Explanation
Background: This legislation authorizes the Director of Finance and Management to execute those documents necessary to amend and extend the lease with Beaumont 4522, LLC to add a one (1) year renewal term to the Lease for office and clinic space located at 4550 Indianola Avenue, Columbus, Ohio, occupied by Columbus Public Health’s Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program. WIC is a supplemental nutrition program for women (pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding), infants, and children under the age of 5 years, and provides invaluable assistance for families during their children’s period of growth and development. The extended one-year lease term will commence on October 1, 2018. The WIC program wishes to continue to occupy its current leased space for an additional year to allow additional time to evaluate service delivery from this location. The Real Estate Management Office has negotiated an extension of the lease with the landlord to allow for an additional one (1) year term at the same rental rate as the current term. Funding for the lease payments for the renewal term are provided for in Ordinance 2328-2018. This legislation is presented as emergency in order for the WIC programs servicing the community to continue uninterrupted.
Fiscal Impact: Funding for the payment of the lease renewal term is budgeted and provided for by grant funds received by Columbus Public Health from the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) as authorized by Ordinance 2328-2018 with this ordinace contingent upon its passage.
Title
To authorize the Director of Finance and Management to execute those documents necessary to amend and extend a lease agreement with Beaumont 4522, LLC for Columbus Public Health; and to declare an emergency.
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WHEREAS, the Department of Finance and Management, through its Real Estate Management Office, leases office space located at 4550 Indianola Avenue on behalf of the Department of Health’s Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program, and
WHEREAS, the final renewal term for the lease at 4550 Indianola Avenue is due to expire September 30, 2018, and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to extend the lease for an additional one (1) year term to the lease in order to continue provide services for the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program for the period October 1, 2018 through September 30, 2019 to allow additional time to evaluate service delivery from this location, and
WHEREAS, the Real Estate Management Office has negotiated an extension of the lease with the landlord to allow for an additional one (1) year term at the same rental rate as the current term, and
WHEREAS, funding for the lease payments for the renewal term is provided for by the passage of Ordinance 2328-2018, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the additional renewal term to the lease in order to allow the WIC clinic to continue offering program services to the community without interruption for the immediate preservation of the 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 Finance and Management be, and hereby is, authorized to amend and extend the lease agreement, as prepared and approved by the Department of Law, Division of Real Estate, by and between the City of Columbus and Beaumont 4522, LLC to provide for an additional one (1) year term subject to the annual authorization of rental funds by City Council and certification of funds availability by the City Auditor and amend other related terms and necessary.
SECTION 2. That for reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten (10) days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.