Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to reimburse the Franklin County Engineer for bikeway improvements included in the Greenlawn Bridge Project.
The Franklin County Engineer, under the direction of Recreation and Parks, authorized additional construction services to the bike path on the Greenlawn Bridge rehabilitation Project. Services included were the sidewalk on the south side and the roadway work associated with Scioto Boulevard. .
The Contract Compliance Number for the Franklin County Engineer is #31-6400067/071.
Emergency legislation is necessary as Franklin County has already paid the contractor for this work.
Fiscal Impact:
$62,186.20 is required and budgeted in the Recreation and Parks Bond Fund to meet the financial obligation of this reimbursement.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to reimburse the Franklin County Engineer for bikeway improvements on the Greenlawn Bridge Project, to authorize the expenditure of $62,186.20 from the Voted Recreation and Parks Bond Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($62,186.20)
Body
WHEREAS, the Franklin County Engineer authorized additional construction services for the bikeway improvements on the Greenlawn Bridge Project at the request of the Recreation and Parks Department; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to reimburse said expenditures for the preservation of public health, peace, property and safety as the county has already paid the contractor for this work; 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 reimburse the Franklin County Engineer for the bikeway improvements on the Greenlawn Bridge Project, in accordance with requested changes from the Recreation and Parks Department.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $62,186.20, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from the Recreation and Parks Bond Fund No. 702, Dept. 51-01, as follows, to pay the cost thereof.
OCA
Fund Type Project No. Name Object Level 3 Code Amount
Cap. Proj. 510316-100000 Greenways Improvements 6621 644625 $62,186.20
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 monies paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the
City Auditor.
SECTION 4. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this ordinance.
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.