Explanation
The Public Service Department, Transportation Division, is engaged in the Longrifle Road project. This project will construct traffic calming features, including median, curb and sidewalk improvements within and along Longrifle Road from just west of southbound Little Turtle Way east to Ulry Road. The City's design consultant provided preliminary right-of-way acquisition costs estimates of $150,000.00. This legislation encumbers $150,000.00 for right-of-way acquisition for the Longrifle Road project. It also authorizes the City Attorney's Office, Real Estate Division, to hire professional services relative to the acquisition of the necessary right-of-way, to negotiate with the property owners and to expend the funds required to acquire the necessary right-of-way to allow constructon of this project to begin in late summer 2007.
Fiscal Impact: Monies in the amount of $150,000.00 are budgeted and available within the Transportation Division's 2005 Capital Improvement Budget in the 1995, 1999, 2004 Voted Streets and Highways Fund in the arterial street rehabilitation project to pay for these costs.
Emergency action is requested to allow the Real Estate Division to proceed with those actions that will enable the City to acquire the necessary right-of-way by June 1, 2007 to keep this project on schedule.
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To authorize the City Attorney's Office, Real Estate Division, to hire professional services relative to the acquisition of the necessary right-of-way and negotiate with the property owners to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests in and to those parcels needed for the Longrifle Road project for the Transportation Division; to expend $150,000.00 of so much thereof as may be needed for this purpose from the 1995, 1999, 2004 Voted Streets and Highways Fund and to declare an emergency. ($150,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Public Service Department, Transportation Division is engaged in the Longrifle Road project; and
WHEREAS, this project will construct traffic calming features, including median, curb and sidewalk improvements within and along Longrifle Road from just west of southbound Little Turtle Way east to Ulry Road; and
WHEREAS, construction of this improvement project is currently scheduled to begin in late summer 2007; and
WHEREAS, to accommodate this schedule all right-of-way acquisition must be completed by June 1, 2007; and
WHEREAS, preliminary cost estimates for right-of-way acquisition, provided by the City's design consultant are $150,000.00; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Transportation Division, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the City Attorney's Office, Real Estate Division, to hire professional services relative to the acquisition of the necessary right-of-way, negotiate with the property owners and expend the funds necessary to acquire right-of-way for the Longrifle Road project by June 1, 2007 to keep this project on schedule, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the City Attorney's Office, Real Estate Division, be and hereby is authorized to hire professional services relative to the acquisition of the necessary right-of-way, negotiate with the property owners and expend the funds necessary to acquire right-of-way for the Longrifle Road project.
SECTION 2. That for the purpose of paying for said costs the City Attorney's Office, Real Estate Division, be and hereby is authorized to expend $150,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary from Fund 704, the 1995, 1999, 2004 Voted Streets and Highways Fund, Department No. 59-09, Transportation Division, Object Level One Code 06, Object Level Three Code 6601, OCA Code 644385 and Project 530103.
SECTION 3. 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.