CLEVELAND, Ohio – A special vote Monday to move forward with a new Cuyahoga County jail was meant to clear the way for County Council to confidently borrow money for the project and set a final construction price.
Instead, it landed somewhere closer to a yellow light amid lingering legal concerns, leaving council members unsure whether to push ahead or come to a stop.
Ultimately, a majority decided to move forward, voting 9 to 2 to allow the county to pursue borrowing $969.4 million for the jail, a decrease from earlier estimates to reflect project savings and dollars borrowed last year that were backed out of the total…