{"id":233096,"date":"2025-10-18T04:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T04:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/233096\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T04:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T04:41:06","slug":"city-council-plans-to-scrutinize-settlement-between-browns-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/233096\/","title":{"rendered":"City council plans to scrutinize settlement between Browns, Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ysmLA5TqbIY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fun times in Cleveland today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The much-hyped \u201chistoric agreement\u201d between the city and the Browns (basically, a settlement of multiple lawsuits aimed at blocking the team\u2019s move to a new stadium in Brook Park) isn\u2019t official. Cleveland City Council is required to approve multiple terms of the deal. And it has yet to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Via Sean McDonnell of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, city council president Blaine Griffin <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/2025\/10\/cleveland-city-council-demands-answers-before-100m-browns-deal-proceeds.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wants more information<\/a> from the mayor\u2019s office before approval is given on the deal that will result in the Browns paying roughly $100 million in exchange for the dropping of the litigation.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin reportedly has given the city\u2019s law director a \u201cstrict mandate\u201d to not dismiss any of the pending pieces of litigation without council approval. Although city council may lack the authority to stop the law director from dropping the lawsuits, no lawyer worth their law degree would consummate a settlement agreement unless and until all terms are satisfied. If the city council has the power to reject certain terms, that necessarily blocks the agreement from being consummated as negotiated. Which would keep the law director from going forward with the dismissals.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Justin Bibb acknowledged on Monday that council approval is required for \u201ccertain aspects\u201d of the agreement. He plans to introduce legislation including those terms on Monday, October 20.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the team\u2019s $25 million \u201cgift\u201d to Cleveland, the plan to demolish the current stadium at the team\u2019s expense, and a series of yearly payments to the city require council approval.<\/p>\n<p>Absent council approval, the deal as negotiated can\u2019t be done. It would require a renegotiation aimed at including terms council would approve \u2014 or a new deal including terms that fall beyond city council\u2019s authority.<\/p>\n<p>So, basically, it\u2019s not over. Even if both the mayor and the team created the clear impression that it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fun times in Cleveland today. The much-hyped \u201chistoric agreement\u201d between the city and the Browns (basically, a settlement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-233096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}