46-72 Submit to electorate - duties & powers of hosp board

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ORDINANCE NO. 46-72 Messrs. Kelley, McBride, Magnotto,. Usher, Wendling, Brockman, Graber AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE to provide for the submission to the electorate of an amendment to the Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood by amending Article XX Section 3 thereof pertaining to the duties and powers of the Board of Trustees of Lakewood Hospital. WHEREAS, a petition signed by at least ten percent (10%) of the electors of the City of Lakewood and calling for an election whether Section 3 of Article XX of the Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood shall be amended to read as hereinafter set forth has been submitted to council and found sufficient accord- ing to law, and WHE~S, no regular municipal election is to occur within the period of not less than sixty days nor more than one hundred and twenty days after the adoption of the ordinance, and "' WHEREAS, this ordinance constitutes an emergency measure providing for the immediate preservation of the public health, safety and welfare and for the usual daily operation of a municipal department, now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO~ TWO-THIRDS OF ALL MEb~ERS ELECTED THERETO CONCURRING: Section 1. That the question of the amendment of Article XX Section 3 of the Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood so that as amended the same shall be and read as follows: ARTICLE XX, LAKEWOOD HOSPITAL SECTION 3. DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE BOARD. The said Board of Trustees shall operate and maintain such hospital as a full care general hospital with emergency facilities and including the following departments, together with the necessary ancillary services for each of said departments: (a) Department of General Practice (b) Department of Surgery (c) Department of Medicine (d) Department of Obstetrics (e) Department of Pediatrics (f) Department of Psychiatry The said Board of Trustees shall have the control and management of such hospital and shall establish such rules for its government and the admission of persons to its privileges as it deems expedient and shall annually appoint the professional staff as determined by approved hospital administration. Said Board shall employ an administrator, department heads, and such assistants, nurses, physicians and surgeons and such other employees as said Board deems necessary, and fix their compensation, which compensation shall, however, be subject to the · approval of Council.