Explanation
1. Background: This ordinance will authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests, contract for professional services, and to expend the monies for payment of acquisition costs in connection with the Big Walnut Sanitary Trunk Extension, Part 2 Project and the Hiawatha Park/Atwood Relief Sewer Project.
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To authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests, contract for professional services; to authorize the transfer and expenditure of $89,000.00 from the Sewer System Permanent Improvements Fund; to amend the 2002 Capital Improvements Budget; in connection with the Big Walnut Sanitary Trunk Extension Project and the Hiawatha Park/Atwood Relief Sewer Project; and to declare an emergency. ($89,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Department of Public Utilities, has developed construction plans and specifications for the sanitary sewer improvement projects known as the Big Walnut Sanitary Trunk Extension, Part 2 Project and the Hiawatha Park/Atwood Relief Sewer Project; and
WHEREAS, in order to construct the aforementioned sanitary improvements it has been determined necessary for this City Council to authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests in and to certain parcels of real estate and to contract for the professional services necessary to complete said acquisition; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Department of Public Utilities, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the transfer and expenditure of funds; to authorize the City Attorney to procure the required easements necessary to construct the aforementioned vital sanitary sewer improvements; and to amend the 2002 Capital Improvements; for the preservation of the public health, peace, property and safety; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate a total of $89,000.00 from the Unallocated Balance of the Sewer System Permanent Improvements Fund No. 671, Project Account 671999.
Section 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to transfer $89,000.00 from within the Sewer System Permanent Improvements Fund No. 671, for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage as follows:
FROM:
671999-Unallocated Balance-$89,000.00
TO:
650033-Big Walnut Sanitary Subtrunk-$69,000.00
650646-Hiawatha Park/Atwood Relief Sewer-$20,000.00
Section 3. That the City Attorney be, and hereby is, authorized to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests in and to certain parcels of real estate and to contract for the professional services necessary in connection with the Big Walnut Sanitary Trunk Extension, Part 2 Project and the Hiawatha Park/Atwood Relief Sewer Project.
Section 4. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to transfer any unencumbered balance in the 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 5. That the expenditure of $89,000.00, or as much tereof as may be needed, be and the same hereby is authorized from the Sewer System Permanent Improvements Fund No. 671; Division 60-05; within the following projects:
Project No. 650033; Big Walnut Sanitary Subtrunk; OCA Code 671033; $69,000.00
Project No. 650646; Hiawatha Park/Atwood Relief Sewer; OCA 671646; $20,000.00
Section 6. That the 2002 Capital Improvements Budget Ordinance No. 1674-02 is hereby amended as follows, in order to provide sufficient budget authority for the aforementioned easement acquisition services as referenced in the preamble hereto.
CURRENT:
650492-Big Walnut Sanitary Trunk Extension-$875,000.00
650646-Hiawatha Park/Atwood Relief Sewer-$215,112.00
AMENDED TO:
650492-Big Walnut Sanitary Trunk Extension-$944,000.00
650646-Hiawatha Park/Atwood Relief Sewer-$235,112.00
Section 7. That the City Attorney be, and hereby is, authorized to expend $69,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, from the Sewer System Permanent Improvements Fund, in order to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests in and to certain parcels of real estate and to contract for the professional services necessary , in connection with the Big Walnut Sanitary Trunk Extension, Part 2 Project as follows:
Project # 650033; Dept./Div. 60-05; Fund# 671; Object Level Three; 6601; OCA Code 671033; Amount $69,000.00
Section 8. That the City Attorney be, and hereby is, authorized to expend $20,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, from the Sewer System Permanent Improvements Fund, in order to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests in and to certain parcels of real estate and to contract for the professional services necessary, in connection with the Hiawatha Park/Atwood Relief Sewer Project as follows:
Project # 650646; Dept./Div. 60-05; Fund# 671; Object Level Three 6601; OCA Code 671646; Amount $20,000.00
Section 9. 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.