpose is hereby authorized.
Section 4. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this Ordinance.
Section 5. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to transfer any unencumbered balance in the project account to the unallocated balance 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 no longer required for said project; except that no transfer shall be made from a project account by monies from more than one source.
Section 6. That the City Auditor is authorized to establish proper project accounting numbers as appropriate.
Section 7. That the 2009 Capital Improvements Budget Ordinance No. 0806-2009 is hereby amended as follows, to provide sufficient budget authority for the expenditures associated with the Maryland Avenue/Denver Avenue Stormwater Project:
Proj. No. | Proj. Name | Current Authority | Revised Authority | (Amount of Change)
610963-100000 | Hague Avenue (carryover) | $98,505 | $53,505 | (-$45,000)
610976-100000 | Maryland Avenue (carryover) | $0 | $45,000 | (+$45,000)
Section 8. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, 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 its passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.