Explanation
BACKGROUND: Ordinance No. 1038-01, passed June 18, 2001, authorized the Director of Development to enter into an agreement with the Ohio Department of Administrative Services to accept a $475,000 capital grant to support the Rickenbacker-Woods Project on East Livingston Avenue. Ordinance No. 1181-01, passed July 30, 2001, authorized the appropriation of these monies from the General Government Grant Fund to the Department of Development. To date, the amount of $110,768.72 has been expended on the purchase of four parcels of real estate, the demolition of two structures, and other miscellaneous related costs. Ordinance No. 1361-2004, passed July 19, 2004, authorized and directed the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a contract in the amount of $340,000.00 with the Neighborhood Design Center to oversee the rehabilitation specification, bidding, construction, and landscaping activities for the Captain "Eddie" Rickenbacker homestead and adjacent buildings at 1324 and 1334 East Livingston Avenue. This legislation amends Ordinance No. 1361-2004 to authorize and direct the Director of Development to enter the contract referenced above, but for the lesser amount of $280.000.00.
FISCAL IMPACT: This legislation amends Ordinance No. 1361-2004, passed July 19, 2004, that authorizes and directs the Director of the Department of Development to enter a contract in the amount of $280,000.00, rather than the $340,000.00 as authorized in the original ordinance, in support of the Rickenbacker-Woods Project at and near 1324 and 1334 East Livingston Avenue. The expenditure of funds was authorized by Ordinance No. 1181-01.
Title
To amend Ordinance No. 1361-2004 to reduce the amount of the contract between the Department of Development and the Neighborhood Design Center for oversight of the Rickenbacker-Woods project; and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 1361-2004, passed July 19, 2004, authorized and directed the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a contract in the amount of $340,000.00 with the Neighborhood Design Center to oversee the rehabilitation specification, bidding, construction, and landscaping activities for the Captain "Eddie" Rickenbacker homestead and adjacent buildings at 1324 and 1334 East Livingston Avenue; and
WHEREAS, it has been determined that work on the project will only require $280,000; and
WHEREAS, it is now necessary to amend Ordinance No. 1361-2004 to authorize a contract in the correct amount; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development in that it is immediately necessary to amend Ordinance No. 1361-2004 to avoid delaying the Rickenbacker-Woods project further, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; and NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That Section 1 of Ordinance No. 1361-2004, passed July 19, 2004, is hereby amended to read as follows:
That the Director of the Department of Development be, and is hereby authorized and directed to enter into a contract with the Neighborhood Design Center in the amount of $280,000 for the purposes of overseeing the rehabilitation specification, bidding and construction activities for the Captain "Eddie" Rickenbacker Homestead and adjacent buildings in the 1300 block of East Livingston Avenue.
Section 2. 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.