45-83 Emerg grant to Comm on Aging - heat shut-off

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ORDINANCE N0.45-83 BY: Brown, Chinnock, Gallagher, Graham, McBride, Salmon, Wendlin~ AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE authorizing an emergency grant to the Lakewood Commission on Aging for the purpose of making non-interest bearing loans to econ- omically needy Lakewood residents to prevent the shut-off of utility services for heating and to declare an emergency. · WHEREAS, the State of Ohio's moratorium on utility heating shut-offs terminated April l, 1983; and WHEREAS, this Council does hearby determine that economically needy residents of Lakewood, Ohio (the "City")will suffer serious, perhaps even fatal, health problems due to their inability to pay heating utility service charges in order to prevent a shut-off of or to restore their heating utility service; and WHEREAS, this Council does hereby determine that it is a proper municipal public purpose for the City to make a grant in the amount of $10,000 to the Lakewood Commission on Aging (the "Grantee") a non-profit corporation organized under the laws of Ohio , for the purpose of allowing the Grantee to administer a program of non-interest bearing loans to economically needy residents of the City to enable such residents to prevent the shut-off of or to_~restore their heating utility services; and WHEREA~'this Council hereby determines that it is repugnant to the values and mores, in the year 1983, of the American society generally and to the people of the City-specifically, that infants, the elderly and other economically distressed or dependent persons be left without heat for their residences resulting in grave health problems; and that it is in the public interest of the people of the City generally to provide a form of poor relief through a loan program that supplements other forms of poor relief to assure that persons who are economically distressed do not adversely affect the overall health, safety and welfare of the people of the City generally through an increased incidence of illness, an increase in homelessness within the City and crime to provide the necessary resources to meet the basic need of a heated residence, all of which may result if the City does not supplement other forms of assistance that may prove to be inadequate to meet the needs of such persons in this period of economic distress; and WHEREAS, this ordinance is an emergency measure which is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety and welfare for the reason that economically needy residents of the City will suffer serious, perhaps even fatal, health problems due to their inability to pay heating utility service charges in order to prevent a shut- off of or to restore their heating utility service; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Lakewood, Cuyahoga County, Ohio; Section 1. That a grant of $10,000 is hereby made and awarded to the Grantee for the making and administration of non-interest bearing loans to economically needy residents of the City for the purpose of preventing such persons' heating utility services from being shut-off or to restore such services. The grant shall be authorized b.v the Mayor's execution of and, subject to the Grantee's acceptance of the terms and conditions the grant substantially in the form as set forth in the Heating ShUt-Off Loan Program Grant Contract (the "Grant Contract"), which Grant Contract is on file with this Council, with such changes in the Grant Contract as the Mayor shall determine not to be substantially adverse to the City. The execution of the Grant Contract by the Mayor shall constiture a conclusive determination by the Mayor that any such change is not substantially adverse to the City.