But um at some point I don't need that.

But I don't know how to meet.

All four hospitals.

I'm trying to figure it out.

That's what we're gonna try to figure out.

That's what I'm trying to do.

I have my money.

Yeah, that's what I'm gonna do.

I live in the house.

And be my brother.

You know, you know what's funny.

Alright, let me know what I got.

That should be up to nothing.

Right.

Right.

Okay.

I had serious.

And I told him that me and Bird Man.

And I knew it's not a second team.

Good job.

Hold on, y'all.

Let's go.

I don't believe it, but I'm gonna get on the job.

I miss the money.

So see what people don't want to see, bro.

I miss money.

So that's why I support the turn the money down and come down.

Make sure everything's going right.

I get stone, I don't care.

Keep stone with me.

I'm doing the right shit.

A lot of y'all appreciate y'all effort too.

I heard some things when I come down here.

You hear better when you hear people when they come out their mind when you see their body expressions.

That's why I stand up.

Okay, so I look at people, see what their responses are to what people are saying.

Okay, it tells a lot.

Okay.

Without saying nothing.

Okay.

Yeah, I know I dislike him, but that man is right on today.

Okay?

He right on today.

He on his A game today.

He is on his A game today.

And I wish he would use his A game to help the rest of y'all out.

When he chooses to use it, when he chooses to use it, it always comes out right.

When he chooses to um we have a quorum.

I went to let any five.

That's how I'm moving.

I'll be out here and I got the biggest back of the cars and things.

Here and here.

Any business downtown is gonna be any business downtown, you're not getting nobody down.

And if you take putting high up nice apartments down here and dog parks downtown, that ain't generating no revenue at all.

You're not developing anything.

We're losing more than we can ever gain.

And I'm finna take a lot of people down to Columbus.

Okay, because it's time that I bring it to y'all and say we can get all our constituents.

Every last one of y'all in buses.

Get down to Columbus and say, hey man, what y'all doing?

I mean, churches, pastors, everybody needs to be in a house.

I know I need to let go and let God.

I'm trying to get there.

I'm sure trying.

All right, let's uh let's go ahead and I got it for him, so I'm gonna go ahead and uh and get started.

Uh this committee of finance development and uh inclusion, finance development, equity and inclusion is called to order.

Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Here we go.

Thank you.

I believe we have a guest at the table.

Um if I'm gonna ask economic development, I believe they have a couple of guests with the pinrolls.

This is ordinance number 14 58-2025 as amended by council members starr, Bishop Harrison and Griffin by departmental request and emergency ordinance to amend the title and sections four, five, six, seven, and eight of ordinance number seven, three, eight-2025 passed June 2, 2025, relating to an agreement with Penrose Holdings, LLC, or his designee for the sale of the Warner and Swayze building and entering into loan agreements with Penrose Holdings, LLC, or is designee to provide assistance to partially finance the redevelopment.

I'll read the amendment.

The amendment states that there is no legal objection to this legislation if amended as follows.

One in section one at amended section five, line four, strike RL 220 2025-39 and insert RLA 2025-40.

Date 1119, 2025.

Sign Steve Martinick, Assistant Director of Law.

I'm also going to read the companion pieces that are associated with it.

And uh these are the companion pieces that are associated with this.

These will be introduced and considered for passage by the full body this evening.

First is ordinance number 15 19, 2025 by Councilmember Starr Griffin, Starr, Harrison, and Griffin by departmental request and emergency ordinance to amend the title and sections one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven of ordinance number seven four two-2025 passed June 2, 2025, relating to an agreement with Penrose Holdings LLC or his designee for redevelopment of the Warner and Swayze building located at 5701 Carnegie Avenue and other associated costs necessary to redevelop the property.

Next one is ordinance number 1511-2025 by Council members Harrison and Griffin by departmental request.

Uh approving the tax incentive review councils year 2020.

Where's Niz at the Inez?

Are these this is not a companion piece?

All three?

No, this is one.

Okay, so this one is different.

Okay.

All right, thank you.

Apologize, everyone.

I thought I was getting a little bit ahead of my skis.

All right.

So this is the Pen Rose agreement.

So we're gonna stick to 1458 2025 as amended and 1519-2025 that will be considered by the full body.

Uh Director Jovi Jovi Rose, if uh you could uh please announce who you're with, and uh we'll proceed from there.

Absolutely.

Um good afternoon, Chair.

Um I'm here again today to talk about Warner Swayze.

Um we have we're here with um our colleagues over in community development, um, and they're bringing forth the companion piece.

Um we have Mr.

Peppers um who is the vice president of economic development um working on this project um with the Warner Swayze team.

We have John Fosbender um who's a project manager on my team who's been working really hard on this and a FOMA Zapway um who has been doing the same.

Um and I will pass it on to um Ephoma to just talk about the the amendment um and be able to answer any questions that you have.

Thank you.

Please thank you, Director.

Thank you, uh Chair.

Um this amendment is necessary because the client have requested multiple loans.

So the original um agreement was just to make uh a loan, and this amendment is to pluralize the number of loans because they uh having uh different kinds of housing development.

Some are senior and some of them are for family units, and they would like us to make uh separate loans for each of those uh condomized units.

And so both CD and Ed are looking to make this change to enable us to enter into multiple loan agreements.

Thank you.

Uh this was relieved by DPS and municipal services.

Uh Councilman Harrison, Councilman uh Bishop.

Uh yes, Mr.

Chairman.

We uh uh relieved this and we fully supported the pastor.

Thank you, Councilman Harrison.

Uh yes, Mr.

Chair, we have the DPS also relieved this.

Uh understanding that it was only minor changes uh to the ordinance and fully supportive.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilman Starr.

This is in uh the illustrious Ward 5.

No, I support this whole initiative.

Um, this is a great opportunity, a project that we've been working on uh a little bit over the last two and a half years.

Um we're almost at the finish line, so I do support this in order.

Thank you so much.

Seeing no other questions.

Councilman uh Conwill, and then who else?

Councilman Conwell and Casey.

What you looking for 1519, 1458.

5701.

5701 Carnegie.

Is the old building right behind the fire station across from the waste uh facility right by 55th in Carnegie, right in that general vicinity.

It's been sitting there for about 30, 40 years almost.

Exactly.

All right.

Outstanding.

Councilman Casey.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Mr.

Chairman, to our directors, um, can you just tell us how much total the city is investing in loans, and then are any of the loans forgivable and what are the terms of the loans?

Yes, uh, I can speak to ED loans.

Um, we are doing um a loan of um eight hundred uh thousand dollars EU DAG, and then um also the industrial commercial land bank, we're doing a loan of two point uh zero eight million, um, which is to reinvest um the um purchase price to help with construction to help fill the gap and bring this long um overdue project to market.

All right, Mr.

Chairman.

To I forget your FOMA.

So we're investing 3.6 million, the city's investing 3.6 million from ED.

Anybody any other department putting money into this uh to the tech to the chairman through the count um to the council member through the chair?

Um we are doing four million dollars.

This community development is in home dollars for uh Warner and Swayze, which will be divided between those two condos, and then also another three million dollars through the VASTA fund which you have before you that ordinance.

So, Mr.

Chairman, to our team, we're putting 10.6 million dollars into the city's investing 10.6 million dollars into this project, correct?

If if those numbers that you just told me are correct, I added them up.

Like I can only get to about 20, but I'm good at 10 point 10.6.

So we're investing the city's investing 10.6 million into this project, correct?

Yes, and the total project cost is 64 million.

So there's a whole lot, there's about 20 different um partners in trying to bring this uh wonderful project to Mr.

I and I think it's a great project.

I just want to know what we're investing.

And then is any of this money, Mr.

Chairman to our team, is any of it forgivable?

Or will they be paying the whole 10 point six million back through the chair to the councilman?

Uh the ED ones uh forgivable con uh contingent on them meeting the conditions of forgiveness.

So this so Mr.

Chairman to our team, the seven seven million is forgivable.

Um the ED ones are under three million.

Pardon me?

The economic development ones are uh two point eight million.

Oh, the two point eight million is forgivable.

And then the rest of it is paid over how long uh to the council member through the chair.

Um they will have about 15-year term.

15 year term for the community development loans.

Okay, all right, thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Thank you.

Just for clarification.

Um, is the city on first position on this or are we in a subordinate position on this?

Um to the chair.

Um the city in ED is uh subordinate to um the primary lenders.

We and the county shares a subordinate um position behind the senior lender.

Okay, so we're in second position, not first position.

Not first position.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

All right, uh, seeing no other questions.

Mr.

President, what you said?

We are second or you say we have third.

Okay, third.

Yes.

Okay.

All right.

Uh okay, so seeing no other questions, ordinance number 1458-2025 as amended in ordinance number 1519-2025.

Uh stand approved.

1519-2025 will be heard for full consideration by the council this evening.

Thank you all so much and congratulations on the great project.

Please sign on.

All right, Mini Court.

All right.

First is ordinance number 1448-2025 by Councilmember Griffin by Departmental Request and emergency ordinance authorizing the Director of Finance on behalf of the Cleveland Municipal School District to enter into one or more contracts with court community service for one professional services necessary to place criminal defendants in community service and two for placement of criminal defendants in the Cleveland Work Crew program, both as referred to the court for the community the Cleveland Municipal Court for a period of one year with two one-year options to renew exercisable by the director of finance.

Yes, Chair, I'm Michelle Kenney.

I'm the finance director for Cleveland Municipal Court, and I have our new deputy court administrator with us, Stephanie Pope Early.

Hello.

For this um legislation, core community service, we have contracted with them for over, I'm gonna say for over 10 years.

Um and they provide services for those that um need to go out and do community service that go through our court, and just this year, they have provided over 78,000 hours of community service.

They have collected bags of letter over 24,000, and I know uh council people also contact core community service for their constituents in the community.

They help the seniors, they help um property owners, and they do community service work um to help them with their program as they come through the court.

Thank you.

Uh who took over for what's his name?

Paul Claire Paul Cloder, yeah.

Who took up for Paul?

He's right now, he's interim right now with them.

Um they weren't able to be here today, but we have he's interim with them on contract until they get someone full time.

Uh Councilwoman Spencer.

Thank you.

Not to uh sorry to interrupt council president.

Um we've been working with an individual named Amy Flowers, who I believe is the director and or primary point person.

So the the program and services have continued as they as they always were.

And appear, you know, they're still very highly effective.

Yes.

To the council, to the chair, yes.

Absolutely, thank you.

Any other questions regarding 1448-2025?

Councilwoman Spencer.

Thank you, uh, Council President.

Just to comment that I cannot imagine having done my term in office without court community service.

They have been absolutely invaluable.

And just want to thank and shout out court community service, Paul Clodora service, and then under Emi Flowers, really appreciate everyone's work.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Very good.

Thank you.

Councilman Kevin Bishop.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Mr.

Chairman, I just want to express the same uh sentiments uh that councilwoman Spencer have uh court community service has done war to very well, and we look forward to working with our court community service in the future.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Did I miss anybody else?

Mr.

Chairman.

Councilman Michael Pelesi.

Mr.

Chairman, I too would like to express uh my support and um wholehearted support for Court Community Service.

They've done an excellent job throughout the city.

And I want to also thank these two young ladies for being at the table.

They're both proud residents awarded.

Okay.

Okay.

Thank you.

All right, seeing no other questions, ordinance number 1448-2025 stands approved.

Uh, please sign on.

And uh I want to ask if council members, if you could, we really are about an hour behind our original start time, and we do have to burn through a significant piece of legislation.

So I just want to make sure that everybody is cognizant of that as we move this forward.

Thank you.

Next is ordinance number 1449-2025 by Councilmember Griffin by Departmental Request, an emergency ordinance authorizing the director of finance on behalf of the Cleveland Municipal School District.

I'm sorry, Cleveland Municipal Court to enter into one or more contracts with Oriana House, Inc.

for professional services necessary to provide appropriate placement for defendants to be assigned into supervised pretrial release without the sanction of incarceration and to provide related services for the Cleveland Municipal Court for a period of one year with one with a one-year option to renew exercisable by the director of finance.

And as uh is uh Jim are you gonna join us or thank you.

Please proceed.

Thank you, Council Chair.

We have um with us um Oriana House, and we also have the pretrial services director with us.

He said in his name is Ron Hapton Hampton, he is also here.

And just to give a little history, Stephanie Pope Early was a former pretrial services director, so she knows this program like the back of her hand because it started under her while she was a director.

I let her speak on this.

Thank you.

Thank you, everyone.

Um pretrial services is a department that was established in the court back in 2018.

The purpose of uh pretrial services was in response to bill reform.

So our bill reform efforts throughout the state of Ohio.

So we wanted to release individuals out in the community based on risk pre-trial.

And um at that time, we um created a contract with the Oriana House to provide services for case management for electronic monitoring and other services um during the pretrial phase of incarcerate so individuals are not incarcerated in the jail.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any of the guests want to make any remarks.

Okay.

All right, great, thank you.

Uh any questions regarding 1449-2025.

Councilwoman Jasmine Santana.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Through the chair, Stephanie.

Um, what is the sex success rate in this program?

I can say um to the councilwoman through the chair, um, that we have had a substantial um decreased level of failure to appear rates um during the overall all um period for pretrial services.

Um speak on least numbers.

Mr.

Ron Thank you.

So she moves and she moved up, so she left that to somebody else.

I can't read the hand right.

Uh success rate.

So our failure to appear rate has decreased over the years.

Um, in 2018, we had a pre- I'm sorry, a failure to appear rate of 42 percent.

Um, at our last year and in 2024, that rate now sits at only 24 percent.

Um, as far as individuals with new criminal activity in 2024, only five percent of uh individuals uh monitored by the pretrial service department uh have any type of new criminal activity.

And how many um clients are you guys serving per year?

Uh 2024's rate, we were at roughly 1,732 defendants.

Good, thank you.

Thank you.

Any other questions regarding 1449-2025?

Send all the questions, ordinance number 14 49-2025 stands approved.

Last one for municipal court is ordinance number 1453-2025 by council members.

Thank you, Jim.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

Thank you, ma'am.

All right, ordinance number 1453-2025 by Councilmember Griffin by Departmental Request, an emergency ordinance authorizing the director of finance on behalf of the Cleveland Municipal Court to enter into one or more contracts with the Cuyahoga County Public Defender Commission for legal services necessary to defend indigent defendants charged with violation of ordinances of the city of Cleveland that may result in incarceration for the Cleveland Municipal Court for a period of one year with one option to renew for an additional consecutive year exercisable by the director of finance.

Director and Mr.

Sweeney.

Good afternoon.

Um contract with them over probably over the past 10 years in regards to reaching out to the Cuyahoga County Public Defender's Office when clients need that come through the court need um free service as they appear in court.

Our Kayah County Public Defenders Office has been a great resource for the defendants that do come to the court, those who aren't able to hire an attorney, so which is very helpful.

Um we have a great relationship with them.

This is general fund funding.

Um and with this funding, we get about a 82% reimbursement for this fund.

So when you see the dollar amount in the legislation, about 82% of that is refunded back to the city of Cleveland.

Um and I will have Mr.

Sweeney speak if he would like.

Thank you, Council President, um, members of council.

Uh this is a partnership that the Cycle County Public Defender's Office uh has had for I I think almost 20 years now, providing representation.

Um, and we appreciate the opportunity to represent people uh in their moment of greatest need that can't afford counsel.

Um, and we just ask that you continue to um can contract with us for that purpose.

Thank you.

Uh are there any questions regarding ordinance number 1453-2025?

Well, attorney Sweeney, thank you so much.

I know you do a great job been knowing you for more than 20, 25 years, and still great to see you.

We we got great hair.

Yeah.

After that last meeting, yeah, we're still here.

We're still here.

We are still here, my friend.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

Have a great one.

Thank you, ladies.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We're not gonna hold that.

You guys are a great Ward 8 constituents.

Thank you.

I'm gonna hold that against you.

Thank you.

All right, uh Department of Aging, if they could come join us.

This is ordinance number 1418-2025 by council members Conwell and Griffin by departmental requests, an emergency ordinance authorizing the director of aging to apply for and accept one or more grants from the Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging for 2026 through 2028 Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging programs, including supportive services and aging and disability resource center programs, and authorizing the director to accept gifts, grants, or services from any public or private entity for the purposes of this grant.

Director, our favorite, how you doing?

Well, thank you.

Good afternoon, Council President, Council members.

Every couple years I come before you to ask um for the authority to enter into a contract after applying to the Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging.

It's been more than 20 years that we've received this grant.

Pays for the salaries of five full-time employees and several part-time employees, people you know, like Tony Dial and Gladys Soto and Jay Raz.

Thank you.

And first of all, I want to commend your department.

You're always very prompt.

I know that the needs of our aging community in the city of Cleveland are overwhelming, but you always step up to the uh to the plate whenever we have uh whenever we have issues, okay?

Great team.

Councilman Kevin Conwell, you relieved this.

Did you have any remarks?

I believe it is um I trust you.

Uh department, you guys execute well.

Uh, you mentioned Tony Dowell and the other people, they're very, very good.

So I ask um Cleveland City Council to support this um this ordinance.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

Keep doing a great job.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

I mean director, director.

Thank you.

Seeing no other questions, ordinance number 1418-2025 stands approved.

Thank you, Director.

Thank you so much.

All right.

Uh we do have another group of guests, and I'm going to ask if uh economic development can invite them to the table.

I didn't see this earlier.

My apologies.

This is ordinance number 1522-2025 by council members House Jones, Harrison, Griffin by Departmental Request, an emergency ordinance authorizing the director of economic development to enter into a loan agreement with Village of Joy Corporation, or is designated to provide economic development assistance to partially finance the construction of a birthing center at 1802 East 65th Street and other associated costs necessary to redevelop the property.

And uh once again, this will be introducing her for consideration by the full body this evening.

Uh Director Rose.

Thank you, Joe Rose.

I'm gonna get it right eventually.

That's it's okay.

It's it's a tough one.

Jove Rose Bordeaux.

So Director Bordeaux.

That's right.

Okay, gotcha.

Um thank you, Chair.

Uh I'm here um with a very exciting project.

Um, it's one that really aligns with this administration's commitments to healthy neighborhoods, inclusive economic growth, um, and supporting black women-led organizations that are really delivering on real impact.

Um, I'm here with um Chris Shefton, who is the Chief of Growth and Expansion.

Um, Jasmine Long, president and CEO.

Um, and my amazing project manager, um Robin Brown, who has worked really hard to get this to this point today.

And so, Robin, um, if you want to speak to the specific ask of the table today.

Sure.

Through the chair, um the Department of Economic Development is looking to give um Birth and Beautiful Communities, um, which is also known as Village of Joy Corporation, a 750,000 dollar loan.

Um, that loan will be uh a term of 10 years.

Um the first year would be interest only, and the remaining nine years will be amortized.

We will also receive a corporate guarantee from birth and beautiful communities as well as a third position on the project site.

Okay, great, great, great.

First of all, great group of uh, I gotta say this.

I'm just uh floored in watching all this powerful black women at the table today.

This is amazing, but um, I do have to say this is a very um important project.

Uh it hits the triple bottom line that this council is looking for.

It hits the economic, social, and environmental impact that we're looking for.

So if any of you guys have any remarks, I'm uh I'm a big fan of it.

Um I actually have for full disclosure.

Um, my granddaughter benefited from being a part of this program.

So it's actually a program that I've seen work.

Um, you know, my son's girlfriend, and they were right there for her, helped her through the process.

So I'm very fond of the work that this group does.

So thank you, Miss Long.

Well, thank you.

And I guess with that, I would say that these are actually the last dollars needed.

So if you've driven by East 65th and Chester, you will notice a very large hole in the ground because we have already begun construction.

We have raised 13.9 million dollars for this project, which I think is really impressive.

And I'm so thankful to everyone on the council and administration side who like worked tirelessly to ensure that we can get this done in order to close on our new market tax credits by the end of the year.

So we're just really excited to bring this building to fruition and we should be in it uh by the top of 2027.

So just thank you.

Thank you to Councilman Um Harrison for his work in getting the CTPS and like really just helping us um to ensure that we were able to get this project completed.

And if we didn't get this one, we would have lost um two million dollars in our new market tax credit.

So this helps us tremendously.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Miss Shefton to the chair as well as the rest of council.

As um our fearless leader has already stated, thank you so much for your continued support of this project.

Um, these dollars will help to benefit um not only Cleveland by Cuyahoga County, and we are um uh under construction now, and um not uh we are um so excited to welcome the first guests into our birthing center.

So thank you so much for your support.

Thank you so much.

And I already know the answer to this, but Councilwoman House Jones has given this her blessing.

Yes, yes, okay, all right.

Uh Councilman Brian Casey.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman, Mr.

Chairman.

To our presenters, can you just tell me I first of all I think the project's a marvelous project and it's it's gonna do wonders.

Um but can you tell me how much total the city has invested into this project?

So look at my sources and let me say this while you guys are looking for that.

Um thing that I try to do is pick up on different council members' question.

I believe that I'm gonna call this the Casey question.

It might be best for you guys to bring the capital stack whenever you come to the table with these projects because I see that that's gonna be recurring.

Thanks.

And Mr.

Chairman, you're absolutely correct because every every project that's gonna come to the table from now on, uh, we're gonna want to know exactly because I want to start differentiating how much money is being spent out of downtown and throughout the the different communities uh in the city.

So thank you.

Right now we're 10.6 today, which is not a bad thing, but you know, we're gonna we're gonna increase that.

Thank you.

So to the chair to Councilman Casey, um, there's a city of Cleveland ARPA grant for one million.

Um they also have um our grant our loan of 750,000 into the deal, and the total project cost is about 12.9 million.

Okay, so Mr.

Chairman, to the to our presenters, the city has offered, given them, supported them with 1.75 million dollars.

Correct?

Correct.

All right, thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Thank you, ladies.

Thank you.

Seeing no other questions, ordinance number 1522-2025 stand approved.

Keep up the great job, ladies and looking forward to it.

Good job.

Thank you.

See you later.

As I learned, ribbon cuttings are great.

I mean, groundbreakings are great, but ribbon cuttings are better.

So please make sure the entire council gets invited to the ribbon cuttings, okay?

Good.

So thank you.

All right.

Next is uh we're gonna bring up public works.

This is uh the first ordinance is ordinance number 1396-2025 as amended by council members Bishop and Griffin by departmental request and emergency ordinance authorizing the director of public works to enter into a license agreement with a vendor to install and maintain an automatic teller machine terminal located in room 122, vital statistics for the use and convenience of the general public for a period of one year with a one-year option to renew exercisable by the director of public works.

Director.

Uh let me read the amendment.

The amendment says there's no legal objection to this legislation if amended as follows.

One in the title line three, strike a vendor to install and insert key bank two and in line seven, strike one year with one year and insert two years with one three year.

Two, in section one, at line three, strike a vendor based on competitive proposals, granting an insert key bank, whereby the city grants, key bank, and in line seven, strike the selection of the vendor and consideration for the license shall be made by the border control on the nomination submitted by the director of public works.

Three, in section two, starting at line one, strike one year with one year and insert two years with one three year.

Number four, insert new sections three and four to read as follows.

Section three, that the license agreement shall be prepared by the director of law and shall contain additional terms and conditions necessary to affect the license agreement authorized by this ordinance.

Number four, the director of public works and the director of law and other appropriate city officials are authorized to execute such other agreements and certificates and take such other actions as may be necessary or appropriate to affect the license agreement authorized by this ordinance.

Number five, renumber existing section three to new section five.

This was dated 111825, signed by Dela Oprian uh Assistant Director of Law.

Director in Chief.

Thank you, uh Chair.

This this uh piece is for uh the city included to be able to have a ATM machine in the vital statistics room 122 in City Hall.

This um is uh we've come to this table before to ask for this, and in the past, what was asked is that we put out an RFP to solicit proposals.

We did that two times, and both times we had no responses to that.

Um because this is key banks ATM, they were willing to um continue.

Um, but for the most part, after talk with law, they believe that we should go direct uh with this group because they're willing to do it.

There was also an angst about the um key banks uh involvement in the community reinvestment act.

And I do have, and we sent this over uh uh earlier, the the memo that community development has with uh key bank reaffirming the their commitment to the community reinvestment act.

With that being said, we are asking for uh this council's approval to be able to go direct to Key Bank and have the the ATM.

I also uh was asked this morning what was the cost if a person were to use a credit card, uh it would be $2.50.

That would be the charge for using the credit card.

Um but I I was also told that there are a good number of people that still use the ATM when they actually are trying to purchase a birth certificate or a death certificate.

Uh but that's it, I'll open up for questions.

Thank you.

Real quick, do we know what the average amount for uh first of all?

Let me stand on my own protocol.

Councilman Kevin Bishop.

Uh yeah, yes, Mr.

Chairman.

We uh heard us this morning fully supported for pasture.

Thank you so much, Councilman.

Uh just very briefly, do we know how much on average we anticipate or how much we have received on that ATM machine?

Uh to the chair, we we get nothing out of this.

There's no payments that come to us in the city payment.

Does the vendor make you aware of how much they usually um receive or how much they usually actually um how much does this machine generate?

Um to the chair, it wouldn't any it would be the same as any in the ATM anywhere else.

Right.

So but we don't get a report of what we're doing.

Here's where I'm going in.

This is something to consider for future councils and for future administrations.

Uh we're looking under every rock for every resource, and these big corporations are coming here and they're going to make money some kind of way off of these ATM machines.

I would really encourage this council and this administration to really estimate or try to find out what is being generated off of these machines and then determine if and what we should be able to utilize to get a portion.

Even if it's a very small portion, that very small portion can go to something that we might have needs for in the city or be able to go into some different kind of funds that may be able to generate dollars where we can be able to do things like home repair and other things.

So you're going to hear me be more aggressive about how we could try to find money because we do not have 512 million dollars coming from the federal government anytime soon.

Okay.

Thank you.

Councilman's life.

If it is possible through the chair to the director to speak with key bank to make sure that whatever is whether that is the unit that stays or a new one comes in, that it's technologically up to date.

Uh my personal debit card was actually shut down when I tried to use this ATM because it uh hit for fraud because I guess it uses the magnetic swipe instead of the chip.

And uh so I want to make sure that people that are coming to use this that we're not actually making their lives worse instead of less convenient.

So that was my personal experience.

Thank you, Chair to Councilman.

Noted.

Thank you so much.

Seeing no other questions, ordinance number 1396-2025 stands approved.

Please sign on.

The next one is ordinance number 1404-2025, as amended by Councilmembers Bishop and Griffin by departmental requests, an emergency ordinance determined the method of making the public improvement of implementing an the active transportation program by repairing and constructing various safety improvements, including but not limited to pavement markings, delineated posts, sign fabrication material, sign traffic signal equipment, design and related improvements, and authorizing the director of public works to enter into one or more public improvement contracts for the making of the improvement, authorizing the director to employ one or more professional consultants necessary to design the improvement and authorizing the director to apply for and accept one or more gifts and grants or other funding from public or private entities to implement this ordinance.

And the amendment states as follows.

Date 1124-25, signed Patricia McGinty Aston, Assistant Director of Law.

Uh Director, do you have any comments?

Yes, thank you.

Uh Chair.

This piece is support of the our move towards more mobility and to be able to have more traffic calming projects.

Uh this is uh one million dollars that we're asking to be able to have contracts as well as contracts for labor and materials to be able uh to support that.

So I have with me here Commissioner Mavic is going to give you a little more on uh the details of what we're asking for.

So the chair and the council allow the division to enter into agreements and contracts with uh folks to help some of the striping plan, some of the design uh to uh help support the Cleveland Moves and Vision Zero initiatives.

Thank you.

Cosm Bishop, any comments?

Uh Mr.

Chairman, we fully support this passage.

Thank you.

Uh just out of curiosity, this is like the painting the stripes and painting the bike lanes and painting the crosswalks and all those things like that, right?

Through the chair, it's um so that's done in-house.

That's a citywide program that the division takes care of, which is the crosswalks, paving or uh lane lines and uh symbols.

This is to help our forces if there's other projects that are related to the mobility pieces like Vision Zero and or the Cleveland Moves Group.

So this would come in and help erase some of the pavement markings and restripe it.

Um could be delineator posts that you may have seen going around town on um, but not on a large scale or capital project um type program, but it's more of smaller jobs and smaller implementations.

Okay, thank you.

Councilman Palency.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Um, I'm all for traffic calling.

Um so many other things you're putting up.

But let me tell you something.

I'm at a meeting last week and I had some woman go off on me that she hit one of the speed tables and she she indicated that she damaged her strut.

So when I went and looked at the speed table, you can't even see the speed table.

Because there's no paint on it left anymore.

So what I don't know you guys are buying paint.

Are you buying it from China?

Where are you getting the paint that goes on these speed tables?

That's what I want to know.

Because you cannot see them.

And when if you go into Akron, they have their speed tables all they're highlighted.

They're they use day glow paint or whatever they're using on these things.

You can see them when you when you're rolling up.

So we don't have the adequate signage.

The sign is not the signage is not placed well.

And you can't even see these speed tables because the paint is gone.

So I I need to understand what the game plan is.

You know, I keep hearing um, you know, vision zero, and I guess that's vision zero.

You can't see the speed table, okay.

That's for vision zero.

Um, so um, so explain to me what the game plan is here to adequately mark this the the bike lanes to adequately mark the speed tables.

So even someone who has poor vision might be able to see them, okay.

Do the chair of the councilman um couple things.

Uh the contract that we have is with Sherman Williams.

Um, as we've talked before at this table, uh, we've gone from a waterborne to an acetone type uh pavement marking, which has a longer life.

The speed tables you're referencing, we've changed how we do that.

We're actually striping all the way across.

The sign is adequate.

Um sometimes it may not be right at the speed table, but we have strips on the front of the posts and the diamonds or the 30-inch diamonds.

So that's so when so wherever you stripe them or wherever you paint them, it isn't on the northeast side, okay.

So when are you gonna paint those things so people can see them?

Through the chair, which ones are you?

On waterloop, man.

Oh, waterloo, okay.

I mean, you can't even see it, and that's where she did a dance on me about she she said she damaged her struts on her car.

And when you go over there, you cannot see them.

There's the paint is gone.

So I'm again, Mr.

Chairman, through the Okay.

I don't Sherman Williams, maybe they're importing it from China.

I don't know where they're getting it from.

But the fact of the matter is, it it should be color, it should be like a day goal paint, something that you can see.

And so there's no question about that it's there.

And I'd say on all these speed tables we're putting in, because every council member here has requests for speed tables.

I think I got two dozen streets that are requesting speed tables.

So that's a whole nother discussion.

We get into resurfacing to the chair to uh Councilman Bishop, uh Chair of the Committee.

I mean, I'm a firm believer as we resurface streets, we should be putting speed tables in.

Uh, we're warranted.

But at the end of the day, we got to properly the the bike lanes, everything.

And what are those things you call you're putting in?

Through the chair of the councilman, those are delineator posts separation?

Delineators.

So uh with regard to your delineators, what are you going to do when it comes snow plowing time?

Through the chair of the council councilmember, we they have been installed throughout the city during the winter, um specifically on Detroit Superior Bridge.

Okay.

Now, when the we do lose a couple, our our staff is um they're equipped to go out and look.

So you have the equipment to plow between the delineator and the sidewalk, that's what I want to know?

Through the chair, that's correct.

Yes, we do.

Okay, you do.

And that's citywide, you have those that equipment to do that?

So through the chair intended councilman, that that's something we have started and we are getting more of that equipment.

But we do use a special group uh when it comes to those types of areas.

Okay.

So I would request through the chair to the wonderful director and to the commissioner, do not put any delineators up on the northeast side unless you can clean them.

The snow on the side of the delineator, okay?

Because you know who is going to be getting the phone calls on that one, that if they cannot plow the streets or adequately maneuver through the delineators you guys want to put up all over the place, okay?

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Thank you.

Seeing all the questions, ordinance number Oh, Councilman Kevin Bishop.

I apologize.

Uh yes, Mr.

Chairman.

I uh just want to kind of back up on Councilman Plinsick's uh point.

I do have three or four speed tables that I have hit that they are not painted.

So uh I do understand that um they some of them need to be painted, some of them are painted, but some of them are are still missing the paint.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

To the chair to the council, well, commit uh councilman polency and bishop, we will go back, take a look at those.

If you can give us exact addresses and make it easier for us to get to, but we definitely will get to Waterloo and make it so it's not vision zero for you over there.

Thank you.

And I want to give a tip to all the council members by sitting on the moral claims committee.

I have learned the hard way that a lot of people don't report these kind of things.

Therefore, it makes it hard to substantiate trying to um invest in um moral claims if we don't have a precedent.

So I will strongly suggest that they make a complaint to 311 so that we have a public record uh to actually make sure that we uh use as a precedent, okay?

All right, any other questions?

Seeing other questions, uh orders 1404.

Or is ordinance number 1404-2025 stands approved.

I'll move to ordinance number 1446-2025 by Councilmembers Bishop and Griffin by departmental request, and emergency ordinance determined the method of making the public improvement, uh purchasing, repairing, constructing and installing signal support polls and authorizing the director of public works to enter into one or more public improvement contracts for the making of the improvement for a period, not to exceed two years.

Director and Commissioner.

Thank you, Chair.

This piece uh for $750,000 is to give us the ability to replace signal poles throughout the city.

Um as you may know, we have many uh signal poles that are in need of repair and replacement.

And this is the first step for us to be able to start that.

With that, I'm gonna open it, allow uh Commissioner Mavic to give some comments.

Through the Chair of the Committee, this allow us to enter to a contract to replace the uprights on our mast arm signal supports.

So um replace the ones that have been damaged over the years and some that are actually that are rotting out.

So this will give us the ability to replace those uprights.

Thank you.

And um are these the ones like the beacons and those kind of things, or is this a little different?

Uh through the chair, um, it's the master arm signal support.

So you see the arm go over the road.

Okay, it holds the signals on it.

Yes.

So we were asked earlier at committee about how many intersections are master armed and out of our 980 intersections, there's uh 556 that are mass arm signal supports.

Thank you.

Councilman Bishop.

Uh yes, Mr.

Chairman.

We uh met it this morning and we fully supported the pasture.

Seeing no other questions on ordinance number 1446-2025 stands approved, please sign on.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Just out of curiosity, I do have one point that I want to ask you guys if you could uh not a point.

Um I'm getting moving away from points.

I hope everybody hear a theme here.

Um the um question that I have just miscellaneous.

Have you guys ever looked at these local vendors like road prints and other folks that are trying to do automated?

I'm always for keeping work for the workers, but just like we had pothole killers a few years ago.

Have we looked at supplementing some of these things that we have so that we could alleviate some of the pressure on our workforce and maybe try to even have a trial for some of these kind of major kind of uh things like this where these things are being built in our own backyard, but they're going across the country and selling like rapid fire.

Uh to the chair.

Um we actually work with road prints for about five years in helping them to develop that technology.

So we tested it with them.

Um unfortunately, for our use, it's not very efficient compared to what our crews can do.

Um, but we have used that machine.

Um we've painted a couple roadways for the symbols with that machine.

So it's great if if you have a a large area and and two people dedicated to it.

Uh, but we find our crews are more efficient and get twice as much done and uh just on symbols than that machine can do.

Thank you.

Nothing like people power.

Appreciate it.

All right, thank you.

All right, next we have ordinance number 1295-2025 as amended by council members Bishop and Griffin by departmental request and emergency ordinance authorizing the director of capital projects to enter into an amendment to the memorandum of understanding with the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority to provide additional services for improvements and extend the contract.

Uh and I'm going to read the amendment.

The amendment states that there is no legal objection to this legislation if amended as follows.

One, in section two, line three, strike and other funds.

Date 1124, 2025, signed by Patricia McGuinty Aston, Assistant Director of Law.

Director.

Mr.

Chairman, hello.

Um this ordinance relates to uh an ordinance we passed back in 2022 when RTA was uh designing and planning for the reconstruction of their West 117th Street uh station, which has recently opened, and I understand is is uh quite nice.

Um the uh request of the city came because they wanted to do work at the street level, which is the city's responsibility.

The city of Cleveland uh owns uh, if you will, the east side of the street, Lakewood is the west side of the street, and they wanted to do a um a treatment that would be um on both sides of the street.

So Lakewood and the City of Cleveland both agreed to participate.

Um the project is now done, and we have two requests through this um ordinance.

One is to uh extend the memorandum of understanding that we have through the end of this year, and also to make um an additional payment of 29,600 to RTA because of additional concrete work and railing work, which we agreed to along the way to make the um the project complete.

Um and so we're seeking uh concurrence on that, and Rick can give you some more details about the exact work that that was extra.

Commissioner to the chair.

The extra work consists of uh doing concrete patching on the walls went from like 370 square yards to all over 500 square yards, and the railing that was attached to the wall was changed to make it sturdier.

That won't do other things caused the increase in price from 140,000 four hundred to 170,000.

Okay.

All right, thank you.

Councilman Bishop.

Uh yes, Mr.

Chairman.

We fully uh support this passage.

Thank you.

Seeing no other questions, ordinance number 1295-2025 as amended stands approved.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next is ordinance number 1400-2025 by Councilmembers Bishop and Griffin by departmental request and emergency ordinance authorizing the director of capital projects to apply to the District One Public Works Integrating Committee for state funding for the rehabilitation of a portion of Wade Park Avenue to apply for and accept grants and gifts and grants from various entities for the improvement and authorizing the commissioner purchases and supplies to acquire, accept, and record for right-of-way purposes, real property and easements necessary to make the improvement.

The director.

Mr.

Chairman, thank you.

This is uh typical ordinance related to roadway improvements.

This one relates to Wade Park Avenue and it would go from East 66th Street to East 118th Street.

Um initially we received funding from NOACA for this project, and then we've supplemented that with um some uh safety funding um which um came in at a a pretty good price at just over 3.3 million dollars.

And then also we have a pending application to Dopwick um for about for about 4.2 million dollars.

So this is um a large project, about 12.4 million dollars that we're really looking forward to transforming and making uh Wade Park um a safer street.

We have started community engagement.

Um Mr.

Swarto and his team have attended uh meetings for both Councilman Conwell as well as Councilwoman House Jones to meet with uh their residents, and we'll have more community engagement as we move along through the design process.

Thank you.

Councilman Bishop.

Uh yes, Mr.

Chairman, we are fully support this request.

Thank you.

And uh since you just said it, Councilman Conwell is coming to the table, and Councilwoman House Jones is supportive of this.

Uh yes, she is.

Councilman Conwell.

This is the um guys met with my residents.

Yes, sir.

We're just talking with a resident about that um yesterday morning.

I'm there.

Matter of fact, I think someone was out surveying this morning also in the neighborhood, and I like that a lot.

Um residents really appreciate it, and they support it 100%.

Uh, you guys narrated to them, you listened to the residents.

We met at um Case Western Reserve, and Rick, you did a good job.

I was very happy.

Um, so I asked my colleagues to support this project.

You support it 100%.

I asked my colleagues to support it 100 percent.

And my residents, my bosses support it 100 percent.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Seeing no other questions, ordinance number 1402-2025 stands approved.

I'm sorry, 1400.

No, 1400 is not amended.

It's not amended.

It's not amended.

Yes, so 1400 2025, right?

All right.

Next up is ordinance number 1402-2025 as amended by Councilmembers Harrison, Bishop, and Griffin by Department of Requests and Emergency Ordinance authorizing the Director of Capital Projects to employ one or more professional consultants for the construction of pedestrian enhancements along Euclid Avenue from Upper Valley Drive to Ivanhoe Road, known as the Euclid Avenue Pedestrian Improvement Project, to apply for and accept gifts or grants from any public or private entity authorizing the mayor and the commissioner of purchasing and supplies as appropriate to acquire, accept, and record for right-of-way purposes, real property and easements necessary to make the improvement, and authorizing the director of capital projects to enter into any relative agreements.

The amendment reads as follows.

There is no legal objection to this legislation if amended as follows.

One, in section two, at the end, insert that the director of public works shall provide written notice to the council, the clerk of council whenever any purchase is made under this section, which notice shall include the details of any such cooperative purchases.

Dated 1124-25 by Patricia McGuinty Aston, Assistant Director of Law.

Director.

Um we've also applied twice for ODOT safety funding, which we have not yet received, but there's another round in January, so we're gonna apply again.

Um and then we are um putting together um you know the scope that would match with the funding that we have.

So we either have to stick with the smaller grant that we get from NUACA, the half a million dollars, or hopefully we'll get some safety money to add to it.

But this would um enhance the pedestrian and uh bicycle experience, specifically helping with our vision zero goals of reducing crashes and enhancing the safety of this stretch of Euclid Avenue.

Thank you.

Councilman Bishop.

Uh yes, Mr.

Chairman, this morning we're supposed to work.

Thank you, Councilman Anthony Hairston.

Yes, Mr.

Chair, uh fully supporter uh of this piece.

This is a long time coming.

We've been working on this for quite some time.

Uh happy to see that this is finally moving forward.

Um the residents in the neighborhood are excited about this.

We've been talking about this, and they just want to see this um come together uh as we talked about earlier.

You know, uh I won't be here, but you know, looking at the city uh MoCap Department and Public Works to consider future bond funds and other funds uh to support this project, you know, in additional phases as we move forward.

You know, hope this should not be, and I hope this will not be the one and only phase of this, but you know, it'll be additional phases to further enhance um the Euclid Avenue uh corridor uh fully support, Mr.

Chair.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And uh Councilman Harrison, I'm gonna give you a statement that somebody wants to say it to me because I truly appreciate your time on service, and I was gonna wait till next week.

Uh, but when I see things like this, you planted seeds under that's going to grow trees under whose shade.

I appreciate it.

We may never sit.

So thank you.

That's why I appreciate your work on this.

Thank you, brother.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

This is uh next one is ordinance number 1416-2025 as amended by council members Policy, Bishop, Griffin and Harrison by departmental requests and emergency ordinance to amend sections two and eleven of ordinance number 993-2025 passed August 13th, 2025, relating to agreements with Cuyahoga County and Cleveland Metro Parks for the Euclid Beach Trail Connector to add additional land to the submerged land lease and to supplement the ordinance by adding new sections 11A, 11B, 11C, 11D, and 11E relating to subleasing the land to the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District.

And the amendment is as follows.

There is no legal objection to this legislation if amended as follows.

One, in section two, line one, strike section and insert section two, and in line two strike is an insert R.

This was dated 1114, 2025, signed by Kevin Roberts, Chief Director of Law.

Director.

Thank you.

Thank you, Director.

Um so this ordinance amends ordinance number 993-2025, which authorized the the project specifically the city's um accepting easements in connection with the project and entering into a submerged land lease with the um Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

Um the this ordinance um amends that ordinance to change two things.

One is the trail easements are going to be perpetual instead of limited to 50 years, um, as was contemplated in the in 993-2025.

And the reason for that is the city really is accepting easements from various property owners, and we don't want to have to go back in 50 years because there is a risk that the property owner in 50 years won't grant the easement.

And so the trail would not be able to be continuous.

So it's to ensure the ongoing continuous operation maintenance of the trail.

Um, the first um change, and then the second change is the city is accepting a submerged land lease in connection with this project.

There's a little piece of um it's at the end of East 156th Street in the lake.

There's a uh Norse and Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District has a sewer pipe that runs under East 156th, and it goes out into the lake.

So that little section um we need to have a submerged land lease for, and so we want to add that to our submerged land lease and then have authority to consent to seek consent from ODNR to sublease that little piece to ODNR, and there's a map in your packet that kind of shows that in area.

So those are the two changes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um Bishop.

Uh yes, Mr.

Chairman.

We fully better this this morning, and fully recommended my best.

Thank you.

Uh Cosmic Panese.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

The director is being polite.

This has been a ongoing process for a long period of time.

Uh, this is to provide additional lakefront access for pedestrians and and cyclists uh to extend about a quarter of a mile to the west from the Euclid Beach Pier.

So again, it enhances opportunities for residents, pedestrians, uh, cyclists to have more access to the lakefront.

That's what it's all about.

Provide greater access is something I've worked on a long, long time.

So again, I want to thank the administration on this.

I thank my colleagues uh in the committee for passing it this morning, and I certainly urge its passage tonight.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Thank you.

Councilman uh Harrison.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh fully support.

Um again, another great project for the community and um ask the committee for the support.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Seeing no other questions, ordinance number 14, 16-2025 as amended stands approved.

Please sign on.

Thank you.

All right, next up is ordinance number 1489-2025 by Council Members Welch, Bishop, Harrison, and Griffin by departmental request, an emergency ordinance to vacate a portion.

Zero point two nine eight seven acres of West Third Street.

Um just gonna put up a PowerPoint here.

I'll be quick on it.

But these um these three ordinances are all related.

So let me read them all into the record.

Yes, sir.

So then that way we could hear them all at once if I could and hear one presentation.

Thank you.

Uh the next one is ordinance number 1490-2025 by council members Welch.

Bishop Harrison and Griffin by departmental request, an emergency ordinance to vacate a portion, 0.299 zero acres of West Third Street.

And the next piece is ordinance number 1491-2025 by Council Members Welsh, Bishop, Harrison and Griffin by departmental request, an emergency ordinance to vacate a portion, 0.3451 acres of West 9 West Third Street.

Uh these are all companion pieces.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

And just a reminder to council, there's three steps to a vacation process.

This is the third of three steps.

So the first step is a resolution of intent to vacate.

The second is uh the board of revision of assessments.

Um and then the third and final step is where we're at today, which is an ordinance to vacate uh the roadway.

Um so there's three ordinances.

The first ordinance uh relates to um, so this would be uh 1489 relates to the portion of the roadway at the far left of the screen on the map that is between Eagle Avenue and Cuyahoga River.

Do you do you want me to point that out to you?

Yes, if you could.

So the first ordinance relates to this piece right here, which is this is the Cuyahoga River, this is Eagle Avenue, this is Jones Levy.

So this portion will be vacated, it'll be turned into thank you.

It'll be turned into a river walk as well as a kayak launch at this location.

The second ordinance relates to the piece between Eagle Avenue and Central Avenue.

And um, as I'll explain in a minute, it just takes out some extra wide right-of-way at this location.

Um West Third Street as it is right now with the same curbs remains as is.

And then the third ordinance ordinance is from Central Avenue to the bridge pier.

Um, and again, Third Street remains in the same configuration, but we're removing some extra wide um right-of-way.

And if folks remember when there used to be an Eagle Avenue bridge that would take you from gateway down to West Third Street, you might recall that there were ramps that would lead up to the bridge and allow you to go up the bridge.

And so that's why we have extra extra wide right-of-way at these locations.

And so this partial right-of-way will allow West Third Street to remain and the extras extra right of way to be part of the development site.

Okay.

Councilman Bishop.

Uh yes, Mr.

Chairman.

We heard this uh this morning, and we fully recommend a request.

All right, thank you.

Chairman question.

Councilman Belsi.

Yes, Mr.

Chairman.

Mr.

Chairman to the uh to uh director uh de Rosa on the um West Third uh visits to be vacated along the river.

Are we doing anything to require that bollards or something be posted?

Can you know the problem we've been having with cars being deposited in the river?

So we we've had this problem.

The division of police has had this problem on the east side of the river with cars being deposited where there's just no bollards, no barricades, no nothing.

Uh, through this chairman, the councilman, I I was not aware of that, but I can make sure that we have conversations with the design team.

Right.

And the developer about I hope so on that.

Thank you.

Yes, thank you.

Thank you.

Uh seeing all the questions, ordinances number these companion pieces, ordinance number 1489, 1490, 1491, 2025.

All stand approved.

Please sign on.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh I'll be giving you a call.

I want to talk about that brick street stuff, because um, I do want to I do want to invest, but I do have some questions about that.

So is the best person to call is Mr.

Swutowski and you and him.

We're expecting the details from I'm happy to join kind of expensive, but we'll um we'll have a good conversation if we get a chance.

Okay.

It is cheaper though than the requirements.

Uh I figured that, but that's something I want to talk out to you.

Maybe I might have to just do one at a time, but we need to talk that through if we could.

Okay.

Thank you for that update.

Okay.

All right, thank you.

Last, I mean uh not last.

The next ordinance is ordinance number 1511-2025 by Council Members Harrison and Griffin by Departmental Request, an emergency ordinance approving the tax incentive review council's year 2024 recommendations.

Director Boudreau.

Did I get it right?

No, no, R after the D.

Bordeaux.

Bordeaux.

Bordeaux.

Bordeaux.

All right, please proceed.

Um thank you.

Third third time is the charm.

Um here today um the tax increment review committee recommendations.

Um I have Byron who um can talk about this in his sleep.

Um, here to support me with that and answer any of your questions.

Thank you, Mr.

Demory.

Chair, how are you guys doing?

Uh just wanted to let you know that the Turk committee met this year, August 26, 2025.

They review uh 11 commercial enterprise zone agreements, and they also review tip agreements as well.

Recommended everything passed uh for your tax incentive review.

Uh, three were in glacier race period, one was recommended to continue that was not in compliance, and seven were recommended to continue that were in compliance.

So wanted to uh see if you guys had any questions, but that was the wrap of the meeting that happened last August.

Thank you.

Uh Councilman Harrison.

Uh yes, Mr.

Chair, uh fully supportive of the recommendations that the committee addressed.

You know, the committee discussed several factors of uh why maybe someone who didn't meet their goals, the necessary uh need to continue these um agreements in place uh because of the interactions that the department and others were having with these entities uh to get them uh on track and for them to keep uh moving.

Some of them were maybe one or two people shy, right?

But has put in a significant amount of uh investment uh in improvements into um uh where they are and they operate and so uh asking the committee to fully support the recommendation.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh any other questions regarding 1511-2025.

Seeing no other questions, ordinance number 1511-2025 will be heard for consideration by the full body of council this evening.

Thank you.

And Byron keeps them tight.

All right, uh director, he always seems to bring up the anchor leg.

I gotta do something about that one.

Yeah, I was just about to mention director code.

Yeah, we're gonna put you first.

Yeah, one day I'm gonna grab you first, but he comes with these sheets.

That's what don't always get moved up to the top of the food chain.

It gives me an opportunity to learn.

Awesome, awesome.

Awesome.

All right, this is ordinance number 1516-2025 by Councilmember Griffin by Departmental Request and Emergency Ordinance approving the collective bargaining agreement with the International Association of Firefighters, Local 93 AR, FF, and to amend Section 29 of ordinance number 194-2021 passed March 29, 2021 as amended relating to compensation for various classifications.

Thank you, Chairman.

Uh yes, this is to ratify the contract with uh local ninety-three R.

This is these are the uh firefighters uh at the airport.

Uh a couple things of note in this uh particular contract is um it's very similar to the what we call the Big 93 contract.

Um the the main uh fire uh department.

Um additionally, it also incorporates the commander classification.

Um they formally had filed a petition for representation, which we uh voluntarily accepted.

Um so they are all also a part of this collective bargaining agreement.

Certainly happy to answer any questions.

Thank you.

Just one brief question.

Whenever you settle these, you actually have to do retroactive.

Am I correct?

Uh that's correct, Chairman.

So the one thing that I do want you to consider in the future, because it's my understanding, and I'm not sure if it's for this contract or what other contract it is, but we actually have to put money in the transfer ordinance in order to cover some of the dollars that this settlement um has dictated.

So it's good for us to know how budget impact, how much of a budget impact this will have whenever we pass these and ratify these agreements, okay?

Okay.

It's it's not a large, it's not an extraordinary large amount, but it's enough for that raise my antennas.

Okay.

Uh just for clarification, you want me to bring what the budget is.

Just want to understand what the budget impacts whenever you bring us these uh these uh you know agreements to ratify.

Just let us know if some of them may not be a budget impact, but if there are budget impacts, I know this one specifically because I just went over the transfer ordinance earlier, and I know that there's some dollars that we have to transfer in order to cover some of the retro costs associated with some of these.

Understood.

Okay, okay, all right, thank you.

Uh I don't see any other questions, but see it, Councilman Michael Palency.

Mr.

Chairman, uh, to the director.

This covers how many employees.

Uh through the chairman of the councilman, it's approximately 14.

14.

Okay, thank you.

Yes, yeah, thank you.

14.

Thank you.

Uh seeing other questions, ordinance number 1516-2025.

Uh stands approved and will be heard by the full council this evening.

Thank you.

Next is ordinance number 1517 dash 2025 by councilmember Griffin by departmental request.

Approving the collective bargaining agreement with International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, IBEW, Local 38, and to amend Section 20 of Ordinance Number 194-2021 passed March 29, 2021, as amended relating to compensation for various classifications.

Director.

Thank you again, Chairman.

Um, yes, this is to ratify the the contract between the city of Cleveland and the uh International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 38.

Um pretty standard contract.

One thing of note uh in this and one other contract today is um the increase of the starting wage uh in an effort uh to continue to attract more individuals into trades here with the city of Cleveland.

Um other than that, pretty pretty pretty standard, but certainly happy to answer any questions.

Thank you.

Do we have any questions regarding ordinance number 1517-2025?

Seeing no questions, ordinance number 1517-2025 stands approved.

Last piece of uh legislation for today is ordinance number 1518-2025.

Councilmember Griffin by departmental request and emergency ordinance approving the collective bargaining agreement with the plumbers local 55 plumbers inspectors and to amend section 21 of ordinance number 194-2021 passed March 29, 2021, as amended relating to compensation for various classifications.

Director.

Thank you again, Chairman.

Uh this is the third of fourth today.

This is um, as you said, to ratify the contract with the international brotherhood of plumbing inspectors, plumbers inspectors, excuse me.

Um very standard again, as with the um international brotherhood of electrical workers.

Um the starting wage uh has been increased uh again to attract more individuals into uh trades here with the city of Cleveland.

Everything else is uh fairly standard uh as with the other contracts, but certainly happy to answer any questions.

Thank you.

Do we have any questions regarding 1518 dash 2025?

Seeing no questions, ordinance number 1518-2025 stands approved.

That concludes this committee of finance.

Oh should have one one more piece.

No.

Painters my pockets when I walk down the street, Conwell.

What'd they say?

I was I walked out, I had a bunch of money.

I walked to the end of the street and it got no more money.

Please hold for a moment.

I don't see this one.

That's it.

She found it.

I was gonna say if not, I'll see you guys again next week.

She found it.

1545.

I guess is the guy in real late.

They got a real pay.

I know they were they were it was it was Frank, but it was directly.

But it was court.

I mean, I just told myself, what do you think?

I mean, next we paid through the notes, $7 million.

All right.

One piece of ordin one last piece of legislation.

Ordinance number 1545-2025 by Councilmember Griffin by Departmental Request, an emergency ordinance approving the collective bargaining agreement with International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, better known as IB PAT, District Council 6, AFL CIO, Local 639, and to amend section 13 of ordinance number 194-2021 passed March 29, 2021, as amended relating to compensation for various classifications.

Thank you for bearing with me, uh Chairman and committee.

This is my last piece of uh legislation for today.

Uh this is to ratify the contract with the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, Local 639, and amend uh the corresponding pay band.

Um this affects approximately uh 10 employees.

Nothing um of major note uh in this collective bargaining agreement, but certainly happened happy to answer any questions.

Um just as a side note, this does bring us to 25 of the 33 uh contracts or approximately 76 percent of the collective bargaining agreements.

Thank you completed.

Do we have any questions regarding 1518-2025?

Seeing no other questions regarding 1518-2025 stands approved and will be consulting.

I mean, that's 20, he just said 25 out of 30.

He said, which brings it up to 76 percent, but it's 25 out of 33 that have been collectively um that have been ratified.

I'm sorry.

15 ordinance number 1545-2025 stands approved.

Everybody please excuse me.

I'm dealing with jet lag.

Thank you.

That concludes today's uh council meeting Monday, November 24th, finance diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Uh we will convene at 7 o'clock this evening.

Thank you.