EXPLANATION
BACKGROUND: The City owns real property located at 5925 Glick Road, Powell, Ohio 43065, {Delaware County Tax Parcel 600-423-01-009-000} commonly known as Glick Park (“Property”). The property is managed by the Department of Finance. It is further described and recorded in Deed Book 159, Page 322. The City is upgrading the hydroelectric dam at this site and in order to complete that project the Ohio Power Company, doing business as American Electric Power, (“AEP”) will need to install above ground electric lines and switches, a pad mounted metering system, and associated appurtenances, to facilitate the transfer of electricity generated by the dam to the electric grid. AEP now requests the applicable electric utility easement to burden a portion of the Property in order to maintain certain electric facilities and associated appurtenances for the transfer of electrical energy and impulses to the electric grid (“Easement”). Finance, with input from the Recreation and Parks Department and the Public Utilities Department reviewed the request and supports granting AEP an easement in consideration that (i) the Easement supports the transfer of power from the dam to the electric grid, and (ii), the Easement will be nonexclusive.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE: Not applicable.
FISCAL IMPACT: Not applicable.
EMERGENCY JUSTIFICATION: Not applicable
TITLE
To authorize the Director of the Finance and Management Department with the approval of the Director of the Department of Public Utilities to execute and acknowledge any document(s), as approved by the Department of Law, Real Estate Division, necessary to grant to the Ohio Power Company an electric utility easement to burden a portion of the City’s real property located at 5925 Glick Road, Powell, Ohio 43065. ($0.00)
BODY
WHEREAS, the City owns property at 5925 Glick Road, Powell, Ohio 43065, {Delaware County Tax Parcel 600-423-01-009-000} (“Property”); and
WHEREAS, the City intends to grant The Ohio Power Company, an Ohio corporation doing business as American Electric Power, (“AEP”) an electric utility easement to burden a portion of the Property to install above ground electric lines and switches, a pad mounted metering system, and associated appurtenances, to facilitate the transfer of electricity generated by the dam to the electric grid; and
WHEREAS, the City intends to quitclaim grant AEP the Easement in consideration (i) the Easement supports electricity services at the hydroelectric dam, and (ii) the Easement will be nonexclusive; and
WHEREAS, the City intends for the Director of the Department of Finance with the approval of the Director of the Department of Public Utilities to execute and acknowledge any document(s) necessary to quitclaim grant the Easement to AEP; and
WHEREAS, the City intends for the Department of Law, Real Estate Division to approve all document(s) associated with this ordinance; and now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS
SECTION 1. That the Director of the Department of Finance and Management with the approval of the Director of the Department of Public Utilities and the Director of the Recreation and Parks Department be, and hereby is, authorized to execute and acknowledge any document(s) necessary to quitclaim grant to the Ohio Power Company, an Ohio corporation doing business as American Electric Power, (“AEP”) and its successors and assigns an electric utility easement to burden a portion of the Property to install above ground electric lines and switches, a pad mounted metering system, and associated appurtenances, to facilitate the transfer of electricity generated by the dam to the electric to burden a portion of the City’s real property located at 5925 Glick Road, Powell, Ohio 43065, {Delaware County Tax Parcel 600-423-01-009-000} (“Property”), which is described and depicted in the two (2) page attachment which is fully incorporated for reference as if rewritten, in order for AEP to nonexclusively maintain certain electric facilities and associated appurtenances , to facilitate the transfer of electricity generated by the dam to the electric grid.
SECTION 2. That the Department of Law, Real Estate Division is required to preapprove all document(s) executed by the City pursuant to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and after the earliest period allowed by law.