Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This Ordinance is to levy a special assessment upon the lots and lands benefited by the installation of a light-emitting diode (LED) street lighting system with ornamental poles and underground wiring for the Broad Meadows - Highfield Drive area, including: Highfield Drive, Milton Avenue from Highfield Drive to and including parcel numbers 010-110713 and 010-110714.
All costs of the street lighting system now have been assembled, the final assessment report prepared, and now the assessing ordinance should be passed.
2. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION: Emergency action is requested in order that the assessment process may be completed prior to the street light note’s maturity date of November 1, 2018.
Title
To authorize the Director of Public Utilities to levy a special assessment upon the lots and lands benefited by the installation of a light-emitting diode (LED) street lighting system with ornamental poles and underground wiring for the Broad Meadows - Highfield Drive area; and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, property owners have submitted a petition for a light-emitting diode (LED) street lighting system with ornamental poles and underground wiring for the Broad Meadows - Highfield Drive area, including: Highfield Drive, Milton Avenue from Highfield Drive to and including parcel numbers 010-110713 and 010-110714; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 0954-2017, passed May 8, 2017, authorized the installation of said street lighting system under the assessment procedures; and
WHEREAS, all costs of the street lighting system now have been assembled, the final assessment report prepared, and now the assessing ordinance should be passed; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Power, Department of Public Utilities, in that it is immediately necessary to levy a special assessment upon the lots and lands benefited by the installation of a light-emitting diode (LED) street lighting system with ornamental poles and underground wiring for the Broad Meadows - Highfield Drive area, in an emergency manner in order that the assessment process be completed prior to the street lighting note’s November 1, 2018 maturity date; for the immediate 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 Director of Public Utilities be and is hereby authorized and directed to levy an assessment for the cost and expense of installing a light-emitting diode (LED) street lighting system with ornamental poles and underground wiring for the Broad Meadows - Highfield Drive area, including: Highfield Drive, Milton Avenue from Highfield Drive to and including parcel numbers 010-110713 and 010-110714; in accordance with Ordinance Number 0954-2017, passed May 8, 2017, in the City of Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio as prepared by the Division of Power and the same is hereby confirmed and that there be and hereby levied and assessed upon the lots and lands hereinafter set forth, the several amounts as therein set forth, it being hereby determined and declared that each said lots and lands is specially benefited by said improvements and in an amount equal to said improvement.
1. Construction Contract (Complete General Construction Co.) (PO061958 & PO062853): $82,362.70
2. Construction Administration / Inspection (CTL Engineering) (PO060681): $23,044.11
3. 0.1% Interest on $62,000 for 12 months: $620.00___
4. Total Cost: $106,026.81
5. Less City Portion: ($48,787.00)
6. Total Property Portion: $57,239.81
Property portion of $57,239.81 divided by 56 assessable units* equaling $1,022.14 per assessable unit.
*One unit equals one lot of property.
Refer to attachment ORD 1067-2018 assessment roll.xls.
SECTION 2. That the total assessment shall be payable at the office of the City Treasurer of Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, within thirty days from the effective date of this Ordinance or, at the option of the owner, in twenty semi-annual installments with interest upon deferred payment at the same rate as shall be borne by the bonds to be issued in anticipation of the collection of the same at the Office of the County Treasurer of Franklin County, Ohio, after the same have been certified to the County Auditor of Franklin County, Ohio for collection in the manner provided by law.
SECTION 3. That the said assessment, and all portions thereof, when collected, shall be paid into the Sinking Fund and shall be applied to the payment of the bonds issued for said improvement and the interest thereon, as the same shall become due and to no other purpose whatsoever.
SECTION 4. 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 5. That the City Auditor is authorized to establish proper project accounting numbers as appropriate.
SECTION 6. 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 7. 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.