79-81 Submit to Voters - New Art XXI Sect 10 Charter Review

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ORDINANCE NO. 79 -81 By: Brown, Chinnock, Gallagher, Graham, McBride, Salmon, Wendling An emergency ordinance to provide for the submission to the electorate of the enactment of new Article XXI, Section 10 of the Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood, pertaining to the Charter Review Commission. WHEREAS, an emergency exists in that this proposed Charter amendment is to be presented to the electorate of the City of Lakewood at the general election to be held on November 3, 1981; and WHEREAS, for the foregoing reason, this ordinance constitutes an emergency measure providing for the immediate preservation of the public health, safety and welfare; now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO, ~O-THIRDS OF ALL MEMBERS ELECTED THERETO CONCURRING: Section 1. That the question of the enactment of new Article XXI, Section 10 of the Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood, so that the same shall be and read as follows: ARTICLE XXI. GENERAL PROVISIONS. SECTION 10. CHARTER REVIEW COMMISSION In January of 1985 and of each tenth year thereafter, nine electors of the City shall be appointed as members of a Charter Review Commission pursuant to this section. Five of the members of the Commission shall be appointed by a vote of at least a majority of the members of the Council, and four members of the Commission shall be appointed by the Mayor. Members of the Commission shall nog hold any other office or position of employment with the City. The Commission si]all review the Charter and within six months after the appointment of its members, may recommend to the Council by a two-thirds vote of the members of the Commission, revisions and amend- ments to th~s Charter. The Council may submit any proposed amendments recommended by the Commission to a vote of the people in the manner provided under this Charter and the Constitution of Ohio, Such amendments shall be in the form as provided by the Council. be submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of the City at the general election to be held on Tuesday, the 3rd day of November, 1981 at the regular places of voting in the City and during ~he usual hours for holding elections as provided in the general laws of the State of Ohio. Section 2. That the ballot submitting the question of the adoption of the foregoing proposed amendment shall read as follows: