BACKGROUND: This ordinance will provide payment to the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) for the SR 161 urban paving project. This project includes resurfacing of State Route 161, from just east of the intersection of State Route 161 and Sawmill Road and proceeding eastward to the east limit just west of the structure over the Olentangy River and just east of the SR-315 bridge lying within the City of Columbus. Total work length of the project is 3.1 miles. (FRA-161-8.90 PID 76145)
Emergency action is requested to meet ODOT's schedule to return contracts and other paperwork by early January 2007 in order to bid the project at the end of January 2007. Construction of this project is estimated to begin in April, 2007 and end in September, 2007.
FISCAL IMPACT: The total share of the cost for the City is now estimated in the amount of $101,968.00, but the estimated amount will be adjusted so that the City's ultimate share of the cost of the improvement shall correspond with the actual cost when said actual costs are finally determined by ODOT. Funds for the City's share of this project are budgeted in the 2006 Transportation Division Capital Improvement Budget.
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To authorize the Public Service Director to enter into agreement with the Director of the Ohio Department of Transportation for the State Route 161 urban paving project; to authorize the expenditure of $101,968.00 within the 1995, 1999, 2004 Voted Street and Highway Fund for the Transportation Division; and to declare an emergency. ($101,968.00)
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The following Ordinance enacted by the City of Columbus, Ohio, hereinafter referred to as the Legislative Authority or Local Public Agency or "LPA", in the matter of the stated described project.
WHEREAS, on the 21st day of September 2005, the LPA enacted legislation proposing cooperation with the Director of Transportation for the described project:
Resurfacing of State Route 161, from just east of the intersection of State Route 161 and Sawmill Road and proceeding eastward to the western approach slab of FRA-161-8.90, lying within the City of Columbus. Total work length of the project being approximately 3.1 miles; and
WHEREAS, the LPA shall cooperate with the Director of Transportation in the above described project as follows:
The City agrees to assume and bear one hundred percent (100%) of the entire cost of the improvement, less the amount of Federal-aid and State funds set aside by the Director of Transportation for the financing of this improvement from funds allocated by the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation.
Also, the City agrees to assume and bear the entire cost and expense of the installation and/or repair of curb ramps which are necessary to ensure compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
In addition, the City also agrees to assume and bear one hundred percent (100%) of the cost of any construction items requested by the City on the entire improvement, which are not necessary for the improvement, as determined by the State and Federal Highway Administration.
The share of the cost of the LPA is now estimated in the amount of One Hundred One Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty Eight and ---- 00/100 dollars, ($101,968.00), but said estimated amount is to be adjusted in order that the LPA's ultimate share of said improvement shall correspond with said percentages of actual costs when said actual costs are determined; and
WHEREAS, the Director of the Ohio Department of Transportation has approved said legislation proposing cooperation and has caused to be made plans and specifications and an estimate of cost and expense for improving the above described highway and has transmitted copies of the same to this legislative authority; and
WHEREAS, the LPA desires the Director of Transportation to proceed with the aforesaid highway improvement; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Service, Transportation Division, in that it is the sense of this Council that the Director of the Ohio Department of Transportation must proceed with the aforesaid highway improvement, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, and safety; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the estimated sum of One Hundred One Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty Eight and 00/100 Dollars, ($101,968.00) or so much thereof as may be needed be and is hereby authorized to be expended from the 1995, 1999, 2004 Voted Streets and Highways Fund, Fund 704, Transportation Division, Department No. 59-09, O.L One/Three Codes 06/6631, OCA Code 644385, Project 530208 in the Federal/State Match Project for the improvement described above and the fiscal officer is hereby authorized and directed to issue an order on the treasurer for said sum upon the requisition of the Director of Transportation to pay the cost and expense of said improvement. We hereby agree to assume in the first instance, the share of the cost and expense over and above the amount to be paid from Federal funds.
Section 2. That the LPA hereby requests the Director of Transportation to proceed with the aforesaid highway improvement.
Section 3. That the LPA enter into a contract with the State, and that the Public Service Director be and is hereby authorized to execute said contract, providing for the payment of the LPA the sum of money set forth herein above for improving the described project.
Section 4. 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.