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Committee advances $20.99 million Axon contract amendment to full council
Summary
A Cuyahoga County committee approved advancing a nearly $21 million amendment to an Axon Enterprise contract that shifts previously planned commissary funding into the county general fund after legal review; staff and the sheriff described offset options and said the funding could revert if House Bill 397 becomes law.
Cleveland — The Cuyahoga County Public Safety and Justice Affairs Committee on Tuesday voted to send Resolution 20250363, an amendment to a previously authorized Axon Enterprise contract, to the full county council under second-reading suspension.
The resolution updates how the contract — authorized at a not-to-exceed $20,992,729.28 — will be funded after legal review showed some intended purchases could not be paid from the jail commissary account. Jared Zobrataski of the county law department told the committee the amendment removes commissary funding from the original distribution (36% general fund, 37% federal equitable sharing, 27% commissary) and replaces those commissary allocations with general-fund dollars.
Why it matters: Moving commissary-funded items into the general fund shifts roughly $646,000 in 2026 and about…
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