2023-06 - Authorize $90,000 to ARPA

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RESOLUTION NO. 2023-06 Baker, Bullock, Kepple, Marx, BY: 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, authorizing the Mayor and/or Director of Finance or Director of Law to allocate Ninety -Five Thousand Dollars ($95,000) from the American Rescue Plan to Beck Center for the Arts ("Beck Center") for critical and unexpected infrastructure problems recently uncovered at the Beck Center's Music and Creative Arts Therapies Building ("M/CAT Building"), with such funds allocated from the American Rescue Plan ("ARPA") and Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds ("CSLFRF"); WHEREAS, Lakewood received a total of $47,219,575 of CSLFRF through the ARPA, with the first fifty percent (50%) received in 2021 and the second fifty percent (50%) received in 2022;and WHEREAS, Lakewood now desires to allocate Ninety -Five Thousand Dollars ($95,000) to the Beck Center for the MCAT Building Repair (the "Project"); and WHEREAS, based upon the eligibility parameters and guidance provided by US Department of Treasury, the Project is deemed to be an eligible expenditure; and WHEREAS, Beck Center has been a regional cultural attraction located in Lakewood's West End Neighborhood and operating since the 1930s and currently serves over 60,000 people in Northeast Ohio on a yearly basis; and WHEREAS, Beck Center recently uncovered some infrastructure issues and repair needs associated with the M/CAT Building and the cost of the repairs is One -Hundred and Ninety Thousand Dollars ($190,000); 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 to assist the funding of these various programs and projects; now, therefore. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO: Section 1. That Ninety -Five Thousand Dollars ($95,000) be allocated for the Project to the Beck Center to cover half of the costs of the Project with such funds allocated from ARPA and CSLFRF received by the City of Lakewood after distribution from the US Department of Treasury subject to a reasonable legal agreement in a form acceptable to the Law Department. 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