This meeting brought together the Cleveland City Council to handle routine legislative business, address the impending 2025 US government shutdown and its impact on SNAP benefits, and hear public testimony regarding the Browns' stadium settlement, public safety, and local zoning issues. While most agenda items passed unanimously, the session featured significant debate regarding the speed and feasibility of directing city funds to local food banks to support residents facing a potential loss of federal nutrition assistance.
Let's get started. Good evening, everyone. Clerk, please call the role. Griffin, Bishop, Conwell, Gray, Harston, Harsh. House Jones. Jones. Casey. Kelly. Moorer. Polensic. Santana. Present. Slife. Spencer. Star. Welch. You have porn, Mr. President. Thank you. I mean, ma'am. Everyone rise for a moment of silence, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. And to the Republic for which it stands. No person with purpose to prevent or disrupt a lawful meeting shall do any act which obstructs or interferes with the due conduct of such meeting. Members of public are invited to speak only under the rules set by this council. Disruption, 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 lawful meeting. Such disruption may constitute a misdemeanor and violation of section 605.04. Anyone who disrupts this lawful meeting in violation of the codified ordinance commits misdemeanor and is subject to prosecution. The following is the first and only warning. If this meeting is disrupted, I will I will gavel a half to the proceedings and the direct the assembled officers to escort any person participating in the disruption out of the chambers. Once persons participating in the disruptions are outside of our 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 participated in the disruptions have left the chambers and the chamber doors are closed. Disruptors will not be allowed back in the chambers after the meeting resumes. Again, this is the first and only warning. Madam Clerk, dispense with the journal. By councilmember Kelly. Excuse me. Seconded by Councilmember House Jones. Thank you. We will now move to public comment. Council members, if you could turn your chairs to face the speakers, and we're going to start with Sabrina Otis from Ward, Cleveland. Topic Unified Cleveland representing no one and being paid by no organization. Ms. Otis. Good morning. I mean good evening, everybody. Um I first want to wish everyone who's running for office best wishes, because after next week, I will be pushing for a new grassroots. That if you're re-elected or a welcomed new elector, some standards of principle will be happening. Meaning, if you're a council person within your ward, there's the expectation that three things in the first 100 days that are completed substantial that benefit your residents and your residents only, not the city. Which brings me to the next point. You recently made a statement on the news, and you talked about how we this residents of Cleveland don't like change.