8415-10 Solar Special Improvement District

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RESOLUTION N0. 8415-10 BY: Antonio, Bullock, Butler, Madigan, Powers, Smith; Summers. A resolution in support of the First Suburbs Development Council and the City of Cleveland in their collaborative application to the EfficientGovNow Grant Program, as a part of the Fund for Our Economic Future, for the amount of One Hundred Thousand and 00/100 Dollars ($100,000) for the purpose of establishing a joint Solar Special Improvement District in the City of Cleveland, the City of Lakewood and in the other member municipalities of the First Suburbs Consortium. WHEREAS, State of Ohio House Bill 1 of 2009 enacted changes to Ohio law allowing municipalities to create Special Improvement Districts for photovoltaic solar and solar thermal "special energy improvement projects" in their communities ;and WHEREAS, the City of Lakewood is a member of the First Suburbs Development Council; and WHEREAS, the First Suburbs Development Council is anot-for-profit organization that strives to achieve economic stability and viability to its member cities; and WHEREAS, the EfficientGovNow Grant Program, as a part of the. Fund for Our Economic Future, is a competitive grant program designed to encourage the region's local governments to collaborate to deliver services and to increase public support for government collaboration; and WHEREAS, the shared Solar Special Improvement District between the City of Cleveland and the First Suburbs Development Council members will be the first in Ohio and will create a replicable model that could be reproduced statewide; and WHEREAS, the goal of the shared Solar ,Special Improvement District is to increase energy cost savings for commercial and industrial property owners in the cifies of Cleveland, Lakewood and other member-municipalities of the First Suburbs Development Council and to create a program to attract and retain commercial and industrial property owners/businesses who have an interest in greening Northeast Ohio. NOW, THEREFORE, be it ordained by the Council of the City of Lakewood, State of Ohio: Section 1: That Lakewood City Council supports the First. Suburbs Development Council and the City of Cleveland in their collaborative application to the EfficientGovNow Grant Program, as a part of the Fund for Our Economic Future, for the amount of One Hundred Thousand and 00/100 Dollars~($100,000) for the purpose of establishing a joint Solar Special Improvement District in the City of Cleveland, the City of Lakewood and in the other member municipalities of the First Suburbs Development Council.