This meeting covered multiple agenda items including grant acceptances, a lease extension, and presentations on maternal health, food access, arts funding, and lead remediation. Several emergency ordinances were approved, and significant discussion centered on the loss of $3.289 million in lead abatement grant funds due to underperformance.
I'll wait. Cartero. Here. All right, thank you. All right. This is what we're gonna do. Um, before I bring everybody else up. I'm going to um do the legislation first. Hey, Francis. How you feel? This is to hear before you activists came in and start being activist, Francis was at Mills activist for a long time. Well, now I don't want to put us like that. But for a long time working in the community. Um, what else? And she was dealing with lead issues and health issues in the community, working hard, giving back to the community. Um, didn't look to um anything in return whatsoever. She would just help. And at that time I was doing a fatherhood movement. We were doing it in the same time that um Chris Harsh was out in the neighborhood as well. Because he was battling lead. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And um, I'll I'll tell you something about Chris later. Matter of fact, I can see it now. He had me protesting in front of Sher Williams, the president of Sharon Williams' house. He did, he did, he did. A lot of houses and a lot of houses. My neighborhood about battling with uh foreclosures and things like that. And uh, he was with Acorn at the time, one of the biggest radicals around this guy right here, Maverick. He's a Maverick. But I like seeing um Um Francis. Um so we'll do this legislation. I have uh um after that, um, and then we'll move to the other agenda part. And I'll have Carl Early here for about ten minutes. I just want him to explain a beautiful program. We'll go into the arts and then we'll come back into um to lead. And I know about that piece. Um I want to get with you on that, what was it three million dollars? Is it from the state of Ohio? We draft a letter to the uh I'll talk with you, and if we have to draft a letter to the governor or something like that. And we will we'll go down and talk with him. We won't we just won't lose it, man. I mean, he's a good friend of mine, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll text him. Yeah, we'll talk afterwards. I don't like losing. So saying that, uh, ordinance number one zero three, twenty twenty-six have been approved by um the law the uh public health, that's your director, finance department, as well as director of law. It's an emergency ordinance authorizing the director of public health to apply for and accept one or more grants from Calgar County, invest in children program for the first year Cleveland to conduct moms first project service under the Invest in Children Partnership and first year Cleveland Partnership Programs and authorizing the director to enter into one or more contracts with various agencies, entities, or individuals to implement the grants, as I said earlier. The health director, David Margolias, the finance director, as well as the law director approved this grant. Now it's up to us, director.