4768731 Resolution 20-420, “Kenilworth Section of the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail Contract Approval Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014”

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

20-420  

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

February 4, 2014

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to approve a contract with the National Railroad Passenger Corporation to lease certain property from the National Railroad Passenger Corporation necessary for the Kenilworth section of the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail.

 

            RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Kenilworth Section of the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail Contract Approval Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014”.

 

            Sec. 2.  (a) Pursuant to section 451 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved December 24, 1973 (87 Stat. 803; D.C. Official Code § 1-204.51, the Mayor transmitted to the Council a request for Council approval of a contract under which the District would lease certain property owned by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (“Amtrak”) critical for the Kenilworth section of the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail, across Parcel 180/5 for an initial term of 50 years, with options for renewal terms, and provide for  a contingency fund of $2 million for 7 years.

            (b)  The Anacostia Riverwalk Trail is funded in large part through a TIGER Grant from the United States Department of Transportation under the provisions of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012, approved November 18, 2011 (Pub. L. No. 112-55; 125 Stat. 552; ).  The TIGER Grant Agreement provided that the right of way across the Amtrak parcel be acquired by October 2012.  Because the negotiations with Amtrak took longer than anticipated, the TIGER Grant funds will be in jeopardy unless the Council immediately approves the Kenilworth section of the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail Contract, so that construction may commence in accordance with the TIGER Grant Agreement.

           

            Sec. 3.  The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Kenilworth section of the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail Contract Emergency Approval Resolution of 2014 be adopted on an emergency basis.

 

Sec. 4.  This resolution shall take effect immediately.