Explanation
Background: The following legislation authorizes the City Attorney to file the necessary complaints for the appropriation of construction and permanent easements in and to real estate necessary for the Alternate 69KV to West Substation Project.
Fiscal Impact: Funding for this project is from the Department of Public Utilities, Division of Power and Water, Voted Street Lightening and Electricity Distribution Improvement Fund.
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested to allow the acquisition of the parcels necessary for this project to proceed without delay for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health and safety.
Title
To authorize the City Attorney to file the necessary complaints for the appropriation of construction and permanent easements in and to real estate necessary for the Alternate 69KV to West Substation Project; and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus is engaged in the Alternate 69KV to West Substation Project; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities, Division of Power and Water, in that it is immediately necessary to declare the necessity and intent to appropriate permanent and construction easements in, over, under and through the hereinbefore described real estate necessary for the aforementioned project so that there will be no delay in the project 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 construction and permanent easements in, over, under, across and through the parcels listed in Section 3 hereof, as are fully described in Resolution No. 0197X-2008, adopted November 10, 2008, said descriptions being incorporated herein, be appropriated for the public purpose of the Alternate 69KV to West Substation Project, #670772, pursuant to the power and authority gran...
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