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.

So maybe I should make that amendment request that amendment here at the table.

Well, if you have are you saying that in 549?

Yes, that you have thank you $5 million for this, Mr.

President, to the assistant director.

So if you have five million dollars in 549, why would you need 4.5 million dollars in 1072?

To the chair to councilman Casey, I do not need so I think I need to make a request to amendment.

Okay, so let me let me do do this.

I'll I'll make the amendment to scratch the 4.5 million from this legislation together.

So Mr.

Chairman, I'll make uh an amendment.

Uh sorry strike section four in its entirety or just the four point four.

No, no, because it's just the cost of the there is there's an amendment there, but we're talking a second amendment cost the additional permanent house.

All right, so then you want to clarify the amendment so that we could get a second.

Yeah, so under section four, um after the amended second amendment, period, and then strike everything after uh shell in line two all the way to the to the rest in section four is that sufficient, Ms.

Chambers Professional Service Plum Red Design Something right here No, let me let me correct that, Mr.

Chairman under under line two after the amended second amendment period from shell all the way to line three, four, five, six, seven, eight to line nine after amended should be stricken from from the legislation, and then we keep no other funding sources.

To line nine after amended should be stricken from the legislation.

And then we keep no other funding sources.

Da da da.

Should be paid from if you're saying you don't need dollars for this amount for this.

All right.

Well, she's looking at that.

Do we have a second?

Councilman Palency.

I'll second it.

Second it.

But I have another question.

Any discussion?

Miss Chambers, is that any discussion on that amendment?

No, no discussion.

Okay.

Any uh any since there is no discussion?

Uh all in favor say aye.

Any opposed?

The ayes have it.

Uh Councilman Kings, do you have anything else?

No.

Councilman Pelosi.

Thank you.

I'm I'm a little confused here.

Um it was my understanding that the connector was 284 million.

Correct.

Well, I see 447 million in here.

What is that?

In the summary.

Professional service preliminary design.

11 million construction cost 447 million.

How did we that's total project cost?

Total project cost is 470 million.

This portion that we're working to complete now is just phase one and two, which includes from West Third to East 9th Street.

Okay.

And that is the 270.

So how much of the 447 million is in hand?

Do we know?

We have 160 million in hand right now.

So that'll help us with the first phase.

First phase.

Full build out.

We've estimated around 400.

And where do you where do you um where do you think the rest of the money is going to come from to do this?

This lake from there's a variety of different tools they're looking at.

One is the TIFF, and I believe they presented that to council.

Okay.

And then additional grant funds.

So this again from East 9th to where?

From East 9th to East 18th Street is considered the second or third phase of the project that we that we do not have current funding for at the moment.

But from West Third to East 9th, we have funded.

Is and is there, Mr.

Chairman, just a wrap up.

Is there a is there a design for this entire lakefront plan?

Is there a design that we could look at it and say here it is?

Is there a design for that?

There's a design for the bridge and for the shoreway realignment.

Yes.

But north.

No, we're not a design.

Let me say that.

It's conceptual.

We're still in pre-engineering.

Right.

But from there north, which would include the Brown Stadium, President Brown State.

Is there anything?

There's a proposed master plan.

And that's something we could look at.

Yeah, absolutely.

Okay, Mr.

Chairman.

Can we get a copy of that?

I don't know if all members have that, but I would request we make sure we request that full master plan.

For that whole entire lakefront plan.

I can see a lot of money going here on the lake front.

And our neighbors and our residents at our neighborhoods are saying, Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute.

What about all these things we need in our neighborhoods?

Um that are so um that are there is such need in the neighborhoods.

Um that's a half a billion dollars going in the lake front.

Half a billion.

Okay, I'll look forward to getting that.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

Uh any other questions regarding ordinance number 1072-2025.

Seeing other questions, ordinance number 10 to 72-2025 as amended stands approved.

Please sign on.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

Um, the next one is ordinance number 1223-2025 as amended by council members Harrison and Griffin by departmental request.

An emergency ordinance authorizing the mayor and the commissioner of purchases and supplies to sell certain owned city city, certain city-owned property no longer needed for the city's public use, located on East 90th Street to Ortho School Properties LLC, or is designed for purposes of developing a hotel.

Uh there is an amendment on this, and I would read as follows.

One in section one at the end, add an additional legal description to read as follows.

Parcel number one one nine-zero nine-zero four-one, situated in the city of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, and state of Ohio, and known as being the northerly 30 feet of sub lot number 26 in the resurvey of S V Harkness subdivision of part of original 100 acre lot 400, as shown by the recorded plat in volume 31 of maps, page 8 of Cuyahoga County Records, and being 30 feet from 30 feet front on the easterly side of East 90th Street, formerly Harkness Avenue, and extending back equal width 141 feet as appears by said plat, be the same more or less, but subject to all legal highways, parcel number 119 09-041, address 1819 East 999.

Parcel number 119-09-041, situated in the city of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, and State of Ohio, and known as being the northerly 30 feet of sub lot number 26 in the resurvey of SV Harkness subdivision of part of original 100-acre lot 400, as shown by the recorded plat in volume 31 of maps, page 8 of Cuyahoga County Records, and being 30 feet from 30 feet front on the easterly side of East 90th Street, formerly Harkness Avenue, and extending back equal width 141 feet as appears by said plat, be the same more or less, but subject to all legal highways, parcel number 119-09-041, address 1819 East 90th Street, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106.

Good, Mr.

Chairman.

Good afternoon.

This request is by the Department of Community Development to sell five parcels now.

You just read the amendment, thank you.

To sell five parcels to Ortho School Properties LLC, uh so that they can build a hotel uh between the streets of East 90th and East 93rd Streets uh to the east and west, and uh Chester Avenue to the south, Huff Avenue to the north.

Uh the request is to sell those parcels.

The hotel development is uh for Marriott Affiliate, Spring Hill Suites.

I have Mr.

Bowen uh here who can speak more about the project if there are questions about it.

Uh but with the amendment that you just read, um uh council president, uh there is a second amendment I need to request on this as well.

Uh it's for the same parcels, but because the price has increased, and my my apologies first to uh development planning and sustainability chair, councilman Harrison.

Uh when I was asked last week uh about a price on the parcel, I didn't have that available.

The price is $13,000 for the parcel.

So because the overall price for all five parcels now increases to $65,000.

Uh I need to request uh a second amendment to add that price in.

Pass it to councilman Harrison.

If you would like to read that into the record and we get a uh move thank you.

Um, this is the other parcel.

Just the additional parcel, right?

Uh yes, for the additional parcel.

Yeah, this is the one that we amended to add.

Uh I make a motion, Mr.

Chair, uh number one in section one at the end, add an additional legal description to read as follows, parcel numbers 119-09-041, situated in the city of Cleveland, Cuyahoga, County of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, and known as being the northerly 30-foot of sub lot number 26 in the resurvey of S V Harkness subdivision, uh part of the original 100-acre uh lot number 400, as shown by the recorded plat in volume 31 of maps, page 8 of Cuyahoga County Records, and being 30 feet front of the easterly side of East 90th Street, formerly Harkness Av Harkness Avenue, and extending back of equal width 14 141 feet as appears by said plat be the same more or less, but subject to all legal highways.

Parcel number 119-09-041, address 1819 East 90th Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44106.

And a second amendment, second part of that in section two, line three, strike 52,000 and inserts 65,000, Mr.

Chair.

All right.

Uh do we have a second?

Councilman Mike Palencia seconded.

Any discussion?

Just a question on this.

Councilwoman Jasmine Center.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

To the chair and to Mr.

Green.

What's the appraisal value for these parcel parcels?

Through the chair to the councilwoman, $13,000.

Okay, that's so you're selling it at the appraisal amount.

Through the chair to the councilwoman.

Yes.

Okay, thank you.

Okay.

Uh seeing other discussion.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

All right.

Councilman Michael Palency.

Thank you.

Uh is this north of Chester or south of Chester?

Through the chair to the councilman north of Chester.

So I see the it's going around.

It looks like two houses.

Is that correct?

Through the chair to the councilman.

Uh through the chair to Councilman Palency.

Yes, it currently is doing, it is going around.

Um what I will say is is this is not a final plan here.

So just to, if I if you don't mind, Councilman, let me back up a little bit on why we're here.

For us to get financing for the project, we need to show some sort of control, and I'm using that very loosely, of the city land.

So we have not started the planning commission process.

We are not gone through all of that.

This is just as simply the deed, and I'm sure Commissioner Green would say this.

The deeds not being transferred toward to us until we go through planning commission, BZA, and all those other things.

We this is kind of getting us a letter to show the bank that we can then move forward to the next step.

So from a design perspective, we have not even um started touching this project.

Okay, so Mr.

Chairman, the so it it's not given.

Uh through the chair to Councilman Palenzick, that's correct.

Okay.

So whose ward is this?

This is Councilwoman House Jones.

House Jones ward as of today, January 1.

If less something happens, it would be council President Griffin's ward.

So that was what is the council lady in support of this?

Um the council lady, uh, I'm sorry, through the chair to Councilman Palenzick.

The councilwoman has recused herself from this project because her mother's house is next to the project.

Oh it's complicated.

It is complicated.

It is very complicated.

Okay.

I'm just trying to understand because you know you've got all these houses around it.

Looks like single family homes around this.

Uh at least that looks like this map here.

I'm just wondering how you stick a hotel federal for all these houses.

Yeah, through through the chair to councilman Palency.

Um, we're gonna work through that with planning commission.

We we pledged to that.

Um, we actually did that through uh Chairman Harris's committee when we talked about this to walk through all of those things, but there is no property being transferred, and I think that's an important point to us until we get through planning commission, BZA, and other things.

This is just a I don't want to call a letter of support, it's more than that.

And community engagement and other things else.

Yeah, it's all of that.

So it's not like we're gonna get this sell the your lots to you.

Yeah, that through the chair to councilman polenzick.

It actually is a risk we're taking on this project.

Um that that I'll leave it there.

Thanks.

All right, any other questions on uh this ordinance?

All right, Chair.

Uh Councilman uh Harrison.

I think it's also uh of note worth noting that actually it's not two houses that sits there, it's actually one.

They actually own one of the properties that sits there.

Uh that's next to the development site.

So not both houses are a residents.

Uh the one house actually that they own, they have control over in the last house that's there that they are uh in negotiations, my understanding, uh, to try to um address that last parcel that sits there based on the comments that were given and share with us at the last uh DPS uh meeting.

Yeah, and through the chair to Councilman Palenzik and Councilman Harrison, there's actually a land bank parcel in there too.

So there's actually we actually control two of the three parcels in there.

The design was made this way because of that last parcel, which we are very um well aware, and commissioner knows this as well, that we're gonna have to work through this with planning commission and and others.

Um, but you know, in full transparency, I said this during DPS.

The last um parcel was an absorbent or it was a very large amount of money that they were asking for, and it actually did not make the project pencil.

So we are um trying to adjust accordingly.

You good?

Okay.

Any other questions regarding ordinance number 1223-2025 as amended?

Okay, so ordinance number 1223-2025 as amended stands approved.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, the last piece of legislation is ordinance number 1323-2025 by Councilmember Griffin by departmental request and emergency ordinance approving the collective bargaining agreement with the utility workers union of America, AFL CIO, local 270, and to amend Section 12 of ordinance number 194-2021 passed March 29th, 2021 as amended relating to compensation for various classifications.

Thank you, Chairman Committee.

Yes, this is uh request to ratify the successor agreement with um utility workers of America, FLCIO, local 270, and the city of Cleveland for the period uh incorporating April 1, 2025 through March 31, 2028, and then amend the uh associated pay ban, Section 12 with the uh the new rates.

This uh contract affects approximately 60 employees, 60 bargaining unit members, uh including water plant operators, stationary engineers, and uh boiler room operators.

Um certainly happy to answer any questions should anybody have any.

All right, thank you.

Uh are there any questions regarding ordinance number 1323-2025?

All right, seeing no other questions, ordinance number 1323-2025 stands approved.

It will be heard for consideration by the full body this evening.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That being said, this committee of finance, diversity, equity, and inclusion is adjourned.

Thank you.