Explanation
BACKGROUND: This Ordinance is to levy a special assessment upon the lots and lands benefited by the installation of a high pressure sodium street lighting system with ornamental poles and underground wiring on Longview Avenue between North High Street and Calumet Street.
All costs of the street lighting system now have been assembled, the final assessment report prepared, and the assessing ordinance should be passed.
Emergency action is requested in order that the assessment process may be completed prior to the street lighting notes becoming due.
Title
To authorize the Director of Public Utilities to levy a special assessment upon the lots and lands benefited by the installation of a street lighting system with underground wiring and ornamental poles on Longview Avenue, and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, property owners have submitted a petition for a high pressure sodium street lighting system with ornamental poles and underground wiring on Longview Avenue between North High Street and Calumet Street; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 0858-2004, passed May 24, 2004, authorized the installation of said street lighting system under the assessment procedures; and
WHEREAS, all costs of the street lighting system now have been assembled, the final assessment report prepared, and the assessing ordinance should be passed; and
WHEREAS, emergency action is required in order that the assessment process may be completed prior to the street lighting notes becoming due; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Electricity, Department of Public Utilities, in that it is immediately necessary to levy a special assessment upon the lots and lands benefited by the installation of a street lighting system with ornamental poles and underground wiring on Longview Avenue between North High Street and Calumet Street; and
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
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