Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to reimburse the Franklin County Engineer for bikeway improvements included in the Alum Creek Bike Trail Bridge Project.
The Franklin County Engineer, under the direction of Recreation and Parks, authorized additional construction services to the bike path on the Clifton Avenue / Alum Creek Bridge rehabilitation Project. Services included two additional box beam members to widen the structure to accommodate bike trail crossing, decorative bridge railing adjacent to the bike trail crossing, additional sidewalk, curb ramps and bollards to accommodate bike trail crossing adjacent to the bridge .
The Contract Compliance Number for the Franklin County Engineer is #31-6400067/071.
Emergency legislation is necessary as Franklin County has already paid the contractor for this work.
Fiscal Impact:
$583,691.54 is required and budgeted in the Voted 1995 and 1999 Parks and Recreation Bond Fund to meet the financial obligation of this reimbursement.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to reimburse the Franklin County Engineer for bikeway improvements on the Alum Creek Bikeway Bridge Project, to authorize the expenditure of $125,542.00 from the Voted 1999 and 2004 Parks and Recreation Bond Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($125,542.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Franklin County Engineer authorized additional construction services for the bikeway improvements on the Alum Creek Bikeway Bridge Project at the request of the Recreation and Parks Department; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to reimburse said expenditures for the preservation of public health, peace, property and safety as the county has already paid the contractor for this work; 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 reimburse the Franklin County Engineer for the bikeway improvements on the Alum Creek Bike trail Bridge Project, in accordance with requested changes from the Recreation and Parks Department.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $125,542.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from the Voted 1999 and 2004 Parks and Recreation Bond Fund No. 702, Dept. 51-01, as follows, to pay the cost thereof.
Object OCA
Fund Type Project No. Name Level 3 Code Amount
Cap. Proj. 510316 Greenways 6621 644526 $125,542.00
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 monies paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the
City Auditor.
SECTION 4. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this ordinance.
SECTION 5. 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.