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Public Meetings Report for the week of March 10, 2025

In this week’s Public Meetings Report, Cleveland City Council wraps up its 2025 city budget talks, hearing from leaders at many of the city’s departments, including the Department of Public Safety, Public Health, and the Cleveland Municipal Court. Learn more in this week’s episode.

The Documenters whose work contributed to the 2025 city budget wrap-up episodes are:

• Bilal Hakeem 
• Christina Easter 
• Alfreda Williams
• Dean Jackson
• Marvetta Rutherford
• Angela Rush

Their work has been compiled this week by Frank Lewis and Doug Breehl-Pitorak. The Public Meetings Report is produced by Gennifer Harding-Gosnell. 
The Public Meetings Report is produced by Signal Cleveland and Cleveland Documenters, in partnership with WOVU 95.9FM “Our Voices United,” a Burten, Bell, Carr community radio station. Show notes:

Signal Cleveland meeting briefs: 

• ‘Woefully inadequate’: Cleveland council members say public safety under-budgeted for some important expenses Finance, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, Cleveland City Council, February 21, 2025

Documenters coverage: 

• Finance, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, Cleveland City Council Notes [1], Notes [2] February 18, 2025
• Finance, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, Cleveland City Council Notes February 19, 2025
• Finance, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, Cleveland City Council Notes [1], Notes [2] February 20, 2025
• Finance, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, Cleveland City Council Notes [1], Notes [2] February 21, 2025 

Signal Cleveland reporting: 

• Meet the players behind Bibb’s $2.1 billion 2025 budget By Doug Breehl-Pitorak, Dakotah Kennedy and Cleveland Documenters
• How Cleveland’s budget process works By Cleveland Documenters 

• Parks, police and turkeys: Cleveland City Council’s ward spending projects By Nick Castele
• What costs more, policing or housing? Tell City Council how you would spend Cleveland’s 2025 budget By Dakotah Kennedy 
• Cleveland promised marijuana tax money. Where is it? By Andrew Tobias 

Recordings: 

• Finance, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, Cleveland City Council, Part I, Part II, February 18, 2025
• Finance, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, Cleveland City Council, Part I, Part II, February 19, 2025
• Finance, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, Cleveland City Council, Part I, Part II, February 20, 2025
• Finance, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, Cleveland City Council, Part I, Part II, February 21, 2025
• Finance, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, Cleveland City Council, Part I, Part II, February 24, 2025
• Finance, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, Cleveland City Council, Part I, Part II, February 25, 2025
• Finance, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, Cleveland City Council, March 3, 2025