Merrick House announced on Friday 1/7/2011 that they plan on closing their Fulton Road offices and transitioning services to other sites by April 1st, 2011.  Funding cuts over the past four years were cited as the reason for the closing of the Clark Fulton site.  Such cuts reportedly created funding gaps which had to be covered by the organization's reserve funds.  Their decision reflects concerns for ensuring programs at their main office remain solvent. 

Stockyard, Clark-Fulton & Brooklyn Centre

Community Development Office

The ordinance passes 12 votes to 7 -- see Plain Dealer article:

Cleveland City Council finally passes legislation to seek bids for purchase of LED lights
By Mark Gillispie, The Plain Dealer, August 18, 2010.

I'm pleased to report that our Ward 14 Ward Office is now up and running.  We are located at 3167 Fulton Road, Suite 305, located in the Lin Omni Building close to St. Rocco's Parish.  Our primary phone number utilized for City Hall, 216-664-4238 will be utilized at the Ward office.

 The following is an excerpt from the  linked documents (see below) that were completed this morning and represent comprehensive alternative provisions and strategies for the LED Lighting Ordinance Cleveland City Council is deliberating on today.

 
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FYI – Another posting from Jim Brodrick, head of the Dept. of Energy’s Solid State Lighting program, regarding the performance concerns for LED T8 (4’ florescent) replacement lamps.

 Some of the best take away quotes:

Dear residents and stakeholders, 

 
NPR Weekend Edition with Scott Simon,

At this evening's Cleveland City Council meeting, Ordinance Number 496-10, the 10-year no-bid contract for LED products and a promise of 350 jobs from Sunpu Opto has been tabled! -- suspend consideration of a pending motion.

It is unlikely there will be a vote this evening on the 10-year no-bid Sunpu Opto LED lighting contract.

It appears the votes for and against the Sunpu Opto agreement are holding.  Today we believe that we are at 9-Yea and 9-Nay and the 19th vote - Councilman Matt Zone (who was recorded as a Yea on a roll call vote last Monday) - is out of town and is not expected to be present for this evening's meeting.

Mayor Frank Jackson and his Administration havebeen saying that their proposed deal to award a 10-year, exclusive contract for all of the City’s energy-efficient LED lighting needs to Sunpu Opto from China is a bold move. Someone close to Cleveland’s LED lighting story summed it up well – 

Tear it Down

Issue Date: March 2010 

Since the February 10th announcement by Google to offer ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States, the City of Cleveland is one of many city's responding that will be submitting a Request for Information that's due tomorrow.