Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to exercise renewal options to extend two (2) lease agreements with Jaeger Commerce Park. One lease is for approximately 4,763 square feet of warehouse space for the Mobile Tool Program and the other is for approximately 7,100 square feet of space for the Environmental Blight Abatement Program. The leased property is located at 560 Dublin Avenue. Both lease agreements 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 and $11,000.00 is available from the General Fund for the Environmental Blight Abatement Program lease. The leasing cost of this space for the Mobile Tool Program for the last seven years has been $144,000.00. The leasing cost of this space for the Environmental Blight Abatement Program for the last seven years has been $76,000.00.
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To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to modify and extend two (2) lease agreements with Jaeger Commerce Park Limited Partnership for space needed for the Mobile Tool Program and Environmental Blight Abatement Program; to authorize the expenditure of $22,200.00 from the Community Development Block Grant Fund and $11,000.00 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($33,200.00)
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WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Development desires to exercise renewal options to extend two (2) lease agreements with Jaeger Commerce Park; and
WHEREAS, one lease is for approximately 4,763 square feet of warehouse space for the Mobile Tool Program and the other is for approximately 7,100 square feet of space for the Environmental Blight Abatement Program; and
WHEREAS, the leased property is located at 560 Dublin Avenue and both lease agreements 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 two (2) lease agreements for warehouse space and office space for the Mobile Tool Program and Environmental Blight Abatement Program, 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 two (2) lease agreements with Jaeger Commerce Park Limited Partnership for space needed for the Mobile Tool Program and space for the Environmental Blight Abatement Program, for a period of one year.
Section 2. That the expenditure of $33,200.00 ($22,200.00 for the Mobile Tool Program and $11,000.00 for the Environmental Blight Abatement Program), or so much thereof that may be necessary, in regard to the action authorized in Section 1, be and is hereby authorized and approved as follows:
Fund 248
Division 44-10, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3301, OCA Code 441122, Project 248001 (Mobil Tool), Amount $22,200.00
Fund 010
Division 44-05, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3301, OCA Code 440330, Project 100000 (EBA), Amount $11,000.00.
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 is the Mayor Neither approves nor vetoes the same.