The Cleveland Heights City Council met on September 9, 2026, at 7:37 PM. The meeting included a semi-annual city administrator's report, a detailed presentation on the Cumberland Pool revitalization project, public comments, and passage of several legislative items. The meeting was adjourned at 8:50 PM.
Okay, let me call this Cleveland Heights City Council meeting to order. It is 737. Andy, would you please call the role? Stone. Do it for you. Here. Posh. Here. Huda. Here. Larson. This is Gail Larson. I'm just telling you for everybody that doesn't know I had an accident that has me homebound for at least a month and possibly two. So I will be on Zoom for a while, but I'm still working hard for everybody. So thanks for understanding. Cohen. Here. All right. So we don't actually have any minutes and any amendments to the agenda. So we'll move right to communication from the mayor. Thank you, Mr. President. I'd like to begin by reading into the record that on August 14th, 2026, the City of Cleveland Heights received a bid for Project 26 07 transfer station repair project. And the only bid came from JADCO construction services for $1,147,000. The design engineer GPD has reviewed the bid and determined that JADCO is a responsible bidder and submitted a bid in conformance with the contract documents. Therefore, they are recommending that JADCO construction be award the contract. And I'd just like to beyond that, um remind people that the Denison splash pad, which our city administrator will talk more about in his report, is now open. Very grateful for the hard work of the public works department, or I'm sorry, of the Parks and Rec department. And we are having a small opening event at 11 a.m. on Saturday. So if you're interested in available, we'd love for you to join us. Well, let's hope it's a big event. Yeah, and I'd like to also um acknowledge that we just completed the 100th season at Cumberland Pool. And so I'd like to thank all the staff for their hard work. Uh there were a lot of really great improvements this season, and we're all very excited for the next chapter of Cumberland, but it's exciting to also celebrate that we just completed the 100th season. That's the end of my report for you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. All right. Uh next, the city administrators report, also known as the Reese Report. And I understand this is a big one today. This is the big one. So uh Mayor Petris, President CUDA, Vice President Larson. I am here to give you an extended version of the Reese report. And um, so just for context, um by charter, the city manager um is supposed to provide a written report to the uh mayor and council on a semi-annual basis. And uh my report tonight basically covers the period from uh um early February through the end of August. And I'm excited to present this to you tonight. I'm not gonna read the whole thing. I will um cover um just part of it and the most significant parts, I think. But before I go there, uh I think for a little bit of context, it would be helpful just to talk a little bit about for the benefit of council members and especially for the benefit of the public tuning in uh tonight is to talk a little bit about what my role is.