3566 - 53 Accept Cleve Transit portion to resurface Sloane Ave

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~ - i "f RESOLUTION N0. 3566 BY Mro Faisgrieve AN F~~IER.GENCY RESOLUTION authorizing the Mayor, ex-officio Director of Public Works to accept, on behalf of the City of Lakewood, the sum of Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00) from the Cleveland Transit System of the City of Cleveland in full payment of the latterts share of the cost in the resurfacing of Sloane Avenue in the City of Lakewood. _ WHE~tEAS, by legislation duly adopted, including Resolution Noo 3495, Ordinance Noo 1+771, Resolution Noo 3497 and Resolution Noo 3502, this Council de- _ termined to cooperate with the State of Ohio in the cost of improving certain streets in the City of Lakewood, including Sloane Avenue; and WE~REAS, pursuant to Ordinance Noo 4260, as amended, the City of Cleveland was granted a permit for continued operation of the Cleveland Transit System within u~, the City of Lakewood on the condition, among others, that the City of Cleveland shall r';~<h~ maintain in constant repair the certain track areas as in said ordinance more speci- fically described; and WHEREAS, differences of opinion have arisen between the City of Lakewood and the Cleveland Transit System with respect to the allocation between them of the cost of such resurfacing; and WHEREAS, the Cleveland Transit System has offered payment of the sum of Three Thousand Dollars 03,000.00) conditioned upon the release of the Cleveland Transit System by the City of Lakewood of its obligation to maintain and repair the track area in Sloane Avenue; and WHEREAS, this resolution Constitutes an emergency for the reasons that it is considered to be in the interests of the City of Lakewood that such differences of opinion be forthwith terminated by the acceptance of said stun, and in that it provides for the public welfare and the usual dai.].y operation of a municipal depart- ment; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section to That the Mayor, ex-officio Director of Public Works be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, on behalf of the City of Lakewood, to accept from the Cleveland Transit System of the City of Cleveland the stun of Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000000) as and in full payment of the City of Clevelandts share of the cost of resurfacing Sloane Avenue in the City of Lakewood, and that upon payment oP such stmm, the City of Cleveland and the Cleveland Transit System shall be, and they `:j are hereby, released from further obligation to maintain and repair the track area '.;i within Sloane Avenue in the City of Lakewoode Section 2. This resolution is hereby declared to be an emergency measure for the reasons stated in the preamble hereof and, provided it receives the affirma- tive vote of two-thirds of all members elected to Council, it shall take effect and be in force immediately upon its adoptiono Adopted: September 1953 George Fo Quinn President Approved: September 9. 1953 H, Ao Rees Clerk Ao Io Kauffman Mayor