Explanation
Background:
Recreation and Parks (CRPD) and the Franklin County Engineers Office (FCEO) have a long-standing cooperative working relationship in improving, cost-sharing, and development of trail facilities. This agreement allows CRPD to partner with FCEO to construct trail access ramps and underpass improvements for the Big Walnut Trail. FCEO will be rehabilitating the Livingston Avenue Bridge, and this project will coincide with that construction, providing a cost-effective and efficient improvement. The ramps will provide direct access to from Livingston Avenue to Big Walnut Park. The agreement will provide increased safety, access, and significant improvements to the city's trail system along Big Walnut Creek. The project will increase efficiency and cost effectiveness. The project is noted as a key improvement in the Central Ohio Greenways Plan and the Columbus Bicentennial Bikeways Plan.
Principal Parties:
Franklin County Engineers
Dean Ringle, County Engineer
970 Dublin Road
Columbus, OH
(614) 525-3030
Federal ID#316400067-033
Emergency Justification:
An emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to provide funding for the project to begin within the 2012 construction year.
Fiscal Impact:
$180,000.00 from the Voted Recreation and Parks Bond Fund 702.
Title
To authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into an agreement with the Franklin County Engineers for construction of trail improvements to the Livingston Avenue Bridge over Big Walnut Creek; to authorize the transfer of $180,000.00 within the Recreation and Parks Bond Fund; to amend the 2011 Capital Improvement Budget; to authorize the expenditure of $180,000.00 from the Recreation and Parks Bond Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($180,000.00)
Body
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