Explanation
The City of Columbus, Public Service Department, Transportation Division and the City of Hilliard, in cooperation with the State of Ohio and the Federal Highway Administration, are engaged in the widening and improvement of Hilliard-Rome Road/Main Street from Roberts Road north to Hilliard Cemetery Road. The City of Hilliard will administer the acquisition of the necessary right-of-way for this project.
Fiscal Impact: This is a City/State/Federal participation project with eighty percent (80%) of the total right-of-way costs for this project being paid out of Federal funds. The City of Columbus will pay twenty percent (20%) of the cost for acquisition of that right-of-way located within the City of Columbus municipal boundaries. It is currently estimated that right-of-way acquisition costs for the City parcels will be $1,300,000.00.
The Transportation Division budgeted $6,500,000.00 in the 2004 Capital Improvements Budget for federal/state projects. This ordinance authorizes the expenditure of $1,300,000.00 that is budgeted within the Federal State Match project in the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund.
Emergency action is requested to allow right-of-way acquisition-related activities to commence without delay so that construction can begin as currently scheduled. Right-of-way acquisition and utility relocation activities traditionally take two years to complete. Construction of this improvement project is slated to begin in early 2006 requiring right-of-way acquisition to be complete by September 1, 2005, to allow the utilities time to relocate before construction begins. Emergency action is requested to allow right-of-way acquisition-related activities to commence without delay so that construction can begin as currently scheduled.
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To authorize the Public Service Director to enter into an agreement with the City of Hilliard for the latter to acquire those parcels located within the City of Columbus municipal boundaries necessary for the Hilliard-Rome Road/Main Street Improvement project for the Transportation Division; to authorize the expenditure of $1,300,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary from the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund and to declare an emergency. ($1,300,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus and the City of Hilliard, in cooperation with the State of Ohio and the Federal Highway Administration, are engaged in the widening and improvement of Hilliard-Rome Road/Main Street from Roberts Road north to Hilliard Cemetery Road; and
WHEREAS, this City/State/Federal participation project will be administered by the City of Hilliard with eighty percent (80%) of the total right-of-way costs being paid out of Federal funds; and
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus will pay twenty percent (20%) of the cost for acquisition of that right-of-way located within the City of Columbus municipal boundaries; and
WHEREAS, acquisition-related expenses for the parcels located within the municipal boundaries of the City of Columbus are currently estimated to be $1,300,000.00; and
WHEREAS, funds are budgeted within the Federal/State match project in the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund and are available to pay for these acquisition-related expenses; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Transportation Division, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the expenditure of those funds required to pay acquisition-related costs for those parcels located within the municipal boundaries of the City of Columbus to allow utility relocation to proceed in a timely manner in order to keep the project on schedule, 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 Public Service Director be and hereby is authorized to enter into an agreement with the City of Hilliard for the latter to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests in and to those parcels located within the municipal boundaries of the City of Columbus needed for the Hilliard-Rome Road/Main Street Improvement project for the Transportation Division and to expend those funds required to pay acquisition-related costs.
SECTION 2. That for the purpose of paying for said costs the sum of $1,300,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary be and hereby is authorized to be expended from Fund 704, the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund, Department No. 59-09, Transportation Division, Object Level One Code 06, Object Level Three Code 6601, OCA Code 644385 and Project 530208.
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 passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.