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Committee advances Community Development Block Grant budget

Nick Ventura

Hi #Cleveland, I’ll be live-tweeting today’s Cleveland City Council’s Finance, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee of Cleveland City Council at 2pm for @CLEDOCUMENTERS @signalcleveland. The meeting is streamed via YouTube & on TV20 (http://www.tv20cleveland.com/watch-now/).

02:31 PM May 8, 2023 CDT

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You can see everyone strolling in, getting ready for the meeting. Handshakes were given out to everyone as well. It seems like everyone is excited it is a Monday.

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The meeting officially began at 2:04 pm. Role was called, and everyone was present.

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Ordinance no. 506-2023 stands approved. Russel Brown, who is an administrator at the Ohio Court was there to announce the ordinance changes.

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Ordinance no. 1128-2021 stands approved. Council Member Anthony T. Hairston @HairstonCCC10 was there and spoke highly of the ordinance. Council Member Michael D. Polensek also spoke to this ordinance and said he was dealing with the Glenville neighborhood.

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Ordinance no. 1130-2021 stands approved. Councilman Kazy @kazy_brian supports this project. He said, “This is the first time that ward 16 will see substantial improvement into the neighborhood.”

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Ordinance no. 397-2023 stands approved. This is a budget hearing, and this is an approximate budget after further approval.

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Ordinance no. 485-2023 stands approved. This is for legal aid as they go through the eviction process.

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Ordinance no. 504-2023 stands approved . Councilman Kazy @kazy_brian said, “This isn’t an option to renew, correct?”

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Ordinance no. 404-2023 will not be passed because it can’t be passed before June the 5th, 2023.

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Ordinance no. 445-2023 stands approved.

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Ordinance no. 468-2023 stands approved. This is an ordinance about student internships. Janet Schiavoni is the manager of organizational effectiveness. Schiavoni spoke to this and said, “These are very short-term, 10-12 weeks.”

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Ordinance no. 444-2023 stands approved.

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Ordinance no. 467-2023 stands approved.

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Ordinance no. 470-2023 stands approved as amended. Councilman Bishop said he fully supports this amendment.

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Ordinance no. 481-2023 stands approved. McCormack stated, “A person couldn’t just perform their own work.”

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This meeting ended at 3:29 pm. This concludes my coverage of this meeting.

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The order of the ordinances was a bit confusing towards the middle of the meeting. I’m not sure why they did that, but they moved through the entire agenda.

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