Cuyahoga County needs to build a new jail, councilmembers agreed Tuesday, but they will wait until the next executive is elected to finalize plans.
Both Cuyahoga County Executive candidates, Chris Ronayne and Lee Weingart, have also, and recently called for council to halt planning until one of them could be part of it.
Jones called the actions “reckless fearmongering,” and said that the county has all the information it needs to move forward with a new jail after investing over $5 million and four years into the process. Specifically, he defended the selection of the Transport Road site, saying numerous experts have said the site can be remediated for safe use and other major housing developments built on former county Brownfield sites prove it.
Jones said he and many of his colleagues still believe that the county should proceed with construction of a new jail. He and several other council members accused Prosecutor Michael O’Malley, Common Pleas Administrative Judge Brendan Sheehan, and Public Defender Cullen Sweeney of acting in their own self interests.
The public defender, Cullen Sweeney, called the comments “unproductive,” and said he has nothing to gain from courthouse renovations because his office isn’t located there. Six steering committee members voted against the Transport Road site and both executive candidates opposed it, which he said helped inform his vote.O’Malley initially said he did not “want to get into a tit for tat” and defended his decision as morally the right thing to do.
“I don’t understand how some members of this council can be so passionate about blue plastic bags destroying our community but then be willing to place thousands of county prisoners and sheriff’s department employees on a contaminated jail site,” he later told
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