EXPLANATION
BACKGROUND:
The Columbus Recreation and Parks Department on behalf of the City of Columbus, Ohio, an Ohio municipal corporation ("City"), desires to enter into a license agreement ("License") with The Columbus Recreation and Parks Community Recreation Council, an Ohio nonprofit corporation ("CRRCRC"). The License will permit CRRCRC to nonexclusively use, operate, maintain, and manage public tennis programs and educational activities (collectively, "Program") at the City's Champions Tennis Facility located at 3900 Westerville Road, Columbus, Ohio 43224 [Franklin County Tax Parcel № 010-104558] ("Facility"). The City is unable to operate the Facility's Program itself due to budgetary constraints; however, CRRCRC has been successfully operating the Facility's Program since at least the year 2010, and the City continues to enjoy a good working relationship with CRRCRC.
The License has a term of two (2) years commencing February 28, 2014, and terminating February 29, 2016, unless otherwise terminating sooner as described under the License. CRPD reviewed and determined that it is in the City's best interest to enter License with CRRCRC, because CRRCRC's operation of the Facility's Program does not incur the City any costs and is a benefit to the City, public, and local community. Therefore, this ordinance authorizes the City's director of the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department to enter into the License Agreement, as approved by the Columbus City Attorney.
FISCAL IMPACT: Not applicable.
EMERGENCY JUSTIFICATION: Emergency action is requested so to not delay the benefit resulting from CRRCRC's operation of the Program.
TITLE
To authorize the Director of the Recreation and Parks Department to enter into a license agreement with the Columbus Recreation and Parks Community Recreation Council to nonexclusively use, operate, maintain, and manage public tennis programs and educational activities at the Champions Tennis Facility; and to declare an emergency. ($0.00)
BODY
WHEREAS, the City desires to enter into the LicenseAgreement with The Columbus Recreation and Parks Community Recreation Council ("CRRCRC") to allow CRRCRC to non-exclusively use, operate, maintain and manage public tennis programs and activities at the Champions Tennis Facility; and
WHEREAS, the City has been unable to operate the Facility's Program due to budgetary constraints; and
WHEREAS, CRRCRC has been successfully operating the Facility's Program since at least the year 2010, and the City continues to enjoy a good working relationship with CRRCRC; and
WHEREAS, the License Agreement has a term of two (2) years commencing February 28, 2014, and terminating February 29, 2016, unless otherwise terminating sooner as described under the License; and
WHEREAS, CRPD reviewed and determined that it is in the City's best interest to enter the License Agreement, because CRRCRC's operation of the Facility's Program does not incur the City any costs and is a benefit to the City, public, and local community; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Recreation and Parks in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to enter into the License Agreement so as not to delay programming, all for the preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; NOW, THEREFORE:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS, OHIO ("CITY"):
SECTION 1. The Director of the Recreation and Parks Department is authorized to execute those documents necessary to enter into a license agreement with The Columbus Recreation and Parks Community Recreation Council for the non-exclusive use, operation, maintainence, and management of the Champions Tennis Facility located at 3900 Westerville Road for public tennis programs and educational activities for a term of two (2) years commencing February 28, 2014 and terminating February 29, 2016.
SECTION 2. The terms and conditions of the license agreement are required to be in a form approved by the City Attorney; and
SECTION 3. For the reasons stated in this ordinance's preamble, which are made a part of this ordinance, this ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure and is effective and in full force after its passage, and after approval by the Mayor, or ten (10) days after its passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes this ordinance.