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The Cleveland Development Planning and Sustainability Committee met on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, and approved three ordinances: a $1-per-year lease renewal with Famicos Foundation for a Collinwood social services facility, a street vacation enabling industrial redevelopment of about 30 acres near Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, and a land exchange with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) involving a health center and two former schools. Ordinance 1031-2026 was deferred to the following Tuesday.
Good morning, everyone. Today's Tuesday, September twenty-ninth. We're calling development planning sustainability committee to order. Madam Clerk, can you call the role? Present. The uh building is located on East 152nd Street uh in Collinwood. Uh there are two parcels uh tied to the uh building. One is for the building itself, and uh the other is for the adjacent parking lot. Uh so just to sort of orient you to the location of the uh of the building itself. The uh parcel outlined in red is the location of the building. It's it's on east 152nd, uh, between Aspen Wall and uh Plate. Uh you know, a little more uh to the north is I 90, and to the south is St. Clair uh in Collinwood. This is the building as it stands today. Uh it includes some art that was done in the last few years by uh uh renowned national artists that uh does these around the country, and the uh building is currently being used as uh social services uh that Famicos Foundation provides. This is a list of of those services that are provided through the um uh through Famicos Foundation. Uh the issue here is that the lease that previously existed with Famicos has expired, so we would like to renew that lease. Uh they operate currently eight programs from the uh facility, uh including some senior programs, meal programs, um uh programs for kids, uh they have uh kindred health care for seniors, so they have eight different programs uh that that go through the uh facility itself. The department would lease the building to Famigos Foundation for a dollar a year. This would allow them to operate the programs uh that are currently happening in the building and to expand those programs uh as uh community need uh as community need occurs. Um I'd also like to introduce while we're here John Analifo, who is the director of Famicos Foundation, and so we're talking about the programs now uh that are operating from the uh facility. Uh so it would uh it would be for a dollar a year that would allow Famicos to um to operate the facility and the programs that exist there, and also um it would allow them to develop additional programs again, as I said, as the uh community as community needs arise. Uh John, I don't know if you had anything you wanted to not exactly, but I just want to say that uh this building serves as my satellite office from where we serve residential first at Collingwood. And we have a number of uh programming that goes on there quite would include I don't know if what AF already stayed? Okay, so thank you and welcome. Good morning. I have been there and um seen the food pantry in action. So um is this paid through CDBG dollars? Uh to the chair, yes. Um we own the building and we have some dollars budgeted for repairs for repairs. Okay. Um I did speak to Councilman Palenzick, it's in his ward, and he is in support. Um any questions from my colleagues? Councilman Harsh. Thank you, Madam Chair. Um, just one question through the chair. Would uh would this lease prevent the city from investing further in the building for physical maintenance and upgrades? To the councilman through the chair, absolutely not. We are hoping that um we there are actually two buildings that community development owns, and we're hoping that we're over time gonna be able to work them into the capital improvement plan so that they can be approved and and put to public purpose. Okay, that's my only question. Thank you. Got it. Any other questions from my colleagues on 1034?