67-80 Transfer funds for Gateway to Lakewood prog

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ORDINANCE NO. 67-80 BY: Chinnock, Gallagher, Graham, McBride, Salmon, Brown AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE authorizing the Director of Finance to transfer the sum of $200,000 from the 1980 Community Development Block Grant Fund to the Community Development Corporation of Lakewood, Ohio for the purpose of implementing and administering the Gateway to Lakewood Project. WHEREAS, on the 9th day of September, 1980 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development officially approved the request of the City of Lakewood to establish the Gateway to Lakewood project and also authorized funds in the amount of $200,000 to carry out such program, and WHEREAS, this Council did, pursuant to Resolution 5224, adopted May 2, 1977, authorize the formation of a non-profit corporation to admin- ister a low interest home improvement loan program and to advance, encourage and promote residential rehabilitation of Lakewood's older housing stock, and to further encourage commercial development in the City of Lakewood, and WHEREAS, such non-profit corporation, known as the Community Develop- ment Corporation of Lakewood, Ohio was duly formed on the 18th day of May, 1977, and WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Lakewood appropriated the sum of $200,000 from the 1980 Community Development Block Grant Funds to carry out the Gateway to Lakewood Project, and WHEREAS, it is necessary for the implementation of the Gateway to Lakewood Project to have the funds transferred to the Community Development Corporation of Lakewood, Ohio, and WHEREAS, this Ordinance constitutes an emergency measure providing for the immediate preservation of the public health, safety and welfare and for the usual daily operation of a municipal department and for the reason that the Gateway to Lakewood Project can be continued without delay; now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section 1. That the Council of the City of Lakewood does hereby approve the concept, organization and administrative guidelines of the Community Develop- ment Corporation of Lakewood, Ohio as the vehicle through which the Gateway to Lakewood Project can be carried out. Section 2. That the Director of Finance'be and he is hereby authorized and directed to transfer the sum of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000) from the 19801Community Development Block Grant Fund to the Community Develop- ment Corporation of Lakewood, Ohio for the purpose of operating and administering the Gateway to Lakewood Program. Section 3. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this ordinance were adopted in an open meeting of this Council, and that all such deliberations of this Council and of any committees that resulted in such formal action were in meet- ings open to the public, in compliance with all legal requirements including Section 121.22 of the Ohio Revised Code. Section 4. That this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure for the reasons stated in the preamble hereof and provided it receives the affirmative vote of two-thirds of all members elected to Council, it shall