Good afternoon.

Today is Monday, September twenty first.

This committee of finance diversity, equity, and inclusion is called to order.

Madam Clerk, please call the road.

House Jones, Santana and Griffin by departmental request.

An emergency ordinance authorizing the director of community development to lease certain property located at thirteen oh one through thirteen twenty-five.

Good afternoon, Mr.

Chairman, members of the committee.

This request is for the department to lease and also uh enter into an option to purchase uh for the parking lot adjacent to the former Greyhound bus station at East 13th and Chester Avenue, uh just adjacent to the station and across the street from Reserve Square uh apartment complex.

The uh lease would be for 10 years at $25,000 per year.

And uh if Playhouse Square does exercise this option to acquire the lot, they would do so at an appraised rate of 1.6 million dollars.

The uh property itself uh has just uh ended a lease previously uh nine-year lease it had with the previous tenant.

Uh Playhouse Square has acquired not only the uh Greyhound bus station but some other properties within the block, so it makes it a natural for us to enter into a lease with them uh an entity who has uh potential for development on that block.

Thank you.

Thank you.

This is heard in DPS.

Yeah, um, Council President, it was vetted and recommended for passage.

However, I would defer to Councilman Harsh, he chaired that DPS meet.

Councilman Harsh.

Yes, Mr.

Chair, we did uh review this quite thoroughly.

I do want to commend Commissioner Green.

Uh I think this is actually a really good deal for the taxpayers.

I think it's a respectable um agreed upon price point, and I think that uh the city is benefiting greater uh the city's benefiting more from this than the current uh situation.

So uh uh duly vetted and recommended for passage.

Thank you.

Are there any questions regarding ordinance number 456-2026?

Seeing no questions, ordinance number 456-2026 stands approved.

Please sign on.

Next, we have Capital Projects.

Ohio Regional Sewer District for improvements to the Capitol Theater, Gordon Square, parking lot located at Alger Court, north of Detroit Avenue, between West 65th and 67th Streets, to enter into one or more agreements with Gordon Square Arts District, Cleveland Improvement Corporation, the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, and or Northwest Neighborhood CDC, or their assigned assignees related to the design, construction, and maintenance of the improvements, and to cause payment to Gordon Square Arts District, Cleveland Improvement Corporation.

Director.

Separately, the city had funded uh the asphalt parking lot improvements in the 2026 capital improvement plan.

So we will be constructing the asphalt improvements.

The SID will be constructing the green infrastructure improvements all through the same contractor.

So we'll each be spending um our own money and coordinating and the improvements will include uh bioretention cells, plants and pervious pavement um to retain stormwater within the site and allow for natural systems to absorb the flow, which would otherwise be put into the storm sewers.

And that's why it qualified for the green infrastructure grant through the sewer district.

Thank you.

I forgot to read the uh amendments, and there is no legal objection to this legislation if amended as follows.

One in the title strike lines 15, 16, and 17 in their entirety, and insert improvements.

Number two, in the third whereas clause, line four, strike construction and insert construct.

Number three, strike the sixth whereas clause in its entirety and insert the following.

Whereas as a separated, a separately funded project, city will contract 522,000 from the 2026 capital improvement plan for the resurfacing and reconstructing of the parking lot to facilitate the improvements funded by the grant.

And in section one, line three, after grant insert in an amount up to 250,000.

Number five, strike section four in its entirety and renumber existing section five to new section four.

Date 914 26 by Nicholas Delaney, Assistant Director of Law.

Okay.

Thank you, Council President.

It was relieved because there's some urgency, and this is Councilman Davis's um ward.

Do you want to speak to the urgency?

Yes, thank you for bringing that up.

So um so council members, we are attempting to go uh uh into construction um now in this fall and get this project done.

Sewer district won't have a pre-construction meeting until we're through construct through city council.

So the relieving of the committees and hearing it today will allow us to have that pre-construction meeting this week and get under construction uh at the end of the month.

I'll stand it.

Okay, so thank you.

I do have just a quick question to the chair to director.

Who does the maintenance so we um so the sewer district requires it in this ordinance that says that the city will do the maintenance because we own the property, but we already have an agreement with the CDC, the neighborhood CDC, um, to maintain the parking lot.

So they will continue to maintain the parking lot.

Um we may come in to do some of the um, you know, previous pavers require vacuuming and whatnot, but um they have the day-to-day maintenance of the parking lot as well.