Explanation
The Public Service Department, Transportation Division, is engaged in the Hard Road Phase B Improvement project. This project will widen the roadway from two to four lanes between Smokey Row Road and Linworth Road and include installation of a median, curbs and gutters, sidewalks, traffic signal improvements and a grade separation at the CSX railroad tracks. Heavy vehicular and pedestrian traffic must now cross these very busy and dangerous railroad tracks. The project is in the immediate vicinity of three schools.
Ordinance 1330-2002, passed by City Council July 29, 2002, authorized the Public Service Director to enter into agreement with CSX Transportation, Incorporated, for the City's payment of CSX's costs for engineering, inspection, train traffic control, relocation of communications equipment, railroad track disconnection and hookup, removal of permanent railroad grade crossing flashing lights and gate and installation and removal of temporary railroad grade crossing flashing lights in an amount up to and including $800,000.00. This amount was an estimate provided by the railroad.
The total cost of the railroad work is now estimated at $1,600,000.00. This ordinance modifies and increases the existing agreement by the difference, or $800,000.00. CSX will bill the City for actual costs only.
Eighty percent (80%) of the total cost of this project is eligible for eventual reimbursement by non-city sources that include the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), the Ohio Public Works Commission (OPWC) and the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC). Twenty percent of the cost of the contract modification ($160,000.00) must be provided from City funds. This ordinance transfers $160,000.00 between projects within the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund and then transfers it to the Federal-State Highway Engineering Fund. It then appropriates $800,000.00 there and authorizes its expenditure. As a prerequisite for future Special Income Tax Fund certifications in lieu of a 2003 bond sale, the division must exhaust all its available cash within the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund.
CSX Transportation, Incorporated's contract compliance number is 54-6000720 and expires October 15, 2005.
Emergency action is requested to maintain the project's momentum and provide for the elimination of this dangerous grade crossing as soon as possible.
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To authorize the transfer of $160,000.00 between projects with the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund; to transfer $160,000.00 from this Fund to the Federal-State Highway Engineering Fund; to appropriate $800,000.00 within the Federal-State Highway Engineering Fund; to authorize the Public Service Director to modify an existing agreement with CSX Transportation, Incorporated, to complete construction of the Hard Road Phase B Improvement project railroad grade separation; to authorize the expenditure of $800,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed from the Federal-State Highway Engineering Fund for the Transportation Division, and to declare an emergency. ($800,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Public Service Department, Transportation Division is engaged in the Hard Road Phase B Improvement project; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 1330-2002, passed by City Council July 29, 2002, authorized the Public Service Director to enter into agreement with CSX Transportation, Incorporated, for the City's payment of CSX's costs for engineering, inspection, train traffic control, relocation of communications equipment, railroad track disconnection and hookup, removal of permanent railroad grade crossing flashing lights and gate and installation and removal of temporary railroad grade crossing flashing lights in an amount up to and including $800,000.00, an estimate provided by the railroad; and
WHEREAS, the total cost of the railroad work is now estimated at $1,600,000.00; and
WHEREAS, a $800,000.00 contract modification is needed for this purpose; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Transportation Division, in that it is immediately necessary to transfer, appropropriate and authorize funds be expended for this purpose to maintain the project's momentum and provide for the elimination of this dangerous grade crossing as soon as possible, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the sum of $160,000.00 be transferred between projects within Fund 704, the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund, Department No. 59-09, Transportation Division, as follows:
TRANSFER FROM:
Project No. / Project / O.L. 01/O.L. 03 Code / OCA Code / Amount
530087 / ADA Ramps / 06/6600 / 644385 / $40,793.48
530282 / Resurfacing / 06/6600 / 644385 / $119,206.52
Total Transfer From: $160,000.00
TRANSFER TO:
Project No. / Project / O.L. 01/O.L. 03 Code / OCA Code / Amount
530208 / Federal/State Match / 06/6600 / 644385 / 160,000.00
Total Transfer To: $160,000.00
SECTION 2. That the sum of $160,000.00 be transferred within project 530208, Federal/State Match within Fund 704, the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund, Department No. 59-09, Transportation Division, as follows:
TRANSFER FROM:
Project No. / Project / O.L. 01/O.L. 03 Code / OCA Code
530208 / Federal/State Match / 06/6600 / 644385
Total Transfer From: $160,000.00
TRANSFER TO:
Project No. / Project / O.L. 01 / O.L. 03 Code / OCA Code
530208 / Federal/State Match / 10/5501 / 644385
Total Transfer To: $160,000.00
SECTION 3. That the transfer of $160,000.00 be and hereby is authorized between Funds as follows:
TRANSFER FROM:
Fund / Project No. / Project / O. L. 01/O. L. 03 Code / OCA Code
704 / 530208 / Federal/State Match / 10/5501 / 644385
Total Transfer From: $160,000.00
TRANSFER TO:
Fund / Grant No. / Project / O. L. 03 Code / OCA Code
765 / 561001 / Hard Road Phase B / 0886 / 561001
Total Transfer To: $160,000.00
SECTION 4. That from the unappropriated balance of the Federal-State Highway Engineering Fund, Fund 765, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2004, the sum of $800,000.00 be and hereby is appropriated to the Transportation Division, Department No. 59-09, Object Level One Code 06, Object Level Three Code 6631, OCA Code 561001 and Grant 561001.
SECTION 5. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 3 shall be paid upon order of the Public Service Director and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 6. That the Public Service Director be and hereby is authorized to modify and increase contract number EA039244-001 with CSX Transportation, Incorporated, 4901 Belford Road, Suite 130, Jacksonville, Florida 32256 by $800,000.00 to complete construction of the Hard Road Phase B Improvement project grade separation.
SECTION 7. That for the purpose of paying the cost of the contract modification, the sum of $800,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and hereby is authorized to be expended from the Federal-State Highway Engineering Fund, Fund 765, Transportation Division, Department No. 59-09, Object Level One Code 06, Object Level Three Code 6631, OCA Code 561001 and Grant 561001.
SECTION 8. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made 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.