Police-and-fire subcommittee approves emergency amendment to Parma Veil jail contract

The Seven Hills City Council's police-and-fire subcommittee approved an emergency request to amend the department's jail contract with Parma Veil during its March 11 meeting.

The committee moved the item forward to the full council’s emergency agenda after the police chief described the amendment as matching previously added insurance language. "When we passed the Parma Veil contract, we added the city of Parma as an additional insured, and now we're going back and asking them to do the same thing. So that's all the amendment is. It's more so on their end, but we wanted to match," the Police Chief said.

Councilman Martin, who chaired the subcommittee in Councilman Elliott's absence, moved to approve the request "for amendments to the department jail contract" and to place it on the next meeting agenda as an emergency item. Councilmember Castanzo seconded the motion. The roll call recorded three yes votes: Constanza, Martin and Castanzo. The chair declared the motion approved and the item scheduled for emergency consideration at the next meeting.

Councilmembers asked no further questions during the committee discussion; Councilmember Sandozow declined to ask questions when invited. The committee did not discuss changes to service scope, pricing, or contract term on the record; the item as presented addressed only the insurance-language amendment.

The amendment as described by the Police Chief would align the contract’s insured-party language between the parties; no additional contractual changes or fiscal impacts were discussed during the committee hearing.

Votes at the subcommittee level are advisory; the amendment was forwarded to the full council for emergency action at the next meeting.