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The Cleveland City Council Public Safety Committee met on October 14, 2026, for an operations review of the House of Corrections, the Office of the Inspector General, and the Division of Emergency Medical Services (EMS). The committee also passed two emergency ordinances related to forensic laboratory services and vehicle impound services. The meeting heavily focused on budgets, staffing, department performance, structural independence of police oversight, and recruitment diversity.
Why don't you render doesn't even feel like question is that's the other side where you got to ask that question. Good morning, Director. Okay. We've had some confusion this morning with some issues, so some of our colleagues are underway as well. It's one of those mornings as I'm coming to that realization. Okay. Yeah, we'll go to operations. Okay. We're gonna start with operations. We'll go into that. Yeah, we'll go with the yeah, we'll go. I want to start with I want to start with um uh uh House of Corrections. We'll get that out of the way. So let's go. Madam Clerk. You want to ring us in? We're gonna start with um operations. You want to the public safety committee please come to order? Madam Clerk, would you call the role for those of us that are here? Present. There are some of our colleagues have been caught in some outside activities today, is the as you aware the gun violence pledge today. So some of our colleagues why they set it up the same day as a safety committee is beyond me, but some of our colleagues are at some of the schools. I would like to, I would like to have been at some of the schools in my own neighborhood this morning, but I could not be there. So okay, we're gonna go out in the operations and we're gonna deal with the House of Corrections now to the viewing public. Uh those of you who pay attention to these meetings and also the budget. You know, when we discuss the budget, uh we talk about operations to some extent as well. But after the our dialogue uh among the members of the body and the council president, he wanted us to um drill down on some of the operations of the various departments. So we're gonna start that process in the public safety committee. So we're gonna be looking at um EMS today. We're gonna be looking at the House of Corrections and also the um inspector general's office, correct? Yes, sir. Okay. So we're gonna start, and we have two pieces of legislation. We'll deal with those um when some of our other colleagues arrive. So, director, we're here to deal with the House of Corrections. Would you like to open up? Yes, sir. Uh thank you, and good morning. Uh and identify your team for the future. Sure. I was gonna do just that. Thank you. Uh good morning uh to the committee. Uh thank you for holding these uh operational hearings. Uh with me at the table uh to my right is Michael Gellman, he's uh fiscal manager. To my left is assistant director Jason Shachner, and also to his left is Lisa Scavidi, she's the manager of corrections. Uh Lisa will uh walk the committee through the uh our PowerPoint, a brief PowerPoint presentation, and then we will uh open the floor for questions that the uh committee may have. Thank you.