Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the Public Service Director to enter into a guaranteed maximum reimbursement contract with Jeffrey Place Development LLC for the construction of roadways within the Jeffrey Place development site. Jeffrey Place Development LLC has finalized plans for this traditional neighborhood development to include over 850 residential units, a neighborhood school and hotel, retail space and over 300,000 square feet of office space. Ordinance 1419-2001, passed by City Council on July 30, 2001, authorized the expenditure of a $500,000.00 Roadwork Development Grant from the Ohio Department of Development for infrastructure improvements on the site. Ordinance 1608-2002, passed by City Council on October 28, 2002, created a tax increment financing (TIF) district as a resource to help pay for over $15 million in required infrastructure to develop this project. Ordinance No. 1915-2002, passed by City Council on December 9, 2002, authorized an agreement with Jeffrey Place Development LLC for administration of a $3 million Clean Ohio program grant for brown field remediation on the site.
Roadwork construction is set to begin at this site in February 2004.
This reimbursement is funded by a $500,000.00 Ohio Department of Development Roadwork Development Grant. Companion legislation (Ordinance 0377-2004) authorizes a $500,000.00 appropriation for this purpose within the Public Service Department.
Emergency action is requested in order to undertake the construction of roadways prior to the start of housing and commercial structures and to utilize the Roadwork Development Grant prior to its expiration in December 2004.
Title
To authorize the Public Service Director to enter into a guaranteed maximum reimbursement contract for $500,000.00 with Jeffrey Place Development LLC for purposes of road work construction at Jeffrey Place in accordance with Section 186 of the City Charter; to authorize the City Auditor to directly pay the contractor(s) of Jeffrey Place Development LLC; to authorize the expenditure of $500,000.00 from the General Government Grant Fund; to waive the formal competitive bidding provisions of the City Code, and to declare an emergency. ($500,000.00)
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WHEREAS, Jeffrey Place Development LLC has finalized plans for Jeffrey Place, a traditional neighborhood development to include over 850 residential units, a neighborhood school and hotel, retail space and over 300,000 square feet of office space; and
WHEREAS, the City has accepted a $500,000.00 Roadwork Development Grant from the Ohio Department of Development for infrastructure improvements on the site; and
WHEREAS, the Italian Village TIF District was established as a resource to help pay for over $15 million in required infrastructure to develop this project; and
WHEREAS, Jeffrey Place Development LLC is administering a $3 million Clean Ohio program grant for brown field remediation on the site; and
WHEREAS, Jeffrey Place Development LLC has full development rights of the Jeffrey Place development site; and
WHEREAS, the construction of roadways must commence prior to the start of housing and commercial structures; and
WHEREAS, companion legislation (Ordinance 0377-2004) appropriates the Roadwork Development Grant funds within the Public Service Department to administer and facilitate construction; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary for the Public Service Director to enter into a guaranteed maximum reimbursement contract with Jeffrey Place Development LLC for $500,000.00 to start the construction of roadways; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize the City Auditor to directly pay the contractor(s) of Jeffrey Place Development LLC for work completed under the guaranteed maximum reimbursement contract; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department in that it is immediately necessary to authorize its Director to enter into a construction contract to construct the interior roadways of Jeffrey Place prior to the expiration of the Roadwork Development Grant, 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 Public Service Director, in accordance with Section 186 of the City Charter, be and hereby is authorized to enter into a guaranteed maximum reimbursement contract for Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) with Jeffrey Place Development LLC to construct interior roadways for Jeffrey Place development project, said contract to provide that invoices for work completed may be paid directly by the City to Corna/Kokosing Construction Company, the subcontractor performing the work, or as may be otherwise directed in writing by joint instruction from Jeffrey Place LLC, Waterford Limited Partnership, Green Arbors Housing Limited, Corna/Kokosing Construction Company and Abbott Laboratories.
SECTION 2. That for the purpose stated in Section 1, the expenditure of $500,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and hereby is authorized to be expended from the General Government Grant Fund, Fund 220, Department No. 59-09, Transportation Division, Object Level One Code 06, Object Level Three Code 6631, OCA Code 591007 and Grant 441007.
SECTION 3. That the formal competitive bidding provisions of Chapter 329 of the City Code be and hereby are waived.
SECTION 4. 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.