Okay, ordinance eight twenty dash twenty twenty-five as amended by council members Griffin by departmental request and emergency orders offered the director of finance to employ one or more professional consultants to study, assess, market, and self corporate sponsorships for city facilities and assets.

It's been approved by Director of Finance Bureau.

There's no legal objection by the law department.

Excuse me, and director.

Tell us what this is about.

So it was great that we had a lot of interest in this.

If the entire proposal is accepted by our legislative body, the first phase would be an assessment of our facilities and the viability of them to receive corporate sponsorships.

And if we uh proceed with uh that phase, uh we would go on to phase two if the city is interested and if we have enough viable properties to receive corporate sponsorship.

Um that second phase would be an 18-month phase where we would pay the vendor to go out and seek uh corporate sponsorships, they would receive uh portion of the revenue as compensation, and the city would receive the majority of that compensation.

Um this item was reviewed by the municipal uh services and properties committee, um, and it was passed, and we are here today to seek approval from the safety committee.

Uh and I appreciate your time.

Thank you.

So thank you, thank you, Director.

And director, identify yourself for the viewing public again.

I apologize.

Uh, my name is Alex Nichols, and I'm the Parks and Recreation Director for the City of Cleveland.

Thank you.

So to the again to the viewing public, you want to you want us to authorize $35,000, correct?

To the chair, yes, that is correct.

And then you want to retain at some point um a consultant or I guess that's the best way to describe it, a consultant who then would go out and try to identify uh potential sponsors for city facilities.

Is that in a nutshell?

To the chair, yes, that is correct.

Okay.

So what happens, let's say um Lani Burton Rex Center.

There's a name on it already.

What do you do with something like that?

So to the chair, um, we certainly respect and recognize that we have named uh many of our facilities after um folks who uh been very uh influential in our community.

Right.

Uh the goal of this project is not to change the name of any of those facilities.

Um I guess I would imagine it being similar to the way Playhouse Square does it, where the name is retained and it could be um I don't know, uh progressive sponsoring Lonnie Burton recreation center.

So the names would be retained.

So then we would actually put advertising on the building, how would that work?

Let's say again, let's say it's uh progressive insurance and they want to sponsor a rec center, they would put their name on the building.

How would they or to the chair?

So uh yes, I'm gonna pass this to Chief Two.

Thank you, Bonnie T1 to you operating officer.

Um I think that's part of the negotiations.

Um it would be similar to any naming rights that we have on any buildings, but that would be part of the negotiation if they want signing, what type of signing, how big the signing would be.

Okay.

So outside of the Cleveland Brown Stadium, which um the Browns control.

Um are there any other buildings that are controlled by an outside entity?

Complexes to the chair, depending on how you describe uh city buildings, um, the facilities at Gateway, okay, which we have uh oversight of those obviously have naming rights.

We have no control over that.

That's correct.

Okay.

Um and it's if it's um those naming rights and the the um uh funding that are associated with those naming rights are usually written specifically in the contract who has responsibilities for those to pursue and to um harvest the the funding.

Uh the same would be for the convention center as well.

Right, okay.

Okay.

Um any other thoughts, director chief before I open up for questions.

To the chair, I think um it is important that um to know that this ties into the master plan and the master plan does recognize that parks and recreation facilities and services have been underfunded, and this is an opportunity for the city to get funding that would not come out of uh the general fund.

So I think it would be a great benefit to our department.

Thank you.

Okay.

Is there anybody here from the law department who's looking?

Yes.

Within the embodiment of the legislation, unless I'm overlooking it.

Um is there anything in here that says that once the administration was to come up with a sponsor for a city building, uh that they it would have to have a concurrence of city council?

Well, um case is not the issue question.

Yes, oh I didn't have the first the amendment.