Explanation
The purpose of this resolution is to establish a Board of Revision to hear any objections to the Freeway/Kingshill Street Lighting Assessment Project.
The Charter of the City of Columbus provides Council with the power by ordinance to provide for the construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance by contract or directly by the employment of labor, of all local improvements, and to provide for the payment of any part of any such improvement by levying and collecting special assessments upon abutting, adjacent and contiguous or other specially benefited property. Should a property owner object to an assessment, charter section 172 calls for the appointment by Council of a Board of Revision to hear such objections.
EMERGENCY DESIGNATION: Emergency action is requested so that necessary legislation may be prepared and presented to Council for consideration so that the Department of Public Utilities may immediately proceed with plans for said improvements.
Title
To appoint a Board of Revision to hear the objections to the Freeway/Kingshill Street Lighting Assessment Project, and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, it is necessary to appoint a Board of Revision to hear the objections to the Freeway/Kingshill Street Lighting Assessment Project; and
WHEREAS, the Charter of the City of Columbus provides Council with the power by ordinance to provide for the construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance by contract or directly by the employment of labor, of all local improvements, and to provide for the payment of any part of any such improvement by levying and collecting special assessments upon abutting, adjacent and contiguous or other specially benefited property; and
WHEREAS, should a property owner object to an assessment, charter section 172 calls for the appointment by Council of a Board of Revision to hear such objections; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the City Clerk’s office, in that it is immediately necessary to appoint a Board of Revision to hear objections to the Freeway/Kingshill Street Lighting Assessment Project, in order that the necessary legislation may be prepared and presented to Council for consideration so that the Department of Public Utilities may proceed with the plans for said improvements, at the earliest possible time, for the immediate preservation of the public property, peace, health, and safety; NOW, THEREFORE
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That Tyneisha Harden, Sarah Ingles, and Trent Smith, disinterested freeholders of the City of Columbus, Ohio be and hereby are appointed to a Board of Revision to hear all objections to the estimated assessments for the Freeway/Kingshill Street Lighting Assessment Project.
SECTION 2. That said hearings for this Board will be held in City Council Chambers at 5:00PM on Thursday, January 26, 2023.
SECTION 3. That said Board shall report to Council its findings, if any, of the estimated assessments as reported by the Department of Public Utilities.
SECTION 4. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this resolution 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 passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.