Explanation
BACKGROUND: Ordinance 0387-2006, passed March 13, 2006, authorized the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a development agreement with Community Housing Partnership for street and infrastructure improvements in the public right of way as part of the Columbus Housing Initiatives Project, Capital Improvement Program with funding up to $126,000. An Ordinance was passed on June 12, 2006 amending the original ordinance by correcting the name of the contracting entity to Columbus Housing Partnership. Payments of $102,600 were made on this agreement. However, $23,400.00 in Capital Improvement Funds were cancelled due to an error in the encumbrance. The encumbrance was set up to be a single payment and after the first payment, remaining funds were cancelled. This ordinance will reinstate the $23,400 in funding necessary to pay for the remaining work that was completed on the project.
Emergency action is requested so that the developer can pay the contractors for work that has been completed.
FISCAL IMPACT: $23,400 will be re-authorized for this project from the Voted 1995, 1999 Streets and Highways Fund capital improvements budget.
Title
To re-authorize the expenditure of $23,400 from the Voted 1995, 1999 Streets and Highways Fund for a development agreement with Columbus Housing Partnership as part of the Columbus Housing Initiatives Project, Capital Improvement Program; and to declare an emergency. ($23,400)
Body
WHEREAS, on March 13, 2006, Columbus City Council passed Ordinance 0387-2006 authorizing the Development Director to enter into a development agreement with Community Housing Partnership for up to $126,000 in street and infrastructure improvements in the public right of way as part of the Columbus Housing Initiatives Project, Capital Improvement Program; and
WHEREAS, on June 12, 2006, Columbus City Council passed Ordinance 1011-2006 amending the name of the contracting entity to Columbus Housing Partnership; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance is to correct an accounting error of the encumbrance of funds for Ordinance 0387-2006, and Ordinance 1011-2006 whereby a single pay encumbrance was placed on the funds; and
WHEREAS, the development required multiple payments for work completed and the project funds were cancelled after one payment because of the accounting error; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development, Housing Division in that it is immediately necessary to reallocate the funds required to complete the contract originally approved so that the developer can pay the contractors for work that has been completed, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; and NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. To authorize the expenditure of $23,400.00 in capital improvements budget funds for street and infrastructure improvements in the public right of way as part of the Columbus Housing Initiatives Project.
Section 2. That the sum of $23,400.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized to be expended from Fund 704, Department 59-12, Object Level One 06, Object Level Three 6631, OCA Code 644385, Project No. 530303.
Section 3. 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 4. That for the reasons stated in the preamble thereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this Ordinance is 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.