Explanation
1. BACKGROUND:
This ordinance will provide the City Attorney with funding for real estate acquisition services for the following sanitary capital improvement projects:
A. Broadmeadows Sanitary Sewer Improvements: Provide $20,000.00 for the estimated cost of title search; appraisal services; negotiation/staff costs and the projected cost of easements. This project is located on the north side of Clintonville.
B. Bill Moose Run Sanitary Sewer Improvements.: Provide $190,000.00 for the estimated cost of title search; appraisal services; negotiation/staff costs and the projected cost of easements. This project is located in Clintonville.
C. Morse Rd./Elks Sanitary Improvements: Provide $42,000.00 for the estimated cost of title search; appraisal services; and negotiation/staff costs. This project is located in Clintonville.
2. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION:
The Division of Sewerage and Drainage is requesting City Council to consider this ordinance an emergency measure. The first two projects are among a list of projects that the Division is required to be completed in accordance with the provisions of an existing consent order between the City and the Ohio Attorney General's Office. Failure to adhere to the project schedule contained within the consent order will make the City liable for stipulated fines.
3. FISCAL IMPACT:
The Division is requesting City Council to appropriate funds from the unallocated balance of the Voted Sanitary Bond Fund, and to transfer residual funds within this fund in order to provide the funds necessary to acquire easements for the above referenced projects. Project accounts from which funds are being transferred will not be adversely affected.
Title
To authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests; to contract for professional services; to authorize the appropriation, transfer and expenditure of $252,000.00 from within the Voted Sanitary Bond Fund in connection with three sanitary infrastructure capital improvement projects; to amend the 2005 Capital Improvements Budget for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage; and to declare an emergency. ($252,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Department of Public Utilities, has developed construction plans and specifications for the sanitary sewer improvement projects known as the Broadmeadows Sanitary Sewer Improvements; Bill Moose Run Sanitary Improvements; and the Morse Rd./Elks Sanitary Sewer Improvements; and
WHEREAS, in order to construct the aforementioned sanitary improvements and associated facilities, it has been determined necessary for this City Council 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 professional services necessary to complete said acquisition; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Department of Public Utilities, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the appropriation, transfer and expenditure of funds within the Voted Sanitary Bond Fund; to authorize the City Attorney to procure the required easements necessary to construct and operate the aforementioned vital sanitary sewer improvements in accordance with the required project schedules; and to amend the 2005 Capital Improvements; 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 Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate a total of $252,000.00 within the Voted Sanitary Bond Fund No. 664 as follows:
Proj. 664999| Unallocated Balance Fd. 664| OL 3: 6601| OCA 999664| $252,000.00
Section 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to transfer $252,000.00 from within the Voted Sanitary Bond Fund No. 664, for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage as follows:
FROM:
664999-Unallocated Balance - $252,000.00
TO:
650672-Bill Moose Run San. Sewer Improve. - $190,000.00
650674-Broadmeadows San. Sewer Improve. - $20,000.00
650679-Morse Rd./Elks Rd. San. Sewer Improve. - $42,000.00
Section 3. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to transfer any unencumbered balance in the project account to the unallocated balance account within the same fund upon receipt of certification by the Director of the Department administering said project that the project has been completed and the monies are no longer required for said project; except that no transfer shall be so made from a project account funded by monies from more than one source.
Section 4. 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 Broadmeadows Sanitary Sewer Improvements; Bill Moose Run Sanitary Improvements; and the Morse Rd./Elks Sanitary Sewer Improvements.
Section 5. That the City Attorney be and hereby is authorized to expend $252,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in order to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests in and to certain parcels of real estate and to contract for the professional services necessary, from the Voted Sanitary Bond Fund No. 664; Division 60-05; MOC 6601; within the following projects:
Proj. No. 650672| Bill Moose Run San. Sewer Improve.| OCA 664672| $190,000.00
Proj. No. 650674| Broadmeadows San. Sewer Improve.| OCA 664674| $20,000.00
Proj. No. 650679| Morse Rd./Elks San. Sewer Improve.| OCA 664679| $42,000.00
Section 6. That the 2005 Capital Improvements Budget Ordinance No. 1070-2005 is hereby amended as follows, in order to provide sufficient budget authority for the aforementioned easement acquisition services as referenced in the preamble hereto.
CURRENT:
664999-Unallocated Balance Fd. 664 - $252,000.00 (Voted Carryover)
AMENDED TO:
650672-Bill Moose Run San. Sewer Improve. - $190,000.00 (Voted Carryover)
650674-Broadmeadows San. Sewer Improve.- $20,000.00 (Voted Carryover)
650679-Morse Rd./Elks San. Sewer Improve.- $42,000.00 (Voted Carryover)
Section 7. 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.