EXPLANATION
BACKGROUND: The City owns real property located at 4380 Currency Drive, Columbus, Ohio 43228 {Franklin County Tax Parcel 560-138790} (“Property”), which is managed by the Department of Finance and Management (“Finance”). The City is currently renovating the City maintenance facility located at the Property and in order to complete that project Ohio Power Company d.b.a American Electric Power (“AEP”) will need to install underground electric facilities to provide electric service to the buildings. AEP now requests the applicable electric utility easements to burden a portion of the Property in order to install and maintain certain electric facilities and associated appurtenances for the service of electrical energy and impulses (“Easement”). Finance reviewed the request and supports granting AEP at an approximate one hundred and sixty (160) foot long by ten (10) foot wide easement and a seventy (70) foot long by ten (10) foot wide easement at no cost in consideration that (i) the Easement supports electricity services to the Property, and (ii) the Easement will be nonexclusive.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE: Not applicable.
FISCAL IMPACT: Not applicable.
EMERGENCY JUSTIFICATION: Emergency action is requested in order to allow for the timely granting of the easements which with allow for the completion of the site renovation and avoid any unnecessary delays in construction which will preserve the public peace, health, property, safety and welfare.
TITLE
To authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to execute and acknowledge any document(s), as approved by the City Attorney, necessary to grant American Electric Power two electric utility service easements burdening a portion of the City’s real property located at 4380 Currency Drive; and to declare an emergency. ($0.00)
BODY
WHEREAS, the City intends to grant AEP two electric utility service easements to burden a portion of City property located at 4380 Currency, Columbus, Ohio 43228 in order to provide electric service to the renovated city maintenance facility. (“Easement”); and
WHEREAS, the City intends for the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to execute and acknowledge any document(s) necessary to quit claim grant the Easement to AEP; and
WHEREAS, the City intends for the City Attorney to approve all document(s) associated with this ordinance;
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 of Finance and Management to execute the easements to avoid any unnecessary delays in construction, 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, OHIO:
SECTION 1. That the Director of the Department of Finance and Management (“Finance”) be and hereby is authorized to execute and acknowledge any document(s) necessary to quit claim grant to the Ohio Power Company, an Ohio corporation doing business as AEP, and AEP’s successors and assigns two non-exclusive electric service utility easements at no cost and burdening a portion of the City’s real property located at 4380 Currency, Columbus, Ohio 43228. These easements are generally described and depicted in the one (1) page attachment, which is fully incorporated for reference as if rewritten, in order for AEP to provide underground electric service and associated appurtenances for the sole purpose of providing electricity to the City’s property.
SECTION 2. That the City Attorney is required to pre-approve all document(s) executed by the City pursuant to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That this ordinance, for the reasons stated in the preamble, which are made a part of this ordinance and fully incorporated for reference as if rewritten, is declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after this ordinance’s adoption and approval by the Mayor or ten (10) days after its adoption if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes this ordinance.