Explanation
Background: The following legislation authorizes the City Attorney to file the necessary complaints for the appropriation of permanent easements in and to real estate necessary for the Merwin Hill Sanitary Sewer Assessment Sewer Project.
Fiscal Impact: The Department of Public Utilities, Division of Sewers and Drainage, has determined funding for this project will be from the Voted Sanitary Sewer Bond Fund.
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested to allow the acquisition of the parcels necessary for the aforementioned project to proceed without delay thereby allowing this project to move forward.
Title
To authorize the City Attorney to file the necessary complaints for the appropriation of permanent easements in and to real estate necessary for the Merwin Hill Sanitary Sewer Assessment Sewer Project, and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus, Ohio, a municipal corporation, is engaged in the acquisition of certain real property interests for the Merwin Hill Sanitary Sewer Assessment Sewer Project; and
WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Columbus, Ohio, adopted Resolution No. 0056X-2008 on the 17th day of March, 2008, declaring the necessity and intent to appropriate the real property interests hereinafter described and the purpose of the appropriation, and notice of such adoption of said resolution has been served in accordance with Columbus City Code Sec. 909.03; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities, Division of Sewerage and Drainage, in that it is necessary to appropriate such real property interests so that there will be no delay in the aforementioned project, and for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health and safety; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That permanent easements in, over, under, across and through the parcels listed in "...
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