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RESOLUTION NO. 2006-03 INTRODUCED BY: Mayor Rinker and Council as a Whole AN EMERGENCY RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF HOUSE BILL NO. 294 ESTABLISHING A PROCESS TO EXPEDITE FORECLOSURE PROBLEMS THAT CURRENTLY EXIST WHEREAS, for years, vacant, abandoned and vandalized properties in our communities have proven vexing to community and neighborhood development groups. Every year, communities spend hundreds of thousand of dollars cleaning, demolishing and pursuing the elusive owners of these properties; and, WHEREAS, the County Treasurers throughout the State are charged initially with certifying these properties as delinquent and turning them over to the County Prosecutor to foreclose on account of the delinquent taxes; and, WHEREAS, unfortunately, for properties undergoing the tax foreclosure, the process can be dauntingly long, sometimes two (2) years or more. The lengthy process is attributable to heavy foreclosure dockets, statutorily imposed procedural impediments, and occasional human resource problems; and, WHEREAS, House Bill 294 proposes to provide one more tool in this battle to expedite the process; and, WHEREAS, House Bill 294 proposes that a very limited select group of real estate tax foreclosures cases be prosecuted administratively in the respective County Boards of Revision. The proposed bill would statutorily define abandoned, unoccupied tax delinquent properties, and allow the tax foreclosure of these properties to be adjudicated in these local Boards of Revision. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF MAYFIELD VILLAGE, STATE OF OHIO, THAT: SECTION 1. This Council hereby supports House Bill No. 294 to authorize a procedure to expedite foreclosures by allowing a very limited select group of real estate foreclosure cases to be prosecuted administratively in the respective County Boards of Revision. SECTION 2. That the Clerk of Council be, and is hereby and herein directed to forward a certified copy of this Resolution to State Senators Daniel Brady and Robert Spada; State Representative Sally Conway Kilbane, and Cuyahoga County Treasurer Jim Rokakis. SECTION 3. The Council finds and determines that all formal actions of the Council relating to the adoption of this Resolution have been taken at open meetings of this Council; and that deliberations of this Council and of its committees, resulting in