46-10 Approve Fact Finders Report - Fire Fighters

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ORDINANCE NO. 46-10 gy; Antonio, Bullock, Butler, Powers, Smith, Summers. AN ORDINANCE to take effect immediately provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least five (5) members elected to Council otherwise, it shall take effect and be in force after the earliest period allowed by law, approving the Fact Finders Report resulting from the collective bargaining process with the Lakewood Association of Firefighters, Local #382 of the International Association of Firefighters; AFL-CIO. WHEREAS, the City and the Lakewood Association of Firefighters, Local #382 have engaged in extensive negotiations and have achieved a significant number of agreed upon terms, but have agreed to proceed to Fact Finding on a narrowed number of issues which has resulted in a Report from the Fact Finder; and WHEREAS, the Fact Finder's Report must be approved or objected to within seven (7) days of receipt; and WHEREAS, Council and the Administration have reviewed such report and do desire to approve such report; and WHEREAS, this Council by a vote of at least five (5) members elected thereto determines that this ordinance is an emergency measure, and that this ordinance shall take effect at the earliest date possible as set forth in ARTICLE III, SECTONS 10 and 13 of the SECOND AMENDED CHARTER OF THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, and that it provides for the usual daily operation of municipal departments in that the fact finders report must be acted upon within seven (7) days of receipt. Now, therefore BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section 1. That the Council of the City of Lakewood hereby approves the Report of the Fact Finder issued on the Collective Bargaining Agreement terms to be applied between the City and the Lakewood Association of Firefighters, Local #382, International Association of Firefighters, AFL-CIO; the report, made apart hereof as though fully rewritten herein, is on file in the office of the Director of Law. Section 2. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this Ordinance 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. Section 3. That this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public .peace, property, health, safety and welfare in the City and for the usual daily operation of the City for the reasons set forth and defined in the preamble to this ordinance, and provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least five (5) of its members elected to Council, this. ordinance shall take effect and be in force