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The committee met on Monday, October 26, 2026, to consider a range of ordinances including a major update to Cleveland's lead safe certificate law, several public works and capital projects, and a contentious $1.1 million reimbursement to the Cleveland Browns for emergency repairs at Huntington Bank Field. The meeting featured extensive debate on the city's contractual obligations and fiscal responsibility.
I be honest with you. I could have left the city a long time ago and I never have to be a little bit more. Well, as that much more sentimental. Yeah, that's as good. GCP meeting. Good afternoon. Today is Monday, October 26th. Uh, this committee of finance, diversity, equity, and inclusion is called to order. Madam Clerk Caldera. Here we go. Present. Present. Thank you. We'll start off with port control. This is ordinance number eleven seventy-three dash twenty twenty-six by council members life and griffin by departmental requests and emergency ordinance authorizing the director of port control to enter into one or more contracts with Fire Force Inc. for professional services necessary to provide the airport rescue and fighting personnel annual FAA certification training for period of one year with three one year options to renew. Exercise bill by the director of port control. Director. This is ordinance number 1244 dash 2026 by council members Hudson, Conwell, and Griffin by departmental request, an emergency ordinance to repeal various sections of chapter 365 and 240 of the codified ordinances of the city of Cleveland 12 1976 as amended by various ordinances to supplement the codified ordinances by enacting sections 365.01 through 365.10 240.05 through 240.08, all related to land safe certificate certificate program, lead safety, and various civil penalties to repeal section seven or ordinance number seven forty-seven-2019 passed July 24th, 2019. Uh and I believe our former colleague, Councilwoman Moore, passed some amendments that or Miss Moore has some amendments that she would like to share with us, but you had the floor. Thank you very much, Council President. I was uh lucky that was a long uh text header so that I could come up. I appreciate the chance to be before you today. Um we are thrilled to be before you for an update to Cleveland's uh landmark lead safe certificate law and truly believe that these are the next steps to make this the most effective rental registry in the country that best protects Cleveland's kids from lead poisoning. This was fully vetted through Health and Human Services, uh but the desk copy before you does incorporate a number uh a couple of amendments that came up after the Health and Human Services Committee last Monday. Uh so if the committee likes, I can go through those um and then uh answer any other questions related to the law. Please go through those, but remember we do have to have someone on this side of the table that would have to proffer the amendment. Of course, of course. Um so uh first uh we updated the definition section for local led license to fully reflect that these are the local led licenses for our local led risk assessments that we're not overstepping into the state's role. Uh we certainly don't want to be uh seen as stepping into an area where they have defined uh that section of local led of of lead risk assessor. So we clear clarified the definition. Then because we have no intention of requesting fees for folks who obtain these local led licenses, we just removed the phrase fees entirely as we discussed at Health and Human Services. The goal here is that folks who are licensed as lead risk assessors by the state of Ohio use that uh certification as their ticket here in Cleveland to get on our local list, and then uh we work with them to do local led risk assessments that meet our standards here in Cleveland. We also made sure that um we updated the effective date uh to make sure that when we promulgate rules, there's enough time for us to actually go through the rulemaking, have the rules in effect, and then uh these new uh certificate cycles would go into effect starting in March 2027. Uh and then lastly, there were some typographic errors on the section number. I take full responsibility for that. So we've corrected all of those. Um, with that, Chair, I'll pause and happy to answer any questions from the committee on that or any other matter related to the bill. Thank you, Councilman Conwill. Uh is he here? Okay. Uh anyone willing to proffer the amendments that councilwoman has put forth. Just to clarify, were that were they the amendments made at health, or they need to be made here at finance? They need to be made here at finance. I believe they're on your tablets along with the desk copies. So please look at your tablets. Yeah.