City Council

The meeting begins at 7 pm on TV-20 or on City Council’s YouTube channel or at City Hall. I’ll post the live YouTube link once the meeting begins

You can view this evening’s agenda on City Council’s website here: https://cityofcleveland.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1004296&GUID=C3519121-A614-4E58-A50B-8A80DD67D989&Options=&Search=

The agenda got a big update in the past couple of hours. It now has ~30 items, including 27 emergency ordinances

Those emergency ordinances are re: lots of city contracts - including hiring contractors to replace some lead water service lines, tax financing deals for new development projects and grants for services like Moms First and drug court programming … and more!

the meeting stream is up and running here:

the roll was called and the meeting is moving into public comment. First up is Rev. Pinkney Butts on funding for public transit, including repairs at the E. 79th and Superior rapid stations. https://t.co/ZrDBlmc8m2

next up is Angelo Anderson re: participatory budgeting. He says wants Clevelanders to have more of a say in how $ is spent and wants to see services for people like those that used to be in Ken Johnson’s ward. https://t.co/UOwJhsaxdF

next is Dennis Aston who is representing the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless. He talked about housing discrimination against those using housing vouchers and the need for additional resources for folks living through homelessness. https://t.co/1MylgsivwG

next is Sheryl Hardwick Stewart who says participatory budgeting can be a better way for residents to share their voices than voting - it’s a way to learn how city gov’t works, too. https://t.co/xXkhn9q011

Next is Sharena Zayed. Sharena is a nominee for the Cleveland Community Police Commission. She spoke about how her life has been impacted by gun violence and hopes that all of the nominees will be approved https://t.co/hoHnB4GwVp

next is Cal Wright speaking on the Homeless Bill of Rights and in support of legislation addressing source of income discrimination. https://t.co/Ry8w2QYPE5

next is Josiah Quarles from Cleveland Hts & from NEOCH speaking on the need to keep emergency rental assistance in place and additional resources to support Clevelanders experiencing homelessness https://t.co/7k7eCIKm9K

next is Matthew Ahn who is talking about the northcoast connector project. He is in support of it and advocates for demolishing the Shoreway b/w W. 3 and I-90. He also said there’s a study out there that says Cleveland has the widest streets in the 🌍 https://t.co/k6GDHE6NkM

and that’s it for public comment! a communication is read re: re-platting Franklin Ave as part of the Irishtown Bend park project. It looks like the road will be realigned. https://t.co/SDEp4u66pc

moving on to 🚨 emergency ordinances - Council is reading thru those 27 ordinances on the agenda (which you can find here: https://cityofcleveland.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1004296&GUID=C3519121-A614-4E58-A50B-8A80DD67D989&Options=&Search=

Council votes to suspend the rules and votes to approve the first batch of the emergency ordinances on their first reading.

Council is moving on to the second reading of another batch of emergency ordinances

there are 12 people watching the YouTube stream!

the rules are suspended again and again and this batch of ordinances is passed unanimously as well

Councilperson Polensek says that GE has told him & Councilperson Hairston that the company has agreed to remediate their old, abandoned 22-acre lamp plant site on E. 152nd. https://t.co/SeD5erEFHm

and with that, the meeting is adjourned!

here is the text of the emergency ordinances that were passed on their first readings: https://t.co/1CPD0zgzl3

as well as: https://t.co/DVBVY8ovBE

there were also two emergency 🚨 resolutions to permit a 5k run and a 10 mile run coming up in April & July: https://t.co/yvAtScohyc

and here’s the text of the emergency ordinances that were passed on their second readings tonight. I’m pretty sure that means they were likely read at a previous council meeting but were “referred” back to a committee for adjustments/amendments: https://t.co/PzQdU6PWHg

as well as: https://t.co/JCy1Rva9DB

and, finally: https://t.co/VA4lyWsECl

Nothing too flashy or neat at this meeting, folks.

There’s probably a lot of good, public info in those 27 ordinances that were passed, but most of it played out in committee instead of the full council meeting

This was my first time documenting a @CleCityCouncil meeting and not just a committee meeting. I was surprised how little discussion or explanation there was compared to committee meetings.

Thanks for reading along with me this evening.

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