Explanation
This ordinance will authorize the Director of Public Utilities to submit a grant application to the Land and Water Conservation Fund for a grant administered by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. The grant program requires a 50% local match. The total amount of the project is $140,000.00. The grant amount is $70,000.00. The Grant is for the development of a boat launch, shoreline protection and related activities for the Twin Bridges Area of Hoover Reservoir to not only provide safer access to the water but to protect the shoreline and lessen the stormwater impacts to the water quality of the City's raw water source.
A subsequent ordinance to accept the grant is required before the City will obligate its funds.
It is requested that this Ordinance be handled in an emergency manner as the approved Ordinance is required to be dated by the application deadline of February 1, 2010.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Public Utilities to submit a grant application to the Land and Water Conservation Fund for a grant administered by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, and to declare an emergency. ($0.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources is accepting applications for grant funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Public Utilities desires to submit a grant application to the Land and Water Conservation Fund for a grant administered by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, and
WHEREAS, said grant is for is for the development of property in the Twin Bridges Area of Hoover Reservoir to install a boat ramp, shoreline protection and related activities to provide safer access to the water and to preserve and protect water quality of the City's raw water source.
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities that is immediately necessary to apply for said grant for the preservation of public health, peace, property, and safety; now therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Director of Public Utilities be and is hereby authorized and directed to submit a grant application to the Land and Water Conservation Fund for a grant administered by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for the development of property in the Twin Bridges Area of Hoover Reservoir to install a boat ramp, shoreline protection and related activities to provide safer access to the water and to preserve and protect water quality of the City's raw water source.
Section 2. That this ordinance authorizes an application be submitted and is not a commitment to expend City funds. A second ordinance to authorize the acceptance of the grant is required before the City will obligate its funds.
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.