Explanation
Background: This legislation authorizes the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant and enter into agreement with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention, for improvements to Spindler Road Park. The total cost of the project is estimated to be around $150,000.00. A match of $75,000.00 is required from the Recreation and Parks Department. The local match in the amount of $36,000.00 will be provided by the Recreation and Parks Capital Improvement Program and $39,000.00 will be provided by the Berliner Action Team for Sport (BATS) organization. The funding will be used to purchase equipment such as a tractor with a front end loader, dump truck, 18 foot trailer, spreader, Klegg Meter and about 600,000 pounds of crum rubber. Crum rubber is made from recycled automobile and truck tires and will be spread initially on the athletic fields at the Spindler Road complex. The crum rubber will create a healthier turf and longer life for the fields and will likely reduce the stress on the backs, knees and hips of players and those who serve the Department in their official capacity.
Fiscal Impact: $150,000.00 in Grant, Bond and Special Purpose funding will be used for the improvements to Spindler Road Park. The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to reduce the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund unappropriated balance by $75,000.00. The expenditure of $150,000.00 is budgeted in the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund, CIP Fund and Special Purpose Fund.
Emergency action is requested in order to have the funding available for necessary expenditures.
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To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant in the amount of $75,000.00 and enter into agreement with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention for improvements to Spindler Road Park, to authorize the appropriation of $75,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($75,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Recreation and Parks Department has been awarded a Grant through the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention; and
WHEREAS, the grant will be used to purchase equipment and crum rubber for Spindler Road Park; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to accept said grant and appropriate said funds; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to accept and appropriate said grant funds for the preservation of public health, peace, property and safety; 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 accept a grant in the amount of $75,000.00 and enter into an agreement with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention for improvements to Spindler Road Park.
Section 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund No. 286, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2008, the sum of $75,000.00 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department, Department No. 51-01, as follows:
Fund Type: Grant, Dept. No.; 51-01, Fund No.; 286, Grant No.; 518043, Object Level 3; 6621, OCA Code; 518043, Amount; $75,000.00.
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 money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
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.