EXPLANATION
BACKGROUND: The City owns real property located at 4380 Currency Drive, Columbus, Ohio 43228 {Franklin County Tax Parcel 560-138790} (“Property”), which is managed by the Department of Finance and Management (“Finance”). The City is currently renovating the City maintenance facility located at the Property and in order to complete that project Ohio Power Company d.b.a American Electric Power (“AEP”) will need to install underground electric facilities to provide electric service to the buildings. AEP now requests the applicable electric utility easements to burden a portion of the Property in order to install and maintain certain electric facilities and associated appurtenances for the service of electrical energy and impulses (“Easement”). Finance reviewed the request and supports granting AEP at an approximate one hundred and sixty (160) foot long by ten (10) foot wide easement and a seventy (70) foot long by ten (10) foot wide easement at no cost in consideration that (i) the Easement supports electricity services to the Property, and (ii) the Easement will be nonexclusive.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE: Not applicable.
FISCAL IMPACT: Not applicable.
EMERGENCY JUSTIFICATION: Emergency action is requested in order to allow for the timely granting of the easements which with allow for the completion of the site renovation and avoid any unnecessary delays in construction which will preserve the public peace, health, property, safety and welfare.
TITLE
To authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to execute and acknowledge any document(s), as approved by the City Attorney, necessary to grant American Electric Power two electric utility service easements burdening a portion of the City’s real property located at 4380 Currency Drive; and to declare an emergency. ($0.00)
BODY
WHEREAS, the City intends to grant AEP two electric utility service easements to burden a portion of City property located at 4380 Currency, Columbus, ...
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