Explanation
Background: The following is an ordinance to authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests, contract for professional services, and to expend the monies for payment of acquisition costs in connection with the Metronet Indianola Fiber Optic project.
Fiscal Impact: The Department of Public Utilities, Division of Power and Water, has determined funding for this project will be from the Electricity Operating Fund.
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested to that ensure needed services are not delayed, thereby reducing potential risks of outages and other interruptions of services necessary to the City's public welfare.
Title
To authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests, contract for professional services, and to expend $35,000.00 from the Electricity Operating Fund for costs in connection with Metronet Indianola Fiber Optic Project, and to declare an emergency. ($35,000.00).
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus is engaged in the Metronet Indianola Fiber Optic Project; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities, Division of Power and Water, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests in and to certain parcels of real estate and to contract for the aforesaid professional services necessary in connection with said project 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 the City Attorney be, and hereby is, authorized to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests in and to certain parcels of real estate and to contract for the professional services necessary in connection with the Metronet Indianola Fiber Optic Project.
Section 2. That the expenditure of $35,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary from the Electricity Operating Fund, Fund# 550 OCA, OCA Code 600700, Level Object Three 6601, for the appropriation of said real property interests determined to be necessary for the stated public purpose is hereby authorized.
Section 3. That the Auditor is authorized to make any changes, as necessary, to the funding source for all contracts and contract modifications associated with this ordinance.
Section 4. 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 its passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.