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PLEASE SUBSTITUTE FOR RESOLUTION NO 7961.05 (Deferred 2~7-OS) RESOLUTION NO' 7961-05 BY· A RESOLUTION amending resolution 7950-04, extending the time for action by the Clean Air Commission to complete their study~x¡ Mþrg\J-U, 2005. WHEREAS City Council formed a commission to explore the ramifications of implementing a Clean Indoor Air Act to protect the health of workers and fammes in the City of Lakewood, WHEREAS smoking is the leading cause of preventable death and has negative health impacts on people at all stages of life, and WHEREAS secondhand tobacco smoke is Ohio's third leading cause of preventable death and harms the unborn, infants, chiidren, adolescenls, adults, and senior citizens, and WHEREAS the practice of smoking has hidden costs to consumers and non- smoking citizens including astronomical health care expenses and takes an untold emotional toll on fammes and friends of lhose who watch users of tobacco die of terrible respiratory illnesses and cancers, and WHEREAS all well-designed, peer-reviewed, and truly scientific research ~tudies that use objective measures such as sales tax receipts, bankruptcies, and employment data while controlling for other changes in economic conditions have concluded that laws requiring bars and restaurants to be smoke-free had no impact or a positive impact on sales and employment, and WHEREAS the Republic of Ireland, along with the states of California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York require all restauran(s and bars to be one hundred percent smoke free and Florida, Idaho, and Utah require all restaurants to be one hundred percent smoke free, and WHEREAS local organizations such as the Academy of Medicine of Cleveiand, the Center for Families and Children, the Center for Community Solutions, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, the Cuyahoga County Board of Health, the Empowerment Center of Greater Cleveland, University Hospitals Ireland Cancer Center, Recovery Resources and lhe Visiting Nurses Association support a Clean Indoor Air Act in the City of Lakewood, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO' Section 1. lhat the Lakewood City Council is hereby authorizing a commission of nine citizens, including seven members to be appointed by this body and two by the Mayor, to explore the ramifications of implementing a Clean Indoor Air Act to protect the health of wOrkers and fammes, as well as on the economic impact of a "no smoking" ordinance on the bar and restaurant industry in the City of Lakewood and to report such findings to this body upon completion Section 2. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and reiating to the passage of this resolution were adopted in an open meeting of this Council, ¡md that all such deliberation of Council and of any of its committees that resulted in such formal action were in meetings open to the public in compliance with alll!,gal requirements Adopted: :];JA" oJ 1}.',JrJo Ý 2~ ' U esident Approved: dL#"'~' rlEJ01' ~71!r Clerk JÞ,p- ~ Mayor /