8596-12 Accept hand held radios for emergency personnel

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RESOLUTION NO.: 8596-12 BY: Anderson, Bullock, Juris, Madigan, Nowlin, Powers, Smith: A RESOLUTION to take effect immediately provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least five (5) members of Council, or otherwise to take effect and be in force after the earliest period allowed by law, authorizing the Mayoras Director of Public Safety to enter into an agreement with Cuyahoga County to accept an estimated 145 hand held radios, valued at $2,500 each, which will enable the City of Lakewood to replace all existing handheld radios for emergency personnel and to participate in a state wide multi-agency radio communications system. WHEREAS, the City of Lakewood has been awarded new handheld radios by Cuyahoga County through the Homeland Security Grant; and WHEREAS, this award will enable the City of Lakewood to replace every handheld radio in use by emergency response personnel; and WHEREAS, these new radios will enable the City of Lakewood to communicate with other participating agencies within Cuyahoga County; and WHEREAS, this Council by a vote of at least five (5) of its members determines that this resolution is an emergency measure, and that this resolution shall take effect at the earliest date possible as set forth in Article III, Sections 10 and 13 of the Second Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood, and that it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public property, health and safety, and to provide for the usual daily operation of municipal departments in that acceptance of these radios and the transition to the state wide system should be made as soon as possible to avoid unnecessary repairs to the existing system; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO: Section 1. That the Mayor, as Director of Public Safety, is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement with Cuyahoga County to accept an estimated 145 handheld radios, valued at $2,500 each, which will enable the City of Lakewood to replace all existing handheld radios for emergency personnel and to participate in a state wide multi-agency radio communications system. Section 2. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this Resolution were passed in an open meeting of this Council and that all deliberations of this Council and any of its committees that resulted in such actions were in meetings open to the public and incompliance with legal requirements. Section 3. This resolution is hereby declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, properti5~, health, safety and welfare in the City