EXPLANATION
BACKGROUND:
The City owns real property located at 1900 Wilson Road, Columbus, Ohio 43228 {Franklin County Tax Parcel 560-154646}, which is commonly known as the Raymond Memorial Golf Course (“Property”) and managed by the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department (CRPD). The Ohio Power Company, an Ohio corporation doing business as American Electric Power (“AEP”), requests a nonexclusive, subsurface, electric utility easement in, through, under, and burdening a portion of the Property in order to install, control, construct, reconstruct, replace, operate, maintain, repair, upgrade, and remove underground electric lines and associated appurtenances for the distribution, delivery, and service of electrical energy and impulses (“Easement”). CRPD reviewed and supports granting AEP the Easement in consideration that (i) the Easement supports electricity service in the Property’s vicinity, and (ii) AEP is compensating the City Two Thousand and 00/100 U.S. Dollars ($2,000.00) for granting the Easement.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE:
Not applicable.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The City’s receipt of monetary compensation from AEP will be deposited with CRPD’s Golf Division.
EMERGENCY JUSTIFICATION:
Emergency action is requested so to not hinder electrical service in the Property’s vicinity, which will preserve the public peace, health, property, safety, and welfare.
TITLE
To authorize the director of the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department to execute and acknowledge any instrument(s), as approved by the City Attorney and in consideration of Two Thousand and 00/100 U.S. Dollars ($2,000.00), necessary to transfer to the Ohio Power Company, an Ohio corporation d.b.a. AEP, a nonexclusive, subsurface, electric utility easement in, through, under, and burdening a portion of the Raymond Memorial Golf Course in order to install, control, construct, reconstruct, replace, operate, maintain, repair, upgrade, and remove underground electric lines and associated appurtena...
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