Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to accept a $16,875 Scrap Tire Recycling Grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to benefit the North of Broad (NOBO) affordable housing project located on North Twenty-First Street between Long Street and Mount Vernon Avenue. This legislation also authorizes the appropriation of these funds to the Department of Development for administration of the grant and for construction.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources awarded the City a Scrap Tire Recycling Grant for the NOBO project to utilize ground scrap tires in the repaving of Twenty-First Street. North Twenty-First Street has two "green" built affordable homes one new and one rehab, with a total of eight other new and rehabbed homes on the street and plans to build three more as a part of the restoration of the King-Lincoln-Bronzeville neighborhood. The grant will pay for 50% of the cost of repaving North Twenty-First Street.
The invitation from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to apply for the scrap tire grant was received by the Columbus Department of Development in January 2007.
Emergency action is requested in order to facilitate construction under the grant as soon as possible.
FISCAL IMPACT: A Scrap Tire Recycling Grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources in the amount of $16,875.00 provides funding for this legislation.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to accept an Ohio Department of Natural Resources Scrap Tire Recycling Grant in the amount of $16,875; to authorize the appropriation of $16,875 from the General Government Grant Fund to the Department of Development; to authorize the Director of the Department of Development to expend said funds to benefit the North of Broad affordable housing project; to authorize the expenditure of $16,875 from the General Government Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($16,875)
Body
WHEREAS, this legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to accept a $16,875 Scrap Tire Recycling Grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to benefit the North of Broad (NOBO) affordable housing project; and
WHEREAS, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources awarded the City a Scrap Tire Recycling Grant for the NOBO project to utilize ground scrap tires in the repaving of Twenty-First Street; and
WHEREAS, North Twenty-First Street has two "green" built affordable homes one new and one rehab, with a total of eight other new and rehabbed homes on the street and plans to build three more as a part of the restoration of the King-Lincoln-Bronzeville neighborhood; and
WHEREAS, the grant will pay for 50% of the cost of repaving North Twenty-First Street; and
WHEREAS, emergency action is requested in order to facilitate construction under the grant as soon as possible; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development where it is immediately necessary to accept the Ohio Department of Natural Resources $16,875 Scrap Tire Recycling Grant and to appropriate and expend said funds all for the preservation of pubic health, peace, property and safety; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Director of the Department of Development is hereby authorized and directed to accept a $16,875 Scrap Tire Recycling Grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to benefit the street improvement of North Twenty-First Street in Columbus.
Section 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the fund known as the General Government Grant Fund, the sum of $16,875 be and is hereby appropriated to the Department of Development, Housing Division 44-10, Fund 220, Grant 447023, Object Level One 06, Object Level Three 6631, OCA Code 447023.
Section 3. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon the Order of the Department of Development and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
Section 4. That expenditure of these funds for the repaving of North Twenty-First Street between Long Street and Mount Vernon Avenue and for the administration of the grant is hereby authorized.
Section 5. That for the purpose as stated in Section 4, the expenditure of $16,875.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized to be expended from the General Government Grant Fund, Department of Development, Department No. 44-10, Fund 220, Grant No. 447023, Object Level One 06, Object Level Three 6631, OCA Code 447023.
Section 6. That for reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is 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.