Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Rickenbacker-Woods Museum and Historical Park project is a community-based initiative created to inspire and educate visitors of the accomplishments of Eddie Rickenbacker and Granville Woods. The project included the acquisition of 13 parcels, the restoration of the boyhood home of Eddie Rickenbacker and three additional structures with land. Ordinance 1038-01, passed June 18, 2001, authorized the Director of Development to enter into an agreement with the Ohio Department of Administrative Services to accept a $475,000 capital grant to support the Rickenbacker-Woods Project on East Livingston Avenue. This legislation authorizes the cancellation and transfer of funds and authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into an agreement with Rickenbacker Woods Technology Museum and Historical Park, Inc. for the purposes of providing property maintenance, landscaping and operational services.
FISCAL IMPACT: The remaining balance of $46,628.37 is a result of the grant described above. Funds are to be cancelled from and Auditor's Certificate and transferred.
Title
To authorize the City Auditor to cancel $23,433 from an Auditor's Certificate; to authorize the City Auditor to transfer $46,628.37 within the General Government Grant Fund; to authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into an agreement with Rickenbacker Woods Technology Museum and Historical Park, Inc. for the purposes of providing management services; to authorize the expenditure of $46,628.37 from the General Government Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($46,628.37)
Body
WHEREAS, Ordinance 1038-01, passed June 18, 2001, authorized the Director of the Department of Development to enter into an agreement with the Ohio Department of Administrative Services to accept a $475,000 capital grant to support the Rickenbacker-Woods Project on East Livingston Avenue; and
WHEREAS, the City owns the historic Rickenbacker homestead and has provided property management services and desires to utilize the remaining balance of these funds to maintain and improve the grounds; and
WHEREAS, such maintenance cannot be performed by existing City Staff; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development in that it is immediately necessary to transfer and expend said grant funds for the continued maintenance and preservation of the Rickenbacker Woods Museum site, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; and NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the City Auditor be and is hereby authorized to cancel $23,433 from Auditor's Certificate No. AC 010788.
Section 2. That the City Auditor be and is hereby authorized and directed to transfer $46,628.37 within the General Government Grant Fund, Fund No.220, Grant 460002 as follows:
FROM:
Division 44-06, Object Level One 06, Object Level Three 6601, OCA Code 460002
TO:
Division 44-01, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3336, OCA Code 441204
Section 3. That the Director of the Department of Development, or his designee, is authorized to enter into an agreement with Rickenbacker Woods Technology Museum and Historical Park, Inc. to provide management services for the properties on East Livingston Avenue known as the Rickenbacker Woods Technology Museum and Historical Park.
Section 4. That for the purpose as stated in Section 3, the expenditure of $46,628.37 or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized from the Department of Development, Division 44-01, Fund 220, Grant 460002, OCA Code 441204, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3336.
Section 5. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
Section 6. That for the reason 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 form and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.