8904-16 Establish Certain Council Priorities

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REFERRED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE 1215/16.1 Anderson, Bullock, Litten, RESOLUTIONNO. 8904 -16 BZ'9AjUk6Ai , O'Leary, O'Malley. A Resolution to formally establish certain Council priorities for the City of Lakewood's 2017 budget. WHEREAS, the Finance Committee held a series of hearings in 2016 to engage Councilmembers in the budget process and provide the opportunity to identify priorities; and WHEREAS, in deliberating upon proposed priorities, Councilmembers evaluated them using criteria such as alignment with City goals, achievability, and the number of residents benefrtted, among many others; and WHEREAS, by passage of Resolution 8886 -16 on October 3, 2016, Council expressed preliminary support for the priorities included therein; and WHEREAS, since that time, those priorities have been incorporated into the 2017 Comprehensive Budget Document and accompanying budget ordinances prepared by the Administration; and WHEREAS, Council would like to affirm certain of those preliminary priorities as final, to be implemented by the City in or commencing in Fiscal Year 2017; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Constitution of the State of Ohio and the Ohio Revised Code, municipalities have the power of local self - government, and the power to enact laws that are for health, safety, and welfare; now, therefore BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section 1. That this Council hereby establishes as among its priorities for the 2017 Fiscal Year those policies, projects, and initiatives included in the attachment(s). Section 2. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to this Resolution were adopted in an open meeting of this Council, and that all deliberations of this Council and of any of its committees that resulted in such formal actions were in meetings open to the public in compliance with all legal requirements, including Section 121.22 of the Ohio Revised Code. Section 3. The Clerk of Council is hereby authorized and directed to forward a certified copy of this resolution to the Mayor and a copy of this Resolution shall be spread upon the minutes of this meeting.