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 Mayor Justin Bibb gives ‘State of the City’ address
On Thursday at noon, Mayor Justin Bibb will give his annual “State of the City” address to inform Clevelanders about the city’s progress and plans for the future. You can watch the event in the player below: News 5 livestream event Bibb will speak from the Mimi Ohio Theater at Playhouse Square. During Bibb’s second […]
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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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Mayor Bibb talking up tobacco ban
Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb recently joined his counterparts from Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Lansing and St. Louis in calling for a federal ban on the sale of menthol cigarettes. “Cleveland is ground zero for this crisis affecting our residents, particularly Black residents,” Bibb said during a teleconference organized by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. “We need […]
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