Cleveland Heights committee to send $100,000 Students of Promise grant back to Committee of the Whole for funding source

The Cleveland Heights Finance Committee discussed on June 3 a request from Students of Promise for a $100,000 city grant to support a women-and-children transitional shelter and related program services, and agreed to return the request to the Committee of the Whole for a final funding-source designation.

The request, presented by Students of Promise Executive Director Bob Ivory, would support a facility that Ivory described as “not necessarily… a shelter. We’re transitioning women and their children that are homeless into… permanent housing.” He told the committee the funds would be used largely for programmatic services — “financial literacy, social emotional learning, trauma informed care, family reunification… mentoring for the children,” and onsite childcare and early learning — and said “nothing less than 50% of these funds” would be used for those services.

Why it matters: committee members flagged precedent and oversight questions. Several said the city must identify an appropriate account and record how the funds will be monitored before approving a one-off program grant, and asked for reporting requirements…