The Committee of Finance, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion met on August 13, 2025, to consider a wide range of legislation, including port control updates, a major energy performance contract for police districts, emergency repairs to Cleveland Browns Stadium, and several community grants. The meeting was chaired by the Council President and included extensive discussion on financing mechanisms, procurement savings, and minority business participation.
No public comments were recorded during the meeting.
Good morning. Today is August the thirteenth, twenty twenty-five. This committee of finance, diversity, equity, and inclusion is called to order. Madam Clerk, please call the role. Here. And if you sign on if you serve on finance, okay. Number two to the guests in the audience. I'm going to do some of the lower hanging fruit first, which is going to be port control, utilities, public works, and then city planning and health. Okay? Does that sound okay? All right. That's how we're going to proceed. Uh therefore, the uh first group I would like to bring up is port control. If we could bring up port control, and remember uh director, soon as uh we get done with these pieces, it should take about 45 minutes, and then we're gonna jump right into the other ones. All right. Thank you. Assistant director. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. All right, this is ordinance number 798-2025 as amended by council members McCormick and Griffin by departmental request, an emergency ordinance to amend section 571.061 of codified ordinances of Cleveland, Ohio, 1976, as amended by ordinance number 325-04 passed May 10, 2020 relating to secured area identification badges issued by the director of port control. Director. Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, thank you. Uh port control is here today to present this piece. Um we currently have legislation in place uh for our badging program. Um however, we feel it is uh we have a need to refresh that uh current legislation that we have. Um we have a badging program with software and people that administer it, and it is a fairly robust program that we have uh for all of the identification badges for employees of the airport. Um we we would like to present uh legislation to uh make sure this language is mod is uh modernized, if you will, um, and we have the flexibility that we need to administer the program in the way uh to align with our security regulations and programs that are administered through TSA. Thank you. Very quick. Uh to the policy team, have all of the executive summaries been submitted or most of them. Okay. Reason that I'm asking is because if you've already submitted the executive summary, you've already gone over this with the chair of your committee, or your chair has agreed to relieve it. We don't need all the directors to go over every detail so that we can move kind of expeditiously. Okay. All right. So, Councilman McCormick, any questions on this piece of legislation? Thank you, Mr. Chair. This I've reviewed this um and fully support this legislation on badging the airport. Thank you. All right, I'll read the amendment so that we can make this official. There is no legal objection to this legislation if amended as follows. One in section one at uh at amended section 571.061 at Division D, Line 6, strike of and insert or this was dated 724 25 by Rich Burdovich, Chief Assistant Director of Law. Any other questions regarding ordinance number 798-2025? Seeing no other questions, ordinance number 798-2025 as amended stands approved. We'll now move to 802-2025 by council members McCormick and Griffin and emergency ordinance authorizing the director of port control to enter into an amendment to contract number PS 2024-09 with JD power to provide additional survey services and extend the contract. Director. Mr.