By Mark Gillispie Plain Dealer Reporter
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Mayor Frank Jackson introduced legislation Monday that would commit the city to buying LED lights for 10 years from a company willing to bring a North American headquarters and at least 350 jobs to the city.
Only this time, his administration would seek an LED supplier using the City Charter's competitive bidding process instead of handpicking the company.
The move came a week after Jackson tabled a deal that would have made a Chinese company the city's exclusive supplier. He said at the time that he had tainted the process in March by announcing the deal with Sunpu-Opto Semiconductor Ltd. while his aides still were gathering proposals from other companies.
In an interview Monday, Jackson said nothing was wrong or illegal with the Sunpu-Opto deal. But he said the tainted process put at risk his new business model, which ties the city's considerable purchasing power to its economic development needs.
"It's too important for me to quibble about the rightness or wrongness of something, even though what we did was perfectly legal and proper," Jackson said. "They can see that, at the end of the day, this wasn't about a company. This was about the future of the city of Cleveland."
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/06/cleveland_mayor_frank_jackson_14.html
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