93-83 Accept increase in grant for breakwall

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ORDINANCE NO: 93 -83 BY: Brown, Chinnock, Gallagher, Graham, McBride, Salmon, Wendl lng AN EMERGENCY oRDINANCE authorizing the Mayor to enter into a supplemental agreement with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to accept an increase in the Grant in the amount not to exeed $924,000 for the construction of a public breakwall for the preventing, correct- ing, and arresting of lakeshore erosion (Lakewood Park Breakwall Project). WHEREAS, the City of Lakewood is the owner of property lo- cated on Lake Erie known as Lakewood Park where it is Proposed to con- struct a breakwall to arrest shore erosion along the Lakewood Park shoreline, and WHEREAS, the Mayor, pursuant to prior authorization, made application for State Funds and pursuant to House Bill No. 369, the General Assembly has appropriated funds for the Lakewood Park Break- wall Project, and WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of public health, safety, and welfare for the construction of said project to be undertaken jointly by the State of Ohio and the City of Lakewood which cooperative effort is authorized pursuant to Ohio Revised Code, Section 1501.02, and WHEREAS, this ordinance constitutes an emergency measure in that it provides 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: Section 1. That the Mayor be and he is hereby authorized and directed to enter into a supplemental agreement with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to accept an increase in the grant in an amount not to eXceed $924,000 for the construction of a public breakwall for the preventing, correcting, and arresting of lakeshore erosion along certain shoreline of Lake Erie, designated as Lakewood Park Breakwall Project. Such agreement shall be substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit "A". Section 2. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this ordinance were adopted in an open meeting of this Council, and that all such deliberations of this Council and of any of its committees that resulted in such formal action, were in meetings open to the public, in compliance with all legal requirements in- cluding Section 121.22 of the Ohio ReVised Code. Section 3. That this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure for the reasons stated in the preamble hereof and provided it receives the affirmative vote of two-thirds of all members of Council, it shall take effect and be in force immediately upon its adoption and approval by the Mayor; otherwise it shall take effect and be in force after the earliest period allowed by law. -Clerk Approved:~