Explanation
1. BACKGROUND:
The City of Columbus has provided $6,000,000.00 to the Army Corps of Engineers for the installation of a corrosion protection lining system of the Scioto-Main Trunk Sewer, in connection with the West Columbus Local Protection Project. The project is substantially complete, and now requires the City to provide an additional $228,395.00 to cover the costs of additional material overruns; linabond polymer costs; quality assurance services; and construction administration and supervision services that are
required to successfully complete the project scope of work. The Division of Sewerage and Drainage does not anticipate any further funding requests for this project.
2. FISCAL IMPACT:
The Division has included funding for this project expenditure within its 2004 Capital Improvements Budget. The projects from which funds from are being transferred from are residual funds no longer required within the affected project account.
3. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION:
The Division is requesting that this ordinance be made an emergency measure in order to provide the required funds immediately as required by the Project Cooperation Agreement between the City of Columbus and the Army Corps of Engineers.
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To authorize the Director of Public Utilities to advance payment to the United States of America, Department of the Army, for the additional estimated cost to complete the installation of a corrosion protection liner in the Scioto Main Trunk Sewer, in connection with the West Columbus Local Protection Project, to authorize the transfer, appropriation, and expenditure of $228,395.00 from the 1991 Voted Sanitary Bond Fund to the Scioto River Flood Control Fund; for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, and to declare an emergency. ($228,395.00)
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WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States, in Public Law 99-662, has specified that the cost of the Scioto River West Flood Wall (West Columbus Local Protection Project-WCL...
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