Madam Clerk, please call the road.

Griffin.

Here.

Bishop.

Conwell.

Great.

Kirsten.

Harsh.

House Jones.

Jones.

Casey.

Kelly.

Santana.

Slide.

Stern.

Thank you.

Pledge of allegiance.

I want to make sure that all council members know we are very close to quorum.

Please stay in the will.

Please avoid leaving outside the will.

Your vote has to be, you have to be in the will for your vote to count.

Okay.

So we have a couple of members that are out, sick, and also a couple of members that are out.

Alright, would everyone please rise for a moment of silence, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.

Thank you.

I pledge you to the flag of the United States of America.

Which is stand one under the independent liberty and justice.

I make the following statement.04 of the codified ordinances, no person with purpose to prevent or disrupt the lawful meeting shall do any act which obstructs or interferes with the due conduct of such meeting.

Members of the public are invited to speak only under the rules set by this council.

Disruptions, including but not limited to speaking out of turn and making loud noises and loud utterances are in violation of the rules and interfere with the due conduct of this lawful meeting.

Such disruptions may constitute a misdemeanor and a violation of section 605.04.

Anyone who disrupts this lawful meeting in violation of the codified ordinances, commits misdemeanors, and is subject to prosecution.

The following is the first and only warning.

If this meeting is disrupted, I will gather a halt to the proceedings and direct the assembled officers to escort any person participating in the disruption out of the chamber.

Once persons participating in the disruption are outside of the chambers, the officers will close the doors and the disruptors will be handled as directed by the director of public safety.

The council proceedings will not begin again until those that participated in the disruption have left the chamber and the chamber doors are closed.

Disruptors will not be allowed back in the chamber after the meeting resumes.

Again, this is the first and only warning.

Madam Clerk, please dispense with the journal.

And road he represented Road Gold Inc.

And he is not being paid by anyone.

Mr.

Snyder.

Excuse me.

Reverend Dale, Reverend Dr.

Dale Bruce Snyder Senior.

And Pittsburgh, Bethel AME.

My grandfather, three uncles, all of them served in the military.

I am Dale Bruce Snyder Jr.

And with that declaration, there comes a responsibility of transparency.

See, I don't stand before you right now with a wingspan on my back.

I don't.

I stand flawed, battle tested and scarred.

You know, being a man, raised by a man that was raised by a man.

I had to learn personal accountability early on in life.

That's just what men do personal accountability.

And with that being said, it was my own actions and decisions that sent me through the fiery flames of the court system multiple times, the penitentiary twice.

But out of that, fire, the dross was burned, and the company was born, Rogue Inc.

Rogo, Inc.

is a company mission to fight recidivism through Class B CDL training.

Road R O A D is an acronym for recidivism on the decline.

And I'm here to talk about the CPC grant process.

Listen, the recidivism is ugly.

We all know the effects of the community, it affects us daily.

I have a blueprint, and it's not to be squandered.

Something that I'm proud to take to the city of Cleveland and take across this nation.

The trucking industry is going nowhere.

And then with this industry, you can create careers.

When you create careers, you create individuals that went from the fray in the society to protect the society.

I know it's a lived experience that happened with me.

I'm not sure why it's so much of a fight for $35,000 grant.

And I'm not ungrateful.

35,000 is 35,000, but I got a multi-million dollar plan.

Why are we squandering over 35,000 for a vehicle that was approved in a program that's for Class B C DL training and then squandering over?

Oh, you can't have a Class B C D L under your grant.

Okay.

Listen, again, back to personal accountability.

I'm here to extend an invitation to all that can be a part of this.

I have to say this, President Council President Griffin.

I saw you on the TV the other day, and I have to salute.

I'm not sure what side of the issue that you were on.

I'm not privy to the details, but what I did see was a strong black man speaking, standing in his convictions.

And that's the type of energy and power that I want to partner with.

Mayor Bibb, I salute you on your vision.

Thank you.

All council members, public servants.

I salute you.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next we have Daryl Houston.

Darryl Houston is from Bedford Heights.

The topic that he would like to discuss is city issues.

He's not representing anyone, and he's not being paid by them.

Mr.

Houston, you had the floor.

Hello, everyone.

Again, I want to thank my community for uh keeping me in touch with everything that's going on with uh the city and the county.

I want to thank all the individuals that believe in the city, and I'm here to uh really address leadership.

So I'm gonna say four names of leadership Blaine Griffin, Mark Griffin, Mr.

Bibb, and uh uh Mr.

Drummond.

Okay.

Here's what leadership looks like.

Leadership looks like this.

As a human being, leaders can make mistakes.

It's what you do after the mistake that makes you a leader.

What I'm experiencing today, I didn't want to come down here and talk about this.

I want to talk about community issues.

So what I'm gonna ask all the leaders, uh, Mr.

Griffin and the mayor, I would like for you guys to sit down like adults, hash out what you need to hash out, and stop running to the camera because most of these things going on are in-house, okay?

And you guys should be able to work together for the community.

Because at the end of the day, all y'all are working for the city, the residents, and I do not like hearing that we're wasting taxpayers' dollars on outside law firms.

We have a law firm here that's being paid that should be able to hash out any in-house thing and be fair and impartial about these situations, right?

I've been sister Maggie coming on for 18 months.

I have the community's attention.

I have the voters' attention.

I suggest you guys pay attention to what's really going on and address real issues in our community.

For you, Mr.

Mayor, for what you guys don't know about this young man.

This young man handles constructive criticism weller than anybody I've talked to in these 18 months.

He keeps his word and he tries to do what he says gonna do.

You do the same thing.

A lot of people in this panel does the same thing, right?

But what we got going on is we should have taken a moment of silence for that young man that laid downtown on West Temp, where the other incident happened on West Temp.

I'm asking you, mayor, to pay attention to these white leasing buildings downtown.

We have the worst downtown development in the country right now.

And I traveled.

Okay.

And I'm scared to go somewhere in December.

I've never seen a downtown undeveloped like this downtown.

We need all nationality places downtown.

When people come from other states here, they don't want to go miles and miles to get the hair done to get uh spaws.

Every little thing that we need should be for downtown.

And I'm sick of what's going on in my community.

I do not ever want to hear that the Cleveland Foundation.

I'll do with Cleveland Foundation next Monday.

And I'm gonna deal with Marshall Recreation next Monday.

Because I'm gonna hold everybody accountable for what they need to do.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Next we have Paula First from Ward 11.

She's here to talk about the CVS lot on Madison Avenue.

She's not representing anyone, and she is not being paid by anyone.

Paula, you have the floor.

Good evening.

I have a few comments to make in the ongoing saga of the former CVS building located at 122 Madison Avenue, and the proposed legislation that would allow the location to be used as a gas station.

I would like to point out that both current councilpersons in the area, Danny Kelly and Jenny Spencer, along with new council candidates Tan Mai Shah and Nikki Hudson have all expressed support for a city purchase of this lot to be used for a new fire station.

A city offer to purchase the lot was made in February for $725,000, substantially higher than the property owner's purchase price of $575 in late 2023 for a profit to the owner of 150,000.

To date, that offer to purchase has not been accepted, and despite this generous offer, a recent court filing on the part of the building owners argues that a gas station plaza is the only viable use for the site.

All think the spot should become a fire station.

Why the pushback from current owners?

They clearly have only one other use in mind.

They have allowed the store to remain vacant with spotty maintenance since purchasing it in late 2023.

Here we are at fall 2025, going on two years of ownership, and the store has been repeatedly vandalized and tagged since 2023.

But we know these gas station owners.

Witness testimony identified a gas station owner as having been the man who fired off the shots.

New era was acquitted of all charges.

And I want to say my apologies to everyone, but I do want to be fair with everybody and hold everybody to the strict time limit that we have.

So it is not to be rude.

Thank you.

Next is Fauzi Badour.

Faouzi Bador is from Ward 11.

He's here to talk about the uh 1022 Madison Avenue and Old CVS, and he's representing the coalist for better life, and he's not being paid by anyone.

Mr.

Badur, you have the uh floor.

Thank you, Council Break.

Good evening, Council Mayor.

I uh my speech was going to do the mayor precisely.

I changed my mind and cancelled my speech.

Uh instead, I will talk about something else.

Nikki Hudson.

Ike Hudson, as you may all know, or some of you know, she will be sitting here in this chamber next year.

Her opponent dropped out, and she will become the councilman representing council lady representing Ward 11 next year.

Nikki, her donations came from across the board.

She got donation from Republicans, she got donation from Democrat, she got donation from the Greens Party, she individual though.

She got donation from independent.

She never got donation from special interest, especially not from gas stations, persona cartel.

Nikki will be representing the world as a free as a bird.

She will not behold to anyone or answer to anyone other than the people who uh will elect her to uh to represent the world.

Uh Nikki will be a human being and will be strong, we'll be brave, as our own Jenny here is.

Nikki, Nikki is our own tool, and she will represent me in that spirit, but she will work with you, whoever comes back.

Hopefully, somebody doesn't come back.

Uh and uh and this council, this council must must return to the people.

Need to understand why a gas station, a people buy a lot that zoned pedestrian overlay, and they want to put gas station, and some people in this council.

I say three breaches here.

Breach about the it's all right.

The city responsibility to straight up West Boulevard to demolish maybe 500 homes to widen medicine to demolish maybe 500 homes, just to put the gas station in a location next to a park in the middle of a residential neighborhood.

Well, hopefully it doesn't happen.

Mr.

Badour, thank you.

Thank you.

Next we have Brandon Krustowski.

Brandon Kristowski is from Ward 4.

He's here to talk about the current climate of the city and violence, and he represents Edwin's leadership and restaurant institute, but he is not being paid by anyone.

Mr.

Kostanski, yeah.

Thanks, Blaine.

How's everyone?

I feel like we're in a restaurant.

You guys getting shelled out here.

Um look, I just want to speak from the heart here and be simple.

Blaine, I could have called you or uh Deborah, we talk a lot.

Uh crime's bad out here, guys.

Crime's real bad.

Uh what tipped me off to this was seeing five different people across the city killed in one night.

You know, I look on our street, it's starting to take some effect with uh with robberies.

Um where's Kevin's Kevin here there?

Councilman Kevin.

I mean, the damn guy got shot at.

I mean, what's going on?

What's going on?

I got five kids.

We're not gonna leave Cleveland.

Cleveland's our city.

I got business in Cleveland.

We're not gonna stop.

But I talked to people from Kinsman to Puritists to Scoville over on Trisket.

It doesn't matter where in the city, I talk to them, and they say the same thing.

People don't feel like they're noticed.

People don't feel like they care.

They don't care.

You're our elected officials.

So I'm just gonna ask you care.

Care more.

You know, this care looks like calling the national garden, call the national garden.

If it's gonna keep our streets safe, if it's gonna keep our kids safe, maybe we're worse than DC.

Mayor, we're worse than DC.

Top ten dangerous city in the in the country.

If that's what's gonna take to keep us safe, and our business is going strong.

Well, let's take that step.

But I want to thank personally, Joey.

Joe, thanks for reaching out and caring.

Blaine, you too.

Miss Gray, Deborah, thank you for calling and say, how are things?

How is your business?

How are how are your residents?

But um, that's all I want to say today.

It's just we gotta care more, man.

When we get into these positions, even myself, I gotta check myself.

You know, we're we're real keen when we get elected to something, or we get into a position of power, we get into a position of some sort of decision making and authority.

It's keen.

We want everything to be sharp and and edgy, right?

And then we start doing it for a little while.

And we take the hits, we take the hits, and our heart hurts, our bodies hurt.

And we start to say, uh, it's just another death.

It's just another robbery.

We just gotta come back, Cleveland.

We just gotta care.

And if we care, we win.

And we were shown at Edwin's.

We put it on the map.

You know, we bring home a war that has been won, what, five times in 30 years?

New York Times is one of 50 places to travel to in the world.

I mean, you got like Dubai and you got Cleveland for Edwin's.

If we care more, we're gonna win this.

And remember Good Beach Devil.

That's all I want to say.

The restaurant's busy.

Um, thank you very much.

Thank you.

Next, we have Bridget Smith Jackson from East Cleveland.

She's here to talk about the explosion at Rainbow Tears.

She is not representing anyone and not being paid by anyone.

Miss Smith Jackson, you have the floor.

Good evening.

On Monday, June 23rd, tragedy struck at Rainbow Terrace apartments.

Cordell Sheffield lost his life.

Two children were hospitalized collectively, undergoing nearly 20 surgeries, and one still remain hospitalized today.

Over 44 families, more than 150 people were displaced and left without stable homes.

Before I continue, I ask that we continue to take a moment of silence in honor of Cordell Sheffield, his family, and the children still fighting to recover.

Since the explosion, these families have faced an uphill battle.

Bounced between Zelma to hotels, temporary housing and shelters, and no clear direction or timeline for stability.

Looking out, I'm sorry, losing not only their homes and belongings, but the everyday stability children depend on, struggling with loss, belongings, irreplaceable memories, and inconsistent access to basic resources, navigating a maze of agencies, paperwork and delays, all while caring for children, holding down jobs, or managing health care crisis while dealing with trauma, grief, and unanswered questions.

Many have been re-traumatized by the system itself, left to prove their need over and over again while their lives remain in limbo.

That sense of family of belonging was shattered in an instant.

Now families who once felt safe and the familiarity of their neighbors are scattered, isolated and grieving, not only the explosion, but also the loss of their community.

Children are carrying trauma into classrooms.

Parents are holding it together while breaking inside.

This crisis exposes a bigger issue here in Cleveland.

Our rental housing stock is fragile and neglected, disproportionately impacting low income and black residents.

Families live with deferred maintenance, unsafe conditions, and management that treats them as numbers instead of people until tragedy forces the city to pay attention.

What's most alarming is the stark difference in response.

Just one week after the rainbow terrace explosion, an industrial explosion occurred in War 5.

That site was immediately corned off, inspected, and updates were shared with the public.

At Rainbow Terrace, where families live, children play, and elders rest, residents are still waiting for a full report, full testing of the site, or even basic reassurance that the property is even safe.

Why is an industrial site treated with more urgency and transparency than the lives of over 484 families?

My axe tonight provide a full update and total transparency about the rainbow terrace explosion.

Deliver proof of comprehensive testing of the site, air, pipes, and structural safety for the remaining 440 families that still live on the same ground.

From a dedicated and comprehensive emergency response team to coordinate the services and prevent residents from being abandoned again.

I also remind you, since late 2022, multiple departments building and houses.

Time's up.

Thank you.

Next we have.

Next we have Juan Collado Diaz.

Juan Collado Diaz.

Mr.

Diaz, you have uh Juan Collado Diaz is from Ward 11.

Uh he's here to talk about Mayor Bib in Cleveland, and he's not representing anyone, and he's not being paid by no one.

Mr.

Diaz, you have the floor.

Thank you, Consul President.

Good evening, everybody.

Um, I am hoping to um not address consul today, as uh you guys have been doing your job very well, and I will not be coming after you today.

I'm coming after the mayor of Cleveland for once directly.

Mr.

Mayor, uh, good evening.

I have had the privilege for the past three weeks to be working around the CSU and uh Sinclair area, superior, and areas of the east side that I'd never been before in my six years, eight years in Cleveland now.

And I have noticed a little bit of a disruptions in the area, a lot of homeless encampments around.

Uh, something that I don't regularly see.

So when I approach this individual, so I ask them, hey, is there something I can do to help with my experience in community development and and everything that I the resources that it can provide, they have let me know.

Then the city has approached them, but there hasn't been any help from the mayor's office.

What is the problem I don't understand?

Last year there was something released and said that the city of Cleveland was doing great when it came to homelessness, but I am seeing over 35 people in one encampment, literally together, letting me know that there's no help for them.

The city of Cleveland has many programs and resources that are getting defunded daily by the federal government, so they cannot go out and help as a 501c3.

So the city needs to take control of that situation.

As we are here in this like chambers fighting every day or doing a little press release against each other, maybe it's time to just divide that, let it go.

I don't know, go outside, fight it out, do what you need.

But focus on the people of Cleveland.

Right now, our homeless community needs us.

The crimes that are going on out in the streets are a chain of systemic problems that every day that you make a decision to travel to another state for some conference, you are following those systemic problems instead of spending it in our city.

Our people need the help.

Our people are in need, and there's a cry for help, and we are not listening to them.

The government is not listening to the people that are putting them there to serve.

Right now, those people are most likely to be removed by police officers in the next two to three days and in jail if they refuse to leave.

That is not what we want.

We don't need more people in a county jail that is literally not being taken care of when those people can be housed or helped into a program to be housed, have a job, battle addiction, or even move on to a better life without the without drugs or literally what we call it home.

I ask of you and your office to immediately go to that area and help the people.

It's by the um by IS-17 and superior, and I need you to like literally go and help those people because they need the help right now.

I'm not asking for the police to go.

This is the problem.

When we send the police, we're causing more problems.

We need those people to be helped.

We need our city to be helped.

Just remember, this is big chain that is getting together, and it starts at the beginning.

Homelessness costs violence.

Those people that don't have help cause violence, and that's where this is coming from.

Those people need help.

Let's ask ourselves why this gun violence is happening, and why are people getting killed?

Let's go to the beginning and stop it from there.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next we have Josiah Quarles.

Josiah Quarles is from Cleveland Heights.

He's here to talk about the topic of public safety.

He's representing the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, but he is not being paid by anyone.

Mr.

Quarles, you have the floor.

Uh good afternoon, Council, Council President, Mayor, Administration.

Um here to talk about public safety and what we think that is.

Um as was mentioned, Rainbow Terrorists exploded.

Uh folks may not know that that was built on toxic sludge, dredge up from the flats, uh, that we see in many of our uh neighborhoods that carry the legacy of redlining and the racist policies that came before us and are continually being instituted.

Um I would like to take note that uh Councilman Kerry McCormick just uh resigned his seat to take um a position at Flock, which uh does surveillance, digital surveillance, and also coordinates with homeland security.

So when we are in this moment in which the government um is profiling and dragging people out of their homes, raiding people's schools, all this sort of thing, we are getting in bed with the companies that supply that data about our residents.

We should think very, very carefully about those decisions that disproportionately impact our immigrant neighbors.

Uh police chases.

Uh, we just had multiple recent police chases, particularly by the county sheriff's department, which resulted in multiple deaths.

Um, I have been told repeatedly that supposedly there are MOUs between all of the operating departments within the city of Cleveland that they must follow the consent decree.

Okay, I've never seen that be the case.

County is now trying to amend their chase policy, but as the government of the city of Cleveland, if you think that the consent decree is something that you should be engaging with, it's if it's principles are something that you should be in line with, then we should be making sure that all of these departments are following those, reviewing those MOUs and making those public.

Um there is a different path forward.

Uh access to affordable housing is public safety.

Holding predatory landlords accountable is public safety.

Ensuring our neighbors returning home from incarceration have pathways to sustain housing is public safety.

Eliminating food deserts is public safety.

Mental health interventions is public safety, and we have the opportunity to do that by passing Tanisha's law, integrating that care response into our 911 systems and honoring the legacy and the tragedy of the death of Tanisha Anderson.

Thank you.

Last but not least, we have Norm Edwards, Norm Edwards is from Shaker Heights.

He's here to talk about the lack of black contractors and workers.

He represents the black contractors group, and uh he is being paid by someone is Mr.

Edwards here.

Mr.

Edwards is Mr.

Edwards here, Mr.

Edwards going once, Mr.

Edwards going twice, Mr.

Edwards is not here.

That ends and concludes our public comment section.

Uh Madam Clerk, please share communications.

File number 1229, 2025.

Oath of office for Luther Roddy, member of community police commission.

File number 1230, 2025 from Michael Golden, Associate Developer Penrose, LLC.

Notice of intent to apply for Ohio Housing Finance Agency for multifamily funding program for the development known as Lorraine Avenue Redevelopment at 4242 Lorraine Avenue Ward 3.

File number 1231 2025 from Jimmy McCune, Vice President Development.

Notice of intent to apply to Ohio Housing Finance Agency for multifamily funding program for the development known as Wade Park Station at 12308 Wade Park Avenue Ward 9 from the Ohio Division of Liquor Control File No.

1232 2025 regarding a transfer of location application at 1266 West 6th Street Ward 3.

File number 1233 2025 regarding a transfer of ownership application at 500 West St.

Clair Avenue Ward 9.

File number 1234 2025 regarding a transfer of ownership application at 4398-4400 State Road Ward 13.

Thank you.

Are there any condolence resolutions?

Resolutions of condolence by Councilmember Hirston for Mary Simmons.

So noted.

Are there any other condolence resolutions?

Any other condolence resolutions?

All council members rise for a moment of silence.

Thank you.

Are there any congratulatory resolutions?

Resolutions of congratulations by council member House Jones for Lee Fisher, President of Baldwin Wallace.

By Councilmembers Griffin and Conwell for Officer Gloria Mercado.

By Councilmember Spencer for Clark School Ribbon Cutting.

By Councilmember Spencer for Jose Hernandez P.

E.

Resolution of Resolutions of Recognition by Councilmember Griffin for Karen Camper Cox.

By councilmember Casey for Stephen House Lazy Bone, third annual music keynote honoree.

By councilmember Casey for Charles Scrugs Jr.

Wishbone, third annual music keynote honoree.

By councilmember Casey for Brian Anthony McCain Busybone, third annual music keynote honoree.

By councilmember Casey for Anthony Henderson, Crazy Bone, third annual music keynote honoree by councilmember Casey for Stanley House, Flesh and Bone for Third Annual Music Keynote Honoree.

By Councilmember Spencer for Joseph M.

Gallagher, Pre-K to 8th School ribbon on their ribbon cutting.

By Councilmember Spencer for Equality Ohio on their 20th anniversary.

Resolutions of welcome by Councilmember Griffin for the President of Slovenia, Natasha Pier Mauser.

Thank you.

And could council members open up the well for our guests.

Coach Boone, Mr.

Record, anybody else?

Coach Boone, Mr.

Record.

Anybody else?

Right over here.

If you guys could.

Thank you.

Come on, Joe.

That's all it's always case.

Officer McCarthy.

Okay.

Thank you.

Good evening, everybody.

Today is a is a very special day.

If you not recall, my background started in Central Neighborhood, grew up playing under Muni League football.

And it's kind of odd that I've been frontline working with Coach Boone.

And I noticed that he posted a little bit earlier this year that he had his coaching certification and his license, and it had a date September 13, um, 1995.

And I thought like, wow, 30 years that Coach Boone has been in the community of front lines, working with our youth as a coach.

So he deserves a round of applause for that.

And with that being said, without leaders like a Coach Boone, you wouldn't have some of us who was here.

Like what I said, 30 years, that means when I was playing Muni League, he was frontline working with other kids as well.

So I got a resolution of congratulations, whereas the members of Cleveland City Council are proud and pleased to congratulate Danny, Coach Boone Solomon, on the 30th anniversary of selfless service, mentoring and leadership in the Garden Valley community.

And whereas, with more than three decades of dedication, Coach Boone has invested time, energy, and heart into nurturing young athletes through the Cleveland Muni Football League, instilling not only the fundamentals of sports, but also the values of discipline, teamwork, and personal growth.

As a proud graduate of Aviation High School, host host CMSD is paying attention.

Class of 1993, an accomplished athlete and football track.

Coach Boone carried that competitive spirit into higher studies at Cuyahoga Community College, where he focused on electrical engineering, sharpening technical skills, and strengthen the determination to guide future generations.

Whereas many achievements of Coach Boone include being included being named the 2019 Cleveland Muni Football Pee Wee Division Coach of the Year, the 2019 Cleveland Browns Youth Football Coach of the Year and leading the Garvey Valley program to receive the 2022 Cleveland Muni Football League organization of the year, whereas beyond football, Coach Boone demonstrates a commitment to health, creativity, and lifelong learning through cycling, fitness, music, and reading, pursuits that inspire others and reflect a lifelong devoted to growth and balance.

Whereas, be it resolved, the Cleveland City Council hereby extends its heartfelt congratulations and deepest gratitude to Danny, Coach Boone Solomon, on this remarkable milestone, celebrating 30 years of dedication to youth, athletics, and a community.

This is just a great day for us today for Coach Boone.

And it's only right when you do 30 years, you need more than a resolution.

You also deserve a plaque where it says on War 5, Councilmember Richard A.

Starr, community service and leadership award presented to Danny Boone Solomon for in recognition of 30 years of exceptional service to the community.

We the residents of War 5 and Councilmember Richard Starr are proud to honor Danny Coach Boone.

Thank you.

Speak, please speak to him.

All right, so those that know me know I can talk, so I'm gonna make this brief.

Thanks everybody for the acknowledgement.

I don't really travel in the circles around the city that get the awards.

Uh but there are a lot of men like myself that give a lot of time.

He didn't mention money too.

A lot of time, money, and dedication to the youth.

A lot of the conversation today has been about public safety, and that's uh first and foremost what we're into this for.

Um we're trying to save lives.

And um I've dedicated my life to it.

I was uh blessed and fortunate enough to find my calling at a very early age.

So I've been doing this actually, it's been this is year 33 for me.

Uh so I just want to thank everybody.

Um I run a great in order to in order to do this thing for so long, and number one, you have to have a passion for it, and you have to have a good group of people around you.

So I have a great organization that I've built over the years, uh, many of which are my actual blood family uh and other people that I brought in that became my family.

So thank you for everybody that's helped me along the way, and um, I got some a few more years left in me, I think.

There you go, coach.

All right, we have one more acknowledgement, and this is actually from myself and councilman Kevin Conwell.

I'm gonna ask if Officer Gloria uh Mercado can come up here, Officer Gloria Mercado.

Let's give Officer Mercado a round of applause.

This is from myself and Councilman Conwill, uh Officer Mercado, he represents the University Circle Inc.

uh police department, and she got acknowledged with a national award, civil rights award for the work that she's doing with youth and young adults and setting a standard across our country.

So we wanted to bring us to that.

And I'll read the first and uh last uh paragraphs and then we'll um present this to Miss Mercado and she can make any remarks.

But it says, whereas the members of Cleveland City Council are proud and pleased to congratulate Officer Gloria Mercado on receiving the civil rights outstanding youth services justice by action award from the national organization of black law enforcement executives, better known as Noble, a prestigious national recognition of her extraordinary service and commitment to our community.

It says, whereas Officer Mercado, who has served as community engagement officer for just over a year, has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to building trust, strengthening relationships, and empowering our residents, especially the youth of our neighborhoods.

Before beginning her law enforcement career in the United States, Officer Mercado earned her law degree in Nigeria, was admitted to the Nigerian bar and practice as a lawyer specializing in contract law, bringing with her a strong foundation of justice, advocacy, and service.

It says to go on, be it resolved that the members of Cleveland City Council extend a heartfelt congratulations to Officer Gloria Mercado for this distinguished national honor and expresses its deepest gratitude for her tireless work, her integrity, and her vision for a safer, stronger, and more united Cleveland.

Ladies and gentlemen, whenever we get someone who gets a national honor for something that oftentimes does not get a positive national spotlight, we have to acknowledge her.

So I know that her chief could not be here right now, Chief Tom Wetzel from University Circle Inc., but we are privileged and honored on behalf of myself and Councilman Kevin Conwell to present you this response.

I hope you're probably like you may get comments.

Good evening, and thank you so much for the award.

I am humbled by it, and I just believe that the mentorship programs are very important in our communities.

And that's where I am, where I am today.

And I really want to show that if with the right guidance, a kid can start early, things can be better.

And I really want to show that if with the right guidance, a kid can start early, things can be better, no matter what your background is, so long as you have the right influence.

And that's all I try to do.

I talk about gun safety.

I talk about police encounters with the kids.

I also talk about what domestic violence and how to report those.

Those are the issues I deal with.

I am also proceeding to bullying cyber awareness and all that, but basically trying to make the kids know that even in a world like this, they can make good decisions.

Thank you very much.

Madam Clerk, first reading, emergency ordinances referred for administrative review and committee review.

Ordinance 1210 2025 by Councilmember Griffin by Departmental Request.

Amending Section 6 of Ordinance 2916 entitled an emergency ordinance authorizing the issuance and sale of water pollution control revenue bonds of the city for the purpose of paying costs for improvements to the water pollution control system, authorizing a master trust agreement to secure water pollution control revenue bonds of the city, authorizing and approving related matters and declaring an emergency to provide the issuance of subordinated indebtedness for the purpose of refunding any outstanding bonds and I'm sorry, or any outstanding subordinated indebtedness, authorizing the third supplemental trust agreement and other agreements, documents and actions related to the amendment of the WPC General Bond Ordinance.

Ordinance 1211 2025 by Councilmember Griffin by Departmental Request, authorizing the city to pay to apply for, accept, and enter into a cooperative agreement between the city and Ohio Water Development Authority for the refinancing of the city's water pollution control revenue bonds, series 2016, the proceeds of which were used for the purpose of paying cost of improvements to the water pollution control system.

Ordinance 1214-2025 by Council Member by Council members Polencick and Griffin by Departmental Request to supplement the codified ordinances of Cleveland, Ohio relating to refusal to obey subpoena of or produce evidence to the community police commission.

Ordinance 1215-2025 as a substitute ordinance for ordinance 808-2025 by Council members Hairston Polencick and Griffin by Departmental Request to supplement the codified ordinances of Cleveland, Ohio relating to the definition of underspeed vehicles and to enact new sections 4501 to 08 and 99 relating to the under-speed vehicles.

Ordinance 1216-2025 by Councilmember Griffin by departmental request to establish the local government trust fund.

Ordinance.

Determining the method of making the public improvement of constructing high comfort uh pedestrian and bicycle improvements at various locations, authorizing the director of city planning commission, public works andor capital projects as appropriate to enter into one or more public improvement and professional services contracts needed for the improvement, authorizing the mayor and the commission of purchase purchases and supplies to acquire, accept, and record for right-of-way purposes, real property and easements, authorizing director to accept rights of entry from private property owners, authorizing the director to enter into various written standard purchase and requirement contracts needed to effectuate this ordinance, including vehicles and equipment, and to enter into other agreements or execute documents necessary to conduct the program.

Ordinance 1219-2025 by Council Members Casey and Griffin by departmental request, determining the method of making the public improvement of constructing and installing replacement sewers and repairing and rehabilitating existing sewers and sewer connections, religion sewers, and construction and repairing catch basins and manholes at various locations throughout the city on an as needed basis and authorizing director of public utilities to enter into one or more public improvement requirement contracts for the making of the improvement.

Ordinance 1220 2025 by Council Members Casey and Griffin by Departmental Request determining the method of making the public improvement of constructing the East 185th Street, East 68th Street, East 113th Street, East 151st Street, Shore Acres Drive, Chatfield Avenue, Chatfield Avenue, Melgrave Avenue, and Grimsby Avenue, Sobieski Avenue, Area, Sewer Replacement, Replacement andor Rehabilitation Projects, authorizing director of public utilities to enter into one or more public improvement contracts, authorizing the director to employ one or more professional consultants necessary to design the improvement and authorizing the director to apply for and accept any loans or grants from any public or private entity.

Ordinance 1221 2025 by Council Members Bishop and Griffin by Departmental Request, authorizing the director of parks and recreation and or director of parks.

I'm sorry, Director of Public Works andor the Director of Finance to contract with one or more temporary employment agencies to provide professional services to supply temporary and seasonal personnel for the Department of Parks and Recreation and/or Department of Public Works and the Project Clean Program and for various other departments of the city.

Ordinance 1222-2025 by Council Members Bishop and Griffin by Departmental Request authorizing the Director of Public Works to contract with one or more consultants or firms of consultants to provide professional services necessary to manage the nuisance abatement process that oversee oversees the cutting and cleaning of vacant and occupied structures that are a violation in building and housing and/or health code ordinances.

Ordinance 1223-2025 by Council Members Hairston and Griffin by departmental request authorizing the mayor and commissioner purchases and supplies to sell city-owned property no longer needed for the city's public use located on East 90th Street to Ortho School Properties or its designee for the purpose of developing a hotel.

Ordinance 1224-2025 by Council members by Councilmember Griffin by Departmental Request to provide for the transfer and amendment of 350,000 within the general fund.

Ordinance 1225-2025 by Council Members Hairston and Griffin by Departmental Request to amend the title of Ordinance 858-2025 relating to budget allocations received from HUD for the 2025 Community Development Block Grant Home Investment Partnerships Act Grant Emergency Solutions Grant and Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS grant to supplement the ordinance by enacting new section 3 to 10 relating to the grants and to renumber existing sections 3 to new section 11.

Ordinance 1226-2025 by Council Members Hairston and Griffin by Departmental Request to rename the Department of Economic Development to the Department of Development by amending the title to Chapter 144 and various codified ordinances to amend Section 144.02 as amended relating to the director's duties to enact new section 144.021 to establish a new office and to amend 183.021 relating to the land reutilization programs to establish a new special revenue fund and to authorize the hiring of an additional employee.

Thank you.

Good.

Mm-hmm.

All right, thank you.

Next we'll go to a first reading emergency resolutions to be adopted.

Resolution 1227-2025 by Councilmember Spencer objecting to the transfer of ownership of a C1C2 liquor permit to 5915 St.

Clair Avenue.

Ordinance 120, I'm sorry, ordinance 1228-2025 by Councilmember Harsh withdrawing objection to a new C1C2 liquor permit at 4189 Ridge Road and repealing resolution 1071 2025 objecting to said permit.

Thank you.

Read the motion to suspend the rules.

By councilmember Spencer that the rules be suspended and the legislation just read be placed on final passage, seconded by councilmember Casey.

Carterow.

14 years.

Call to roll on adoption.

Griffin, Bishop Conwell, Gray, Harrison, Harsh, House Jones, Jones, Casey, Kelly, Moore, McCormack, Polencick, Santana, Slife, Spencer, Starr.

14 years.

Thank you.

Second reading emergency ordinances to be passed.

Ordinance 719 2025 by Council Members Santana Bishop and Harrison by Departmental Request.

Authorizing Director of Capital Projects to issue a permit to Northeast Ohio Hispanic Center for Economic Development to encroach into the public right-of-way of West 25th Street by installing using and maintaining bollards along the building frontage.

Ordinance 846 2025 as amended by Council Members Bishop and Griffin by Departmental Request.

Determining the method of making the public improvement of designing and constructing or constructing, rehabilitating, renovating, replacing, or otherwise improv improving public facilities, buildings, and other similar structures, including site improvements and appurtenances, and authorizing the director of public safety, public works or capital projects as appropriate to enter into one or more public improvement contracts for the making of the improvements, enter into one or more professional services or other contracts needed to implement the improvement, to apply for and accept grants and gifts, and authorizing direct employment of necessary labor for the Department of Public Safety, Public Works, or the Office of Capital Projects.

Ordinance 847 2025 as amended by Council Members Bishop and Griffin by Departmental Request.

Determine the method of making the public improvement of designing and constructing, rehabilitating, renovating, replacing or otherwise improving recreational facilities, ancillary recreation buildings, parks and playgrounds, and other similar structures or amenities on city-owned and city-leased property, including site improvements and appurtenances, and authorizing the director of parks and recreation, public works or capital projects as appropriate, to enter into one or more public improvement contracts for the making of the improvement, enter into one or more professional services and other contracts needed to implement the improvement, to apply for and accept grants and gifts, and authorizing the direct employment of necessary labor for the departments of parks and recreation, public works, and office of capital projects.

Ordinance 848-2025 as amended by Council Members Bishop and Griffin by Departmental Request, determining the method of making the public improvement of designing and constructing or constructing, rehabilitating, renovating, replacing or otherwise improving roadways, streets, bridges, sidewalks, and other similar projects, including site improvements and appurtenances, and authorizing director of public works or capital projects as appropriate to enter into one or more public improvement contracts for the making of the improvements, enter into one or more professional services or other contracts needed to implement the improvement to apply for and accept grants and gifts and authorizing direct employment of necessary labor for the Department of Public Works or the Office of Capital Projects.

Ordinance 852-2025 as amended by Council Members Bishop and Griffin by Departmental Request, authorizing the purchase by one or more standard and requirement contracts for the purchase lease or lease with option to purchase of various heavy-duty trucks and equipment for the various divisions of city government.

Ordinance 853-2025 as amended by council members Bishop and Griffin by departmental request.

Authorizing the purchase by one or more standard and requirement contracts for the purchase lease or lease with option to purchase of various light duty vehicles and equipment for the various divisions of city government.

Ordinance 950-2025 by Council members Palencick and Griffin by Departmental Request.

Authorizing Director of Public Safety to apply for and accept a grant from the Ohio Department of Public Safety for fiscal year 2026 impaired driving enforcement program and selective tariff enforcement program.

Thank you.

Read the motion to suspend the rules.

Read the motion to suspend the rules.

Oh, she's got okay.

It said selective traffic enforcement.

Ordinance 976, 2025, as council by council members McCormack, Bishop Harrison by departmental request to vacate a portion of West 48th Street, Southwest, and Ravine Court, Southwest.

Ordinance 977 2025 by Council Members McCormack Bishop and Harrison by Departmental Request.

Excuse me, to vacate all of relocated Lorraine Court, a portion of 48th place, and a portion of Turn Avenue Southwest.

Ordinance 978 2025 by Council Members Starr Bishop and Harrison by Departmental Request to vacate the remaining portion of Sherman Court.

Ordinance 984 2025 by Council Members Hairston and Griffin by Departmental Request to amend Section 173.65 of the Codify Ordinances relating to the City Planning Commission.

Ordinance 1078 2025 as amended by Council Members Harrison Polensick Bishop and Griffin by Departmental Request to amend the title and sections 1 and 11 of Ordinance 671 relating to giving consent to the County of Cuyahoga for the resurfacing of NEF Road and to supplement the ordinance by adding new section 6A relating to pedestrian facilities.

Ordinance 1166 2025 as amended by Councilmember Griffin by Departmental Request authorizing the Director of Finance to enter into an amendment to a lease agreement with Mid City Limited for the lease of office space for Cleveland Police Commission located at 3631 Perkins Avenue for one additional year.

Read the motion to suspend the rules.

By councilmember Spencer that the rules be suspended and the legislation just read be placed on final passage, seconded by councilmember Casey.

Carterow.

Griffin, Bishop Conwell Gray, Hirston Harsh, House Jones, Jones, Casey, Kelly, Moore, McCormack, Polensick, Santana, Slife, Spencer, Starr.

14 YAs.

Call to roll on passage.

Griffin, Bishop Conwell Gray, Hairston, Harsh, House Jones, Jones, Casey, Kelly, Moore, McCormack, Polencyc, Santana, Slife, Spencer Starr.

14 years.

Thank you.

Second reading emergency resolutions to be adopted.

Resolution 955 2025 by Council Members McCormack Bishop and Harrison by Departmental Request.

Declaring the intent to vacate all of the unnamed alley south of Abbey Avenue.

Resolution 956 2025 by Council Members McCormick Bishop and Harrison by Departmental Request, declaring the intent to vacate a portion of West Third Street.

Resolution 957 2025 by Council Members McCormick Bishop and Harrison by Departmental Request declaring the intent to vacate a portion of West Third Avenue.

Resolution 958 2025 by Council Members McCormack Bishop and Harrison by Departmental Request declaring the intent to vacate a portion of West Third Street.

Read the motion to suspend the rules.

Seconded by Councilmember Casey.

Call to roll.

Griffin, Bishop Conwell Gray, Harrison, Harsh, House Jones, Jones, Casey, Kelly, Moore, McCormick, Polensic, Santana, Slife, Spencer, Starr.

14 years.

Call to roll on adoption.

Griffin Bishop Conwell Gray Harrison Harsh, House Jones, Jones, Casey, Kelly, Moore, McCormack, Polensic, Santana, Slife, Spencer, Starr.

14 years.

Thank you.

Legislation to be tabled.

Ordinance 1356 2024 by Council Members Polencick and Griffin by Departmental Request.

Authorizing Director of Public Safety to apply for and accept a grant from Cuyahoga County for fiscal year 22 Urban Area Security Initiative Program and authorizing other contracts to implement the grant.

Establishing a moratorium on the issuance of use permits and building permits, certificates of occupancy, sign permits, tobacco retail sales licenses, and other license or permit applications for smoke shops.

Ordinance 674 2025 by Councilmember Griffin by Departmental Request Authorizing the issuance and sale of bonds in the maximum principal amount of $550,000 for the purpose of providing funds to improve municipal cemetery facilities, buildings, structures, and grounds, and authorizing related matters.

Ordinance eight oh eight twenty twenty-five as amended by council members Harrison Polentic and Griffin by departmental request to supplement the codified ordinances of Cleveland, Ohio, relating to the definition of underspeed vehicles and to enact new sections four fifty point oh one to oh six and ninety-nine relating to underspeed vehicles.

Ordinance eight forty-five twenty twenty-five by council members Bishop and Griffin by departmental request, determining the method of making the public improvement of designing and constructing or constructing, rehabilitating, renovating, replacing, or otherwise improving cemeteries, including site improvements and appurtenances, and authorizing director of parks and recreation or capital projects as appropriate to enter into one or more public improvement contracts for the making of the improvement.

Enter into one or more professional services and other contracts needed to implement the improvement to apply for and accept grants and gifts and authorizing the director of employment of the necessary uh labor for the Department of Parks and Recreation or Office of Capital Projects.

Thank you.

Uh believe we need to call the role on approval of tabling.

Griffin, Bishop Conwell, Gray, Hirston Harsh, House Jones, Jones, Casey, Kelly, Moore, McCormack, Polency, Santana, Slife, Spencer Starr, 14 years.

Thank you.

All right.

We'll move now to the introductions.

I know that uh the CSU grad students uh were escorted here by Ed Ramiro, but they had to go.

So uh the person that is here that I did want to recognize is uh Insan loving uh attorney Insan loving.

She's uh if she could stand up, please, inside loving.

And I think she might have stepped out, but we do have a representative from the uh community police commission, Sharina Zayed that was here as well.

I think that she had to leave, but Miss Zayed, I did want to acknowledge Miss Zay.

Uh are there any other introductions?

Councilwoman Rebecca Moore.

I did just want to recognize Bill Coodrin and um act up, the uh folks from Act Up who are here today.

If they could stand up, I appreciate them being here.

Please stand and be acknowledged.

Thank you.

Um Gil, I hope you come back and give a version of the speech that you gave at the LGBT state of the community, uh, to all the council.

I think everyone deserves to hear it, and thank you for being here.

Thank you.

Are there any other introductions?

Any other introductions?

Seeing no other introductions, are there any announcements?

Any announcements, Councilman Pelic, would you announce the meeting tomorrow that I'll be held?

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Tomorrow at two o'clock in the committee room.

Uh, the federal monitor will um be in attendance to give us an update and presentation as they once did before, uh, as it pertains to the status, what they believe to be the status of the Cleveland Police Department.

So again, I would urge all members who would like to hear the presentation to please be in attendance.

And again, I want to thank the um members of the administration for the assistance that they have provided to me, and specifically Dr.

Anderson, who's been keeping me uh well apprised of the progress within the division of police.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Are there any other announcements?

Seeing no other announcements, is there any miscellaneous?

Any miscellaneous?

Seeing no miscellaneous, madam clerk, please excuse the absences.

By council member Spencer, that the absence of council members Conwell, McCormack, and Santana Santana are here by excused, seconded by Councilmember Casey.

Thank you.

Council is adjourned to the call of the chair.

The next meeting of council will be on October 6, 2025.

Thank you.

This is how it happens.

Are you sitting there?

You looking, it can happen to you.

Kevin Bishop.

It can happen to you.

Any of you sitting here with Mr.

McCormick, even though you leave it, it can happen.