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Cleveland council presses law department for contract timelines as small grants sit undone
Summary
At a budget hearing, the City of Cleveland’s law director told council the department drafted roughly 756 contracts in 2025 and averages 45 days from submittal to execution, but multiple council members demanded a public flowchart and named contacts after small contracts and a $1M United Way allocation stalled.
Law Director Mark Griffin faced repeated, sometimes heated questions from Cleveland City Council members on Feb. 26 about why routine contracts take months or years to finish and who is responsible for delays.
Griffin told the Committee on Finance, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion that his office drafted about 756 contracts, reviewed roughly 1,058 documents for legal form and processed 438 legislative requests in 2025. "Our average turnaround time from submittal to final execution is 45 days," he said. He also credited the adoption of DocuSign and new case-management tools — Matrix on the litigation side and iManage…
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