Explanation
Background: This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a guaranteed maximum reimbursement contract with Jeffrey Place Development LLC for brownfield clean up within the Jeffrey Place development site. Jeffrey Place Development LLC has finalized plans for this traditional neighborhood development to include over 850 residential units, a neighborhood school and hotel, retail space and over 300,000 square feet of office space. Ordinance No. 1916-02 passed by City Council on December 9, 2002, authorized an agreement with the State Clean Ohio Council to receive a $3 million Clean Ohio grant for site clean up at Jeffrey Place. This ordinance will also repeal Ordinance 1915-02 passed by City Council on December 9, 2002. This ordinance authorized an agreement with Jeffrey Place Development LLC for administration of a $3 million Clean Ohio program grant for brownfield remediation on the site.
Site remediation and construction is set to begin in the spring of 2004.
Fiscal Impact: $3 million Ohio Department of Development Clean Ohio Grant.
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested in order to undertake site clean up and the construction of roadways prior to the start of construction for housing and commercial structures and to utilize the Clean Ohio brownfield remediation grant prior to its expiration in 2005.
Title
To repeal Ordinance No. 1915-02; to authorize the Director of the Department of Development, in accordance with Section 186 of the Columbus City Charter, to enter into a guaranteed maximum reimbursement contract for $3,000,000 with Jeffrey Place Development LLC for purposes of brownfield site clean up under a Clean Ohio grant at Jeffrey Place; to authorize the City Auditor to pay directly contractor(s) of Jeffrey Place Development LLC; to waive the provisions of competitive bidding; and to declare an emergency. ($3,000,000.00)
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WHEREAS, Jeffrey Place Development LLC has finalized plans for Jeffrey Place, a traditional neighborhood development to include over 850 residential units, a neighborhood school and hotel, retail space and over 300,000 square feet of office space; and
WHEREAS, the City obtained a $3 million Clean Ohio grant for Jeffrey Place; and
WHEREAS, Jeffrey Place Development LLC is administering a $3 million Clean Ohio grant for brownfield remediation on the site; and
WHEREAS, site clean up must commence prior to the start of housing and commercial structures; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 1915-02 authorized the Development Director to enter into a contract with Jeffrey Place Development LLC for the administration of the Clean Ohio grant for the proposed development. It has since been determined that it is in the best interest of the City to enter into a guarantee maximum reimbursement agreement with Jeffrey Place Development LLC to undertake the required remediation and construction work set forth in the grant agreement and to authorized direct payment to the subcontractors; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Development Department in that it is immediately necessary to authorize its Director to enter into a site clean up contract prior to the expiration of the Clean Ohio grant for the preservation of the public health, peace, property and safety; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That Ordinance No. 1915-02, be and is hereby repealed.
Section 2. That the Director of the Department of Development, in accordance with Section 186 of the Columbus City Charter, be authorized to enter into a guaranteed maximum reimbursement contract for three million dollars ($3,000,000.00) with Jeffrey Place Development LLC to undertake site clean up work for the Jeffrey Place Development project, said contract to provide that invoices for work completed may be paid directly by the City Auditor to Corna/Kokosing Construction Company, the subcontractor performing the work, or as may be otherwise directed in writing by joint instruction from Jeffrey Place LLC, Waterford Limited Partnership, Green Arbors Housing Ltd, Corna/Kokosing Construction Company and Abbott Laboratories.
Section 3. That for the purpose stated in Section 2, the expenditure of $3 million, or so much thereof, as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized to be expended from the General Government Grant Fund, Fund 220, as follows:
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Section 4. That the competitive bidding provisions of Chapter 329 of the City Codes are hereby waived.
Section 5. 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.