Cleveland lakefront consultant cost overruns get City Council OK | #citycouncil
Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration received City Council’s go-ahead Monday night to nearly double its contract with a key lakefront development consultant. City Hall is paying $900,000 to landscape architecture firm Field Operations and subcontractors to draw up a lakefront master plan. Last week, city officials acknowledged that the firm had already billed $260,000 in excess […]
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Councilmen square up against Bibb
In a media gaggle after his State of the City Speech, Mayor Justin Bibb was asked to reflect on the good week he had been having. The jersey barriers were gone from Public Square, a large police cadet class started training and City Council passed his TIF district legislation. The mayor made a smooth-as-butter pivot […]
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Cleveland leaders, City Council debate police staffing | #citycouncil
Mayor Justin Bibb is budgeting for 1,350 Cleveland police officers this year. The figure is a decrease from the prior two years. But it’s the number that city leaders say the Division of Police needs to fully staff its patrol car plan. During Wednesday’s budget hearings, council members posed this question about that staffing claim: […]
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NEOCH gets the hairy eyeball from Cleveland City Council | #citycouncil
Cleveland City Council is ratcheting up the pressure on the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, a service group that became a political adversary. Last year, NEOCH backed the People’s Budget ballot issue, which took aim at council’s control of the city’s pursestrings. Council led the campaign against the measure known as Issue 38, and […]
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The Wrap Up: This year in public comment at Cleveland City Council | #citycouncil
Cleveland City Council holds public meetings most Monday nights, where laws are passed, condolences and congratulations are handed out, and residents speak directly to elected and city officials through public comment. Up to 10 residents can speak at every regular City Council meeting, for up to three minutes each. Some residents come to speak about […]
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Palestinians upset by Cleveland City Council’s support of Israel | Local News | #citycouncil
Palestinian supporters went to Cleveland City Hall on Oct. 23 to call on the mayor and council leadership to retract their support for Israel. As the city council meeting began with public comment, eight supporters called out Mayor Justin Bibb and council president Blaine Griffin for their statements in support of Israel following the Oct. […]
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Cleveland City Council at odds with Bibb administration | #citycouncil
CLEVELAND — Some Cleveland City Council members said they feel there’s not enough awareness or solutions in action to combat the deadly violence happening in other neighborhoods. Violence in Cleveland is nothing new, but what’s concerning Cleveland Safety Committee Chair, Michael Polensek, is the rate at which it’s happening with record-low officer shortages in the […]
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Cleveland councilmembers decry mayor’s absence in wake of mass shooting
CLEVELAND — Tensions ran high at Wednesday night’s Cleveland City Council meeting, the first since the mass shooting in the downtown Warehouse District, with some councilmembers voicing concern over the absence of Mayor Justin Bibb or anyone from the administration. “In all my time in this body, 13 consecutive terms, I have never ever seen […]
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City council introduces legislation for Cleveland stadium name change | #citycouncil
CLEVELAND — A resolution sponsored by councilman Brian Kazy calling on FirstEnergy to relinquish its naming rights to the city’s publicly-owned football stadium where the Browns play was introduced during Monday night’s city council meeting. Kazy cited the company’s role in a bribery scheme that is currently under federal investigation as the reason for the […]
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How residents sounded off at Cleveland City Council in 2023, pt. II | #citycouncil
🎉2024 is well under way! But, we wanted to spend a little more time with 2023 and the resident voices we heard at Cleveland City Council. For this edition of the Public Meetings Report, we’ll continue our look back at highlights from the more than 200 public comments residents made at Cleveland City Council last […]
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