Explanation
Background: This legislation authorizes the Director of Finance and Management to enter into a lease termination agreement with CompDrug, an Ohio not-for-profit corporation, for office space located on the second floor at 1402-1418 Cleveland Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43211 and commonly known as 1410 Cleveland Avenue, effective as of midnight, June 30, 2018. CompDrug has requested and the City has agreed to an early termination of its Lease Agreement which expires on March 31, 2020. The City’s best interests are served by supporting CompDrug and granting its request for early termination of the Lease Agreement. The early termination of this lease will allow the City to renovate and occupy the office space at the earliest feasible date to support the operations of the Department of Neighborhoods.
Fiscal Impact: The City will not receive further rental funds to support the operation of the building.
Emergency action is requested to allow CompDrug sufficient time to make all arrangements necessary to move its personal property, personnel and data services out in a timely manner and to allow the City use of the space at the earliest date feasible for renovation and occupancy by City operations.
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To authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to execute those documents necessary to enter into a lease termination agreement for office space at Cleveland Avenue, and to declare an emergency. ($0.00)
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WHEREAS, the City accepted a deed for certain improved real property and a mixed-use commercial building located at 1402-1418 Cleveland Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43211, commonly known as 1410 Cleveland Avenue, pursuant to City Council Ordinance 2573-2017; and
WHEREAS, the City is successor in interest to that certain Lease Agreement dated April 1, 2015 by and between NLR Group LTD., an Ohio Limited Liability Company and CompDrug, an Ohio not-for-profit corporation, for approximately 7,500 square feet of office space located on the second floor; and
WHEREAS, CompDrug has requested early termination of its Lease Agreement for office space located at 1410 Cleveland Avenue; and
WHEREAS, the City’s best interests are served by granting early termination of the Lease; and
WHEREAS, the City and CompDrug desire to enter into a lease termination agreement to terminate the Lease effective June 30, 2018; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Finance and Management, Real Estate Management Office, that it is necessary to authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to execute, on behalf of the City, those documents necessary to enter into a lease termination agreement with CompDrug with an effective date of June 30, 2018 and for the immediate preservation of 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 Director of the Department of Finance and Management, on the behalf of the City, be, and hereby is, authorized to execute those documents as approved by the Department of Law, Division of Real Estate, necessary to enter into a lease termination agreement by and between the City of Columbus and CompDrug to terminate the Lease Agreement, dated April 1, 2015, for office space located at 1402-1418 Cleveland Avenue, commonly known as 1410 Cleveland Avenue.
SECTION 2. That for 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 its passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.