2020-51 - Take action to achieve a temp parklet

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Please substitute for the original RESOLUTION NO. 2020-51 BY: Bullock, Kepple, Litten, Neff, 0' Malley, Rader, Shachner A RESOLUTION to take effect immediately provided it receives the vote of at least two thirds of the members of Council, or otherwise to take effect at the earliest period allowed by law that Council recommends the administration take action to achieve a temporary parklet in 2020. WHEREAS, business operations have been significantly affected by COVID-19 public health rulings; and WHEREAS, it is still unknown when a COVID-19 vaccine will be widely available; and WHEREAS, merchants and business of all kinds in Lakewood have struggled to maintain financial solvency and comply with the Governor's health orders; and WHEREAS, the City of Lakewood recognizes that Lakewood businesses are critical to the vibrancy of Lakewood and, recognizing that it should work to ensure that our local businesses remain successful and that the public can safely and conveniently patronize them, the City of Lakewood should test and demonstrate temporary parklets as business resiliency strategy during the continuing COVID-19 crisis; and WHEREAS, as set forth in Section 2.12 of the Third Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood, this Council by a vote of at least two thirds of its members determines that this resolution is an emergency measure and that it shall take effect immediately, 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 the State of Ohio is under an order of a state of emergency form the Governor and it is imperative to provide assistance to Lakewood's small businesses to help them continue their operations under the orders of the Governor and the Ohio Director of Health and to maintain public safety while doing so; now, therefore BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO: Section 1. That Council recommends the administration take action to achieve a temporary parklet in 2020. 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 in compliance with legal requirements.