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Lakewood, in addition to all other taxes, a direct tax annually not less <br />than that which would have been levied if bonds had been issued without <br />the prior issue of the Notes. Said tax shall be and is hereby ordered <br />computed, certified, levied and extended upon the tax duplicate and <br />collected by the same officers, in the same manner and at the same time <br />that taxes for general purposes of each of said years are certified, <br />extended and collected. Said tax shall be placed before and in <br />preference to all items and for the full amount thereof. The funds <br />derived from said tax levies hereby required shall be placed in a <br />separate and distinct fund which, together with the interest collected <br />on the same shall be irrevocably pledged for the payment of the <br />principal of and interest on the Notes or the bonds in anticipation of <br />which they are issued, when and as the same falls due; provided, <br />however, that in each year to the extent that revenues are available <br />from other sources for the payment of the Notes and bonds and are <br />appropriated for such purpose, the amount of such direct tax upon all of <br />the taxable property in the City shall be reduced by the amount of such <br />revenues so available and appropriated. <br /> <br /> Section 8. It is hereby determined and recited that all acts, <br />conditions and things necessary to be done precedent to and in the <br />issuing of the Notes in order to make them legal, valid and binding <br />obligations of the City of Lakewood, will have been done and performed <br />in regular and due form as required by law; and that no limitation of <br />indebtedness or taxation, either statutory or constitutional, will have <br />been exceeded in the issuance of said Notes. <br /> <br /> Section 9. The Clerk of Council is hereby directed to forward <br />a certified copy of this ordinance to the County Auditor. <br /> <br /> Section 10. That the Mayor and Director of Finance, or either <br />of them, are authorized to prepare, execute and deliver to the original <br />purchaser of the Notes a preliminary and final Official Statement or any <br />other appropriate disclosure document in connection with the sale and <br />delivery of the Notes. <br /> <br /> Section 11. It is found and determined that all formal ac- <br />tions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this <br />ordinance were adopted in an open meeting of this Council, and that all <br />such deliberations of this Council and any of its committees that re- <br />sulted in such formal action, were in meeting open to the public, in <br />compliance with all legal requirements including the City's Charter and <br />Codified Ordinances and Section 121.22 of the Ohio Revised Code. <br /> <br /> Section 12. That this ordinance is hereby declared to be an <br />emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public <br />peace, property, health, safety and welfare in the City for the reasons <br />set forth and defined in the preamble to this ordinance, and provided it <br />receives the affirmative vote of two-thirds of all members elected to <br /> <br />-3- <br /> <br /> <br />