Public Meetings Report for the week of January 29, 2024
🗓️January may be winding down, but local government action is picking up. Last week, Documenters gathered details on a new program to make daycares lead safe, continued demands for a Gaza ceasefire resolution, and updates on RTA ridership levels. Check out the highlights in this week’s episode. 👂🏿🎧📻🏛️👇🏿
Listen to this week’s Public Meetings Report here:
The Documenters whose work contributed to this episode are:
- Natalie Bryan
- Dorothy Ajamu
- Prerna Agarwal
- Kellie Morris
- Ayanna Rose Banks, and
- Aaron Skubby.
Their work has been compiled this week by Anastazia Vanisko and Dakotah Kennedy. The Public Meetings Report is produced by Gennifer Harding-Gosnell.
Show Notes:
Signal Cleveland meeting briefs:
- New lead safe program focuses on Cleveland daycares Cleveland City Council Caucus, January 22. 2024
- Clevelanders again call for a Gaza ceasefire resolution, say council members’ inaction will cost reelection support Cleveland City Council, January 22, 2024
- Cleveland RTA ridership increased for the second year in a row Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Board of Trustees, January 23, 2024
Documenters coverage:
- Cleveland City Council Caucus Notes and Live Tweets, January 22, 2024
- Cleveland City Council Notes and Live-Tweets – January 22, 2024
- Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Board of Trustees, Notes [1], Notes [2], and Live-Tweets – January 23, 2024
Signal Cleveland reporting:
- New chat service guides people facing felony charges through the legal process By Stephanie Casanova
- Cleveland City Council bans ‘frivolous or repetitive’ public comments in new rules By Nick Castele
Legislation:
- Legislation to approve new public comment rules
Recordings:
- Cleveland City Council, January 22, 2024
- Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Board of Trustees, January 23, 2024
Other resources:
- HOW TO BECOME A CLEVELAND DOCUMENTER
- Cleveland City Council
- Starting Point
- Starting Point’s Lead Safe Child Care Program
- Lead Safe Cleveland Coalition
- City of Cleveland Strategic Planning presentation
- University Circle Police beef up patrols around Palestinian-owned business after reports of harassment WEWS-TV5
- Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH)
- RTA’s economic report
The Public Meetings Report is a weekly audio rundown of what happened in local government meetings here in Greater Cleveland – in five minutes or less! The show is based on the work of Cleveland Documenters – residents like you who are trained and paid to document these meetings for the public. Produced by Signal Cleveland and Cleveland Documenters, in partnership with WOVU 95.9FM “Our Voices United,” a Burten, Bell, Carr community radio station.
