Explanation
Background: The following is an ordinance to authorize the City Attorney to acquire permanent and construction easements, contract for professional services, and to expend the monies for payment of acquisition costs in connection with the Alternate 69KV power distribution line to the West Substation Project. Easements are necessary in order for the Department of Public Utilities to install an alternate 69 KV distribution line to the West Substation, resulting in greater electricity reliability for power customers.
Fiscal Impact: The Department of Public Utilities, Division of Power and Water, has determined funding for this project will come from the Voted Street Lighting and Electricity Distribution Improvement Fund.
Emergency action is requested to allow acquisition-related activities to begin without delay so that construction can begin as currently scheduled.
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To authorize the City Attorney to acquire permanent and construction easements, contract for professional services, and to expend $155,000.00 from the Voted Street Lighting and Electricity Distribution Improvement Fund for costs in connection with the Alternate 69KV to the West Substation Project, to amend the 2008 Capital Improvement Budget and to declare an emergency. ($155,000.00).
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus is engaged in the Alternate 69KV to the West Substation Project; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities, Division of Power and Water, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the City Attorney to acquire permanent and construction easements in, over, under and through certain parcels of real estate to contract for the aforesaid professional services necessary in connection with said project for the preservation of the public health, peace, property and safety; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the City Attorney be, and hereby is, authorized to acquire permanent and construction easements in, over, under and through certain parcels of real estate and to contract for the professional services necessary in connection with the Department of Public Utilities Division of Power and Water (Power) Alternate 69KV to the West Substation Project.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized to transfer $135,000 within the Division of Power and Water, Dept/Div. No. 60-07, Voted Street Lighting and Electricity Distribution Improvement Fund, Fund No. 553, Object Level One 06, Object Level Three 6600, as follows:
Project No. | Project Name | OCA Code | change
670789 | Town Street | 553789 | -$135,000.00
670772 | Alternate 69 KV to the West Substation | 553772 | +135,000.00
SECTION 3. That the 2008 Capital Improvements Budget is hereby amended as follows:
Project No. | Project Name | Current Authority | Revised Authority | change
670798-100000 | Town Street | $150,000 | $15,000 | -$135,000
670772-100000 | Alternate 69 KV to West Substation | $20,000 | $155,000 | +$135,000
SECTION 4. That the following expenditure, or as much thereof as may be needed for professional services, and the acquisition of the real estate necessary for the Alternate 69KV to the West Substation Project, is hereby authorized as follows: Division of Power and Water, Dept./Div. No. 60-07, Voted Street Lighting and Electricity Distribution Improvement Fund, Fund No. 553, Project 670772, OCA Code 553772, Object Level One 06, Object Level Three 6607, in the amount of $155,000.
SECTION 5. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to transfer any unencumbered balance in the project account to the unallocated balance within the same fund upon receipt of certification by the Director of the Department administering said project that the project has been completed and the monies no longer required for said project; except that no transfer shall be made from a project account by monies from more than one source.
SECTION 6. That the City Auditor is authorized to establish proper project accounting numbers as appropriate.
SECTION 7. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this Ordinance.
SECTION 8. That for reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this Ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.