Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Public Utilities to modify the existing water and sewer service agreements in the Rickenbacker/Lockbourne Service Area with the City of Columbus, Franklin County Ohio, and the Village of Lockbourne.
A new Economic Development Agreement (EDA) between the City of Columbus and the Village of Lockbourne is being entered into to include additional acres within the Rickenbacker/Lockbourne Service Area. As a result of this new EDA, existing water and sanitary sewer service agreements between the City of Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio and the Village of Lockbourne, Ohio must be modified to include the additional service area and to establish conditions and requirements for the provision of water and sanitary sewer service. Emergency action is requested in order to align the timing of execution of the EDA with the water and sanitary sewer service agreements.
FISCAL IMPACT: This legislation involves no direct cost. However, increased revenue will be realized in the future as new water and sanitary sewer services are provided by the City of Columbus Department of Public Utilities to the additional acres in the Rickenbacker/Lockbourne Service Area.
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To authorize the Director of the Department of Public Utilities to modify the existing water and sewer service agreements in the Rickenbacker/Lockbourne Service Area between the City of Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, and the Village of Lockbourne, Ohio, and to declare an emergency. (AMENDED BY ORD. 0013-2023 PASSED 2/6/2023) BA
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus has agreed to enter into an Economic Development Agreement with the Village of Lockbourne, Ohio creating a new revenue/equity sharing area; and
WHEREAS, in order to service the new revenue/equity sharing area, existing water and sanitary sewer service agreements between the City of Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio and the Village of Lockbourne, Ohio are required to include the service area and to establish conditions and requirements for the provision of water and sanitary sewer service to the additional area; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director of Public Utilities to modify the existing water and sewer service agreements in the Rickenbacker/Lockbourne Service Area between the City of Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio and the Village of Lockbourne, Ohio, to include additional services areas, align with the timing of the economic development agreement, and to allow these agreements to proceed without delay; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of the Department of Public Utilities is authorized to modify the existing water and sewer service agreements in the Rickenbacker/Lockbourne Service Area between the City of Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, and the Village of Lockbourne, Ohio to provide for service of the new revenue/equity sharing area, as provided for in the Economic Development Agreement between the City of Columbus and the Village of Lockbourne, Ohio, and to establish conditions and requirements for the provision of water and sanitary sewer service to this area.
SECTION 2. 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.