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PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT A majority affirmative vote is necessary for passage. Shall Article XI of the City Charter be amended to provide for aggregate bargaining by the City on behalf of its residential, commercial, and industrial residents in negotiating rates and services provided by public utilities which offer such aggregated services? YES NO SECTION 4: The Clerk of Council is authorized and directed to deliver a certified copy of this ordinance to the Board of Elections of Cuyahoga County in accordance with law. SECTION S: This Council requests that the Board of Elections of Cuyahoga County cause to be duly given an appropriate notice of the election to be held on November 4, 1997, 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 November 4, 1997, as provided in Article XVIII, Section 9 of the Ohio Constitution and in Section 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: This Council finds and determines 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 those formal actions, were in meetings open to the public in compliance with the law. SECTION 9: That this Ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health, safety, and welfare of this City and for the further reason that this Ordinance is required to be immediately effective so that it can be timely filed with the Board of Elections in order to submit the proposed Charter amendment to electors on November 4, 1997; wherefore, this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and immediately after its passage and approval by the Mayor.