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-t CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED ; D?? ORDINANCE NO. 99 - 54 5e,? ?? ?e_? BY.• MAYOR MiISIAL, COUNCILMAN O'GRADY, COUNCIL WOMAN KASLER, COUNCILMAN MCKAY AN ORDINANCE CREATING NEW CHAPTER 177 OF THE ADMINISTRA TI VE CODE OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED ENTITLED, "PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENTS" PROVIDING FOR PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENTS TO BE EVALIIATED, NEGOTIATED AND ADHERED TO IN THE COURSE OF CERTAIN CITY BUILDING AND OTHER IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY AS AMENDED. WHEREAS, this Mayor and Council believe that requiring the successful bidders in public building and other public improvement projects to abide by project labor agreements negotiated by the Mayor tends to promote better quality workmanship on these City projects and further may serve to promote labor peace during construction periods; and WHEREAS, this Mayor and Council believe that the benefits of requiring successful bidders to adhere to such project labor agreements will be most often realized in city improvement projects where the engineering estimate of project cost exceeds five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00); and WHEREAS, it is the desire of this Council to accordingly empower the Mayor to negotiate project labor agreements for such large city improvement projects and to require the successful bidder on any such project to comply with and adhere to the negotiated agreement as a condition of its successful bid; and WHEREAS, all successful bidders on city improvement projects, whether the engineering estimate of the project exceeds five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00) or not, will still be required to abide by the State prevailing wage rate laws; and WHEREAS, this Mayor and Council is aware that House Bill 101, recently passed by the General Assembly, which, inter alia, purports to limit the authority of chartered Ohio municipal corporations to require project labor agreements on public improvement projects which include state funds appropriated for the purposes of that public improvement has been declared unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction;