Explanation
Background:
This ordinance authorizes the City Auditor to set up a certificate for $75,000.00 for various expenditures for labor, material and equipment in conjunction with the Clover Groff Stream Restoration improvements. These are expenditures that may include, but are not limited to, items such as surveying, appraisals, site clearing, and demolition. All vendors will be obtained using the City of Columbus Bidding Specifications for projects that do not exceed $20,000.00.
Fiscal Impact:
$75,000.00 is required and budgeted in the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund to meet the financial obligations of these various expenditures - Grant 286 / OCA Code / 519142 / Object Level 3 / 6621 / Grant No. 519142 / Clover Groff Stream Restoration.
Title
To authorize the City Auditor to set up a certificate in the amount of $75,000.00 for various expenditures for labor, material and equipment in conjunction with Clover Groff Stream Restoration, and to authorize the expenditure of $75,000.00 from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($75,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, various improvements to Clover Groff are necessary within the Recreation and Parks Department as per grant agreement; and
WHEREAS, funding is available for these improvements within the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund 286; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to expend said funds to ensure improvements proceed in a timely manner in order to preserve the public health, safety and welfare; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the purchase of labor, materials and equipment is necessary for various Clover Groff Stream Restoration improvements within the Recreation and Parks Department.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $75,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund No. 286, Dept. 51-03, Grant No. 519142, Object Level 3 No. 6621, OCA Code 519142, to pay the cost thereof. All vendors will be obtained using the City of Columbus Bidding Specifications for projects that do not exceed $20,000.00.
SECTION 3. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized to transfer the unencumbered balance in a 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 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.