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<br />CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED <br />ORDINANCE NO. 2002 -12 <br />BY: COUNCIL MEMBERS NASHAR, KASLER, GAREAU & MII,LER <br />AN ORDINANCE REPEALING ORDINANCE 97-122 ENTITLED, "AN <br />ORDINANCE CREATING A NEW CHAPTER 133 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE <br />CODE OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED, ENTITLED `INTERIM <br />DIRECTOR APPOINTMENTS,' AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY," AND <br />DECLARING AN EMERGENCY, AS TWICE AMENDED. <br />WHEREAS, City Council on December 16, 1997 passed Ordinance 97-122, which was <br />vetoed by Mayor Edwazd Boyle on December 24, 1997 and which veto was overridden by City <br />Council on January 6, 1998; and <br />WHEREAS, the present Chapter 133 of the Codified Ordinances of the City of North <br />Olmsted, as enacted via Ordinance 97-122, creates in the Mayor the authority to remove <br />Directors without the concurrence and consent of two-thirds (2I3) of the members of City <br />Council eligible to vote; and <br />WHEREAS, the Charter of the City of North Olmsted at Art. III, Section 5 states, "the <br />Mayor may during his term, without concurrence of Council, remove any officer or employee <br />whom he has appointed provided, however, that heads of departments or divisions created by this <br />Charter may only be removed with the concurrence of two-thirds (2/3) of the members of <br />Council eligible to vote;" and <br />WHEREAS, the Charter of the City of North Olmsted creates three (3) mayoral- <br />appointed Directors: the Director of Human Resources, the Director of Public Safety and the <br />Director of Public Service; and <br />WHEREAS, City Council wishes to restore unto itself the fu11 and unarnbiguous <br />authority to oversee the removal of the Director of Human Resources, the Director of Public <br />Safety and the Director of Public Service, as expressly delegated to it by the citizens of North <br />Olmsted in their duly enacted Charter; and <br />WHEREAS, the Council further wishes to define and protect the status of the three <br />individuals, Ray Thomas, Lisa Thomas and Don Copeland, who have received interim <br />appaintments by the Mayor to serve, respectively, as Director of Public 5ervice, Director of <br />Public Safety and Director of Human Resources; <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF <br />NORTH OLMSTED, COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA, AND STATE OF OHIO: <br />SECTION 1: That Ordinance 97-122 be, and the same hereby is, repealed, void and of <br />no force and effect. <br />,? b