Public Meetings Report for the week of May 20, 2024

🏫The school year is almost over and the days are heating up. Meanwhile the Cleveland Police Department is preparing for the annual rise in Cleveland summer violence. Cleveland’s young people also have neighborhood gun violence on their minds.

In this week’s Public Meetings Report, Cleveland Documenters listened in as Cleveland kids stepped up to the mic at Cleveland City Council to address gun violence. Plus, Documenters sat in as Karl Racine, lead monitor for Cleveland’s Police Monitoring Team updated members of City Council on the city’s progress on the consent decree. Get the details in less than five minutes this week’s episode. 🎧📻👇🏿

The Documenters whose work contributed to this episode are:

  • Joy Beamon,
  • Ayanna Rose Banks
  • Karima McCree-Wilson

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Show Notes:

Signal Cleveland meeting briefs: 

Documenters coverage: 

  • Cleveland City Council Notes and Live-Tweets, May 13, 2024
  • Cleveland City Council Safety Committee Notes, May 15, 2024 

Signal Cleveland reporting: 

Legislation:

  • Legislation to approve funding for senior lawn care program (Ordinance No. 555-2024) 
  • Legislation to approve funding for violence interruptors (Ordinance No. 525-2024)

Recordings: 

Other resources: 

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.

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Cleveland Documenters pays and trains people to cover public meetings where government officials discuss important issues and decide how to spend taxpayer money.