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Neighborhood Equity Fund

At a glance

Built from the official City Council minutes of April 6, May 11 and May 18, 2026. The newest minutes posted are May 18; every Council meeting after that has an agenda only, and no committee minutes are posted since April, so anything that happened after May 18 is not in this page.

  • What: Council is steering marijuana legalization revenue and other money through the Neighborhood Equity Fund for neighborhood programs.
  • Where it stands: Ordinance 460-2026 (50 percent of the City's marijuana revenue to Council's Neighborhood Equity Fund) was introduced April 6, 2026 and referred. Two smaller uses of the fund were handled: a payment passed April 6 and a transfer to recreation centers listed May 11. Later steps are not in the minutes.
  • Next: Committee action on the marijuana revenue allocation; check later agendas.

Detail

  • Ordinance 460-2026 allocates 50 percent of Marijuana Legalization Initiative revenues received by the City for use by Cleveland City Council and appropriates the money to the established Neighborhood Equity Fund. April 6: read and referred.
  • Ordinance 458-2026 (attachment names Starr) authorizes payment from the fund to Care Alliance Health Center for health screenings. April 6: passed on first reading, 15-0 (Shah moved, Gray seconded).
  • Ordinance 517-2026 (attachment names Howse-Jones) authorizes the Director of Finance to transfer Neighborhood Equity Funds to the Division of Recreation to support programs sponsored by the boards of certain neighborhood resource and recreation centers. It appears in the May 11 second-reading list, but the minutes text records no motion or vote for it.

Sources

Log

2026-05-11 - City Council

Ordinance 517-2026 (transfer to recreation programs) listed for second reading; no vote recorded in the minutes.

2026-04-06 - City Council

Ordinance 460-2026 read and referred; Ordinance 458-2026 (Care Alliance payment) passed 15-0.