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CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED ORDINANCE NO. 2002 - 51 BY: COUNCIL MEMBERS GAREAU, KASLER, NASHAR, MILLER, MCKAY AN ORDINANCE REPEALING ORDINANCE 97-122 ENTITLED, "AN ORDINANCE CREATIlNG A NEW CRAPTER 133 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED, ENTTTLED `INTERIM DIRECTOR APPUINTMENTS,' AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY," AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, City Council on December 16, 1997 passed Ordinance 97-122, which was vetoed by Mayor Edward Boyle on Decsmber 24, 1997 and which veto was ovemdden by City Council on January 6, 1998; and WHEREAS, the present Chapter 133 of the Codified Ordinances of the City of North Olmsted, as enacted via Ordinance 97-122, creates in the Mayor the authority to remove Directors without the concurrence and consent of two-thirds (2/3) of the members of City Council eligible to vote; and WHEREAS, the Charter of the City of North Olmsted at Art. III, Section 5 staxes, "the Mayor may during his term, without concurrence of Council, remove any officer or employee whom he has appointed provided, however, that heads of departments or divisions crea.ted by this Charter may only be removed with the concurrence of two-thirds (2/3) of the members of Council eligible to vote;" and WHEREAS, the Charter of the City of North Olmsted creates thre+e (3) mayoral- appointed Directors: the Director of Human Resources, the Director of Public Safety and the Director of Public Service; and VVHEREA5, City Council wishes to restore unto itself the full and unambiguous authority to oversee the removal of the Director of Human Resources, the Director of Fublic Safety and the Director of Public Service, as expressly delegated to it by the citizens of North Olmsted in their duly ena.cted Charter; and WHEREAS, the Council further wishes to define and protect the status of the three individuals, Ray Thomas, Lisa Thomas and Don Copeland, who have received interim appointments by the Mayor to serve, respectively, as Director of Public Service, Director of Public Safety and Director of Human Resources;