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Council approves public-safety grants and two city property leases
Summary
The committee approved six emergency ordinances: multiple public-safety grants (1350, 1351, 1355, 1357) totaling several hundred thousand dollars in awards and matches, plus two short-term leases of city property (1199, 1200).
Cleveland City Council’s finance committee approved six pieces of legislation in one session, authorizing multiple public-safety grants and two leases of city-owned property.
The grants included a U.S. Department of Justice local Byrne-equivalent award to make the City of Cleveland the fiscal agent for a regional policing assistance package (ordinance 1350-2024), state traffic-enforcement and impaired-driving grants (ordinance 1351-2024), a multi-agency drug task force grant (ordinance 1355-2024) and three Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) awards for domestic-violence, sexual-assault and prosecution programs (ordinance 1357-2024). Committee members described many of the grants as routine annual awards; several members pressed for clarity on timelines and how federal or state conditions might affect local enforcement.
Assistant Director Dawn Hartzong told the committee the Byrne-equivalent award stays "fairly similar" from year to year: "The amount stays fairly similar. It goes up and down by maybe a few $1,000, but fairly constant," she said, speaking about the recurring…
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