Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes The Director of Public Service to enter into an agreement with the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) for a roadway improvement project. This project will resurface approximately 1.93 miles of West Broad Street (U.S. 40) from Hague Avenue to Central Avenue, the Broad Street to I-70 Westbound ramp, and the I-70 eastbound ramp to Broad Street, by means of planing, resurfacing, and partial depth pavement reconstruction within the corporate limits of the City of Columbus as part of its District Six Urban Pavement Program. (FRA-US40-8.59 PID 79357)
78 handicap ramps will be added or reconstructed in these project limits on the north and south side of the road as part of this project.
2. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION
Emergency action is requested in order to meet ODOT's schedule to bid this projects in January. In order to do this paperwork needs to be returned to ODOT in January, 2010.
3. FISCAL IMPACT
The estimated City City share for this project is $573,082.00, but the estimated amount will be adjusted so that the City's ultimate share of the cost of the improvement shall correspond with the actual cost when said actual costs are determined. Funds for the City's share of this project are budgeted in the 2009 C.I.B. and available within the Gov'l Build America Bonds Fund.
Title
To authorize the Director of Public Service to enter into agreement with the Director of the Ohio Department of Transportation for this West Broad Street (U.S. 40) Urban Paving project; to authorize the expenditure of $573,082.00 within the Gov'l Build America Bonds Fund for the Division of Design and Construction; and to declare an emergency. ($573,082.00)
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The following ordinance enacted by the City of Columbus, Ohio, hereinafter referred to as the Legislative Authority or Local Public Agency or "LPA", in the matter of the stated described project.
WHEREAS, on the 24th day of July, 2006, the LPA enacted legislation (Ordinance 1205-2006) proposing cooperation with the Director of the Ohio Department of Transportation (Director of Transportation) for the described project:
Part 1 - Rehabilitation of 1.93 miles of West Broad Street (U.S. 40), the Broad Street to I-70 westbound ramp and the I-70 eastbound ramp to Broad Street, as indicated within the project plans by means of planing, resurfacing, and partial depth pavement reconstruction.
Part 2 - Improvement and repair of curb ramps and adjacent curbs and sidewalks along portions of West Broad Street between Hague Avenue and Central Avenue, lying within the city of Columbus; and
WHEREAS, the LPA shall cooperate with the Director of Transportation in the above described projects as follows:
The City agrees to assume and bear one hundred percent (100%) of the entire cost of the improvement, less the amount of Federal-aid, including American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funds, and State funds set aside by the Director of Transportation of the State of Ohio for the financing of this improvement from funds allocated by the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, and further, the City agrees to assume and bear one hundred percent (100%) of the cost of Preliminary Engineering and Right of Way, excluding in-house preliminary engineering and Right-of-Way charges incurred by the State.
Also, the City agrees to assume and bear the entire cost and expense of the installation and/or repair of curb ramps which are necessary to ensure compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The share of the cost of the LPA is now estimated in the amount of Five Hundred Seventy Three Thousand Eighty Two and 00/100 Dollars, ($573,082.00), but said estimated amount is to be adjusted in order that the LPA's ultimate share of said improvement shall correspond with said percentages of actual costs when said actual costs are determined; and
WHEREAS, the Director of the Ohio Department of Transportation has approved said legislation proposing cooperation and has caused to be made plans and specifications and an estimate of cost and expense for improving the above described highway and has transmitted copies of the same to this legislative authority; and
WHEREAS, the LPA desires the Director of Transportation to proceed with the aforesaid highway improvement; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Service, Division of Design and Construction, in that it is the sense of this Council that the Director of the Ohio Department of Transportation must proceed with the aforesaid highway improvement, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, and safety; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the estimated sum of Five Hundred Seventy Three Thousand Eighty Two and 00/100 Dollars, ($573,082.00), or so much thereof as may be needed be and is hereby authorized to be expended from the Gov'l Build America Bonds Fund, Fund 746, Division of Design and Construction, Dept-Div. 59-12 as follows:
Fund / Project Number / Project / O.L. 01-03 Codes / OCA / Amount
746 / 530282-100044 / Resurfacing - West Broad /Central to Hague / 06-6631 /528244 / $573,082.00
for the improvement described above and the fiscal officer is hereby authorized and directed to issue an order on the treasurer for said sum upon the requisition of the Director of the Ohio Department of Transportation to pay the cost and expense of said improvement. We hereby agree to assume in the first instance, the share of the cost and expense over and above the amount to be paid from Federal funds.
Section 2. That the LPA hereby requests the Director of Transportation to proceed with the aforesaid highway improvement.
Section 3. That the LPA enter into a contract with the State, and that the Director of Public Service be and is hereby authorized to execute said contract, providing for the payment of the LPA the sum of money set forth herein above for improving the described project.
Section 4. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this ordinance.
Section 5. 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 day after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.