8793-15 Authorize limited Police Power by CC PD

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Referred to the Public Safety Committee 1/5/2015. Substitute recommended for adoption 1/26/2015. Please substitute for the original. RESOLUTION NO. 8793 -15 BY: Anderson, Juris, Madigan, Marx, Nowlin. A RESOLUTION to take effect immediately provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least five members of Council, or otherwise to take effect and be in force after the earliest period allowed by law, authorizing and directing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF) which will allow police officers employed by the Cleveland Clinic Police Department to exercise limited police powers within the City of Lakewood on and around hospital property operated by CCF. WHEREAS, the CCF has a police department established under the authority of O.R.C. §4973.17(D); and WHEREAS, an agreement is required in order for the special police officers hired by CCF to have misdemeanor arrest authority within the city of Lakewood; and WHEREAS, this Council by a vote of at least five 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 peace, property, health and safety, and to provide for the usual daily operation of municipal departments it is in the best interest of the City to allow special police officers appointed by the CCF to have police powers on certain hospital property owned by the city of Lakewood and operated by CCF; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO: Section 1. The Mayor, as Director of Public Safety, is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement, in substantially the form as attached as Exhibit 1, with the Cleveland Clinic Foundation granting authority for special police officers appointed by the CCF to exercise police powers in accordance with O.R.C. §4973.17 on and around hospital property owned by the city of Lakewood and operated by CCF. 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 deliberations of this Council and of any of its committees that resulted in such formal action, were in meetings open to the public in compliance with all legal requirements. Section 3. This resolution is hereby declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety and welfare in the City and for the usual daily operation of the City for the reasons set forth and defined in the preamble to this resolution, and provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least five members of Council, this resolution shall take effect and be in force