Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a contract with the NORTHERN PICKAWAY COUNTY JOINT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT (NPC JEDD), a joint economic development district in accordance with Sections 715.72 through 715.81 of the Ohio Revised Code. The purpose of this contract is to provide sewer service to the commercial and industrial properties located in the NPC JEDD.
This ordinance is requested to be an emergency measure to allow the Director of Public Utilities to enter into contract at the earliest date possible.
FISCAL IMPACT: The Department of Public Utilities will collect revenue from sewer rates as specified for Outside City Rates in Chapter 1147 of the Columbus City Code.
Title
To authorize the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a contract with the NORTHERN PICKAWAY COUNTY JOINT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT (NPC JEDD), a joint economic development district in accordance with Sections 715.72 through 715.81 of the Ohio Revised Code, to provide sewer service to the commercial and industrial properties located in the NPC JEDD, and to declare an emergency.
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WHEREAS, City of Columbus, the Village of Ashville, and the Township of Harrison, Pickaway County, Ohio (the "JEDD Parties") and the Village of South Bloomfield, entered into an Annexation Moratorium Agreement on August 30, 2007, to place a moratorium on annexation within the Northern Industrial Area, as defined in the Annexation Moratorium Agreement to allow for joint economic development within such area; and
WHEREAS, the NORTHERN PICKAWAY COUNTY JOINT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT (NPC JEDD), was created by contract by and among the JEDD parties in accordance with Ohio Revised Code sections 715.72 through 715.81 for their mutual benefit and for the benefit of their residents and of the State of Ohio on August 30, 2007; and
WHEREAS, the NPC JEDD contract provides that sanitary sewer service will be provided by Columbus within the NPC JEDD area pursuant to the Annexation Moratorium Agreement; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Annexation Moratorium Agreement, the NPC JEDD and Columbus desire to set forth terms and conditions for the provision of sanitary sewer service; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities in that it is immediately necessary to enter into a contract with the NORTHERN PICKAWAY COUNTY JOINT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT (NPC JEDD), a joint economic development district in accordance with Sections 715.72 through 715.81 of the Ohio Revised Code, to provide adequate sewer service to the commercial and industrial properties located NPC JEDD, thereby preserving the public health and welfare; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Director of Public Utilities is hereby authorized to enter into contract with the NORTHERN PICKAWAY COUNTY JOINT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT (NPC JEDD), a joint economic development district in accordance with Sections 715.72 through 715.81 of the Ohio Revised Code, to provide sewer service to the commercial and industrial properties located in the NPC JEDD.
Section 2. 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.