Explanation
Background: The following legislation authorizes the City Attorney to file the necessary complaints for the appropriation of fee simple title and lesser interests in and to real estate necessary for the Morse Road Improvement Project.
Fiscal Impact: Funding for this project is from the Public Service Department, Division of Transportation.
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested to allow right-of-way acquisition to begin immediately so that the City can meet current schedules that require the acquisition of all necessary additional right-of-way to be completed by May 1, 2004.
Title
To authorize the City Attorney to file the necessary complaints for the appropriation of fee simple title and lesser interests in and to real estate necessary for the Morse Road Improvement Project, to authorize the expenditure of $377,315.00 from the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($377,315.00).
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus, Ohio, a municipal corporation, is engaged in the acquisition of certain real property interests for the Morse Road Improvement Project; and
WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Columbus, Ohio, adopted Resolution No. 004X-2004, on the 26th day of January, 2004, 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 Public Service Department, 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 fee simple ti...
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