Explanation
Background: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to amend a contract with Civil and Environmental Consultants for environmental clean up work at the Wheatland Avenue Property in the Hilltop Area. The City paid Civil and Environmental Consultants for clean up work and then Civil and Environmental Consultants later sought and received reimbursement from a State of Ohio grant. Civil and Environmental Consultants reimbursed the City of Columbus for expenditures from Contract EL-007208 and has requested that these funds be restored to their contract and purchase order so that additional clean up work can be completed on this site.
Emergency action is requested so that work on the project may continue without interruption.
Fiscal Impact: The City has received reimbursement from Civil and Environmental Consultants for expenditures that were reimbursed under a State of Ohio grant. This legislation appropriates the amount of the reimbursement ($60,662.47) and authorizes a contract amendment in the same amount.
Title
To amend the 2009 CIB; to authorize and direct the City Auditor to appropriate $60,662.47 to the Development Department; to authorize the Director of the Development Department to amend a contract with Civil and Environmental Consultants for environmental clean up work at the Wheatland Avenue Property in the Hilltop Area; to authorize the expenditure of $60,662.47 from the Housing Preservation Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($60,662.47)
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus desires to amend an agreement with Civil and Environmental Consultants for environmental clean up work at the Wheatland Avenue property; and
WHEREAS, expenditures that were made from Contract No. EL-007208 were later reimbursed to the City of Columbus; and
WHEREAS, it is now necessary to amend the contract by $60,662.47, the amount of the reimbursement, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Development Department, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director of the Development Department to amend the contract with Civil and Environmental Consultants for environmental clean up work at the Wheatland Avenue property so that work on the project may continue without interruption, 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 2009 Capital Improvements Budget established within ordinance 0806-2009 be and hereby is amended as follows:
Fund No. / Project No / Project / Current CIB Amount / Amendment Amount / CIB Amount
782 / 782001-100000/ Housing Preservation (carryover) / $5,665 / $60,663 / $66,328
Section 2. That the amount of $60,662.47 is hereby appropriated to the Development Department, Housing Division 44-10, Housing Preservation Fund, Fund 782, Project No.782001-100000 - Housing Preservation, OCA Code 782001, Object Level Three 6621.
Section 3. 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 4. That the Director of the Development Department is hereby authorized to amend the contract with Civil and Environmental Consultants for environmental clean up work at the Wheatland Avenue property.
Section 5. That the expenditure of $60,662.47 or so much thereof that may be necessary in regard to the action authorized in Section 4, be and is hereby authorized and approved from the Development Department, Division 44-10, Fund 782, Project 782001-100000, Object Level One 06, OCA Code 782001, Object Level Three 6621.
Section 6. That for 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 or vetoes the same.