Finance, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee - November 9, 2026

Cleveland City Council’s Finance, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee met November 9, 2026, and advanced several procurement and funding actions. It approved an amended one-year lease for 3,717 square feet of Justice Center space used by Municipal Court IT, at a first-year maximum of $76,198.50, with five one-year renewal options and a 2% increase to base rent for each exercised option, excluding utilities. The committee also approved extending Cleveland Public Power’s East Side service-center lease with Darley Holdings Group LLC: rent remains $250,000 annually, and the term extends through August 31, 2031, with one additional five-year option requiring legislative authority. It approved expanding the existing ST Engineering Telematic Wireless Ltd. contract for the Bright City street-lighting system; no additional contract amount was stated. A purchase of an aircraft rescue and firefighting incident-command vehicle, estimated at approximately $90,000, was approved, with the outgoing vehicle intended for use at Burke Airport.

The committee approved accepting a $1 million HUD grant and entering a grant agreement with the Northern Ohio Recovery Association for phase two of Nora Village, which will build four recovery-housing units; Guardian Structural Technology was identified as the developer. It also approved city consent for ODOT to reconstruct three I-480 ramps at Grayton Road and West 150th Street, a $3,127,423 project funded entirely by the state. Other approved items included transferring surplus city parcels to the Industrial Commercial Land Bank to support redevelopment and avoid potential property-tax costs, and the 2026 HUD-funded CDBG, HOME, ESG, and HOPWA programs. Discussion of possible future use of funds for capital projects, including road repairs, was exploratory and not part of the current CDBG approval.