Explanation
Background: The Franklin County Engineering Department (Franklin County Engineer) will be submitting Local Transportation Improvement Program (LTIP) and State Issue Two applications to the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC) for various roadway improvement projects. They have requested that the City of Columbus endorse these applications. The cooperation and consent by both the City of Columbus and the Franklin County Engineer's office improves the likelihood that these applications will be approved and provide for the City and County to submit joint project and application for financial assistance for State Issue 2/Local Transportation Improvement funds.
This resolution indicates the City's general support of the Franklin County Engineer's applications for roadway improvement projects on Hayden Run Road, Tuttle Crossing Boulevard and possibly others as roadway improvements adjacent to or in close proximity of the City generally benefit the City as well as Franklin County. Specific project agreements that delineate the rights, responsibilities and obligations of the City and the County in detailed fashion will be submitted to City Council as appropriate if the County's applications are approved.
Fiscal Impact: No financial participation is required at this time. These projects may have future funding ramifications to the City of Columbus in that any city match requirement would have to be accommodated within the Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) and a future Capital Improvement Budgets (CIB).
Emergency action is requested to support the Franklin County applications to MORPC in a timely manner.
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To support the Franklin County Engineering Department roadway improvement project funding applications being submitted for the Local Transportation Improvement Program (LTIP) and State Issue Two programs, and to declare an emergency.
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WHEREAS, the Franklin County Engineering Department (the Franklin County Engineer) will be submitting Local Transportation Improvement Program (LTIP) and State Issue Two roadway improvement project funding applications; and
WHEREAS, this is an opportunity for the County to secure outside funding for various roadway improvement projects; and
WHEREAS, roadway improvements adjacent to or in close proximity of the City generally benefit the City as well as Franklin County; and
WHEREAS, the Franklin County Engineer has requested that the City of Columbus, via the Director of Public Service, cooperate and consent in the joint project and application for financial assistance for the Local Transportation Improvement Program and State Issue Two roadway improvement projects for Hayden Run Road (at Cosgray Road) and Tuttle Crossing Boulevard, and
WHEREAS, the endorsement of the City of Columbus improves the likelihood that these applications will be approved; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department in that it is immediately necessary to publicly support Franklin County's applications for funding roadway improvement project applications in order to meet application submittal deadlines, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the City of Columbus hereby supports the Franklin County Engineering Department's Local Transportation Improvement Program (LTIP) and State Issue Two program roadway improvement project funding applications for Hayden Run Road and Tuttle Crossing Boulevard.
SECTION 2. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this resolution is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its adoption and approval by the Mayor or ten days after adoption if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.