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the leadership award, while Ward 3 Councilor Joe Cimperman received the Civic Leader Award.

Closing remarks were made under the

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sands of dollars, "so it makes no sense to pick out the cost of certain diseases."

Former county executive candidate Ken Lanci said that he provides domestic partner benefits at his companies, Consolidated Graphics Group and Consolidated Technologies Group, which between them have 150 employees. He said that opposition to equal benefits is "discrimination, plain and simple."

Attorney Leslye Huff and Elizabeth Sebian, whose letter to the committee was read by Steve Bennett, came at the issue from different directions of the same argument: offering domestic partner benefits attracts and retains talented employees.

"It is a fact that our young people are leaving the area, especially Cuyahoga County," Huff said. "They are leaving partly because it is not progressive enough... We have a chance to send a message to former residents of Cuyahoga County: Come back!"

Sebian's letter noted that she had a job

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heading of "Celebrating Our Future," and the event then went to Union/Bounce, where in the best tradition, it became a celebration of life.

offer in Cleveland, and what decided the issue for her was when she read in the company's human resources materials that they offered domestic partner benefits. She knew then that it was a company for whom she wished to work.

After the public comments were over, law director Majeed Makhlouf spoke to the committee on a question given to him at a prior meeting, how the benefits interact with Ohio's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.

Makhlouf said that the ordinance should *not be deemed as giving domestic partners spousal benefits, but rather that benefits are given to domestic partners, and one form of domestic partnership is marriage.

Brian DeWitt contributed to this story.

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