9020-18 Establish Council budget priorities

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RESOLUTION NO. 9020 -18 Referred to Finance Committee 9/17/18; Substitute version recommended for adoption 10/1/18 BY: Anderson, Bullock, George Litten, O'Leary, O'Malley, Rader A Resolution to formally identify agreed -upon priorities that Council would like to see reflected in the 2019 budget. WHEREAS, in recent years the Administration has taken charge of compiling the annual budget book and related appropriations ordinances; and WHEREAS, with the support and encouragement of the Administration and all of Council, the Finance Committee initiated a series of meetings this September with the expressed goal of engaging Councilmembers early and actively in the budget process; and WHEREAS, Councilmembers considered a number of proposed ideas for projects and policies to benefit the community, evaluated them by criteria such as alignment with City goals, achievability, and the number of residents benefitted, among many others; and WHEREAS, at the culmination of this series of meetings, Council expressed support for the priorities included in the accompanying attachment(s); 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: Sectionl. That this Council hereby establishes as among its preliminary priorities for the 2019 Fiscal Year and those policies, projects, and initiatives included in the attachment and requests the Administration consider these priorities in preparing its the budget book and accompanying budget and appropriations legislation for Fiscal Year 2019. 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.