🍇 The Board of Control is made up members of @MayorBibb‘s cabinet & the heads of various city departments.

🍒 The Board formally approves vendors and $ amounts for city contracts

🫐 Learn much more in this @signalcleveland explainer by @AbbeyMarshall: https://signalcleveland.org/clevelands-board-of-control-votes-to-spend-taxpayer-money-what-is-it-explainer/

🥝 The Board of Control also sometimes approves the sale of city-owned land, but I don’t think we’ll see that sort of thing at today’s meeting.

🍏 You can find the agenda for this afternoon’s meeting on the @cledocumenters site here: https://cleveland.documenters.org/documents/agenda-87196/

🍌 Or you can enjoy it right here, in 4 screenshots https://t.co/prq2H0SzLF

🍊 The meeting begins at 3 pm!

🍓 And you can watch it LIVE on The Board of Control’s YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4-grlgMPJy50hXISJ01lkQ

The livestream is up & is being called to order. Here’s a direct link to the livestream of today’s @CityofCleveland Board of Control Meeting:

The meeting is starting with Director of Public Utilities Keane. Keane is reading through the 4 Public Utilities items on the agenda.

All 4 were approved without comments or questions https://t.co/jiFk3C3XJ1

Now we’re hearing from Commissioner of Information Technology Kimberly Roy Wilson about the first two Finance items: https://t.co/o5qer6niXy

Someone else, who wasn’t named, is now talking about the 3rd Finance item - a contract w/ @UnitedWayCLE to provide after-hours service for the 311 call center.

8 vendors applied. 1 was disqualified.

Contract is for ~$100k for 1 year, w/ two renewals https://t.co/GA7HtZnsA9

All 3 finance items were approved w/out comment or questions

Director Dennis Kramer from Port Control talking about contract for flooring at the airport.

Says it’s the 3rd time this contract has been bid. First two times the contractors didn’t meet “OEO goals” (which I’m googling/guessing means “Office of Equal Opportunity goals”) https://t.co/wjqEtoE1FO

@MayorBibb asked a clarifying question about which floors are covered by this contract. It fixes all floors at the airport INCLUDING the bathrooms.

Approved!

Next is Public Safety Director Karrie Howard talking about purchases of boots for @ClevelandFire

They’re rejecting the second item for now so they can re-do the bids for particle hoods - so this BOOTS ONLY item is approved 👢👢 https://t.co/b32d7IQGBJ

That was it for our agenda, BUT there’s a “walk on” item from Port Control!

this is related to Ord. 763-2022 re: healthcare benefits to City of Cleveland employees

Unclear who is speaking, they are not identified

Here are the amounts “not to exceed” for the contracts:

Anthem Blue Cross: $45 million
Medical Mutual: $80 million
Delta Dental: $5 million
EyeMed: $600,000
Symetra Life Insurance: $300k
Metropolitan Life Insurance for benefits at no cost to the City

A question about “not to exceed”

2020 health care costs were ~$100 million. With prescription costs ~$110 million.

These contracts are well in excess of those actuals, so it sounds like they’re overbudgeting to provide a cushion if needed.

I’ll chip in with this fact: my inhaler doubled in price this year, so there’s that 🐡

And that’s it! The meeting adjourned after about 13 minutes.

It took me a lot longer to tweet it because it I used the magic of rewind a lot.

The audio for some of the speakers on this stream plain ol’ stunk. I tried to get what I could & I hope I got it right 👼 https://t.co/Wgym4aJSS7

I think it’s fascinating that the last item covered today was a “walk on” (not on the published agenda) and approved contracts of up to ~$130 million 💰💰💰

This concludes my coverage of today’s @CityofCleveland Board of Control Meeting. Thank you for reading along with me!

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