7096-95 Plan for Berea Rd & W 117th

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).rem ?3 ADD ON REFERRED TO COtqblIT'i'EE Ok THE ;~biOLE 05 17)4/95. I~ESOLUTION ~NO. 7096-9S BY: Boscia, Corrigan, Flannery, George, Roth, Smith A RESOLUTION authorizing the Mayor, on behalf of the City of Lakewood, Ohio, to enter into a professional services agreement with the Westside Industrial Retention & Expansion Network, an Ohio not-for-profit economic and industrial development corporation (hereinafter, WIRE-NET) and the Western-Elmwood-Berea Corporation, an Ohio not-for-profit community development corporation (hereinafter, WEBCO; together, along with the City. of Cleveland, Ohio, an Ohio municipal corporation, the "Project Team"), for the purpose of retaining a consultant and implementing a plan for the comprehensive development and redevelopment of indusuSal and commercial uses in the area comprising both the Lakewood and Cleveland portions of the Berea Road and West 117th Street corridors. WHEREAS, the City of Lakewood desires to participate with the Project Team in the formulation of a plan for the comprehensive development and redevelopment of industrial and commercial uses in the Berea Road and West 117th Street corridors; and WHEREAS, WEBCO possesse~ valuable expertise in identifying issues related to formulating and conducting such a plan as project manager, and WHEREAS, WIRE-NET has agreed to serve as fiscal agent in the implementation of such a plan, including, without limitation, the managing of all funds related to such plan and contracting directly with any selected consultant; and WHEREAS, the City of Lakewood will bem~fit from the economic growth and the retention of industrial and commercial uses resulting from the development and redevelopment of the study area comprising the Berea Road and West 117th Street corridors; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO Section 1. That the Mayor, on behalf of the City of Lakewood, is hereby authorized to enter into a professional services agreement with W. EBCO and ~,V[RE-NET for the purpose of retaining a consultant and assisting in implementing a plan tbr the comprehensive development and redevelopment of industrial and commercial uses in the area surrounding the Berea Road and West 117th Street corridors; said agret~ent shall be made in conjunction with the City of Cleveland entering into a similar agreement with WEBCO and/or WIRE-NET, and Lakewoed's agreement shall contain such terms and conditiom as deemed necessary by the Director of Law to protect the public interest. Section 2. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this resolution were adopted in an open meeting of this Council. and that all such deliberation of the Council and of any of its committees that resulted in such formal action were in me, tings open to the public in compliance with all legal requirements. Adopted: President Clerk