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ORDINANCE NO. 76-09 BY: Antonio, Bullock, Butler, Dever, <br />Madigan, Powers, Summers <br />AN ORDINANCE to take effect immediately provided it receives the affirmative <br />vote of at lease five (5) members elected to council otherwise, it shall take effect and <br />be in force after the earliest period allowed by law, authorizing the Director of Finance <br />to enter into an agreement with the Beck Center facilitating the pass through of Energy <br />Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Funds in the amount of $57,000 in accordance <br />with the award received from the Department of Energy for such purposes. <br />WHEREAS, the Beck Center, formerly Lakewood Little Theatre, has been a valued <br />community and cultural arts institution and coveted asset to our City for more than 75 <br />years; and <br />WHEREAS, the Beck Center is anon-profit, performing arts and arts education <br />organization that provides professional and amateur theatrical productions, <br />comprehensive and curriculum-based arts education in dance, music, theatre, visual <br />arts, and creative art therapies; and <br />WHEREAS, a recent independent economic development study concluded that <br />the Beck Center stimulates a total economic impact of over $10 million in an average <br />year through salaries, vendor and visitor spending; and <br />WHEREAS, the City of Lakewood, as part of its grant application for Energy <br />Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Projects was able to secure nearly $57,000 in <br />funds for reimbursement of the Beck Center for a new high efficiency boiler and air <br />conditioning system; and <br />WHEREAS, this Council by a vote of at least five (5) members elected thereto <br />determines that this ordinance is an emergency measure, and that this ordinance shall <br />take effect at the earliest date possible as set forth in ARTICLE III, SECTONS 10 and <br />13 of the SECOND AMENDED CHARTER OF THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, and that it is <br />necessary for the immediate preservation of the public property, health and safety, and <br />to provide for the usual daily operation of municipal departments in that these funds <br />should be made available immediately to the Beck Center upon receipt by the City of <br />Lakewood in order to facilitate their energy efficient project immediately to allow <br />benefits of the project to be realized this heating season. Now Therefore, <br />