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.. CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED ORDINANCE N0.2011 - 17 By: Mayor Kennedy AN ORDINANCE PURSUANT TO ARTICLE XVI OF THE CHARTER MODIFYING ARTICLE VII, BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, ~3 PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED IN ORDER TO ELIMINATE AS OBSOLETE THE NOW ABOLISHED POSITION OF DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY LIFE SERVICES AS A MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION AND FURTHER TO REDUCE THE COMMISSION MEMBERSHIP TO SIX (6) MEMBERS AS A RESUL T OF THE ELIMINATION. WHEREAS, at the primary election held on May 4, 2010, residents of North Olmsted approved ballot Issue 34, amending the Charter by removing from Charter Article V, Administrative Officers and Departments, the position of, among others, Director of Community Life Services (Charter Article V, §6), thereby leaving only the Director of Law and Director of Finance as Charter mandated positions; and WHEREAS, on or about June 15, 2010, the Council adopted and Mayor Kennedy approved Ord. 2010-61, an Ordinance abolishing Chapter 163 of the Administrative Code entitled Department of Community Life Services, thereby eliminating the position of Director of Community Life Services; and WHEREAS, pursuant to its powers as granted in Charter Article XVI, §(b)(1), Duties and Powers, the Charter Review Commission on June 10, 2010, issued a report recommending to Council that Charter Article VII, §3, Parks and Recreation Commission, be amended pursuant to Charter Article XVI, §2, Nonsubstantive Charter Language, so as to delete from membership of the Parks and Recreation Commission, the now-obsolete position of Director of Community Life Services; and WHEREAS, the Director of Law, on February 03, 2011, provided this Council with a formal legal opinion, concluding that eliminating from the membership of the Parks and Recreation Commission the individual holding the position of Director of Community Life Services and necessarily reducing the membership by one member could legally be accomplished by ordinance, pursuant to Article XVI of the Charter; and WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of Article XVI of the Charter, this legislation proposing to remove from membership of the Parks and Recreation Commission the Director of Community Life Services, as a nonsubstantive charter language change, has been advertised by title and text in a newspaper of general circulation within the City on three separate dates with at least two weeks separating each publication; and