...Explanation
BACKGROUND: The City’s Recreation and Parks Department (“CRPD”) is engaged in the FRA-Souder Avenue Trail, PID 105736 Project (“Public Project”). The Public Project will construct a trail along Souder Avenue, from West Broad Street to the Scioto Trail at Dublin Road. The City must acquire in good faith and accept certain fee simple title and lesser real estate located in the vicinity of Souder Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43215 (collectively, “Real Estate”). The City will be acquiring and paying for the real estate and ODOT will be contributing money toward the construction of the trail under PID 105736. Accordingly, CRPD requested the City Attorney to acquire the Real Estate in good faith and contract for associated professional services (e.g. surveys, title work, appraisals, etc.) in order for CRPD to timely complete the acquisition of the property.
The City passed Ordinance 1673-2021 in July of 2021 authorizing initial acquisition funding for this project in the amount of $150,000.00 thereby allowing the City Attorney to contract for professional service and to acquire fee simple title and lesser interests in and to real property necessary for the project. The City also passed Ordinance 0350-2022 in February of 2022 authorizing an additional $75,000.00 in funding. Additional expenditures are now required and an additional $90,000.00 is being requested in order to pay for the costs of the acquisitions for the project.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE: Not applicable.
FISCAL IMPACT: This legislation authorizes the amendment of the 2022 Capital Improvement Budget within and the expenditure of up to $90,000.00 from the Recreation and Parks Voted Bond Fund 7702.
EMERGENCY JUSTIFICATION: Emergency action is requested in order to timely acquire the Real Estate and meet the right-of-way clear dates established by ODOT. This will insure that the funding from ODOT is not impacted thereby allowing CRPD to move forward with construction and complete the Public ...
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