City of Columbus - File #: 0168-2004

• File #: 0168-2004
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 1/15/2004
• In control: Public Service & Transportation Committee
• On agenda: 4/26/2004
• Final action: 4/26/2004
• Title: To authorize the transfer of $160,000.00 between projects with the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund; to transfer $160,000.00 from this Fund to the Federal-State Highway Engineering Fund; to appropriate $800,000.00 within the Federal-State Highway Engineering Fund; to authorize the Public Service Director to modify an existing agreement with CSX Transportation, Incorporated, to complete construction of the Hard Road Phase B Improvement project railroad grade separation; to authorize the expenditure of $800,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed from the Federal-State Highway Engineering Fund for the Transportation Division, and to declare an emergency. ($800,000.00)

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/26/2004	1	Columbus City Council	Approved	Pass
4/15/2004	1	CITY ATTORNEY	Reviewed and Approved
4/15/2004	1	Service Drafter	Sent to Clerk's Office for Council
4/8/2004	1	ODI DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
4/8/2004	1	ODI DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
4/8/2004	1	Service Drafter	Sent for Approval
4/6/2004	1	EBOCO Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
4/5/2004	1	Auditor Reviewer	Contingent Within
4/5/2004	1	CITY AUDITOR	Reviewed and Approved
4/5/2004	1	Service Drafter	Sent for Approval
3/31/2004	1	FINANCE DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
3/31/2004	1	SERVICE DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
3/30/2004	1	SERVICE DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
3/30/2004	1	Finance Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
3/29/2004	1	SERVICE DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
1/16/2004	1	Service Drafter	Sent for Approval
1/15/2004	1	Service Drafter	Sent for Approval
1/15/2004	1	Service Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
1/15/2004	1	Service Drafter	Sent for Approval

Explanation

The Public Service Department, Transportation Division, is engaged in the Hard Road Phase B Improvement project. This project will widen the roadway from two to four lanes between Smokey Row Road and Linworth Road and include installation of a median, curbs and gutters, sidewalks, traffic signal improvements and a grade separation at the CSX railroad tracks. Heavy vehicular and pedestrian traffic must now cross these very busy and dangerous railroad tracks. The project is in the immediate vicinity of three schools.

Ordinance 1330-2002, passed by City Council July 29, 2002, authorized the Public Service Director to enter into agreement with CSX Transportation, Incorporated, for the City's payment of CSX's costs for engineering, inspection, train traffic control, relocation of communications equipment, railroad track disconnection and hookup, removal of permanent railroad grade crossing flashing lights and gate and installation and removal of temporary railroad grade crossing flashing lights in an amount up to and including $800,000.00. This amount was an estimate provided by the railroad.

The total cost of the railroad work is now estimated at $1,600,000.00. This ordinance modifies and increases the existing agreement by the difference, or $800,000.00. CSX will bill the City for actual costs only.

Eighty percent (80%) of the total cost of this project is eligible for eventual reimbursement by non-city sources that include the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), the Ohio Public Works Commission (OPWC) and the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC). Twenty percent of the cost of the contract modification ($160,000.00) must be provided from City funds. This ordinance transfers $160,000.00 between projects within the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund and then transfers it to the Federal-State Highway Engineering Fund. It then appropriates $800,000.00 there and authorizes its expenditure. As a prerequisite for futu...