Explanation
1. Background: This ordinance will authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests, contract for professional services, and to expend the monies for payment of acquisition costs in connection with the Big Walnut Sanitary Trunk Extension, Part 2 Project and the Hiawatha Park/Atwood Relief Sewer Project.
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To authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests, contract for professional services; to authorize the transfer and expenditure of $89,000.00 from the Sewer System Permanent Improvements Fund; to amend the 2002 Capital Improvements Budget; in connection with the Big Walnut Sanitary Trunk Extension Project and the Hiawatha Park/Atwood Relief Sewer Project; and to declare an emergency. ($89,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Department of Public Utilities, has developed construction plans and specifications for the sanitary sewer improvement projects known as the Big Walnut Sanitary Trunk Extension, Part 2 Project and the Hiawatha Park/Atwood Relief Sewer Project; and
WHEREAS, in order to construct the aforementioned sanitary improvements it has been determined necessary for this City Council to authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests in and to certain parcels of real estate and to contract for the professional services necessary to complete said acquisition; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Department of Public Utilities, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the transfer and expenditure of funds; to authorize the City Attorney to procure the required easements necessary to construct the aforementioned vital sanitary sewer improvements; and to amend the 2002 Capital Improvements; for the preservation of the public health, peace, property and safety; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
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