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CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED ORDINANCE NO. 2005 —16 BY: Mayor and Entire Council. AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO ENTER INTO AN ACQUISITION AGREEMENT WITH THE GREATER CLEVELAND REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY, PROVIDING FOR THE SALE OF ASSETS AND TRANSFER OF ALL NORTH OLMSTED MUNICIPAL BUS LINE OPERATIONS TO THE GREATER CLEVELAND REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority ( "Authority ") was established in 1975 for the purpose of providing transportation throughout Cuyahoga County; and WHEREAS, the City of North Olmsted ( "City") has owned and operated the North Olmsted Municipal Bus Line ( "NOMBL ") within a service area of western Cuyahoga County since 1931; and WHEREAS, the City and the Authority have entered into a succession of five - year Public Transportation Operating Agreements since 1975; and WHEREAS, the most recent such agreement expired on December 31, 2004, but was mutually extended by the parties for an additional 90 -day period until March 31, 2005, for the purpose of providing the parties with additional time to determine whether they should execute a new Operating Agreement or instead an Acquisition Agreement; and WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council have sponsored this acquisition legislation because RTA has, to the date of preparation of this legislation, refused to agree to a renewal of the parties' Public Transportation Operating Agreement, unless the City agrees to subsidize NOMBL operations annually with approximately $1.8 million from the City's general fund; and WHEREAS, given this refusal by the Authority to fairly negotiate and propose a renewal on reasonable terms, the Mayor and Council are compelled to sponsor this legislative action authorizing the acquisition and transfer of NOMBL to the Authority in order to protect the quality and the level of bus transit service in the North Olmsted community and surrounding areas, and further to provide job security for the 65 NOMBL employees who have been told by the Authority that they will only be offered jobs with RTA if North Olmsted agrees to transfer its NOMBL bus line to RTA; and