Explanation
Background: The following legislation authorizes the City Attorney to file the necessary complaints for the appropriation of construction and permanent easements in and to real estate necessary for Minnesota Avenue Improvement Project.
Fiscal Impact: Funding for this project is from the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund.
Emergency action is being requested to allow right-of-way acquisition-related activities to be initiated by the City Attorney's Office, Real Estate Division, as soon as possible so that construction of this improvement project can begin without delay.
Title
To authorize the City Attorney to file the necessary complaints for the appropriation of construction and permanent easements in and to real estate necessary for the Minnesota Avenue Improvement Project, to authorize the expenditure of $16,372.00 from the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($16,372.00).
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus, Ohio, a municipal corporation, is engaged in the acquisition of certain real property interests for the Minnesota Avenue Improvement Project; and
WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Columbus, Ohio, adopted Resolution No. 0148X-2005, on the 24th day of October 2005, 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 Service, Division of Transportation, 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 health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That construction and pe...
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