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ORDINANCE NO. 26-oz BY: Corrigan, FitzGerald, George, Roth, Seelie, Skindell, Smith. AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE adjusting appropriations for expenditures in the General Fund for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2001. WHEREAS, the Director of Planning and Development has been authorized to accept and expend Cuyahoga County Brownfield Grant dollars in the amount of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00); and WHEREAS, as a result of those dollars, the fund balance is sufficient to support appropriations below; and WHEREAS, these funds are necessary to pay for a professional services agreement with Hull and Associates, Inc. for the underground storage tank investigation at the property located at 11726-28 Detroit Avenue and 1385-87 Hird Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio; and WHEREAS, this Coundl by a vote of at least five (5) members elected thereto determines that this ordinance is an emergency measure, and that this ordinance shall take effect at the earliest date possible as set forth in ARTICLE III, SECTONS 10 and 13 of the SECOND AMENDED CHARTER OF THE CI-FY OF LAKEWOOD, and that it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public property, health and safety, and to provide for the usual daily operation of municipal departments in that environmental contamination is an urgent matter of public concern. Now Therefore, BE 1T ORDAINED BYTHE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO Section 1. That the Director of Finance is hereby authOrized and directed to increase appropriations in the following fund by the amount stated below: General Fund $5,000 Section 2. That the Director of Finance be and he is hereby authorized to draw checks upon the City depositories for the amounts appropriated in this ordinance whenever claims are presented properly, approved by the head of the department for which the indebtedness is incurred, providing the President of CoUncil shall approve all claims for the City Coundl. Section 3. 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 deliberation of the 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. Section 4. That this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservaUon of the public peace~ property, health, safety and welfare in the City and for the usual daily operaUon of the City for the reasons set forth and defined in the preamble to this ordinance, and provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least five (5) of its members elected to Council, this ordinance shall take effect and be in force immediately upon its adoption by the Coundl