EXPLANATION
BACKGROUND:
The City owns real property located at 5147 Karl Road, Columbus, Ohio 43229 {Franklin County Tax Parcel 010-104774}, which is commonly known as Woodward Park (“Park”) and managed by the Recreation and Parks Department (CRPD). The Ohio Power Company, an Ohio corporation doing business as American Electric Power (“AEP”), requests a nonexclusive electric utility easement in, on, through, over, under, and burdening a portion of the Park in order to install, control, construct, reconstruct, replace, operate, maintain, repair, upgrade, and remove underground and aboveground electric lines, poles, and associated appurtenances for the distribution, delivery, and service of electrical energy and impulses (“Easement”). CRPD reviewed and supports granting AEP the Easement in consideration that (i) the Easement supports electricity service in the Park’s vicinity, and (ii) AEP is compensating the City One Thousand and 00/100 U.S. Dollars ($1,000.00) for granting the Easement.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE:
Not applicable.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The City’s receipt of monetary compensation from AEP will be deposited with CRPD’s Special Purpose Fund.
EMERGENCY JUSTIFICATION:
Emergency action is requested so to not hinder electrical service in the Park’s vicinity, which will preserve the public peace, health, property, safety, and welfare.
TITLE
To authorize the director of the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department to execute and acknowledge any instrument(s), as approved by the City Attorney and in consideration of One Thousand and 00/100 U.S. Dollars ($1,000.00), necessary to grant to the Ohio Power Company, an Ohio corporation d.b.a. AEP, an electric utility easement burdening a portion of Woodward Park; and to declare an emergency. ($0.00)
BODY
WHEREAS, the City supports granting the Ohio Power Company, an Ohio corporation doing business as American Electric Power (i.e. AEP), a nonexclusive electric utility easement in, on, through, over, und...
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