Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
Need: The Ohio EPA requires this legislation which authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to execute 19 WPCLF loan agreements totaling approximately $149 million, for 19 Sewerage & Drainage Division projects. These Capital Improvements Projects, as identified in Section 1., are being financed through the Ohio Water Pollution Control Loan Fund (WPCLF). This loan program is jointly administered by the Ohio EPA's Division of Environmental and Financial Assistance, and the Ohio Water Development Authority (OWDA). The WPCLF provides below-market interest rate loans for municipal wastewater treatment improvements.
2. FISCAL IMPACT
Budgeted Amount: There is sufficient budget authority in the 2004
Sewer System Operating Fund for application fee expenditures. These loans will be paid off over a 20-year period from sewerage system fees. Sewerage fee increases have been projected and planned in anticipation of these projects and loans.
Title
To authorize the Director of Public Utilities to execute nineteen (19) Water Pollution Control Loan Fund Agreements with the Ohio Water Development Authority and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, for the financing of 19 Sewerage and Drainage Division projects.
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WHEREAS, in 2004 the City is scheduled to submit loan applications to the Ohio EPA under the Ohio Water Pollution Control Loan Fund (WPCLF),to finance nineteen (19) Division of Sewerage and Drainage projects, which assistance will be of help in reducing total project costs to the City's sewerage customers; and
WHEREAS, the City is required to submit to the Ohio EPA a certified copy of the approved City Council legislation which authorizes the Director of the Public Utilities Department to execute the WPCLF agreements; Now Therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Director of Public Utilities be, and hereby is, authorized to execute nineteen (19) Water Pollution Control Loan Fund Agreements with the Ohio Water Development Authority and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, for the financing of the following Sewerage and Drainage Division projects:
1. CIP No. 650355, Phase 2, Effluent Disinfection Improvements, Chlorine Contact Tank #4
2. CIP No. 650346, Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant, Electrical System Upgrade
3. CIP No. 650352, Phase 3, Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant, New Headworks, Screen and Grit Facilities Building
4. CIP No. 650430.1, Big Walnut Outfall Sewer Capacity Augmentation, Part 1
5. CIP No. 650626, Rhodes Avenue Sewer Replacement (Supplemental Loan)
6. CIP No. 650600.4, Franklin Main Rehabilitation, Section 4
7. CIP No. 650600.5, Franklin Main Rehabilitation, Section 5
8. CIP No. 650631, Columbus St./Kossuth St. Sewer Replacement
9. CIP No. 650648, Atwood Terrace/Akola Relief Sewer
10. CIP No. 650649, Atwood Terrace/Weber Relief Sewer
11. CIP No. 650654, Loretta Avenue Sanitary Sewer Replacement
12. CIP No. 650655, Genessee Avenue Sanitary Relief Sewer
13. CIP No. 650667, Rustic Bridge Area Sanitary Improvements
14. CIP No. 650669, Leland/Milton Area Sanitary Improvements
15. CIP No. 650677, Royal Forest/Beechmont Area Sanitary Improvements
16. CIP No. 650678, Arden/Foster Area Sanitary Improvements
17. CIP NO. 650664, Foster/Acton Area Sanitary Improvements
18. CIP No. 650663, Webster/Milton Area Sanitary Improvements
19. CIP No. 650243/356, Jackson Pike and Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plants Sludge Holding System Improvements(Supplemental Loan)
Section 2. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.