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Council adopts multiple ordinances and resolutions; roll calls mostly unanimous
Summary
During the meeting City Council read, suspended rules on, and passed multiple ordinances and resolutions by recorded roll calls that showed 17 yeas on items placed on final passage or adoption.
Cleveland City Council read a block of ordinances and resolutions, moved to suspend the rules and placed the legislation on final passage; the roll calls recorded 17 votes in favor on the items called that evening.
Items read and placed on final passage during the meeting included (as read into the record) ordinances and resolutions with the following identifiers and short descriptions taken from the meeting record:
- Ordinance 2-18-2025: Amend Section 1 of ordinance 1-17-2025 (Famicos Foundation amendment) — Rules suspended and placed on final passage; roll call recorded 17 yays. - Ordinance 2-19-2025: Amendment to ordinance 1-18-2025 (Famicos Foundation) — Rules suspended and placed on final passage; roll call recorded 17 yays. - Ordinance 2-20-2025: Supplement codified ordinances relating to the mayor's report and estimate (section 1-23.05) — Rules suspended and placed on final passage; roll call recorded 17 yays. - Ordinance 2-21-2025: Agreement with NetX Internet LLC to provide wireless Internet for Cleveland City Council — Rules suspended and placed on final passage; roll call recorded 17 yays. - Ordinance 2-22-2025 and 2-23-2025: Permits for community events (Amazing 5K and Saint Mark Run for the Arts) — Rules suspended and placed on final passage; roll call recorded 17 yays. - Ordinance 44-2025: Granting easements and authorizing deed of easement over vacated Old West Boulevard for the Tamir Rice Memorial (sponsored by Bishop and Harrison) — Rules suspended and placed on final passage; roll call recorded 17 yays. - A block of emergency ordinances and resolutions read earlier in the meeting (including items identified as Ordinance 2-17 through 2-51 and Resolutions 2-36, 2-41, 2-48, 2-52, 2-53 in the clerk's report) were moved under suspension of rules and recorded as adopted; the roll calls recorded 17 yeas where the clerk called the roll for adoption.
The meeting transcript records the roll-call sequence and lists the council members voting in favor as: Griffin, Bishop, Conwell, Gray, Hairston, Harsh, House Jones, Jones, Casey, Kelly, Moore, McCormack, Polencic, Santana, Slife, Spencer and Star (17 yays). Where the clerk noted changes (for example a correction to a ward designation in an ordinance), those corrections were "so noted" in the record and included prior to final passage.
The transcript does not show extended debate on these measures during the meeting; most items were introduced, read into the record and placed on final passage under suspension of rules. Where ordinances or resolutions required administrative or committee review, the transcript lists those referrals and administrative descriptions in the reading. The meeting record supplied does not include later committee minutes or implementation steps; interested parties should consult the clerk's office or the city legislation database for full ordinance text and next steps.
