Explanation
Background: Since July 2005, the Juvenile Bureau of the Columbus Division of Police has been co-located at 655 Livingston Avenue with other area agencies at The Center for Child and Family Advocacy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital dba The Center for Family Safety and Healing (hereinafter “CCFA”) working in concert with Franklin County Children Services, the Franklin County Prosecutor, the Franklin County Sheriff, and the Columbus Coalition Against Family Violence to provide services in a collaborative manner for assessment, treatment, protection, investigation and prosecution of child abuse and for the support and treatment for domestic violence victims.
The terms of the City’s occupancy and rent are defined by Operating Agreement that requires the City to annually reimburse CCFA for the City's pro rata share of the building operating expenses for the building housing The Center for Family Safety and Healing. The Operating Agreement requires CCFA to submit a reconciliation of expenses within 60 days following the end of a lease year to confirm that the City’s estimated pro rata share of expenses paid is correct and matches the actual building expenses incurred for the term. CCFA was unable to submit its reconciliation and invoice for the 2012 operating expenses until September 25, 2013 thereby delaying the ability to determine the City’s 2013 rent as its pro rata share of expenses in order to finalize a new Operating Agreement for the 2013 term.
Both the present format of the Operating Agreement and its requirement that determination of the annual rent for the next term be based on the previous calendar year expenses have presented a number of operational issues for both CCFA and the City. A new agreement was delayed in order to resolve several issues with the terms contained in the original agreement.
The City and CCFA have agreed to execute a new agreement structured as a lease rather than an operating agreement, and after the initial term, ...
Click here for full text