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PLACED ON 1ST READING & REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE 5/16/11. SECOND READING 6/6/11. RESOLUTION NO. 8496-11 gy; Anderson, Bullock, Madigan, Nowlin, Powers, Smith. A RESOLUTION to take effect immediately provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least five (S) members of Council, or otherwise to take effect and be in force after the earliest period allowed by law, opposing Senate Bill 5, a proposed state law that would unnecessarily and damagingly rewrite Ohio's collective bargaining law. WHEREAS, Senate Bill 5 (S.B. 5) seeks to rewrite Ohio's collective bargaining law; and WHEREAS, as originally introduced, S.B. 5 would ban collective bargaining for all state employees and sharply curtail binding arbitration rules for local governments; and WHEREAS, Lakewood has experienced the existing binding arbitration rules to the satisfaction of all parties, and our relationships with all our bargaining units are positive and cooperative under these circumstances; and WHEREAS, this Council understands that 61% of Americans oppose measures such as S.B. 5; and WHEREAS, this Council believes that the serious budget crisis facing the state should not be used as an excuse to eliminate the long-established collective bargaining rights of hardworking public servants; and WHEREAS, the City of Lakewood has shown that a more effective way of addressing economic crisis is to openly engage workers and negotiate at the bargaining table; and WHEREAS, several provisions of S.B. 5 are redundant or unnecessary or do not apply to Lakewood city government including no strike provisions, accruals for vacation, sick and holiday leave that are less restrictive than our local agreements, pension pickup agreements, and WHEREAS, several provisions of S.B. 5 are damaging, since the shift of binding arbitration to City Council will have the unintended effect of politicizing labor negotiations and Council's role in them; and WHEREAS, this administration and council believe there are opportunities to reform collective bargaining in Ohio to the advantage of Lakewood's citizens and public and private workforce, but S.B. 5 goes far afield of what is appropriate reform WHEREAS, this resolution constitutes an emergency measure for the immediate preservation of public peace, property, health or safety, now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section i. This Council hereby objects to Senate Bill 5, which would eliminate collective bargaining for state employees and reform collective bargaining rules for local government employees. Section 2. The Clerk of Council is hereby directed to forward a copy of this resolution to Governor John Kasich and all members of the Ohio Senate and House of Representatives. Section 3. 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 deliberations of this Council and of any of its committees that resulted in sueh formal action were in meetings open to the public in compliance with all legal requirements.