Explanation
This resolution appoints a Board of Revision to hear objections that have been made to the Discovery District Special Improvements District and to declare an emergency.
The Charter of the City of Columbus provides City Council with the power by ordinance to provide for the construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance by contract or directly by the employment of labor, of all local improvements, and to provide for the payment of any part of any such improvement by levying and collecting special assessments upon abutting, adjacent and contiguous or other specially benefited property. Should a property owner object to an assessment, Charter section 172 calls for the appointment by Council of a Board of Revision to hear such objections.
Title
To establish a Board of Revision to hear the objections to the Discovery District Special Improvement District and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City Clerks Office in that it is immediately necessary to appoint a Board of Revision to hear objections to the Discovery District Special Improvement District, in order that the necessary legislation may be prepared and presented to Council for consideration so that the Development Department may proceed with the plans for said improvements, at the earliest possible time for the immediate preservation of the public property, peace, health, and safety; now therefore
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That Jeffrey Porter, David Paul and Debera Diggs, disinterested freeholders of the City of Columbus, Ohio be and they are hereby appointed a Board of Revision to hear all objections to the estimated assessments for the following proposed improvements:
Discovery District Special Improvement District
and said Board shall report to this Council its findings, if any, of the estimated assessments as reported by the Development Department.
Said hearings will be held in the City Council Chambers at 5:30 P.M. on June 16, 2010.
SECTION 2. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part of, this resolution is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its adoption and approval by the Mayor or ten days after adoption if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.