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Committee roundup: alley vacation, emergency sewer repair and JED amendment advance; courtroom equipment appropriation tabled
Summary
On July 6 Newark committee meetings moved a vacation of a public alley and an economic development JED amendment to full council, approved emergency sewer repairs totaling about $275,000, and tabled a $10,000 courtroom equipment appropriation.
Several Newark City Council committees met July 6 and moved a batch of routine and emergency items toward final action.
In the streets committee, members considered ordinance 26-25 to vacate a 12-foot alley between 190 and 196 South 5th Street at the request of adjacent property owners. City engineer Brian Ornan said the state plan review committee (including police and fire) reviewed the request and reported no opposition; the committee voted to send the ordinance to full council (motion by Levutis, second by Blind) and recorded a 6-0 tally.
The service committee advanced Resolution 26-40, authorizing the director of public service to enter a noncompetitive contract for emergency repair of a manhole, sanitary sewer and Licking River rehabilitation. Staff said the emergency work, begun after a June 2 approval, expanded as crews found greater damage and grew to roughly a $275,000 project; the committee voted 5-0 to forward the resolution to full council.
The economic development committee voted to send Resolution 26-42, an amendment to the Pataskala Corporate Park Joint Economic Development District (JED) contract, to full council. The amendment adds a repayment mechanism for county road debt and administrative costs and includes an emergency clause to enable enforcement before the next distribution period; committee members said the clause allows the agreement to be effective in time for the upcoming distribution cycle.
In the capital improvement committee, members considered Resolution 26-39, an appropriation of $10,000 from the capital improvement fund for courtroom equipment upgrades. With no city staff present to provide details, committee members moved and carried a motion to table the legislation until the next committee meeting.
Earlier in the evening the finance committee approved a $4,637 appropriation request from the probation department for additional drug tests and forwarded that item for council action.
