115-02 Gas & Electric Aggregation

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Please Substitute for Ordinance No. 115-02 (Placed on 1~ Reading and Referred to the Rnance Committee 6/3/02, Placed on 2~d Reading 6/17/02.) ORDINANCE NO. 115-02 BY: Corrigan,Dunn, FitzGerald,George, Roth, seelie, Skindell, Smith. AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE authorizing and directing the Director of Law to engage a consulting firm to provide professional services in certification of the City of Lakewood as an aggregator of gas and electric and to S~tart a gas and electric aggregation program for the City of Lakewood, in accordance with the Administrative Code of the City of Lakewood, contracts not to exceed the specified amounts shown without separate resolution of Council. 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 eadiest date possible as set forth in ARTICLE 11I, SECTONS 10 and 13 of the SECOND AMENDED CHARTER OF THE CI'Pf OF LAKEWOOD, and that it is necessary to provide for the usual dally operation of munidpal departments in that certain capital improvements projects are to be undertaken beginning .~anuary 1, 2002 in accordance with the Capital Improvement Plan for fiscal year 2002. Now therefore BE IT ORDAINED BY THE cl-rY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO Section 1. That the Director of Law to engage a consulting firm to provide professional services in certification of the City of Lakewood as an aggregator of gas and electric and to start a gas and electric aggregation program for the City of Lakewood, in accordance with the Administrative Code of the City of Lakewood, conlzacts not to exceed the specified amounts shown, except as hereinafter provided: Gas and Electric Aggregation $10,000 Section 2. That the Director of Law is hereby authorized and directed to enter into contracts as set forth above in amounts not to exceed the specified amounts without further action from Coundl; and to enter into contracts in excess of specified amounts only upon consent of Coundl evidenced by adoption of a resolution specifying the authorized amount. Section 3. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Coundl concerning and relaldng to the passage of this ordinance were adopted in an open meeting of this Coundl, and that all such deliberations of this Council and of any of its committees that resulted in such formal action were in meelJngs open to the public in compliance with all legal requirements. Section 4. That this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure for the reasons set forl~ and defined in the preamble to this ordinance, and provid .ed it receives the affirmative vote of at least five (5) of its members elected to Coundl, this ordinance shall take effect and be in force immediately upon its adoption by the Council and approval by the Mayor otherwise, it shall take effect and be in force after the earliest pedod allowed by law.