Explanation
Background: The following is an ordinance to authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests, contract for professional services, and to expend the monies for payment of acquisition costs in connection with the Chatterton Road Water Main Improvement Project.
Fiscal Impact: This legislation includes a transfer of funds within the Water Works Enlargement Voted Bonds Fund and an amendment to the 2008 Capital Improvements Budget.
Emergency Justification: is requested to allow all land acquisition to begin immediately so that the City can meet current acquisition schedules.
Title
To authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests, to contract for professional services, to authorize a transfer and an expenditure of $16,000.00 within the Water Works Enlargement Voted Bonds Fund; to authorize an amendment to the 2008 Capital Improvements Budget for costs in connection with the Chatterton Road Water Main Improvement Project; and to declare an emergency. ($16,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus is engaged in the Chatterton Road Water Main Improvement Project; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize an amendment to the 2008 Capital Improvements Budget for purposes of providing sufficient funding and expenditure authority for the aforementioned project expenditures; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary for this Council to authorize the City Auditor to transfer funds within the Water Works Enlargement Voted Bonds Fund; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities, Water, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests in and to certain parcels of real estate and to contract for the aforesaid professional services necessary in connection with said project for the preservation of the public health, peace, property and safety; now, therefore:
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