Yeah, just tell the video Levita to track him down.

What's that?

Oh, yeah, all right.

Mike is trying to track you down to get George.

All right.

Uh this committee is reconvening.

Uh first ordinance is ordinance number nine three nine dash twenty twenty six by council members Bishop and Griffin by departmental requests and emergency ordinance to amend sections three K three L four and five and ten of ordinance number four eighty two dash twenty twenty two passed May twenty-five, twenty twenty two as amended relating to CRA residential tax abatement program to replace the department of community development with the Department of Development.

Um through the chair, thank you.

Um kind of uh cleanup pieces that the Department of Development has as we've um recently um transitioned and added some parts to our department.

Um and so that includes this legislation that um handles uh the CRA residential tax abatement.

We are simply adding um the department of development um and giving um myself the authority to um administer um and enter into these um agreements.

Fully bad it, Matt with uh Chief McNair.

So we're all good on our thank you.

I don't see any questions regarding that.

Therefore, nine thirty-nine dash twenty twenty-six stands approved.

We'll now go to ordinance number nine four zero dash twenty twenty-six by council members Bishop and Griffin by departmental requests and emergency ordinance to amend the title and sections one two to A to B and two C of ordinance number five sixty-five seventeen passed June five, twenty seventeen as amended relating to conducting a program to make loans or grants for down payment assistance, appraisal gap funding, and construction gap funding for single family homes to add the department of development.

Director.

Thank you.

Similarly, cleanup piece.

Thank you.

Councilman Santana.

Also Matt with McNair on this piece.

The only thing that I would add is that remaining uh 48,000.

I think this was the originally ARPA dollars, right?

Uh to the chair.

This was bond funding.

Oh, bond funding.

Okay.

So this is not the piece.

Okay.

But yeah, we met about that, but that 48,000 remaining, I'm not sure there's not like a plan for that, those dollars, correct?

Those dollar status added contract.

To the chair to the chairman, add those dollars, which is 48,000 dollars add on their contract.

So we're just waiting for the developer to submit the final payment request to these versos.

Got it.

Okay.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

Seeing no other questions, ordinance number 940-2026 stands approved.

Next is ordinance number 947-2026 by Councilmember Santana and Griffin by Departmental Request and Emergency Ordinance to supplement the codified ordinances of Cleveland, Ohio 1976 by enacting new sections 144A.01 to 144.a oh five relating to the Northeast Ohio Advanced Energy District Projects.

Yes, thank you.

Um so this is one I think we have all been awaiting, and I want to thank um this body for your support um with this.

Um there's been a lot of work around this that predates me.

Um but Bobby um uh who's going to be speaking to this has put in a lot of work um to figure out how to streamline um this property assessed clean energy process.

Um and so Bobby, if you're ready, sorry let's get a good afternoon uh to the chair and to the committee.

Thank you, Director, for the introduction.

Uh so this will uh amend the city's pace uh process, property assessed clean energy financing.

Uh it's that creative financing tool for uh clean energy building improvements uh that we love because it does not utilize city dollars, uh leverages the funding of other banks and private lenders.

Uh so um to give you some context on how this has worked historically.

So uh we have brought every pace project that has been done in the city of Cleveland before this council body since I believe 2013 or 2014 when the city joined the advanced energy district.

Um there have been 21 PACE projects brought forward and council is not denied a single one.

Um project kind of came uh in 2019 and came back in 2021 because the project changed, so there's kind of 20 active ones, uh, but no denials.

Um the legislative process can add six weeks between uh a property owner petitioning for pace financing and closing on their financing.

Uh and uh Pierce Cities uh Columbus being a big one and um thanks to them for collaborating with us to help learn about their process.

Um have a much sort of faster administrative approval process for these uh deals.

Um so what we're proposing to change in our process is to make the project level pace approval no longer be a piece of council legislation, but an administrative approval by Director Bordeaux Small.

Um what we would do today uh is with your approval we uh passed this piece of legislation.

Um staff in law would review each pace petition that came through thereafter.

Uh if we were okay moving that project forward, we would get the council person support, want to be certain that you also have oversight on this process and and what's happening in your wards.

Uh and then director would execute the applicable agreements.