Cleveland City Council Meeting- November 9, 2026

Cleveland City Council’s November 9, 2026 meeting included several procurement and capital-project measures, most introduced for administrative or committee review rather than finally approved. Proposed public-safety technology contracts included Axon Enterprise for an automated license-plate-reader system (Ordinance 1378), Skydio for a drone first-responder program (1379), and SoundThinking for a gun-violence detection system (1380). A public commenter urged council not to proceed with Axon, citing privacy and surveillance concerns; no vote on these contracts occurred in the meeting. Other referred measures covered airport terminal and concourse construction and related contracting (1390), airport airfield-marking assessment services, port-control purchasing and maintenance contracts, a street-sweeper or leaf-vacuum purchase, and an asphalt-recycling machine. Contract amendments or renewals included parking-lot services by SP Plus, North Coast Harbor property management by Downtown Cleveland Alliance, and CLEAR airport kiosks. No dollar amounts for these proposed contracts were stated.

Council passed emergency legislation on a 13–0 vote, including amendments and agreements involving food distribution, cultural arts, and neighborhood-funded projects. It also adopted a resolution objecting to a liquor permit. Communications included notices of cooperative-purchasing-agreement use with Law and Order Technology LLC. In public comment, residents also called for a moratorium on data centers and raised concerns about surveillance technology; council took no action on those requests. Councilman Starr cited $950,000 in annual city funding for CMSD extracurricular and athletic programs while criticizing administrative failures affecting student sports, but this was not a procurement action.