7891-04 Funds to Enforce Child Safety Seat Violations

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RESOLUTION NO. 7891-04 BY: Corrigan, Demro, DeYer~ Dunn, ~itzGerald, Madigan, Seelie. AN EMERGENCY RESOLUTION authorizing the Mayor, as Safety Director, to enter into an agreement on behalf of the City to accept and expend grant funds, in the amount of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) from University Hospitals Health System/Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital for the purpose of providing targeted enforcement activity within the City of Lakewood regarding child safety seat violations. WHEREAS, University Hospital Health System/Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital and area police departments are cooperating in the Safe Kids Grant program for the provision of targeted enforcement activity in the inner ring suburbs; and WHEREAS, targeted enforcement objectives will emphasize child safety seat use in targeted communities during the period from May 24 through .]une 6, 2004, with zero tolerance but correcting violations will enable offenders without safety seats to obtain a coupon entitling them to a flee child safety seat from Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital; and WHEREAS, this Council by a vote of at least five (5) members elected thereto determines that this resolution is an emergency measure, and that this resolution shall take effect at the earliest date possible as Set forth in AR'F/CLE TII, SECTONS 10 and 13 of the SECOND AMENDED CHARTER OF THE C1TY OF LAKEWOOD, and that it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public property, health and safety, and to provide for the usual daily operation of municipal departments in that target area enforcement cannot begin until the agreement is executed~ Now, Therefore BE 1T RESOLVED BY THE CiTY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO Section 1. That the Mayor, as Safety Director, is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement on behalf of the City of Lakewood, to accept and expend grant funds, in the amount of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), from University Hospitals Health System/Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital for the purpose of providing targeted enforcement activity within the City of Lakewood, such funds to be used to provide overtime for specific police enforcement of child safety seat violations from May 24to .June 6, 2004. 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 all such deliberation of the Council and any of its committees that resulted in such formal action were in meetings open to the public and in compliance with all legal requirements. Section 3. That this resolution 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