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? ? CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED RESOLUTION NO. 99-74 BY: COUNCII.WOMAN KASLER A RESOL UTION OPPOSING AMENDED HOUSE BILL 101 (AM.H.B. 101) WHICH WOULD PROHIBIT PUBLIC AUTHORITIES FROM REQ UIRING THAT SUCCESSFUL BIDDERS ONPUBLIC IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS ADHERE TO PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENTS NEGOTIATED BY THE PUBLIC A UTHORITY, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY AS AMENDED. WHEREAS, Am. H.B. 101, which was passed by the Ohio House on May 12, 1999, and is now pending in the Ohio Senate, would prohibit public authorities from requiring that successful bidders on public improvement projects adhere to project labor agreements negotiated by the public authority; and WHEREAS, the prohibitions within Am. H.B. 101, as presently constituted, would apply to chartered municipal corporations, such as the City of North Olmsted, when a public improvement project included state funds appropriated for the purposes of that public improvement project; and WHEREAS, Am. H.B. 101 would further tend to promote litigation against public authorities, including municipal corporations, and waste tax dollars, by providing a two-year window of opportunity for "interested" parties to sue public authorities for violations of the Bill's prohibitions, and enable such parties not only to obtain orders from courts of competent jurisdiction voiding the public contracts, but also to receive awards of substantial attorney fees, court costs and "other fees" incurred in the course of the law suit; and WHEREAS, this Council believes that Am. H.B. 101 represents an attempt by the State to interfere with matters which are purely local in nature and which should not be the subject of state legislation; and WHEREAS, this Council further believes that Am H.B. 101 represents legislation which purports only to grant or limit the authority of municipal corporations to adopt and enforce local police regulations within municipal boundaries and, as such, would violate the home rule provisions of Article XVIII, Section 3 of the Ohio Constitution; and WHEREAS, this Council presently has before it for its consideration proposed North Olmsted Ordinance No. 99-54 which would impose a duty upon the Mayor of the City of North Olmsted, under certain specified conditions, to negotiate project labor agreements with the Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council, and to require that the successful bidder on certain North Olmsted public improvement projects adhere to the provisions of such negotiated project labor agreement; and