Explanation
Background: The following is an ordinance to 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 Cleveland Avenue Area Water Line Improvements Project.
Fiscal Impact This legislation includes a transfer of funds within the Water Works Enlargement Voted Bonds Fund and an amendment to the 2008 Capital Improvements
Emergency Justification: is requested to allow all land acquisition to begin immediately so that the City can meet current acquisition schedules.
Title
To authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests, to contract for professional services, to authorize a transfer and an expenditure of $8,450.00 within the Water Works Enlargement Voted Bonds Fund; to authorize an amendment to the 2008 Capital Improvements Budget; for costs in connection with the Cleveland Avenue Area Water Line Improvements Project, and to declare an emergency. ($8,450.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus is engaged in the Cleveland Avenue Area Water Line Improvements Project; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize an amendment to the 2008 Capital Improvements Budget for purposes of providing sufficient funding and expenditure authority for the aforementioned project expenditures; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary for this Council to authorize the City Auditor to transfer funds within the Water Works Enlargement Voted Bonds Fund; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities, Water, in that it is immediately necessary 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 aforesaid professional services necessary in connection with said project 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 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 Cleveland Avenue Area Water Line Improvements Project Project, Project No. 690236.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized to transfer $8,450.00 within the Division of Power and Water, Dept/Div. No. 60-09, Water Works Enlargement Voted Bonds Fund, Fund No. 606, Object Level One 06, Object Level Three 6601, as follows:
Project No. | Project Name | OCA Code | change
690290 | Distribution Imp's | 642900 | -$8,450
690236 | Water Main Rehab. | 642900 | +$8,450
SECTION 3. That the 2008 Capital Improvements Budget is hereby amended as follows:
Project No. | Project Name | Current Authority | Revised Authority | change
690236-100000 | Water Main Rehab. | $17,128,448 | $17,136,898 | +$8,450
SECTION 4. That the expenditure of $8,450.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary from the Water Works Enlargement Voted Bonds Fund, Fund #606; Dept./Div. 60-09; Project No. 690236; OCA Code 642900; Object Level Three 6601, for the aforesaid purpose is hereby authorized.
SECTION 5. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, 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 its passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.