Explanation
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this legislation is to authorize the Director of Public Utilities to pay the Ohio Power Company dba American Electric Power (AEP) for pole attachment rental fees in accordance with an existing Agreement for the Joint Use of Poles (the “Agreement”) executed by the city and Columbus Southern Power dba AEP, Columbus consented to the assignment of the Agreement by Columbus Southern Power to Ohio Power Company as authorized by ordinance number 0550-2013, passed April 22, 2013.
The City of Columbus, Division of Power, and AEP own and operate electric transmission and distribution system facilities throughout Franklin County. Each party owns certain poles which have equipment owned by the other party attached to such poles. The Agreement provides the terms, conditions and rates to be paid for the joint use of poles. Per the terms of the Agreement, an inventory of jointly used poles was conducted in 2012. The Agreement provides that, in the event a pole inventory discloses any attachments that were not previously authorized by the pole owner, the attaching party is to pay annual charges for the attachments for a period of five (5)years or the period from the date of the last inventory, whichever is less, plus six percent interest.
This ordinance authorizes the payment of these charges now due based on this most recent pole inventory. A pending invoice from AEP for a one-time fee for unauthorized pole attachments in the amount not to exceed $45,800.82 for the period of 1/1/2008 through 12/31/2012 must be paid.
The company is not debarred according to the Excluded Party Listing System of the Federal Government or prohibited from being awarded a contract according to the Auditor of State Unresolved Findings for Recovery Certified Search.
COMPANY: Ohio Power Company dba as the American Electric Power (AEP) contract compliance number is 314271000, expires 07/24/16.
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