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Votes at a glance: Key resolutions adopted by Cuyahoga County Council on March 25, 2025
Summary
Council adopted multiple resolutions including ARPA community grants, personnel appointments, contracts for services, road and sewer projects, and collective bargaining approvals; items passed by voice vote unless noted.
At its March 25, 2025 meeting the Cuyahoga County Council adopted a range of resolutions by voice vote. The following list captures the primary adopted items and the key details available on the council floor. Movers and seconders were not consistently identified on the record; where the transcript records a roll or vocal tally it is noted.
- Resolution 20240396: Adopted — Award to Mertus Taylor Students of Promise Leadership Academy (amount not to exceed $250,000) (third reading adoption).
- Resolution 20250082: Adopted — Community development grant award not to exceed $300,000 to JSAC LLC for Africatown Plaza Art and Cultural Center; county to provide an additional $450,000 economic development loan to leverage the project.
- Resolution 20250117: Adopted — Biennial operating budget amendment including a $3,100,000 appropriation to hold a special spring election for a state ballot issue.
- Resolution 20250094: Adopted — Subgrant agreement with City of Painesville not to exceed $80,665,500 for EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grant workplan (solar array, battery system, brownfield reforestation), period 10/01/2024–09/30/2029.
- Resolution 20250128 (and related contract awards): Adopted — Various procurement awards including print management services (Advanced Server Management Group Inc., not to exceed $1,100,000), waste removal services (Republic Services of Elyria, not to exceed $866,787.76), and resurfacing contracts (Roniak Paving, $2,538,569.85) among others.
- Resolution 20250118: Adopted — Collective bargaining agreement with AFSCME Ohio Council 8, Local 3631 for Public Defender’s Office employees (01/01/2025–12/31/2027); item previously discussed in executive session, council took no action on the contract at this meeting.
- Multiple appointments and confirmations: Adopted — Reappointments and appointments to boards and commissions (Corrections Planning Board, Arts & Culture Board, Public Defender Commission, Commission on Human Rights, workforce development board alternates), as read and referred to Human Resources or adopted when on the floor.
These items were adopted largely by voice vote on the record; the transcript records occasioned requests to add sponsor names and confirmations that several items passed unanimously in committee. Where the transcript lacked a roll-call tally, the outcome is recorded as adopted by voice vote.
