Explanation
The City of Columbus is building a Compressed Natural Gas Vehicle Fueling Station on its Fleet Management site, located at 4211 Groves Road. The City desires to grant Columbus Southern Power Company ("AEP") a 10 foot wide and 15 foot wide perpetual non-exclusive easement over certain portions of its Groves Roads property in order to allow AEP to provide electricity to the new fueling station. After investigation, the Department of Finance and Management has determined that the electrical service provided by the underground power line will be for the sole benefit of the City and should be granted at no charge. The following legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to execute those instruments necessary to grant the requested easement.
Fiscal Impact: N/A
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested as not to delay the construction of the fueling station which is beginning immediately.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to execute those instruments necessary to grant a 10 foot wide and 15 foot wide perpetual non-exclusive easement to the Columbus Southern Power Company, for the purpose of providing electrical services to the City's new Compressed Natural Gas Vehicle Fueling Station, located at 4211 Groves Road; and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, The City of Columbus is building a Compressed Natural Gas Vehicle Fueling Station on its Fleet Management site, located at 4211 Groves Road; and
WHEREAS, the City desires to grant Columbus Southern Power Company ("AEP") a 10 foot wide and 15 foot wide perpetual non-exclusive easement in and to its Groves Roads property in order to allow AEP to provide electricity to the new fueling station; and
WHEREAS, After investigation, the Department of Finance and Management has determined that the electrical service provided by the underground power line will be for the sole benefit of the City and should be granted at no charge; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to execute those instruments, prepared and approved by the Real Estate Division, Department of Law, necessary to grant an easement to the Columbus Southern Power Company to provide electricity to the new Compressed Natural Gas Vehicle Fueling Station, so as not to delay the resulting benefit to the City, 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 Director of the Department of Finance and Management be and hereby is authorized to execute those documents, as prepared and approved by the Real Estate Division, Department of Law, necessary to grant a perpetual non-exclusive easement to Columbus Southern Power Company over the following described real property, for so long as said easement is used to install, operate, maintain, and repair a 15KV underground electric service line to provide electrical service to the City's Compressed Natural Gas Vehicle Fueling Station, which shall be installed within the limits of the easement areas and for the sole benefit of the Grantor:
(SEE DRAWING ATTACHED HERETO AS
EXHIBIT "A" AND MADE A PART HEREOF)
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 its passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.