The Cleveland City Council held a regular meeting on April 27, 2026, covering public comments on a range of issues, approval of appointments, introduction of several ordinances including a moratorium on data centers and new short-term rental regulations, and final passage of multiple emergency ordinances.
Well, all the council members please come into the well so we can get started. Madam Clerk, please call the rope. Griffin. Here, Bishop, Conwell, Davis, Gray. Harsh, House Jones, Hudson, Jones, Casey. Santana, Shaw. Slife. Star. You have a core, Mr. President. Thank you. Will everyone please rise for a moment of silence, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance? And to the Republic for which it stands. One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.04 of the codified ordinances. No person with purpose to prevent or disrupt the 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 loud 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 Six O five. 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 Slife that the reading of the minutes of the last meeting be dispensed with the journal approved, segmented by Councilmember Palency. Thank you. We'll move to public comment. I'll ask all the council members to turn around and acknowledge the speakers, and I'm asking all of the speakers to acknowledge your time. Once again, when you see the yellow, that means to wrap it up. And when you see the red, that means that you need to abruptly stop. The first person that we have is Brenda Bickerstaff from Ward 9. Brenda's here to talk about the clarity of oversight by Fox 8 and Gallagher. And she's not representing anyone and not being paid by anyone, Ms. Paperstaff, you have the floor. Good evening, everyone. First, I would like to do a shout out to Bill Patman. As you know, he passed away and went to the service last week, and I want to say thank you, Bill Patman, for showing me how to do budgets, and thank you for showing me about politics. Thank you for championing people that's been formerly incarcerated. Great man, great person. I just wanted to give that a shout out. Well, it gallaged once again did a series on oversight. He said there's too many oversights in the city of Cleveland. Let me break it down to you. You got all the subprofessional standards, all of the professional standards only does investigations. Then you got the Cleveland Police Review Board. Cleveland Police Review Boards takes the information of the investigation and makes a recommendation. Then you have the Cleveland Police Commission. The Cleveland Police Commission is like the appealable part where if you don't like or you feel that something that was missed during the investigation or the recommendation, you could take it to the Cleveland Police Commission. That is not a lot of oversight. Bernie Marino, mind your damn business. Focus on Westlake, because you got cops in Westlake who kick people in the back of the head in their handcuffs. So next time when I come, Bernie Marino, I'm gonna name the names of the cops and have pictures.