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ORDINANCE NO. 64-91 PLACED ON FIRST READING & REFERRED TO CMTE OF WHOLE ON 9/3/91. BY: BoScia,. Gai.lagher, Gazzana George, Graham, Roth, Smit AN ORDINANCE to supplement the Administrative Code of the Codified Ordinances by the enactment of Section 149.25 to establish the payment of prevailing wages on construction projects on city- owned land. WHEREAS, issues have arisen in other, charter cities with respect to the applicability of the state prevailing wage law (Cha ter 4115, Ohio Revised Code),:to constru 'P- the municipal ,, ~h ~_ ~ ..... _~ _ c~lon on property owned by ~ its w ....... ~= u~ sun~ecu~.o~ a ~ong-term land lease, and WHEREAS, City Council desires to express its policy that the prevailing wage be paid for construction performed on land owned by the City but subject to a long-term lease, and WHEREAS, payment of the prevailing wage on construction projects on city-owned land subject to long-term leases is within the spirit if not the precise letter of Chapter 4115, Ohio Revised Code, and WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the City to require that the prevailing wage'be paid on construction on city-owned land which is the subject on a long-term lease; now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section 1. That the Administrative Code of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood be and they are hereby supplement- ed by the enactment of Section 149.25, to read as follows: /g'~ ~ 149.25 LEASE OF CITY-OWNED ~. ~ REALTY. ~.~_ (a) No City agency shall lease or a ~/ ~sublease of an~, real ..... uthorize the ~ ~operty owned by the City, upon which private or public improvements are planned to be constructed, without first obtaining authorization by ordinance of Council. (b) Unless specifically waived by ordinance of Council, all leases, assignments, subleases and. modifications theretO, authorized pursuant to this Section shall require that in all construction of private or public improvements situated on city'- owned land that prevailing wage rates shall be paid in constructing the improvement. The pre- vailing wage shall be defined in the same manner as Chapter 4115 of the Ohio Revised Code. (c) Subsection (b) herein does not apply when the real property is a gift or contribution to the City and at the time of the gift the construction of the specific public or private improvement was contemplated; or when a private party offers to contribute as a gift to the City the construction of improvement on City owned real property and a lease of less than two years of the real property is part of the transaction, and no City funds are involved in the project, Section 2. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.