Explanation
BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Service to purchase the clocks located at 30 N. High Street, Columbus Ohio 43215 and 333 W. Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215 for $1.00 (One Dollar) each; authorizes the City Auditor to appropriate and transfer $50,002.00 within the general permanent improvement fund and to authorize and direct the Director of Public Service to enter into a reimbursement agreement with the Capital Crossroads Special Improvement District for the restoration, relocation and long term maintenance of the clocks.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds are available for this transfer within the unallocated balance of the general permanent improvement fund.
EMERGENCY: This legislation is being submitted as an emergency measure in that it is immediately necessary to the transfer funds within the general permanent improvement fund in order to undertake the restoration and relocation of the clocks before the current construction season has ended and the weather prohibits installation.
Title
To authorize the City Auditor to appropriate and transfer $50,002.00 within the General Permanent Improvement Fund; to authorize the Director of Public Service to purchase two sidewalk clocks for $2.00; to amend the 2012 C.I.B.; to authorize and direct the Director of Public Service to enter into a reimbursement agreement in an amount not to exceed $50,000.00 with the Capital Crossroads Special Improvement District for the restoration, relocation and long term maintenance of the clocks currently located at 30 N. High Street and 333 W. Broad Street; to authorize the expenditure of $50,002.00 from the General Permanent Improvement Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($50,002.00)
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WHEREAS, The Downtown Residents Association of Columbus and the Capital Crossroads Special Improvement District have been working diligently to restore the remaining historic street clocks in Columbus, preserving an important part of the City's history and further improving the streetscape of the Downtown area; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Service to purchase the clocks located at 30 N. High Street, Columbus Ohio 43215 and 333 W. Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215 for $1.00 (One Dollar) each; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance appropriates and transfers $50,000.00 within the general permanent improvement fund and authorizes and directs the Director of Public Service to enter into a reimbursement agreement with the Capital Crossroads Special Improvements District; and
WHEREAS, funds for the aforementioned application are available within the unallocated balance of the general permanent improvement fund; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City of Columbus in that it is immediately necessary to effect the transfer of funds within the general permanent improvement fund in order to undertake the restoration and relocation of the clocks before the current construction season has ended and the weather prohibits installation; Now Therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized to appropriate $50,002.00 within the unallocated balance of the General Permanent Improvement Fund ,748, Dept. No 45-01, Project 748999-100000, OCA 643114, Object Level 3- 3000.
SECTION 2. That the 2012 Capital Improvement Budget, authorized by ordinance 0368-2012 be amended as follows to provide sufficient authority for this project:
Fund / Project / Project Name / Current C.I.B. / Change / C.I.B. as amendend
748 / 748999-100000 / Unallocated Balance / $746,326.00 / ($50,002.00) / $696,324.00
748 / 590002-100000 / Downtown Clock Project / $0.00 / $50,002.00 / $50,002.00
SECTION 3. That funds need to be transferred within the General Permanent Improvement Fund, Fund
748 as follows:
From:
Dept. No 45-01, Project: 748999-100000, OCA 643114, Obj LVL One-03; Object Level 3- 3000: Amount $50,002.00
To:
Dept 59-01: Project : 590002-100000, OCA 748002 : Obj Lvl One-03; Object Level Three 3375, Amount $50,000.00
Dept 59-01: Project : 590002-100000, OCA 748002 : Obj Lvl One-06; Object Level Three 6621, Amount $2.00
SECTION 4. That the Director of Public Service be and hereby authorized to purchase the clocks located at 30 N. High Street, Columbus Ohio 43215 and 333 W. Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215 for $1.00 (One Dollar) each.
SECTION 5. That the Director of the Department of Public Service be and is hereby authorized to enter into a reimbursement agreement with the Capital Crossroads Special Improvement District for the restoration, relocation and long term maintenance of the clocks currently located at 30 N. High Street and 333 W. Broad Street.
SECTION 6. For the purpose as stated in Section 2 and Section 3 above, the expenditure of $2.00, or so much thereof as may be needed for the purchase of the clocks is hereby authorized from Dept/Div: 59-11, Fund 748, OCA 748002 , Project 590002-100000 , Object Level One- 06, Object Level Three- 6621 and the expenditure of $50,000.00, or so much thereof as may be needed for the restoration, relocation and long term maintenance needs of the clocks is hereby authorized from Dept/Div: 59-11, Fund 748, OCA 748002 , Project 590002-100000, Object Level One- 03, Object Level Three- 3375.
SECTION 7. That the City Auditor is authorized to make the necessary transfer between funds, and such funds are hereby appropriated, to carry out the purposes of this ordinance.
SECTION 8. 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.