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 FRA Olentangy Trail Bridge Project (State Job 465874).
Fiscal Impact: The Department of Recreation and Parks Department has determined funding for this project will be from the Voted 1999/2004 Bond Fund.
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested to allow acquisition activities to continue uninterrupted in order to maintain Recreation and Parks Department's acquisition schedule.
Title
To authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests, contract for professional services, and to expend $40,000.00 from the FRA Olentangy Trail Bridge Project (State Job 465874), and to declare an emergency. ($40,000.00).
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus is engaged in the FRA Olentangy Trail Bridge Project (State Job 465874); and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department, 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 FRA Olentangy Trail Bridge Project (State Job 465874), Project Number 510316.
Section 2. That the expenditure of $40,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary from the Voted 1999/2004 Bond Fund, Fund #702; Dept./Div. 51-01, Project No. 510316; OCA Code 644526; Object Level Three 6601 for the aforesaid purpose is hereby authorized.
Section 3. 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.