State ex rel. Committee for Charter Amendment v. City of Westlake

{¶ 1} On July 2, 2002, respondent Council of the city of Westlake, Ohio, passed Ordinance No. 2002-69, which privatized the city’s trash collection services. The ordinance was passed as emergency legislation and was not subject to referendum.

{¶ 2} Relators, Committee for the Charter Amendment, City Trash Collection, and its individual members, circulated a petition proposing an amendment to the Westlake Charter. The amendment would require the Westlake Director of Public Service to use only public service employees “for the curbside collection of solid wastes, yard wastes, and recyclables…