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CITY OF BROOKLYN, OHIO RESOLUTION NO. 2025-23 INTRODUCED BY: Mayor Van Kirk, Borowski, Tanski, Grodek, Pucci, Coyle, Celcherts, Mosley A RESOLUTION APPOINTING A COUNCILMEMBER, TWO CITIZENS AND AN ADDICTION SPECIALIST TO SERVE ON THE OPIOID SETTLEMENT ADVISORY TASK FORCE, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 2022-22, which created the Opioid Settlement Advisory Task Force, whose responsibility is to “provide guidance to the City on appropriate uses of settlement proceeds from the national opioid litigation pursuant to the OneOhio memorandum of understanding,” there is a need to convene the task force and appoint three of its members; and WHEREAS, an emergency is declared because the task force must meet before budgeting decisions are made as part of the 2026 operating and capital budgets. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN, COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA, STATE OF OHIO: Section 1. Council appoints Councilmember Kathleen Pucci as its representative on the Opioid Settlement Advisory Task Force. Section 2. Council appoints Joseph Szymborski and Gina Stesny, Brooklyn residents, and Raquel Garrett, a professional in the field of addiction work, to the Opioid Settlement Advisory Task Force. Section 3. The Opioid Settlement Advisory Task Force, which was sunset by its terms in 2023, shall be deemed reactivated until further action of Council, and to renumber the remaining sections accordingly. Section 4. It is found and determined that all formal actions of Council concerning and relating to the adoption of this Resolution were adopted in an open meeting of such body, and that all deliberations of Council and any of its committees that resulted in such formal action were in meetings open to the public, in compliance with all legal requirements including Section 121.22 of the Ohio Revised Code. Section 5. For the reasons stated in the preamble, and because emergency effectiveness is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety or welfare of the city, this Resolution is declared an emergency, and provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least two thirds of the members of Council it shall take effect upon its approval by the Mayor or upon the expiration of the time within which it may be vetoed by the Mayor, as the case may be, or otherwise it shall take effect at the earliest period provided by law. Resolution No. 2025-23 Page 2 ADOPTED: October 14, 2025 ATTESTED: APPROVED: October 15, 2025 /s/ Dana A. Schroeder /s/ Ron Van Kirk Clerk of Council M A Y O R Approved as to legal form KMB /s/ Kathleen M. Pucci Law Director PRESIDENT OF COUNCIL Filed with the Mayor: October 15, 2025 First reading: September 8, 2025 Amended: September 8, 2025 Second reading: September 22, 2025 Amended: September 22, 2025 Third reading: October 14, 2025 Amended: October 14, 2025 Yeas: Grodek, Pucci, Coyle, Celcherts, Mosley Borowski, Tanski Nays: None