38-17 Enact Chp. 123, Departments & Directors Established

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ORDINANCE NO. 38-17 Read & Referred to Rules & Ordinances 11/20/17; Second reading 12/4/17; Recommended for adoption by Rules & Ordi- nances 6/4/18 Anderson, Bullock, George, Litten BY: O'Leary, O'Malley, Rader AN ORDINANCE to take effect at the earliest period allowed by law enacting Chapter 123, Departments and Directors Established, of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lake- wood in order to codify the administrative departments and their directors' responsibilities within the City. WHEREAS, on November 7, 2017, the citizens of Lakewood adopted the proposed Third Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood; and WHEREAS, the Third Amended Charter, at Article Four, Departments and Officers, pro- vides for the establishment of the departments of law and finance and additional city depart- ments, offices or agencies to provide and administer city services, including but not limited to public safety, planning and development, human services and public works; and provides for the head of each department to be a director; and WHEREAS, this Council has determined that departments and directors shall be estab- lished pursuant to these provisions as a matter of local self - government; 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; and WHEREAS, as set forth in either Article III, Sections 10 and 13 of the Second Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood or Section 2.12 of the Third Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood, whichever is applicable at the time, this Council by a vote of at least five or two thirds of its members, as applicable, determines that this ordinance is an emergency measure and that it shall take effect immediately, 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 de- partments, in that the new charter becomes effective immediately upon the official certification of the November 7, 2017 election in the city; now, therefore BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO: Section 1. New Chapter 123, Departments and Directors Established, shall be enacted to read as follows: