City Council Meeting

Margo Sommerville, President Brad McKitrick, Vice-President Tina Boyes, President Pro-Tem Members of Council: Mark Greer, At-Large Johnnie Hannah, Ward 5 Linda F. R. Omobien, At-Large Brad McKitrick, Ward 6 Eric D. Garrett, Sr., At-Large Donnie Kammer, Ward 7 Fran Wilson, Ward 1 Bruce Bolden, Ward 8 Phil Lombardo, Ward 2 Tina Boyes, Ward 9 Margo Sommerville, Ward 3 Sharon L. Connor, Ward 10 Jan Davis, Ward 4 www.akroncitycouncil.org Council Agenda for May 18, 2026 1:00 P.M. Planning & Economic 2:30 P.M. Health & Social Services Development 1:45 P.M. Parks & Recreation 3:00 P.M. Budget & Finance 2:00 P.M. Rules 3:30 P.M. Housing & Neighborhood Assistance 2:00 P.M. Public Service, Public 5:00 P.M. Special Meeting – Open Comment Public Utilities, & Green Hearings 2:15 P.M. Public Safety 6:30 P.M. Regular Council Meeting Regular Meeting held on May 11, 2026. All members were present. Minutes of the previous meeting approved. Ayes: 13, Nays: 0. CONSENT AGENDA 1 ORDINANCE authorizing the Director of the Department of Planning and Urban Development to enter into a contract or contracts with non-profit organizations, for the provision of Community Development Corporation (CDC) support in order to carry out the intent and purpose of programs under the Consolidated Plan for the year 2026; authorizing payment therefor; and declaring an emergency. (Planning & Economic Development) 2 ORDINANCE authorizing the Mayor, or his designee, to file applications and enter into an agreement or agreements with the Water Supply Revolving Loan 1  Account (WSRLA) with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) and with the Ohio Water Development Authority (OWDA) for planning, design, and/or construction of the Emergency Water Main Connections; and declaring an emergency. (Public Service, Public Utilities, & Green) 3 ORDINANCE authorizing the Mayor, or his designee, to file applications and enter into an agreement or agreements with the Water Supply Revolving Loan Account (WSRLA) with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) and with the Ohio Water Development Authority (OWDA) for planning, design, and/or construction of the Water Main Replacement Program 2026; and declaring an emergency. (Public Service, Public Utilities, & Green) 4 ORDINANCE authorizing the Mayor, or his designee, to enter into a contract or contracts with Oriana House, Inc. for confinement, rehabilitation services, and alternative sentencing options for certain offenders convicted of violations of the Akron Municipal Code of Ordinances; and declaring an emergency. (Public Safety) RULES (McKitrick, Chair) NO ITEMS BUDGET & FINANCE (Lombardo, Chair) NO ITEMS PLANNING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (Kammer, Chair) UP FOR PUBLIC HEARING MAY 18, 2026: 1 ORDINANCE authorizing a Conditional Use to construct a housing development at Exeter Road and Ericsson Avenue (PN 6762680); and declaring an emergency. (04/27/26) 2 ORDINANCE authorizing a Conditional Use to establish a towing operation and impound lot at 1065 Dublin Street; and declaring an emergency. (04/27/26) TIME: 3 D-84 Petition of the Akron Art Museum for a Conditional Use to Install Digital Signage Over the Height Limitation at 1 S. High Street PC-2026- 12-CU (05/04/26) 4 D-85 Petition of AMHA for a Conditional Use to Establish a Day Care Business Center at 943 Springdale Street PC-2026-10-CU (05/04/26) 2 5 D-61 Petition of Family and Community Services, Inc. for a Conditional Use to Construct a Housing Development at Exeter Road & Ericsson Avenue (PN 6762680) PC-2026-06-CU (04/06/26) 6 D-62 Petition of Carol Coleman Crane, dba Team Towing, for a Conditional Use to Establish a Towing Operation and Impound at 1065 Dublin Street PC-2026-07-CU (04/06/26) 7 ORDINANCE authorizing a Conditional Use to establish a defense education training facility at 1928 Eastwood Avenue; and declaring an emergency. (02/23/26) (Public Hearing held 03/09/26) (Substitute offered as an amendment 03/09/26) 8 D-14 Petition of David Walker for a Conditional Use to Establish a Training Facility at 1928 Eastwood Avenue PC-2025-80-CU (02/02/26) 9 D-132 Petition of Crasi Homes for a Conditional Use to Construct Two- Family Dwellings at 940 Pitkin Street and 953 Dayton Street PC-2025- 37-CU (6/30/25) 10 ORDINANCE amending/supplementing Title 15, Chapter 153, “Zoning Code”, Article 6 “Development and Area District Requirements”, Section 153.305 “Residence Requirements” and Section 4.3.3. “Walls and Fences” of the City of Akron Form-Based Code to amend fencing requirements; and declaring an emergency. (2/24/25) (To be scheduled for Public Hearing.) 11 ORDINANCE authorizing a Conditional Use to establish a Type A daycare home at 782 Bellevue Avenue; and declaring an emergency. (11/27/2023) (Public Hearing held 2/5/2024) 12 D-730 Petition of Keisha Burney for a Conditional Use to Establish a Type A Daycare Home at 782 Bellevue Avenue PC-2023-60-CU (11/06/2023) 13 ORDINANCE authorizing a Conditional Use to establish an auto dealership at 338 N. Arlington Street; and declaring an emergency. (11/28/2022) (Public Hearing was held 1/23/2023) 14 D-576 Petition of Abraham Zabay for a Conditional Use to Establish an auto dealership at 338 N. Arlington Street (PC-2022-52-CU) 15 ORDINANCE authorizing a Conditional Use to construct a parking lot at 921 Cordova Avenue for the Maple Valley Resource Center at 1474 Copley Road; and declaring an emergency. (9/18/2023) (Public Hearing 3  held 9/25/2023) 16 ORDINANCE authorizing a Conditional Use to establish and construct an addition to a bed and breakfast at 814 Bloomfield Avenue; and declaring an emergency. (Public Hearing was held 9/13/21) 17 D-285 Petition of Louie Berrodin for a Conditional Use to establish a bed and breakfast and construct an addition at 814 Bloomfield Avenue (PC- 2021-30-CU) (7/12/21) 18 ORDINANCE authorizing a Conditional Use to construct a parking lot on the east side of W. Center Street (PN 6716587); and declaring an emergency. (Public Hearing was held October 21, 2019) 19 D-774 Petition of Community Action Agency for a Conditional Use to construct a parking lot and the sale of City-owned land on W. Center Street. (Parcel No. 6716587) (PC-2019-63-CU & S) (9/16/19) PUBLIC SERVICE, PUBLIC UTILITIES, & GREEN (Kammer, Chair) FIRST READING AND REFERRED: 1 ORDINANCE authorizing the Mayor, or his designee, to enter into a development, community benefit, and service agreement, and related documents or instruments, with Waste Management of Ohio, Inc. and/or any of its parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates, in order to provide for the redevelopment real property and establishment of a new waste and recycling transfer station in Akron; and declaring an emergency. (05/11/26) REFERRED: 2 D-86-1 Two (2) Objections to Concrete Street Repair Per R-107-2026 (05/11/26) TIME: 3 D-86 One (1) Objection to Concrete Street Repair Per R-107-2026 (05/04/26) FILED: 4 D-58 One (1) Objection to Residential Street Resurfacing Per R-433- 2025 (03/30/26) 5 D-51 One (1) Objection to Arterial/Collector Street Resurfacing per R- 4  432-2025 (03/23/26) 6 D-45-1 Two (2) Objections to Unimproved Street Resurfacing Per R- 434-2025 (03/16/26) 7 D-45 One (1) Objection to Unimproved Street Resurfacing per R-434- 2025 (03/09/26) PUBLIC SAFETY (McKitrick, Chair) TIME: 1 ORDINANCE authorizing the Mayor, or his designee, to enter into a contract or contracts, without the formality of publicly advertising for bids, with Farber Specialty Vehicles for the purchase of a mobile command vehicle; and declaring an emergency. (10/28/2024) (Substitute offered as an amendment 11/4/2024) PARKS & RECREATION (Connor, Chair) NO ITEMS HOUSING & NEIGHBORHOOD ASSISTANCE (Bolden, Chair) NO ITEMS HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES (Davis, Chair) NO ITEMS FILED D-35-4 Income Tax Receipts as of April 2026 D-92 Notice of New Type C1 Liquor Permit to The Sweet Tooth Doll 250 E Cuyahoga Falls Ave Ward 2 D-93 Notice of Transfer of Type D5 Liquor Permit to Papaioan LLC 1350 W Waterloo Rd Ward 9 D-94 Weekly Demolition Report – Week of May 4, 2026 D-95 2025 Annual Report for the Citizens’ Police Oversight Board and Office of the Independent Police Auditor for the City of Akron ORDINANCES & RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT PREVIOUS MEETING 5 ORDINANCE NO. 129-2026 amending and/or supplementing Title 15, Chapter 154 “Vacant Commercial or Industrial Buildings,” Section 154.04 “Vacant Commercial or Industrial Building Appeals Board,” subsection A., of the Akron Codified Ordinances to remove all requirements for specific qualifications or experience for members of the Vacant Commercial or Industrial Building Appeals Board; and declaring an emergency. Vote: 13-0. ORDINANCE NO. 130-2026 authorizing the Director of Public Service, or his designee, to enter into a contract or contracts, without the formality of publicly advertising for bids, with the Ohio and Erie Canalway Coalition for operations assistance and maintenance services at the Summit Lake Shore Park; and declaring an emergency. Vote: 13-0. ORDINANCE NO. 131-2026 determining to proceed with the improvement of Wendling Drive from Pelee Drive to East End, Pelee Drive 60 feet north of Wendling Drive and Arborway Drive 60 feet north of Wendling Drive by paving, grading, constructing and reconstructing curbs, concrete sidewalks, driveway approaches, storm sewers and sanitary sewers, installing roof drain pipes and planting trees, all together with the necessary appurtenances, and declaring an emergency. Vote: 13-0. ORDINANCE NO. 132-2026 authorizing the Director of Law, or his designee, to enter into a contract or contracts, with the County of Summit, Ohio and the Legal Defenders Office of Summit County, Ohio, Inc., to provide legal counsel to indigent defendants charged with loss of liberty offenses in the City’s municipal jurisdiction, in accordance with the requirements of the Constitution of the United States with respect to the provision of legal representation to indigent defendants in the year 2026; and declaring an emergency. Vote: 13-0. ORDINANCE NO. 133-2026 authorizing the Mayor, or his designee, to enter into a contract or contracts, after publicly advertising for bids, for improvements to the tennis court and playground at Hyre Park; and declaring an emergency. Vote: 13-0. ORDINANCE NO. 134-2026 authorizing the Mayor, or his designee, to apply for, and if awarded, accept and to enter into agreements for funding of tennis court improvements under the United States Tennis Association’s (“USTA”) Tennis Venue Services Program (“TVS”); committing City funds for the local share of these improvements; and declaring an emergency. Vote: 13-0. RESOLUTION NO. 135-2026 expressing support for House Bill 58, as passed by the Ohio House of Representatives February 25, 2026 by a 92-0 vote, which creates state certification of Recovery Housing Residences, as well as a state Recovery Housing Task Force, and strengthens oversight of community addiction service providers, which City Council finds to be desperately needed; 6 and declaring an emergency. Vote: 13-0. RESOLUTION NO. 136-2026 condemning the United States Supreme Court's April 29, 2026 decision in Louisiana v. Callais, No. 24-109, which weakens the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and threatens the equal voting rights of Akron residents and Americans nationwide; urging the United States Congress to act to restore and strengthen federal voting rights protections; and declaring an emergency. Vote: 13-0. ORDINANCE NO. 137-2026 determining to proceed with the improvement of certain streets between certain termini in accordance with Resolution No. 433- 2025 (2026 Residential Resurfacing Program); determining to proceed with the improvement; and declaring an emergency. Vote: 13-0. ORDINANCE NO. 138-2026 determining to proceed with the improvement of certain streets between certain termini in accordance with Resolution No. 432- 2025 (2026 Arterial/Collector Resurfacing Program); and declaring an emergency. Vote: 13-0. ORDINANCE NO. 139-2026 determining to proceed with the improvement of certain streets between certain termini in accordance with Resolution No. 434- 2025 (2026 Unimproved Street Resurfacing Program); and declaring an emergency. Vote: 13-0. RESOLUTION NO. 140-2026 approving and confirming the appointment by Akron City Council of Jennifer Boswell and Tamara Brooks to the Akron Citizens' Police Oversight Board, as established by Charter Section 68a; and declaring an emergency. Vote: 13-0. NEW LEGISLATION BUDGET & FINANCE 1 ORDINANCE authorizing the Director of Finance or his designee, to enter into a contract or contracts, without the formality of publicly advertising for bids, with Crain Langner & Co., for the provision of professional risk and insurance management services for the City of Akron; and declaring an emergency. 2 RESOLUTION approving and confirming the appointment of Victoria L. Ferrise as a member of the Human Resources Commission; and declaring an emergency. 3 RESOLUTION approving and confirming the appointment of 7  Scott Hardway as a member of the Human Resources Commission; and declaring an emergency. PLANNING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 4 ORDINANCE authorizing the Director of the Department of Planning and Urban Development to enter into a contract or contracts, after publicly advertising for bids and/or requesting and receiving Requests for Proposals, with Axess Family Solutions for the creation of ten affordable housing units for veterans who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness, and to carry out the intent and purpose of the HOME American Rescue Plan (HOME-ARP); and declaring an emergency. PUBLIC SERVICE, PUBLIC UTILITIES, & GREEN 5 ORDINANCE authorizing the Director of Public Service to enter into a contract or contracts, without the formality of publicly advertising for bids, with Bell Bank Equipment Finance for the lease of six (6) 2026 Elgin Pelican NP Street Sweepers; and declaring an emergency. 6 ORDINANCE authorizing the Director of Public Service to enter into a contract or contracts, without the formality of publicly advertising for bids, with Precision Laser & Instrument, Inc. for the purchase of Trimble robotic station survey equipment; and declaring an emergency. PUBLIC SAFETY 7 ORDINANCE authorizing the Mayor or his designee, to enter into contract or contracts, after publicly advertising for bids and/or requesting and receiving Requests for Proposals, with Industrial/Organizational Solutions (IOS) to conduct Police Sergeant promotional examinations for the Akron Police Division (APD); and declaring an emergency. 8 ORDINANCE authorizing the Mayor, or his designee, to accept and expend grant funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA”), through the Ohio Emergency Management Agency (“Ohio EMA”), under the Fiscal Year 2024 Homeland Security Grant Program (“HSGP”); authorizing the Mayor, or his designee, to enter into a contract or contracts, after publicly advertising for bids, with S3 Technologies, LLC for the purchase, installation, and configuration of interactive smartboard systems and related equipment for the Akron Fire 8  Department; and declaring an emergency. 9 ORDINANCE authorizing the Mayor, or his designee, to enter into a contract or contracts, without the formality of publicly advertising for bids, with Akron Assurance Hospital DBA Summa Health to provide education and training necessary for Fire Division employees to achieve required paramedic certification; and declaring an emergency. 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