Explanation
1. Background:
This ordinance will provide the City Attorney with the funds currently anticipated to complete the acquisition of the required easements that are necessary to construction the Blacklick Creek Interceptor Project and the Leland/Milton Avenues Sanitary Improvements Project.
2. Emergency Designation:
The Division of Sewerage and Drainage is requesting City Council to consider this ordinance an emergency measure. The Leland/Milton Avenues Sanitary Improvements Project is one of the projects that the Division is required to be completed in accordance with the provisions of an existing consent order between the City and the Ohio Attorney General's Office. Failure to adhere to the project schedule contained within the consent order will make the City liable for stipulated fines.
Title
To authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests, contract for professional services; to authorize the appropriation of $208,459.90, the transfer and expenditure of $214,650.00 from within the 1991 Voted Sanitary Bond Fund in connection with the Blacklick Creek Interceptor Project and the Leland/Milton Avenues Sanitary Improvements Project; to amend the 2003 Capital Improvements Budget for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage; and to declare an emergency. ($214,650.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Department of Public Utilities, has developed construction plans and specifications for the sanitary sewer improvement projects known as the Blacklick Sanitary Interceptor, Part 6B Project; and the Leland/Milton Area Sanitary Improvements Project; and
WHEREAS, in order to construct the aforementioned sanitary improvements it has been determined necessary for this City Council 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 professional services necessary to complete said acquisition; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Department of Public Utilities, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the appropriation, transfer and expenditure of funds; to authorize the City Attorney to procure the required easements necessary to construct the aforementioned vital sanitary sewer improvements in accordance with the required project schedules; and to amend the 2003 Capital Improvements; 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 Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate a total of $208,459.90 within the 1991 Voted Sanitary Bond Fund No. 664| Project No. 650671| Crestview/Calumet Sanitary Imp.| Obj. Level 6601| OCA Code 664671| Amount: $208,459.90.
Section 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to transfer $214,650.00 from within the 1991 Voted Sanitary Bond Fund No. 664, for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage as follows:
FROM:
650621-Rich St. Combined Sewer Rehab.-$6,190.10
650671-Crestview/Calumet Sanitary Improvements-$208,459.90
TO:
650034-Blacklick Creek Interceptor-$177,000.00
650669-Leland/Milton Area Sanitary Improvements-$37,650.00
Section 3. 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 Blacklick Creek Sanitary Interceptor, Section 6B Project and the Leland/Milton Area Sanitary Improvements Project.
Section 4. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to transfer any unencumbered balance in the project account to the unallocated balance account within the same fund upon receipt of certification by the Director of the Department administering said project that the project has been completed and the monies are no longer required for said project; except that no transfer shall be so made from a project account funded by monies from more than one source.
Section 5. That the City Attorney be and hereby is authorized to expend $214,650.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in order to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests in and to certain parcels of real estate and to contract for the professional services necessary, from the 1991 Voted Sanitary Bond Fund No. 664; Division 60-05; within the following projects:
Project No. 650034| Blacklick Creek Interceptor| OCA Code 651034| $177,000.00
Project No. 650669| Leland/Milton Area San. Imp| OCA Code 6646696| $37,650.00
Section 6. That the 2003 Capital Improvements Budget Ordinance No. 1943-03 is hereby amended as follows, in order to provide sufficient budget authority for the aforementioned easement acquisition services as referenced in the preamble hereto.
CURRENT:
650034-Blacklick Creek Interceptor-$0.00
650491-Big Walnut Augmentation Rickenbacker Interceptor-$117,697,837
AMENDED TO:
650034-Blacklick Creek Interceptor-$177,000.00
650491-Big Walnut Augmentation Rickenbacker Interceptor-$117,520,837
Section 7. 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.