Parks, streets and cameras: How Cleveland council members spent their discretionary dollars
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By Sean Mcdonnell
Published on March 27, 2026.
Cleveland City Council members have set aside additional discretionary dollars each of the last three years for community needs. Records reveal that parks, streets and cameras often dominate spending from the council's Neighborhood Equity Funds, a pot of money members control and use for local projects. Members spent hundreds of thousands of dollars upgrading parks in their wards, adding speed tables or resurfacing streets. The city budget passed Monday gave each council member another $300,000 of neighborhood equity funds, part of negotiations between Mayor Justin Bibb and City Council leadership. Some council members have left over funds from the past two years, while others allocated the full $1.2 million.
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