Explanation
This ordinance will authorize the Director of Public Utilities to submit a grant application to the Clean Ohio Conservation Fund for a grant administered by the Ohio Public Works Commission. The grant program requires a 25% local match. The total amount of the project is $1,781,592.00. The grant amount is $1,336,194.00. The Grant is for the acquisition of property on the eastern banks of Hoover Reservoir to preserve high quality habitat, preserve the steep-sloped, natural buffer of the reservoir and to protect water quality of the City's raw water source. This parcel of property is adjacent to City-owned reservoir land at the Twin Bridges Area of Hoover. The Clean Ohio grant program preserves valuable greenspace in communities and aids sustainability.
A subsequent ordinance to accept the grant is required before the City will obligate its funds.
It is requested that this Ordinance be handled in an emergency manner as the approved Ordinance is required to be submitted with the grant application. The deadline for the application is November 13, 2009.
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To authorize the Director of Public Utilities to submit a grant application to the Clean Ohio Conservation Fund for a grant administered by the Ohio Public Works Commission, for the acquisition of property on the eastern banks of Hoover Reservoir to protect the water quality of one of the City's largest raw water supply sources; and to declare an emergency. ($0.00)
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WHEREAS, the Ohio Public Works Commission, District 17, is accepting applications for grant funding from the Clean Ohio Conservation Fund; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Public Utilities desires to submit a grant application to the Clean Ohio Conservation Fund for a grant administered by the Ohio Public Works Commission, and
WHEREAS, said grant is for is for the acquisition of property in the Twin Bridges Area of Hoover Reservoir to preserve high quality habitat, preserve the steep-sloped, natural buffer of the Reservoir and to protect water quality of the City's raw water source.
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities that is immediately necessary to apply for said grant to satisfy the application deadline and for the preservation of public health, peace, property, and safety; now therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Director of Public Utilities be and is hereby authorized and directed to submit a grant application to the Clean Ohio Conservation Fund for a grant administered by the Ohio Public Works Commission is for the acquisition of property in the Twin Bridges Area of Hoover Reservoir to preserve high quality habitat, preserve the steep-sloped, natural buffer of the Reservoir and to protect water quality of the City's raw water source.
Section 2. That this ordinance authorized an application only and is not a commitment to expend City funds. A second ordinance to authorize the grant is required before the City will obligate its funds.
Section 3. 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.