Explanation
BACKGROUND:
- This ordinance will authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into a 25 year lease agreement with the Franklin County Metro Parks for portions of the Whittier Peninsula for the development of a new park.
- This lease is a recommendation of the Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Columbus, Franklin County Metro Parks and Audubon Ohio previously approved by City Council and signed May 2, 2003.
- Approximately 50% of the peninsula will be developed as a park and the remaining property will be developed and operated as parkland by the Franklin County Metropolitan Park District.
- The Metro Parks will sublease a portion of the park property to Audubon Ohio for the development of a nature center.
- The lease is for 25 years for $1.00 with one 25 year option.
- Emergency action is necessary to allow Franklin County Metro Parks to proceed with work immediately.
FISCAL IMPACT:
- Revenue in the amount of $1.00.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into a 25 year lease agreement with the Franklin County Metro Parks for portions of the Whittier Peninsula, and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, it is necessary to enter into a lease with the Franklin County Metro Parks for portions of the Whittier Peninsula; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to enter into said lease to allow Franklin County Metro Parks to proceed with work immediately; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of the Recreation and Parks Department be and he is hereby authorized and directed to enter into a 25 year lease, with one 25 year option, with the Franklin County Metro Parks for the amount of $1.00.
Section 2. 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.