Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to exercise renewal options to extend the lease agreement with Jaeger Commerce Park. The lease is for approximately 4,763 square feet of warehouse space for the Mobile Tool Program. The leased property is located at 560 Dublin Avenue. The lease agreement will be renewed for a period of one year.
Emergency action is requested to assure continued and uninterrupted use of the facilities.
FISCAL IMPACT: $22,200.00 is available from within the Department of Development's Community Development Block Grant Fund for the Mobile Tool Program lease. The leasing cost of this space for the Mobile Tool Program for the last eight years has been $166,200.00.
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To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to modify and extend the lease agreement with Jaeger Commerce Park Limited Partnership for space needed for the Mobile Tool Program; to authorize the expenditure of $22,200.00 from the Community Development Block Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($22,200.00)
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WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Development desires to exercise renewal options to extend the lease agreement with Jaeger Commerce Park; and
WHEREAS, the lease is for approximately 4,763 square feet of warehouse space for the Mobile Tool Program; and
WHEREAS, the leased property is located at 560 Dublin Avenue and the lease agreement will be renewed for a period of one year; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development in that it is immediately necessary to exercise renewal options to extend the lease agreement for warehouse space and office space for the Mobile Tool Program to assure continued and uninterrupted use of the facilities, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Director of the Department of Development be and is hereby authorized to renew and extend the lease agreement with Jaeger Commerce Park Limited Partnership for space needed for the Mobile Tool Program, for a period of one year.
Section 2. That for the purpose as stated in Section 1, the expenditure of $22,200.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary and is hereby authorized to be expended from the Community Development Block Grant Fund, Department of Development, Housing Division, Division No. 44-10, Fund 248, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3301, OCA Code 444010.
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.