Explanation
Background: The following is an ordinance to authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests, contract for professional services, and to expend the monies for payment of costs necessary to the acquisition of certain real property in connection with the Alum Creek South Corridor Preservation-Macedonia Church Site Project.
Fiscal Impact: The Recreation and Parks Department has determined the total amount of funding necessary for this acquisition will be taken from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund (Clean Ohio Funding) Voted 1999/2004 Voted Bond Fund, and the Recreation and Parks Permanent Improvement Fund as specified in the body of this legislation.
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested to allow for the immediate protection and preservation of the City's greenways and to support comprehensive open space planning without delay.
Title
To authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests, contract for professional services, and to expend the combined total of $365,100.00 from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund (Clean Ohio Funding) and the Voted 1999/2004 Voted Bond Fund for costs in connection with the Alum Creek South Corridor Preservation-Macedonia Church Site Project, and to declare an emergency. ($365,100.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus is engaged in the Alum Creek South Corridor Preservation-Macedonia Church Site Project; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests in and to certain parcels of real estate and to contract for the aforesaid professional services necessary in connection with said project for the preservation of the public health, peace, property and safety; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the City Attorney be, and hereby is, authorized to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests in and to certain parcels of real estate and to contract for the professional services necessary in connection with the Alum Creek South Corridor Preservation-Macedonia Church Site Project #510316 and Grant # 519030.
Section 2. That the combined total expenditure of $365,100.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, hereby is authorized as follows:
Recreation and Parks Grant Fund
Fund Type; Grant, Dept No.; 51-01, Fund No.; 286, Grant No.; 519030, Obj Lvl 3; 6601, OCA Code; 519030, Amount; $270,100.00
Recreation and Parks Voted 1999/2004 Voted Bond Fund
Fund No. 702, Dept No. 51-01, Project No. 510316, Obj Lvl 3, 6601, OCA 644526, Amount $95,000.00
Section 3. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is here by 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 its passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.