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Cleveland EDC approves consent agenda and adopts revamped Business Improvement Grant
Summary
The Cleveland Economic Development Corporation unanimously approved its consent agenda with corrections to minutes and adopted revised guidelines for the Business Improvement Grant (formerly the facade grant), after city attorney review.
The Cleveland Economic Development Corporation unanimously approved its consent agenda and adopted new program guidelines for the Business Improvement Grant at its February 24 meeting.
Board members voted to accept the consent agenda with corrections to meeting minutes, including a clerical correction changing a reference to "November 2025 financials" to November 2024. The board then voted to adopt the revised Business Improvement Grant program after the city attorney reviewed the changes.
The grant program previously was called the facade improvement grant. City attorney Tommy Ramsey reviewed the revised guidelines and gave the board "green light to proceed," Emilio, the EDC coordinator, said during the meeting. The motion to adopt the program was made by Mr. McWaters and seconded by Mr. Thompson; the board voted unanimously to adopt the guidelines.
Emilio told the board the packet included the revised document, and the board moved the adoption without further amendment during the meeting. Board members noted the document had been included in the meeting packet; no redline was circulated at the table.
The consent agenda approval and the grant-adoption vote were recorded as unanimous with no roll-call tally read; minutes show no abstentions or dissents. The board also recorded a procedural correction requested during the review of minutes: one appointment noted in the draft minutes was to be changed to "appointed later in the meeting." That correction was handled as part of the consent motion.
The board did not take any other formal action in open session after the executive session concluded and adjourned at the end of the meeting.
Looking ahead, the adopted Business Improvement Grant guidelines will govern future facade/streetscape assistance and were described at the meeting as the product of prior board edits and attorney review. The board did not specify an immediate funding appropriation in the motion; implementation steps and funding decisions were not part of the adoption motion recorded at the meeting.
