The meeting on October 13, 2025, began with ceremonial proceedings and public comments from residents addressing housing disparities, environmental remediation, property taxes, and police accountability. Council then celebrated the 50th anniversary of Cleveland EMS with speeches from former and current officials. After passing several emergency ordinances, council members engaged in a lengthy debate on the proposed relocation of the Cleveland Browns to Brook Park, raising significant financial and procedural concerns.
How many I got? How many? I can start with nine, can I? Madam Clerk, please call the road. Here Gray. Hairston, Harsh, House Jones, Jones, Casey, Kelly, Moore, Polancick, Santana, Slife, Spencer, Star, Welch. You can start, Mr. Mr. President. Will everyone rise for a moment of silence, followed by a presentation by the City of Cleveland Color Guard? Sharon Cozo, Dave Saunders, Megan Frederick, Anisia Chapman, Ashley Clark, Ray Beth Hughes leading the Pledge of Allegiance. Oh, say can you see by the light? What's so proudly we held at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the pert or the parts we watched were so gallantly streaming. And the rock catch my gal, the bombs bursting, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh say does that spangle that way or the land of the free and the home of the breath. I make the following statement. This meeting of Cleveland City Council is a lawful meeting under section 605.04 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. Thank you. We'll now move to public comment. And you need to uh stop. First is Stephanie K. Thomas from Ward 11 to talk about the CVS gas station on West Boulevard. And uh she's representing shelter to people Cleveland and not being paid by anyone. Is Stephanie K. Thomas here? Stephanie K. Thomas. Stephanie K. Thomas here. I do not see Stephanie K. Thomas. I will move to the next person. The next person is Austria Everson. Uh she's in the Buckeye Woodhill neighborhood. The topic that she would like to discuss is love. She represents the Love Project movement and not being paid by anyone. Uh Miss Everson, you had the floor.