Explanation
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant and enter into agreement with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Clean Ohio Trails Fund, and provide for the appropriation of said funds to the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund. Funding has been awarded to construct the Alum Creek Trail, from Sunbury Ridge Drive to Brittany Hills. The funds will be used as part of the construction funding for the project. The target completion date for this project is October, 2011. This ordinance is submitted as an emergency to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possible. Emergency action is also necessary to have funding available for necessary expenditures.
The total grant amount from ODNR Clean Ohio Trails Fund is $410,000.00.
A Clean Ohio Trails Fund grant for a one-mile section of the Alum Creek Trail, Sunbury Ridge Drive to Brittany Hills, was received by Recreation and Parks. This grant is to provide funds for construction of an asphalt trail, bridge, and culverts.
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To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into an agreement with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Clean Ohio Trails Fund; to accept a Clean Ohio Trails Fund grant for a one-mile section of the Alum Creek Trail from Sunbury Ridge Drive to Brittany Hills; to appropriate the funds for the construction of an asphalt trail, bridge, and culverts; and to declare an emergency. ($410,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources has awarded $410,000.00 to the Recreation and Parks Department as part of the Clean Ohio Trails Fund program; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to accept and appropriate these funds from the Ohio
Department of Natural Resources, Clean Ohio Trails Fund for the development of the
portion of the Alum Creek Trail from Sunbury Ridge Drive to Brittany Hills; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department, in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate funds to have funding available for necessary expenditures, 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 Recreation and Parks be and he is hereby authorized and directed to accept a grant in the amount of $410,000.00 and enter into an agreement with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Clean Ohio Trails for the purpose of Alum Creek Trail Development.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks Grant 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, 2010, the sum of $410,000.00 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department, Department No. 51-01, as follows:
Fund Type: Grant Fund; Dept No.; 51-01, Fund No.; 286; OCA Code; to be assigned by auditor; Obj Level 3; 6621; Amount; $410,000.00, Grant No.; to be assigned by auditor
SECTION 3. That the monies in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon order of the Director of Recreation and Parks, 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 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 10 days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.