Explanation
The Public Service Department, Transportation Division, has completed the Lane Avenue Improvement project. This project detailed widening the road to four lanes with a center turn lane between Olentangy River Road and High Street, constructing new sidewalks with Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)-compliant ramps and signal improvements. Overhead utilities were buried to improve aesthetics.
The Electricity Division has invoiced the Transportation Division for utility burying services performed by Electricity. The cost of this service was $25,044.83. This ordinance authorizes the payment of this sum by the Transportation Division to the Electricity Division.
Fiscal Impact: Funding for this purpose is available within the State Issue Two Street Projects Fund in the Lane Avenue Improvement project. This ordinance appropriates the necessary funds and authorizes their expenditure.
Emergency action is requested to satisfy the Electricity Division's outstanding invoice as soon as possible. This promotes accurate and timely city accounting practices.
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To appropriate $25,044.83 within the State Issue Two Street Projects Fund; to authorize the Public Service Director to expend $25,044.83 to satisfy an outstanding invoice rendered by the Electricity Division for burying overhead utilities within the Lane Avenue Improvement project for the Transportation Division; to authorize this expenditure from the State Issue Two Street Projects Fund and to declare an emergency. ($25,044.83)
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WHEREAS, the Public Service Department, Transportation Division, has completed the Lane Avenue Improvement project; and
WHEREAS, this project involved burying overhead utilities for aesthetic purposes; and
WHEREAS, the Electricity Division has invoiced the Transportation Division for such services performed by Electricity; and
WHERERAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Transportation Division, in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate available monies within the State Issue Two Street Projects Fund for this purpose and authorize this expenditure to promote accurate and timely city accounting practices, 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 sum of $25,044.83 be and hereby is appropriated from the unappropriated balance of Fund 764, the State Issue Two Street Projects Fund, and from all monies estimated to come into said Fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2006, to the Transportation Division, Department No. 59-09, Object Level One 06, Object Level Three Code 6631, OCA Code 599410 and Grant 590410.
SECTION 2. That the monies appropriated in Section 1 shall be paid upon order of the Public Service Director and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 3. That the Public Service Director be and hereby is authorized to expend $25,044.83 to compensate the Electricity Division for the latter's burying overhead utility services in connection with the Lane Avenue Improvement project for the Transportation Division.
SECTION 4. That the expenditure authorized within Section 3 above be and hereby is authorized from Fund 764, the State Issue Two Street Projects Fund, Department No. 59-09, Transportation Division, Object Level One 06, Object Level Three Code 6631, OCA Code 590410 and Grant 590410.
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.