17-2023 Amend Section 135.05 of Traffic Guard Ordinance (1)

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DocuSign Envelope ID: FDAB5A58-31D4-4829-AC58-3B760CEADD6F 1st read & referred to Public Safety 7/17/23; 2nd reading 9/5/23 Please substitute for original ORDINANCE NO. 17-2023 BY: Baker, Bullock, Kepple, Litten, Marx, Rader, Shachner AN ORDINANCE amending Section 135.05, Traffic Guards of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood to for the purpose of allowing the Mayor, as Director of Public Safety, to hire more traffic guards. WHEREAS, the Lakewood City Schools is unique in the aspect that it does not have a school busing system that brings students to school and each student is on their own to get to and from school; and WHEREAS, the Lakewood City Schools has a system of community schools so that students live nearby their elementary or middle schools so that walking or biking to school is incredibly common; and WHEREAS, as a result of the enhanced walking and biking to school for Lakewood City School and other private school students, traffic guards are vital to Lakewood and its young people and do an incredible job in keeping the students and their family member safe; and WHEREAS, Article 18, Section 3 of the Constitution of the State of Ohio peintits municipalities to exercise all powers of local self-government and to adopt and enforce within their limits such as local police, sanitary and other regulations as are not in conflict with general laws; now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO: Section 1. Section 135.05, Traffic Guards of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood, currently reading as follows: 135.05 TRAFFIC GUARDS. (a) Duties. The Mayor, as Director of Public Safety, is hereby authorized to employ not more than thirty-five traffic guards to relieve or replace regular police officers at school crossings, possessing such qualifications as the Director of Public Safety may require. Traffic guards shall not be regarded as regular members of the Division of Police, nor empowered with the authority or duties of regular police officers, and shall not participate in any of the benefits of the Division of Police. Traffic guards shall be under the direction of the Director of Public Safety and the Chief of Police. (b) Uniform Allowance. In addition to any clothing or equipment supplied to traffic guards, the Director of Finance shall pay from the General Fund, Traffic and Safety Uniform Allowance Account, the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) in the first pay period following December 1 of each year to each traffic guard who, prior to December 1, has been continuously employed as a regularly assigned traffic guard for a minimum period of one year and one day. (1) As used in this section, "regularly assigned traffic guard" means a guard assigned to regular crossing duties on a daily basis and shall not include guards serving on a temporary or fill-in basis.