Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This ordinance will authorize expenditures for construction inspection fees payable to Transportation Division for the Scioto Trail---Riversedge to Fifth Avenue.
Expenditures are for construction inspection services provided by City inspectors. City inspection services for work to be performed for a trail construction project along the right-of-way of Dublin Road, from 1335 Dublin Road to Fifth Avenue. The total contract cost is $990,000.00 and the majority of the work will occur within the street right-of-way.
Emergency legislation is required as the project is underway.
FISCAL IMPACT:
$87,000.00 is required and budgeted in the Recreation and Parks Voted Bond Fund to meet the financial obligations of this expenditure.
Title
To authorize the expenditure of $87,000.00 for Transportation Division construction inspection fees from the Voted Recreation and Parks Bond Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($87,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, expenditures are necessary for construction inspection services to the Recreation and Parks Department; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to expend said funds 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 expenditure for construction inspection fees is necessary for various services to the Recreation and Parks Department.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $87,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from the Recreation and Parks Voted Bond Fund, as follows, to pay the cost thereof.
Dept. Project Object OCA
Fund Type No. Fund No. Level 3 Code Amount
Cap. Proj. 51-01 702 510316-100022 6621 731622 $87,000.00
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. 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.