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REFERRED TO THE RULES & ORDINANCES COMMITTEE 2/6/17. SECOND READING 2/21/17. ORDINANCE NO. 13 -17 BY: Anderson, Bullock, Litten, Marx, Nowlin, O'Leary, O'Malley. AN ORDINANCE amending Section 109.04, Minutes Open to Public, of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood. WHEREAS, the Codified Ordinances stand to be updated in order to provide for the post- ing of public meeting minutes on the City's official website; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Constitution of the State of Ohio and the Ohio Revised Code, municipalities have the power of local self - government; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Constitution of the State of Ohio and the Ohio Revised Code, municipalities have the power to enact laws that are for the health, safety, welfare, comfort and peace of the citizens of the municipality; now, therefore BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO: Section 1. Section 109.04, Minutes Open to Public, of the Lakewood Codified Ordinanc- es, currently reading as follows: 109.04 MINUTES OPEN TO PUBLIC. Minutes of all regular and special meetings of public bodies set forth in Section 109.01 shall promptly be recorded in writing and open to the public for inspec- tion. Minutes of executive sessions of public bodies need only reflect the general subject matter of discussion in such executive session. shall be and hereby is repealed, and new Section 109.04, Minutes Open to Public, is enacted to read as follows: 109.04 MINUTES OPEN TO PUBLIC. Minutes of all regular and special meetings of public bodies set forth in Section 109.01 shall promptly be recorded in writing, and -open to the public for inspec- tion and posted in digital format on the primary website of the City. Minutes of executive sessions of public bodies need only reflect the general subject matter of discussion in such executive session. Section 2. 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 deliberations of this Council and of any of its committees that resulted in such for- mal action were in meetings open to the public in compliance with all legal requirements.