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 Bikeway Land Acquisitions Project.
Fiscal Impact: The Recreation and Parks Department has determined funding for this project will be from the Recreation and Parks Voted Bond Fund.
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested to allow the acquisition of the parcels necessary for the aforementioned project to proceed without delay thereby allowing this project to move forward.
Title
To authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests, contract for professional services, and to expend $41,000.00 from the Recreation and Parks Voted Bond Fund for costs in connection with the Bikeway Land Acquisitions Project, and to declare an emergency. ($41,000.00).
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus is engaged in the Bikeway Land Acquisitions Project; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department, 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 Bikeway Land Acquisitions Project.
Section 2. That the expenditure of $41,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the Bikeway Land Acquisitions Project, Project #510316-100021, from the Recreation and Parks Voted Bond Fund, Fund 702, OCA Code 731621, Object Level 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 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.