7846-04 Support School Bond Issue

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RESOLUTION NO 7846-04 BY' Corrigan, Demro, Dever, Dunn, FitzGerald, Madigan, Seelie. A RESOLUTION supporting our Lakewood City School Disl~ict 6 5 Mill Bond Issue. WIHERBAS, the ~nture sttength and quality of our City of Lakewood heavily depends on the quality of our schools; and, WHEREAS, the s~e and design o£ many of our school dassroomg th6 limitations of our elementary and middJe school libraries, science labs, othez labs and features of our aging and deteriora~ng school buildings can no longer meet the educational needs of our students; anck WHEREAS, our aging and deteriorating school facilities are cha~cterized by mm~liable healing amd air hmTdlthg units, inef:ficient windows, inadequate lighting and inadequate electrical capability that make it increasingly more expensive to maintain and run oar schooI buildings; and, WHEREAS our school district enrollments have decreased to the point that our current building configuration is expensive to operate and no longez reflects our population; and, Wt-IEREAS, a commm~ty-wide committee, Lak~a;ood Scl~ols: Desigalng Our Next Fifty Years Commi~ee, has studied these issues thoroughly ~md used a community-involvement process to identify a long-range master plan for our schools; and, WHEREAS, commtt~y forum participants overwhelmingly supported this master plan; WHEIiEAS, we are faced with the choice of contintung to make expensive repairs every year to our aging buildings--and s~II have deteriorating b~.didings that don't meet educational Needs ~nd are expensive to operate--or--we can start replacing and renovating School buildings to zmprove educatiorb reduce operating costs and prov4de our commtmity with adequate,/efficient facilities for the next 50 years md spend less over ~ime; and, _WHiERE~, ibis bond issue puts us on the path of providing a better value for Lakewood and Lakewood's children by providing better educalfan and classrooms for Lakewood's students, by providing safer, healthier school buildings, by streamlining the district from 14 to 10 school baildings, by saving $3.2 million dollars in annual operating and maintenance costs, by costing us Iess in the long rum by providing fomctional schools built for learning and built to last, and by maints&ting neighborhood schools with facilities that fit the architectural character of our commm~ity; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWooD, STAT~ OF OHIO: Section 1 That Lakewood City Council and Mayor hereby support this Iakewood City School District bond issue to keep student academic achievement stsong in our schools, to keep oztr Lakewood schools strong, and to help keep our city's future strong. Section 2. That the Clerk of Cotmcli be and is hereby authorized and directed to forward a c~ed copy of this Resolution to the Lakewood Board of Education and that a copy of this Resolution be spread upon the minutes of this meeling, President of Council Ci~rk of C6tmc~ ~ May0z ~ /