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The Cleveland City Council's Safety Committee met on September 30, 2026, to discuss the Fire and EMS Modernization Plan, including a comprehensive assessment of all 24 fire and EMS stations, and considered two pieces of legislation. The meeting began with an update on the recently completed police district renovations, then transitioned to a detailed presentation on the fire and EMS facility conditions, proposed repairs, renewals, and replacements, followed by extensive discussion among council members.
Well, I want to welcome everybody to safety committee. We're wet way for some of our other members who are coming in because they're at other meetings, so we're gonna jump right into the presentation about the firehouses and the police station because we don't need a quorum for that. So whoever is gonna come to the table. Um we want a I don't know if this is a PowerPoint. Okay, good. Yes, sir, PowerPoint presentation. Come on, gentlemen, to come to the table. So councilman, while we're while we're getting set up here, um just by way of introduction, so uh there's been some articles in Cleveland.com, there's been some discussion about um here here at City Hall with council members about a fire and EMS modernization plan. Yes. And so this has been the culmination of work of internal staff in MoCAP with uh public safety and our consultants, our outside consultants to really look comprehensively at all of the facilities that we have for fire and EMS and to come up with um both an analysis of what needs to be um repaired, fixed, replaced, or um, you know, are and also are are the facilities in the right location. So it was really a comprehensive plan. And so what we're gonna do with you, and that's been about a year and a half, uh maybe two years. Yes. Um what we're gonna present to you today is is that analysis. Um and so um to my right, Director Drummond, obviously, yeah. And then Mark, if you could introduce yourself and uh and our consultant, please. Thank you. Thank you, Director. Through the chair, I'm Mark Dulick. Um I am the city architect. And it has been about two years that we've been working with our consultant team and collaborating with public safety, um, division of fire uh leadership, um, division of EMS leadership, all of the above. But uh it's my pleasure to introduce uh Dwayne Van Dyck of Cordogan Clark Lesco Architects, who have a long history and deep experience in uh fire and EMS facilities. And um they've been their team has been part of our team uh for these couple of years. And so um this is Dwayne. But before we do that, uh I was on the impression you were gonna update us as well as it pertains to the five police districts. Oh, okay. So I saw that note in the councilman in the but I didn't know that you wanted the presentation that we gave on Monday. Well, you didn't you don't have to duplicate it, but what I'm saying for the viewing public, tell us where we are with the five police districts. Absolutely. So uh Mr. Chairman, we uh last year we came through City Council for a contract um with Leopardo is the name of the firm for uh re uh rehabbing, if you will, all five police uh district buildings at a cost of twenty-one million dollars, and that cost um would be covered by the energy efficiency savings and the procurement savings that an analysis um showed would come from uh um those improvements and uh procurement um changes that we could make. So the good news is is that um the contracts were signed, Leopardo uh jumped into that work, and uh all five districts um will be completed next month, which is October, tomorrow is October, and that's a ten month process for all five police districts at a cost of twenty-one million dollars. And we're happy as as we mentioned at um the MSP committee to um to find out which council members might want a tour of any of those districts or all of those districts, and then we would make those plans. But the great news is is that we have um uh very very good feedback from both uh public safety um as well as you know our MoCAP team on how well that process has worked from a construction standpoint and very good feedback from our legal and procurement team on how sort of the the legal side of of that energy efficiencies contract has uh come together. Okay. So you're saying by November 1st everything should be complete. That's correct. Okay. So if um I don't know if you uh provided this to the other committee, but do you have a list per each building what was done? Uh Mr. Chairman, we do have a list, we can provide that to you.