Explanation
Background: The following is an ordinance to authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title, contract for professional services, and to expend the monies for payment of acquisition costs in connection with the Doherty Road 12" Water Line RR Project.
Fiscal Impact: This legislation includes a transfer of funds within the Water Works Enlargement Voted Bonds Fund and an amendment to the 2008 Capital Improvements Budget.
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested to allow the acquisition of the parcels necessary for this project to proceed without delay in order to commence construction as soon as possible.
Title
To authorize the City Attorney to acquire fee simple title, contract for professional services, to authorize a transfer and an expenditure of $15,450.00 within the Water Works Enlargement Voted Bonds Fund; to authorize an amendment to the 2008 Capital Improvements Budget, for costs in connection with the Doherty Road 12" Water Line RR Project; and to declare an emergency. ($15,450.00). (AMENDED BY ORD. 1392-2008 PASSED 9/08/2008)
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus is engaged in the Doherty Road 12" Water Line RR Project; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize an amendment to the 2008 Capital Improvements Budget for purposes of providing sufficient funding and expenditure authority for the aforementioned project expenditures; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary for this Council to authorize the City Auditor to transfer funds within the Water Works Enlargement Voted Bonds Fund; 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 fee simple title in and to certain parcels of real estate and 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 fee simple title in and to certain parcels of real estate and to contract for the professional services necessary in connection with the Doherty Road 12" Water Line RR Project, Project No. 690263.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized to transfer $15,450.00 within the Division of Power and Water, Dept/Div. No. 60-09, Water Works Enlargement Voted Bonds Fund, Fund No. 606, Object Level One 06, Object Level Three 6601, as follows:
Project No. | Project Name | OCA Code | change
690236 | Water Main Rehab. | 642900 | -$15,450.00
690263 | Doherty Rd. 12" W.L. Imp's | 690263 | +$15,450.00
SECTION 3. That the 2008 Capital Improvements Budget is hereby amended as follows:
Project No. | Project Name | Current Authority | Revised Authority | change
690236-100000 | Water Main Rehab. | $16,732,951 | $16,717,501 | -$15,450
690263-100000 | Doherty Rd. 12" W.L. Imp's | $0 | $15,450 | +$15,450
SECTION 4. That the expenditure of Fifteen Thousand Four Hundred Fifty Dollars ($15,450.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary, from the Water Works Enlargement Voted Bonds Fund, for the appropriation of said real property interests determined to be necessary for the stated public purpose be and hereby is authorized as follows: Project No. 690263, Fund No. 606; Dept./Div. 60-09; OCA Code 690263 Object Three 6601.
SECTION 5. 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 6. 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 7. That the City Auditor is authorized to establish proper project accounting numbers as appropriate.
SECTION 8. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby 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 its passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.