Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Public Service Director to remit the annual principal and interest payment to the Franklin County Board of Commissioners for the 2004 debt service cost associated with the lease of the Municipal Court Building, 325 South High Street. On November 21, 1975, the City of Columbus entered into a lease agreement (CT-05851) with the Franklin County Commissioners that provided for a debt service/lease payment for the Municipal Court Building. The agreement was authorized by Ordinance No. 1589-75 and provides office space for the Municipal Courts, the Municipal Court Clerk, and City Attorney Prosecutor's office. This year's payment will be the next to last. In 2005, the annual debt service cost will be $915,675.00.
Fiscal Impact: Funds for the annual principal and interest payment are budgeted in the Special Income Tax Fund. The total cost for the debt service in 2004 is $1,007,025.00; $870,000 debt principal and $137,025 for debt interest. The 2003 principal and interest payment was $1,087,850.00.
Title
To authorize the Public Service Director to remit payments for the Facilities Management Division to the Franklin County Board of Commissioners for the debt service associated with the lease of office space at the Municipal Court Building, to authorize the expenditure of $1,007,025.00 from the Special Income Tax Fund. ($1,007,025.00)
Body
WHEREAS, in 1975, the City of Columbus and the Franklin County Board of Commissioners entered into a long-term debt service lease agreement for office space at the Municipal Court Building, 325 South High Street, and
WHEREAS, an agreement, authorized by Ordinance No. 1589-75, calls for annual debt principal and interest payments by the City of Columbus to the Franklin County Board of Commissioners for the retirement of said debt; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Public Service Director is hereby authorized to remit payment to the Franklin County Board of Commissioners as agreed upon in contract CT-05851 for the debt principal and interest costs associated with the office space at the Municipal Court Building.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $1,007,025.00, or so much thereof that may be necessary in regard to the action authorized in SECTION 1, be and is hereby authorized and approved as follows:
Division: 59-07
Fund: 430
OCA Code: 281220
Object Level 1: 04
Object Level 3: 4410
Amount: $870,000.00
Division: 59-07
Fund: 430
OCA Code: 281220
Object Level 1: 07
Object Level 3: 7411
Amount: $137,025.00
Total - $1,007,025.00
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.