2024-31 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING FUND 473 “H2OHIO DRINKING WATER DISTRIBUTION EQUIPMENT GRANT” AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Vermilion, Counties of Erie and Lorain, State of Ohio:
SECTION 1: That there is hereby established within the City of Vermilion Fund 473 “H2Ohio Drinking Water Distribution Equipment Grant” to be established for the accounting for transactions related to the revenue and expenses for this grant as approved by the Ohio EPA. The fund meets the guidelines pursuant to Chapter 169 of the Ohio Revised Code. All monies allocated to this fund shall be subject to further appropriation and expenditure as may be approved by this Council according to law. The Finance Director is hereby authorized and directed to take all administrative actions necessary to establish this fund.
SECTION 2: 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 committees that resulted in those formal actions were in meetings open to the public and in compliance with all legal requirements, including Section 121.22 of the Ohio Revised Code.
SECTION 3: That this ordinance is declared to be an emergency for the public peace, health, and safety of the City; the immediate emergency being the necessity and desirability of establishing a provision for this fund to maintain an efficient City operation, wherefore, this Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval of the mayor, providing it meets the statutory requirements for passage; otherwise, it shall take effect and be enforced from and after the earliest period allowed by law.