In a move to bolster safety efforts in University Circle, Cleveland City Council approved legislation on Monday that will form a special improvement district inside the East Side neighborhood. Such a district would be used to evenly raise money—some $4.3 million—to better financially back police patrolling and transportation in about a 1.
UCI Chief Place Management Officer Elise Yablonsky, UCPD Chief Tom Wetzel, and UCI President Kate Borders at Monday's Council meeting.
Framed as the most pressing issue, Borders and team explained that their police force, made up of five dispatchers and seven frontline cruisers, are mostly funded by Wade Oval legacy institutions—think CMA and the Natural History Museum—ordered by property size and employee count. That money was originally"coming partially from voluntary payments, but there was a substantial deficit in that," Borders said."But this is really necessary to maintain and support our safety services in the Circle, and fund them sustainably."for a neighborhood to fund collective services— bike lanes, police staffing—a SID, like the one coming to the Circle, will require most, if not all, properties in that district to pay into a set-up fund.
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