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.. < r':. t-..: ~ . RESOLUTION NO. 81- 62 INTRODUCED BY: Mayor & Council as a Whole A RESOLUTION. URGING THE STATE LEGISI,.~TUItE TO ENACT S.B., 316, ,PROVIDING INCRE.A,SED COMPENSATION FOR TRIAL JUDGES. WHEREAS, recent statistics indicated that Ohio ranks 48th in the nation in the amount paid to trial judges from State funds; and WHEREAS, Ohio's trial judges are currently earning the salary they did in 1978; and WHEREAS, judicial morale may become acutely affected by the low pay received by trial judges coupled with the increasing demand being placed upon them by society; and WHEREAS, trial judges are an intrcal part of the local and state government function and the need to attr;.act qualified judicial candidates is becoming increasingly important; and WHEREAS, S.B. 316, currently pending before the State Legislature is designed to bring the compensation of trial judges to a level commensurate with their colleagues in the other states for the year 1981 and the succeeding three (3j years; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF HAYFIELD VILLAGE, OHIO, THAT: Section 1. The Mayor and Council urge the State Legislature to enact S.B. 316 at its earliest opportunity. Section 2. The Clerk of Council is hereby authorized and directe to forward a copy of this Resolution to Governor James A. Rhodes, to all State Legislators from Cuyahoga County and to the Clerks.of Council in the Hillcrest area, Section 3. That the Council finds and determines that all formal actions of this Council relating to the adoption of this Ordinance have been taken at open meetings of this Council; and that deliberations o~ this Council and of its committees, resulting i.n such formal action, took place in meetings open: to the public, i.n compliance with all statutory requirements, inclia.ding the requirements of Section 121.22 of the Ohio Revised Code,