...EXPLANATION
BACKGROUND:
The City and the City of Westerville, Ohio, an Ohio municipal corporation (“Westerville”) - (City & Westerville, collectively, “Parties”), presently manage and operate a 1.8 mile, approximately, multi-use path along Hoover Reservoir and Big Walnut Creek greenway between Central College Road and Maxtown Road (“Existing Path”). The Parties’ management and operation of the Existing Path is memorialized in an easement instrument described and recorded in 200702060022442, Recorder’s Office, Franklin County, Ohio. The Parties agree additional clarifications are required in order to properly manage and operate the Existing Path. Additionally, Westerville desires to construct a 0.9 mile, approximately, extension of the Existing Path from Smothers Road to Maxtown Road in Genoa Township on real property owned by the City and public right-of-way owned by Westerville (“Path Extension”) - (Existing Path & Path Extension, collectively, “Path”). The City’s Finance and Management Department (“Finance”), Department of Public Utilities (“DPU”), and Columbus Recreation and Parks Department (“CRPD”) are all supportive of the Path Extension and clarifying certain management and operation aspects of the Existing Path. Accordingly, the Parties desire to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding regarding certain construction, management, and operation of the Path (“MOU”). Therefore, this ordinance authorizes the directors of Finance, DPU, and CRPD on behalf of the City to execute and acknowledge the MOU, as approved by the City Attorney.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE ?: Not applicable.
FISCAL IMPACT: Not applicable.
EMERGENCY JUSTIFICATION: Emergency action is requested so to not delay the City’s benefit resulting from the Path’s construction, management, and operation, which will preserve the public peace, health, property, safety, and welfare.
TITLE
To authorize the Directors of the Department of Recreation and Parks, Department of Public Utilities, and De...
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