City of Columbus - File #: 1499-2011

• File #: 1499-2011
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 9/12/2011
• In control: Public Service & Transportation Committee
• On agenda: 10/3/2011
• Final action: 10/5/2011
• Title: To authorize the Director of Public Service to reimburse various utilities for make ready utility relocation costs incurred in conjunction with the Traffic Signal Installation - CTSS Phase B project; to amend the 2011 C.I.B; to authorize and direct the City Auditor to appropriate and transfer $50,000.00 within and from the Street and Highway Improvement Fund to the Fed-State Highway Engineering Fund; to authorize the appropriation and expenditure of $50,000.00 from the Fed-State Highway Engineering Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($50,000.00)

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/5/2011	1	CITY CLERK	Attest
10/4/2011	1	MAYOR	Signed
10/3/2011	1	COUNCIL PRESIDENT	Signed
10/3/2011	1	Columbus City Council	Approved	Pass

Explanation
1. BACKGROUND:
The Department of Public Service, Division of Design and Construction, is engaged in the Columbus Traffic Signal System (CTSS) program which migrates the existing central traffic signal system to an open architecture and installs a new fiber-optic cable communication infrastructure. This will allow the City to choose among multiple vendors for some of the commodities related to the Traffic Signal System and ideally receive better pricing for needed materials.

This legislation authorizes payment for utility make-ready work; which is the design, review, and associated utility pole modification or replacement required to accommodate the CTSS cables on the poles of American Electric Power, the Department of Public Utilities, and other utilities, up to $50,000.00.

Searches in the Excluded Party List System (Federal) and the Findings for Recovery list (State) produced no findings against American Electric Power.

2. CONTRACT COMPLIANCE
Columbus Southern Power Company dba American Electric Power (AEP) contract compliance number is 31-4154203. The expiration date for their contract compliance is 2/1/12.

3. FISCAL IMPACT:
Funding in the amount of $50,000.00 for this work is available within the Street and Highway Improvement Fund due to residual funds from completed grants. A C.I.B. amendment is necessary to establish authority in the correct project within the Fund. That Funding will then be transferred to the Columbus Traffic Signal System - Phase B Grant and be expended from there.

4. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION
Emergency action is requested in order to begin this make ready work as scheduled to prepare for the construction of the Traffic Signal Installation - Columbus Traffic Signal System Phase Phase B project.

Title
To authorize the Director of Public Service to reimburse various utilities for make ready utility relocation costs incurred in conjunction with the Traffic Signal Installation - CTSS Phase B project; to a...