.Explanation
Background: The former Reeb Avenue Elementary School ("Building") has been identified as the location for the delivery of programs to deliver vital social services, childcare, education, and related services to support the community and enhance the quality of life for South Side residents. The building is currently under construction to renovate and expand the Building, to house the South Side Neighborhood Pride Center and offices of a number of third party non-profit 501(c)(3) entities providing programs and services identified as paramount for the revitalization of the community. Reeb Avenue Center, an Ohio non-profit organization, has been identified as the "Master Tenant" that will lease space in the building to non-profit 501(c)(3) entities and manage the day-to-day operation of the building. The City and Reeb Avenue Center now desire to enter into a lease agreement for the use of that City Building and property located at 280 East Parsons Avenue. The proposed lease is for a period of twenty (20) years commencing upon the completion of the construction associated with the building renovation and addition. This ordinance also authorizes the City Auditor to establish a sub-fund, within Fund 294, into which all rent proceeds will be placed. The rent proceeds deposited in the sub-fund will be used by the City, at the Department of Finance and Management's sole discretion, for the limited purpose of offsetting the costs related to the repair and replacement of interior and exterior building components including the replacement of roof, drainage, HVAC, mechanical, electrical, plumbing systems and related equipment, site improvements including sidewalks and parking areas, or city-owned furnishing that have reached the end of their useful life.
Fiscal Impact: The City will receive rental funds for the term of the lease that shall be deposited in Fund 294, Subfund 006, OCA 294006. These funds shall be be used at the Department of Finance and Management's sole discretion, for the support of the 280 Reeb Avenue facility, for costs associated with interior and exterior repairs and replacements to the building structure and site, or for the replacement of the City's building equipment, flooring, fixtures, furnishings, or site improvements that have reached the end of their useful life.
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested to allow for the immediate execution of a lease agreement with Reeb Avenue Center to allow the project to continue without interruption.
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To authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to enter into a Lease Agreement with the Reeb Avenue Center, as Master Tenant, to allow for the rental of office and educational space to non-profit 501(c)(3) entities and to manage the day-to-day operation of the building in that city-owned real property identified as 280 Reeb Avenue. , and to declare an emergency.
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WHEREAS, the City owns that real property housing the former Reeb Avenue Elementary School, that upon renovation will house the South Side Neighborhood Pride Center and a number of third party non-profit 501(c)(3) entities providing a variety of social service, childcare, education, and related programs and services identified as essential for the revitalization of the community; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to enter into a lease agreement with Reeb Avenue Center as the Master Tenant that will lease space in the building to third party non-profit 501(c)(3) entities to provide programs and services identified as essential for the revitalization of the community and to manage the day-to-day operation of the building; and now, therefore
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Finance and Management in that it is immediately necessary to grant authority to the Director to enter into a lease agreement with Reeb Avenue Center for rental of office space in the former Reeb Avenue Elementary School for delivery of essential human service, childcare, education, and related programs and services for the preservation of the public peace, property, health and safety; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of the Department of Finance and Management be and hereby is authorized to enter into a lease agreement, as approved by the Department of Law, Real Estate Division, with Reeb Avenue Center as Master Tenant that will lease space to other similar non-profit agencies and manage the day-to-day operation of the building in the former Reeb Avenue Elementary School for the delivery of vital human services, childcare, education, and related programs, to the South Side Community.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor shall establish Subfund 006 within Fund 294, Dept. 45, OCA 294006 for the support of the 280 Reeb Avenue site and into which rent proceeds shall be deposited. Such funds shall be held by the City Auditor and used at the sole discretion of the Department of Finance and Management for costs associated with interior and exterior repairs and replacements to the building and site, or for the replacement of city building equipment, flooring, fixtures, furnishings, or site improvements that have reached the end of their useful life.
SECTION 2. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law. That for the reasons state in the preamble hereto, 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 its passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.