2021-40 - Budget Priorities Reso

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Referred to Finance 9/7/21 Bullock, Kepple, Litten, Neff, RESOLUTION NO. 2021-40 BY O'Malley, Rader, Shachner i A Resolution to take effect immediately provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least two thirds of the members of Council, or otherwise to take effect and be in force after the earliest period allowed by law to formally identify agreed -upon priorities that Council would like to see reflected in the 2022 budget. WHEREAS, Article 5.5 of the Third Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood requires the Director of Finance to prepare and present City Council with a budget for the following fiscal year in order for City Council to begin the process of making appropriations; 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, 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 peace, property, health and safety, and to provide for the usual daily operation of municipal departments in order meet the deadlines of the 2022 budget cycle; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section]. That this Council hereby establishes as among its priorities for the 2022 fiscal year those policies, projects, and initiatives included in the attachment and requests that the Administration consider these priorities in preparing its the budget book and accompanying budget and appropriations legislation for fiscal year 2022. 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 copy of this resolution to the Mayor and a copy of this Resolution shall be spread upon the minutes of this meeting.