The Committee of Finance, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion meeting convened to review three emergency ordinances related to the North Coast Connector Project, the sale of city-owned property for a hotel development, and a collective bargaining agreement. Key discussions focused on clarifying funding amounts, legal descriptions, and project phases, as well as addressing community concerns regarding neighborhood impacts and development plans.
I do want to see how this works. We're ready. Let's go. Knock this out. Extremely hard. No, I think we had what you went two or three pieces. Three pieces. This committee of finance diversity, equity, and inclusion is called to order. Uh, Madam Clerk, please call the road. Here. Right. Thank you. The first ordinance is ordinance number 1072 2025 as amended by Council Members Bishop and Griffin by Departmental Request and Emergency Ordinance to amend the fourth whereas clause and sections one, three, and four of ordinance number five forty-nine-2025 passed June 2, 2025, relating to an amendment to a contract with the Osborne Engineering Company to provide additional services relating to the North Coast Connector Project, aka Lakefront Pedestrian Bridge Connector. It also says there is no legal objection to this legislation if amended as follows. One in section one at amended section four, strike lines three and four in their entirety, and insert not exceed five million dollars, and shall be paid from the fund to funds two. And this was done 10925 by Jeffrey Marks, Assistant Director of Law. Johnson, you have the uh I'm sorry, assistant director. Um you had a full say Johnson Chambers. Okay, gotcha, Johnson Chambers. Um to the president to the um committee. Yes, this is to um make clerical changes in the already um amended ordinance 549, um those clerical changes remove the um assignment of fourth modification to actually read second amendment to the contract, um, and that is done twice as well as to um strike the request for um the five the four point the five million dollars okay uh councilman bishop you relieved this uh to our committee. Uh did you have any comments? Uh yes, Mr. Chairman. We uh we reviewed this piece of legislation and uh we uh uh relieved it and it's fully supportive passion. Thank you so much. I have a question, Mr. Chairman. Uh councilman Michael Palensky. Yes, I'm just trying to get some clarification because my laptop is down. Uh is this the connector between City Hall and the courthouse? Yes, it's for work related to the connector, yes. Okay. So are there any no dollar amounts being changed, correct? Correct, no dollar amounts being changed. This is just clarification of modification versus amendment. Okay, that's all I'm trying to understand. Okay, thank you. Councilman Casey Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President's assistant director, if you say no dollar amounts are changed, and we're changing the dollar amount from five million to four million five hundred thousand that was per the ordinance five four nine. We had initially requested the funding in that ordinance. So this actual change was to remove the request for the five million. So maybe this needs to be an amendment that I make here at the table. Um, is to change the five million from this ordinance. But I thirdly in the ordinance, right? It's it's I mean, to remove, excuse me, to remove. So maybe that's an amendment I need to make here. This was discussed, so I did not know this procedural part of this, but this five million is not to be included in the current legislation because in 549 we requested 5 million.