Explanation
On June 30, 2015, the City purchased several parcels located at Home and Dublin Roads in Delaware County that will be used for the City’s fourth water plant and were formerly part of the State of Ohio, Department of Youth Services, Scioto Juvenile Correction Facility. One of the parcels purchased by the City (7943 Dublin Road) was encumbered by a lease to The Board of Concord Township Trustees and contains the Concord Township Fire Station. As part of the State of Ohio’s transaction to dispose of its Scioto Juvenile Correction Facility and its sale to the City, The Board of Concord Township Trustees was given land on which to build a new fire station in exchange for vacating the site of the present station by the lease expiration date of June 30, 2016. Due to unforeseen delays in the start of the construction of the new Concord Township Fire Station, The Board of Concord Township Trustees has requested an extension of its lease until the estimated completion date of the new fire station in early-to-mid 2017. The City’s Division of Water does not object to the lease extension.
This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to execute a lease amendment with The Board of Concord Township Trustees to extend the lease for a one year term to June 30, 2017.
Fiscal Impact: N/A
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested to allow the City and The Board of Concord Township Trustees to execute a lease amendment prior to the current lease expiration date of June 30, 2016.
Title
To authorize the Director of Finance and Management to execute those documents necessary to amend a lease with The Board of Concord Township Trustees for a one year lease extension; and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus purchased several parcels located at Dublin Road and Home Road in Delaware County in June 2015, that will be used for the City’s fourth water plant and were formerly part of the State of Ohio, Department of Youth Services, Scioto Juvenile Correction Facility; and
WHEREAS, one of the parcels purchased by the City (7943 Dublin Road) was encumbered by a lease to The Board of Concord Township Trustees for the Concord Township Fire Station; and
WHEREAS, as part of the State of Ohio’s transactions to dispose of its Scioto Juvenile Correction Facility and its sale to the City, The Board of Concord Township Trustees was given land on which to build a new fire station in exchange for vacating the site of the present station at by the lease expiration date of June 30, 2016; and
WHEREAS, there was an unforeseen delay in the construction of the new Concord Township Fire Station, necessitating that The Board of Concord Township Trustees request an extension of the lease until the new station is completed in early-to-mid-2017; and,
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus and The Board of Concord Township Trustees now desire to enter into an amendment to the lease agreement to extend the lease until June 30, 2017 under the same terms and conditions; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Finance and Management in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to execute, on behalf of the City, those documents necessary to enter into a lease amendment with The Board of Concord Township Trustees to extend its lease until June 30, 2017, thereby for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of the Department of Finance and Management be, and hereby is, authorized to execute those documents, as approved by the Department of Law, Division of Real Estate, necessary to amend and extend the lease with The Board of Concord Township Trustees for the Concord Township Fire Department.
SECTION 2. That the terms and conditions of the lease amendment shall include the following:
a) The lease extension shall be under the same terms and conditions and shall extend the term until June 30, 2017.
b) Such other terms and conditions as are required and/or approved by the Department of Law, Division of Real Estate.
SECTION 3. 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.