Public Meetings Report for the week of April 15, 2024

🪻🌳🌦️Spring has officially sprung here in Cleveland. While many of us were looking for extra-strength Claritin, Documenters were busy making local government meetings clearer. Last week, they learned about Cleveland Metropolitan School District plans for three new school-based health clinics and for streamlining English language arts curricula across schools. Plus, Second New Hope Baptist Church is moving toward landmark designation. And the Landmarks Commission hears a plan to require some city developers to encourage their residents and employees to use public transportation. Get the details in around five minutes in this week’s episode.🎧📻👇🏿

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The Documenters whose work contributed to this episode are: 

  • Charlestine Pride
  • Regina Samuels
  • Marvetta Rutherford
  • Lena Anglin

Their work has been compiled this week by Signal Cleveland’s Doug Breehl-Pitorak and Anastazia Vanisko. The Public Meetings Report is produced by Gennifer Harding-Gosnell.

Show Notes:

Signal Cleveland meeting briefs:

Documenters coverage: 

  • Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Board of Education Notes and Live-Tweets, April 9, 2024 
  • Cleveland Landmarks Commission Notes and Live-Tweets, April 11, 2024 

Signal Cleveland reporting: 

Recordings: 

Other resources: 

Cleveland City Planning Transportation Demand Management draft

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.

Signal background

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Managing Editor, Documenters (he/they)
I steward the Documenters community. That includes holding and maintaining space to raise up Documenters work and questions. It also includes creating easy on-ramps to civic life and deeper civic participation via the exchange of civic information, knowledge and skills.

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