Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the City Attorney’s Office to expend up to $190,000.00 for Department of Public Utilities miscellaneous real estate and right-of-way needs.
The City’s Department of Public Utilities (“DPU”) is engaged in various capital improvement projects. The City Attorney’s Office must acquire real estate and right-of-way for DPU to perform some of these projects. Accordingly, DPU requests the City Attorney to acquire in good faith and accept certain fee simple and lesser real estate (collectively, “Real Estate”) located in a project’s vicinity. The City Attorney may also need to contract for associated professional services (e.g. surveys, title work, appraisals, etc.) for DPU to timely complete the projects.
The City Attorney’s Office requests DPU to establish funding for these expenses based upon an initial estimate of costs. Sometimes these estimates do not establish enough funding to complete the acquisition. The acquisition can then be delayed by months while DPU submits legislation to establish additional funding. This ordinance will prevent those delays by establishing funding to be used by the City Attorney’s Office for the Division of Water, the Division of Water Reclamation (Sanitary and Storm), and the Division of Power when small amounts of additional funding are needed to complete the acquisition.
The Columbus Community for this project is 99-Citywide.
2. CONTRACT COMPLIANCE
Not applicable.
3. FISCAL IMPACT
Funding in the amount of $190,000.00 is available and appropriated as follows:
Division of Water
An amendment to the 2025 Capital Improvement Budget is needed to align budget authority with the proper project. A transfer of cash and appropriation between projects within the Water Bond Fund, Fund 6006, is needed to align cash and appropriation with the proper project.
Division of Water Reclamation
An amendment to the 2025 Capital Improvement Budget is needed to align budget authority ...
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