This final meeting of the 2025 council term featured extensive public testimony on city symbolism, mental health crisis response, and surveillance technology, alongside the passage of numerous ordinances related to infrastructure, development, and the Browns stadium relocation. The session concluded with emotional farewells from four departing council members (Spencer, Moore, Kelly, and Harrison), who offered final reflections, transition memos, and calls for systemic reform.
Well, all council members take your seat. Madam Clerk, please call the role. Griffin. Here. Bishop. Great. Kirston. Harsh. House Jones. Jones. Casey. Kelly. Moore. Polentick. Santana. Slife. Spencer. Star. Welch. You have poor Mr. President. Thank you. Will everyone please rise for a moment of silence, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance? One nation. Liberty and Justice.04 of the codified ordinances. Under section 605.04 of the codified ordinances, 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 the public are invited to speak only under the rules set by this council. Disruptions, including but not limited to speaking out of turn and making loud noises and loud utterances are in violation of the rules and interfere with the due conduct of this lawful meeting. Such disruptions may constitute a misdemeanor and a violation of Section 605.04. Anyone who disrupts this lawful meeting in violation of the codified ordinances, commits misdemeanors and is subject to prosecution. The following is the first and only warning. If this meeting is disrupted, I will gavel a halt to the proceedings and direct the assembled officers to escort any person participating in the disruption out of the chamber. Once persons participating in the disruption are outside of the chambers, the officers will close the doors and the disruptors will be handled as directed by the Director of Public Safety. The council proceedings will not begin again until those that participated in the disruption have left the chamber and the chamber doors are closed. Disruptors will not be allowed back in the chamber after the meeting resumes. Again, this is the first and only warning. Madam Clerk, please dispense with the journal. By Councilmember Kelly that the reading of the minutes of the last meeting be dispensed with the journal approved. Seconded by Councilmember Moore. Thank you. We'll now move to public comment. I'll ask all of the uh speakers to remember to uh recognize your time when you see the yellow light, that means to wrap it up. When you see the red, that means to abruptly stop. Uh and the chair will call the meeting to order if you go past your time. I'd ask all the council members to turn around and acknowledge the speakers if they could. Thank you. First, we have Ben Heidi from Ward 11 to talk about Cadell, the lakefront, city symbolism. He's not representing anyone, and not being paid by anyone. Ben, you had the floor. Good evening.