The Board of Control is made up of @MayorBibb, members of his cabinet & the heads of various city departments.
The Board selects & approves vendors for city contracts.
They also approve the sale of city land

These meetings tend to be short - often around 15 minutes. But still lots of $$$ for City contracts gets approved by the Board of Control.
Other than some clarifying questions, there is rarely much discussion from those in the room about these contracts.

The agenda for today's meeting is available here:
there are 6 contracts to be approved or amended on today's agenda. there are no sales of landbank parcels on today's agenda.

items on today's board of control agenda include trauma-informed professional development for rec center staff, tree-trimming contracts🌳, work at north coast harbor, and purchasing a police boat 🚤
the meeting is scheduled to start at 3 pm

here is the link for the live stream:

The meeting has begun! Kicking off with the first item on the agenda - amending a contract with Case to also include CSU. This is related to trauma-informed professional development for rec center staff
It was approved unanimously

Next up -
contracts to purchase ~$3.5 million of wire from PEPCO
and
contract to VanCuren Services for tree trimming services for 2 years at ~$1.9 million
No discussion, approved unanimously
[I'm left to wonder why Ullman Oil is a subcontractor on the tree trimming contract]

next is port control-
approving a Axon Creative as a subcontractor to Downtown Cleveland Alliance for North Coast Harbor
The audio kinda went to crap at this moment so it's unclear to me what exactly Axon Creative will be getting up to
Approved!

next up - ~$1.1 million for improvements at North Coast Harbor
approved!

and finally, public safety with a contract to SAFE Boats International to buy a police boat for ~$800k
it was approved unanimously

the audio got a bit too fuzzy for me to hear the specifics but it sounds like there's some kind of technicality b/w Washington state law (where SAFE Boat is headquartered) and Ohio law.
No mentions of maritime law, though, that I could make out

But how will this boat be delivered from Bremerton, WA - on the Puget Sound - to Cleveland, Ohio?
Is it small enough to trailer down I-90?
Is it seaworthy to make the journey thru the Panama Canal? The Straits of Magellan?
The St. Lawrence or, perhaps, even the Mississippi?

oh and the meeting ended. There were no other items to discuss -- it was about 5 minutes long!

That concludes my coverage of today's Board of Control meeting. Thank you for reading along w/ me!
Have questions? Think we got something wrong? Send any inquiries on the meeting or these tweets to @cledocumenters. Or email us at cledocumenters@gmail.com

more on wire contract

more on the tree-trimming contract