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.. CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED ORDINANCE N0. 87_ 19 BY: COUNCILMAN TALLON AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A SECOND LAW CLERK POSITION WITHIN THE ORGANIZATIONAL CHART OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LAW FOR THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED, AMENDING SECTION 137.01 OF THE CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, the Organizational Chart of the Department of Law of the City of North Olmsted presently provides for the employment of one law clerk to conduct research, write memoranda and briefs, and to otherwise assist the Director of Law and his assistant Directors of Law in the performance of their legal duties; and WHEREAS, ten years have elapsed since the Department of Law's Organizational Chart was established providing for the employment of one law clerk, and, during this ten year period, there has been a great increase in the amount and complexity of the litigation in which the Department of Law has been called upon to defend the City and/or its officers, or to otherwise pursue City interests in Court; and WHEREAS, the Law Department has, in recent years, been called upon more and more to provide increasingly complex legal advice to officers and boards of the City; and WHEREAS, there accordingly exists a pressing need to employ a second City law clerk to assist the Department of Law in effectively performing its charter and ordinance duties; and WHEREAS, it is financially preferable to employ additional law clerks, rather than to increase the number of lawyers on the Law Department staff; and, WHEREAS, as a further financial benefit to the City, said second law clerk can be compensated from funds already appropriated for "extra legal" without resulting in an increase in the annual appropriations for the Department of Law. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED, CUYAHOGA COUNTY AND STATE OF OHIO: SECTION 1: That Section 137.01 of the Codified Ordinances of the City