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? - 3 - SECTION 3. It is the desire of the Council that the ballot for said question shall be in the following form: PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT A majority affirmative vote is necessary for passage. Shall Section 8 of Article VIII of the City Charter be amended to authorize the City Council to levy annually, without a vote of the people, an additional tax at a rate not exceeding one and seven-tenths (1.7) mills to provide funds for municipal recreational purposes, including payment of costs of providing permanent improvements and current operating expenses for recreational purposes and annual debt service requirements on certain obligations initially incurred on or prior to December 31, 1989 to pay costs of providing recreational facilities, including (i) unvoted general obligation bonds and bond anticipation notes issued for that purpose on or prior to that date or issued thereafter to reimburse the City for expenditures made for that purpose on or prior to that date, and (ii) unvoted general obligation bonds and bond anticipation notes issued to renew or refund the bonds and notes described in clause (i) and this clause (ii); provided that not more than five- tenths (.5) of one mill of that 1.1 mills may be levied annually for the payment of those current operating expenses. ? Yes ? No SECTION 4. The Clerk of Council is authorized and directed promptly to forward a certified copy of this ordinance to the Board of Elections of Cuyahoga County. SECTION 5. The Board of Elections of Cuyahoga Countq shall cause to be duly given an appropriate notice of the election to be held on February 7, 1989, on the foregoing amendment to the Charter of this City and otherwise provide for such election in the manner provided by the general laws of the State of Ohio. SECTION 6. The Clerk of Council is authorized and directed to cause the full text of such proposed Charter amendment to be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of North Olmsted, with the first publication to be made at least fifteen days prior to the election to be held on February 7, 1989, as provided in Article XVIII, Section 9 of the Ohio Constitution and in Secti•on 731.211 of the Ohio Revised Code. SECTION 7. There is hereby appropriated from the general fund a sufficient sum of money to pay the costs of carrying out the authorizations and directions of this ordinance. SECTION 8. It is found and determined that 'all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this ordinance were taken in an open meeting of this Council, and that all deliberations of this Council and of any of its committees that resulted in such formal action, were in meetings open to the public in compliance with the law.