City Council

Council Chambers

Agenda — 90 items

1. 1 CALL TO ORDER; ROLL CALL
2. 2 MOMENT OF REFLECTION
3. 3 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
4. 4 DISPENSE WITH THE JOURNAL
5. 5 PUBLIC COMMENT
6. 6 REPORTS AND COMMUNICATIONS
7. 7 •Communications
8. 8 From Jonathan S. McGory, C.M. Assistant Law Director, City of Cleveland, Department of Port Control. Notice of Donation from the Cuyahoga County Board of Development Disabilities of $10,000 for adding adult changing tables to the restrooms at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. Pursuant to Cleveland Codified Ordinance Section 139.21. 1473-2025 received and filed
9. 9 From Kevin Brown, Director of Senior Housing Development, National Church Residences. Notice of intent to apply to Ohio Housing Finance Agency for multifamily funding programs for a senior housing development known as Kirby Manor located at 11500 Detroit Avenue (Ward 15), Cleveland, Ohio. 1474-2025 received and filed
10. 10 Oath of Office for Anthony Whitfield, Planning Commission Member, City of Cleveland. 1475-2025 received and filed
11. 11 Oath of Office for August Fluker, Planning Commission Member, City of Cleveland. 1476-2025 received and filed
12. 12 Oath of Office for John Laird, Director, Public Works Department, City of Cleveland. 1477-2025 received and filed
13. 13 Oath of Office for Phil Jubert, Commissioner of Division of Urban Forestry, Department of Parks and Recreation, City of Cleveland. 1478-2025 received and filed
14. 14 Oath of Office for Cydney Johnson, Assistant Director, Department of Parks and Recreation, City of Cleveland. 1479-2025 received and filed
15. 15 Dedication Plat for Woodhill Homes Development Project (review and approval of the second subdivision), located in between Woodland Avenue and Mount Carmel Road (Ward 6), Approved by Committees on Municipal Services and Properties, and Development Planning and Sustainability. Without objection. Plat approved. 1480-2025 approved
16. 16 #10009415-1. Transfer of Ownership Application. D3 D2 D1. More Sake More Happy, LLC, 2258 Professor St. (Ward 3) Received. 1482-2025 received and filed
17. 17 #10003879-1. Transfer of Ownership Application. C1 C2. 2Sikran LLC., 12408 Union Ave. (Ward 4). 1483-2025 received and filed
18. 18 #07157941-1. New License Application, C2. Raddells Sausage Shop Inc., 478 E. 152nd St. (Ward 8). 1484-2025 received and filed
19. 19 #07742532-1. New License Application, C2. SB International Grocery LLC., 14440 Puritas Ave. (Ward 16). 1485-2025 received and filed
20. 20 SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS
21. 20 #10005896-1. Transfer of License Application, D5. Victory Bistro Ultralounge , 19800 S. Waterloo Rd., (Ward 8) 1495-2025
22. 21 •Condolence; Moment of Silence
23. 22 Condolence Resolution for JC Boyland 1497-2025 read into the record
24. 23 Condolence Resolution for John Patrick Lenehan 1498-2025 read into the record
25. 24 Condolence Resolution for Nellie Grace Glasco 1499-2025 read into the record
26. 25 •Congratulations/Recognition/Appreciation/Commendation/Commemoration/Welcome
27. 26 Congratulations Resolution for 100 Black Men of Greater Cleveland 1500-2025 read into the record
28. 27 Recognition of Resolution for CAMEO 82nd Annual Lebanese Independence Day 1501-2025 read into the record
29. 28 Recognition of Resolution for Reading RAMM Academy Youth Renaissance Empowerment Award - Karen Howard honoree 1502-2025 read into the record
30. 29 Recognition of Resolution for Reading RAMM Academy Youth Renaissance Empowerment Award - Terrance Lewis 1503-2025 read into the record
31. 30 PRESENTATIONS
32. 31 FIRST READING LEGISLATION
33. 32 •Emergency Ordinances Referred
34. 33 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE To establish subfunds 65 SF 011 and 10 SF 114 for the deposit and remittance of New Community Authority parking charges at certain city-owned parking facilities and to transfer any such collected charges less any City adjustments into the appropriate new subfund. 1447-2025 read and referred to administrative review
35. 34 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Director of Finance, on behalf of the Cleveland Municipal Court, to enter into one or more contracts with Court Community Service for, one, professional services necessary to place criminal defendants in community service and, two, for placement of criminal defendants in the Cleveland Work Crew Program, both as referred by the Court, for the Cleveland Municipal Court, each for a period of one (1) year, with two (2) one-year options to renew, exercisable by the Director of Finance. 1448-2025 read and referred to administrative review
36. 35 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Director of Finance, on behalf of the Cleveland Municipal Court, to enter into one or more contracts with Oriana House, Inc. for professional services necessary to provide appropriate placement for defendants to be assigned into supervised pretrial release without the sanction of incarceration and to provide related services, for the Cleveland Municipal Court, for a period of one year, with a one-year option to renew exercisable by the Director of Finance. 1449-2025 read and referred to administrative review
37. 36 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Designating the Kamm’s Corners Bank Building (former Cleveland Trust Company West Park Branch) as a Cleveland Landmark. 1451-2025 read and referred to administrative review
38. 37 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Executive Director of the Community Relations Board to enter into one or more contracts with Esperanza, Inc. for the public purpose of providing outreach services and programming for high-risk youth in hot-spot areas in Wards 7, 11, and 14 under the Safe Streets Safe Schools Project program for youth, for a period of one year with three one-year options to renew, exercisable by the Executive Director of the Community Relations Board. 1452-2025 read and referred to administrative review
39. 38 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Director of Finance, on behalf of the Cleveland Municipal Court, to enter into one or more contracts with the Cuyahoga County Public Defender Commission for legal services necessary to defend indigent defendants charged with violation of ordinances of the City of Cleveland that may result in incarceration, for the Cleveland Municipal Court for a period of one year, with one option to renew for an additional consecutive year, exercisable by the Director of Finance. 1453-2025 read and referred to administrative review
40. 39 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Director of Economic Development to enter into a grant agreement with the Greater Cleveland Media Development Corporation dba Greater Cleveland Film Commission, or its designee, to assist with the general operating expenses of the organization. 1454-2025 read and referred to administrative review
41. 40 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the purchase by one or more contracts of labor and materials necessary to retrofit a Division of Police command bus, including installation, for the Division of Motor Vehicle Maintenance, Department of Public Works and/or the Department of Public Safety. 1455-2025 read and referred to administrative review
42. 41 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Director of Parks and Recreation to enter into an amendment to the Property Operations and Programming Agreement, effective June 30, 2016, with Downtown Cleveland, Inc., as assignee of the Group Plan Commission, to provide a restricted contribution to support the ongoing maintenance obligations at Public Square. 1456-2025 read and referred to administrative review
43. 42 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Director of Port Control or other appropriate director to terminate the City of Cleveland’s lease with Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum’s original site and approving the consolidation of the original site and adjacent expansion site into a single lease agreement directly between the City of Cleveland and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. 1460-2025 read and referred to administrative review
44. 43 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE To amend the title and Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 of Ordinance No. 738-2025, passed June 2, 2025, relating to an agreement with Pennrose Holdings, LLC, or its designee, for the sale of the Warner and Swasey building and entering into loan agreements with Pennrose Holdings, LLC, or its designee, to provide assistance to partially finance the redevelopment. 1458-2025 read and referred to administrative review
45. 44 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the purchase by one or more requirement contracts of trees, and labor and materials needed for urban forestry services, including but not limited to, maintaining and planting trees, and removing trees, stumps, and tree waste material, for the Division of Urban Forestry, Department of Parks and Recreation and the Departments of Aging, Public Works, and Community Development, for a period of one year, with a one-year option to renew, exercisable by the Director of Parks and Recreation. 1461-2025 read and referred to administrative review
46. 45 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the purchase by one or more requirement contracts of various pool chemicals, for the Department of Parks and Recreation. 1462-2025 read and referred to administrative review
47. 46 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Director of Public Health to enter into one or more contracts with The Merrick House, Friendly Inn Settlement, Inc., West Side Community House, Lexington Bell Community Center, Birthing Beautiful Communities, The MetroHealth System, Ronald White dba the Transparency Project, Case Western Reserve University and other organizations to provide MomsFirst services to women at risk of poor birth outcomes in the City of Cleveland, for a period of one year. 1464-2025 read and referred to administrative review
48. 47 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Giving consent of the City of Cleveland to the County of Cuyahoga for the resurfacing of Nottingham Road from St. Clair Avenue to the south corporation line; to apply for and accept an allocation of County Motor Vehicle License Tax Funds for the improvement; authorizing the Director of Capital Projects to enter into any relative agreements in making of the improvement; and to cause payment to the County for the City’s share of the improvement. 1470-2025 read and referred to administrative review
49. 48 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Determining the method of making the public improvement of repairing or replacing specific non-compliant sidewalks under the Non-Compliant Sidewalk Repair Program, formerly known as the 50/50 Hazardous Sidewalk Repair Program; authorizing the Director of Capital Projects to enter into one or more public improvement requirement contracts for the making of the improvement, for a period up to two years; and authorizing the director to apply for any gifts or grants from any public or private entity to implement the program. 1471-2025 read and referred to administrative review
50. 49 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE To vacate a portion of East 73rd Street. 1472-2025 read and referred to administrative review
51. 50 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE To vacate a portion of East 70th Street. 1481-2025 read and referred to administrative review
52. 51 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE To vacate a portion of East 71st Place. 1486-2025 read and referred to administrative review
53. 52 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE To vacate a portion of Redman Avenue S.W. 1487-2025 read and referred to administrative review
54. 53 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE To vacate a portion of West Boulevard. 1488-2025 read and referred to administrative review
55. 54 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE To vacate a portion (0.2987 Acres) of West 3rd Street. 1489-2025 read and referred to administrative review
56. 55 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE To vacate a portion (0.2990 Acres) of West 3rd Street. 1490-2025 read and referred to administrative review
57. 56 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE To vacate a portion (0.3451 Acres) of West 3rd Street. 1491-2025 read and referred to administrative review
58. 57 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Director of Parks and Recreation to apply for and accept a grant from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for the Luke Easter Skatepark Project; to accept cash donations from The MGK Foundation and The Skate Park Project for this purpose; determining the method of making the public improvement of designing and constructing a skatepark at Luke Easter Park; and authorizing the Director of Parks and Recreation to enter into one or more contracts for the making of the improvement. 1492-2025 read and referred to administrative review
59. 58 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Determining the method of making the public improvement of designing and constructing Local Renewable Power Projects for the Division of Cleveland Public Power; and authorizing the Director of Public Utilities to enter into one or more public improvement contracts for the making of the improvements; enter into one or more professional service contracts and other contracts needed for the making of the improvements; to apply for and accept gifts and grants; and authorizing the direct employment of the necessary labor, for the Department of Public Utilities, for contracts executed no later than December 31, 2030. 1494-2025 read and referred to administrative review
60. 59 *Emergency Ordinances Read in Full and Passed
61. 60 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE To amend Section 3 of Ordinance No. 1000-2025, passed August 13, 2025, relating to a forgivable loan with Metro West Community Development Organization, or its designee, to acquire and stabilize mixed commercial buildings throughout the West 14 service area. 1457-2025 approved
62. 61 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Director of the Department of City Planning to enter into agreement with Historic Warehouse District Development Corporation of Cleveland for the Warehouse District Public Space Improvements providing a placemaking project including murals; signage and improvements increasing visibility and safety through the use of Ward 3 Casino Revenue Funds. 1459-2025 approved
63. 62 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Director of the Department of Economic Development to enter into agreement with Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation for the Memphis & Pearl Redevelopment project providing post-remediation construction activities increasing the opportunity for additional investment for under-served properties through the use of Ward 13 Casino Revenue Funds. 1463-2025 approved
64. 63 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Director of the Department of Economic Development to enter into a contract with Burten, Bell Carr, Development Corporation for the Dales’ Barbershop Arbor Park Buildout providing financial assistance to acquire, construct, enlarge, improve, or equip its business through the use of Ward 5 Neighborhood Equity Funds. 1465-2025 approved
65. 64 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Director of the Department of Parks and Recreation to enter into agreement with Fairfax Renaissance Development Corporation for the Cleveland Inner City Boxing Club Project providing activities free to the public increasing the opportunity to learn boxing technique and physical fitness training through the use of Ward 6 Casino Revenue Funds. 1466-2025 approved
66. 65 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE To amend Section 2 of Ordinance 1088-2025, passed September 15, 2025 relating to the agreement with MidTown Cleveland, Inc. for the Asian Expo. 1467-2025 approved
67. 66 *Emergency Resolution Read in Full and Adopted
68. 67 AN EMERGENCY RESOLUTION Objecting to the transfer of stock of a C1, C2, Liquor Permit to 870 East 185th Street. 1468-2025 approved
69. 68 AN EMERGENCY RESOLUTION Recognizing Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20, 2025, and annually to honor the memory of transgender individuals whose lives were taken by anti-transgender violence; and reaffirming the City of Cleveland as a community where transgender individuals are welcome, and our commitment to transgender equality and codified anti-discrimination protections and laws for our LGBTQ+ community. 1469-2025 approved
70. 69 SECOND READING LEGISLATION
71. 70 •Emergency Ordinances Read in Full and Passed
72. 71 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the purchase by one or more requirement contracts of industrial and building-related supplies, materials, equipment and services needed for maintenance, repair and operations of facilities, including installation if necessary, for Department of Port Control, for a period of one year, with three one year options to renew, exercisable by the Director of Port Control. 1086-2025 approved
73. 72 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Director of Port Control to employ by contract or contracts one or more qualified insurance brokerage firm or firms to provide brokerage and administrative services for a planned Owner-Controlled Insurance Program needed for the Terminal Modernization Development Program at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, for a period of seven years. 1251-2025 approved
74. 73 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Director of Port Control to employ one or more professional consultants for wayfinding services, to assess, audit, and make recommendations to improve the ticketing lobby operations at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, for a period of one year, with a one-year option to renew, exercisable by the Director of Port Control. 1252-2025 approved
75. 74 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the purchase by one or more requirement contracts of labor and materials necessary for constructing, repairing, maintaining, removing, replacing, disposing, and installing concrete surfaces and structures on roadways, taxiways, runways, ramps and other paved surfaces, for the various divisions of the Department of Port Control, for a period of one year with three one-year options to renew, exercisable by the Director of Port Control. 1253-2025 approved
76. 75 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Director of Port Control to enter into one or more contracts with West Creek Conservancy for the design and implementation of wetland mitigation projects for the Department of Port Control. 1304-2025 approved as amended
77. 76 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Director of Port Control to employ one or more professional consultants to provide financial and accounting consulting services, for a period of one year with three one-year options to renew, exercisable by the Director of Port Control. 1317-2025 approved
78. 77 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Director of Port Control to employ one or more professional consultants to provide on-call asset management services, for a period of one year, with three one-year options to renew, exercisable by the Director of Port Control. 1318-2025 approved
79. 78 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Director of Public Health to enter into an agreement with Case Western Reserve University, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Sciences, for professional services necessary to continue programming through First Year Cleveland; and authorizing any agreements needed to implement such programming, for a period of two years. 1322-2025 approved
80. 79 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE To amend Section 621.07 of the Codified Ordinances of Cleveland, Ohio, 1976, as enacted by Ordinance No. 54-74, passed March 25, 1974, relating to menacing of a healthcare worker. 1380-2025
81. 80 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Director of Finance to employ one or more professional consultants to provide accounting services and implementation assistance of the current and future Governmental Accounting Standards Board Statements for the City’s Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, and to provide accounting services in the preparation and calculation of current GASB’s that are already implemented by the City and to transfer that knowledge to the appropriate City personnel, for a period of one year, with two one-year option to renew, exercisable by the Director of Finance. 1401-2025 approved
82. 81 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE AMENDMENT OF THE 2024 REVOLVING LINE OF CREDIT AND/OR THE ISSUANCE BY THE CITY OF CLEVELAND OF ADDITIONAL AIRPORT SYSTEM SUBORDINATED INDEBTEDNESS IN THE FORM OF REVOLVING LINES OF CREDIT OR A COMMERCIAL PAPER PROGRAM IN AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT NOT TO COLLECTIVELY EXCEED FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX MILLION DOLLARS ($476,000,000) AT ANY ONE TIME TO PAY COSTS OF IMPROVING THE AIRPORT SYSTEM; AUTHORIZING AMENDMENTS TO THE 2024 LOAN AGREEMENT AND THE TWENTY-FIFTH SUPPLEMENTAL TRUST INDENTURE AND/OR ENTERING INTO ONE OR MORE REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENTS, REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENTS, OFFICIAL STATEMENTS, DEALER AGREEMENTS, SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES, NOTES EVIDENCING SUBORDINATED INDEBTEDNESS AND OTHER AGREEMENTS RELATED TO SUBORDINATED INDEBTEDNESS; AND AUTHORIZING AND APPROVING RELATED MATTERS. 1408-2025 approved
83. 82 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Clerk of Council to enter into an agreement with the Housing Research & Advocacy Center dba Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research to provide professional services regarding the Vacant and Abandoned Property Action Council (VAPAC). 1421-2025 approved
84. 83 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Clerk of Council to enter into an agreement with Western Reserve Land Conservancy d/b/a Thriving Communities Institute to provide professional services regarding signature green space creation, planning and policy, vacant land reforestation, and Reforest Our City program. 1431-2025 approved
85. 84 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Authorizing the Clerk of Council to enter into an agreement with On Technology Partners for the professional services necessary to advise and assist in the maintenance and performance of computer technology projects and to provide specific computer technology services for Cleveland City Council 1445-2025 approved
86. 85 INTRODUCTIONS
87. 86 ANNOUNCEMENTS
88. 87 MISCELLANEOUS
89. 88 MOTION TO EXCUSE THE ABSENCES
90. 89 ADJOURN