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Public Meetings Report for the week of March 31, 2025

In this week’s Public Meetings Report, Ward 9 Cleveland City Council member Kevin Conwell introduced legislation to urge the Cleveland Metropolitan School District to put cameras on buses so police can catch drivers who fail to stop for the bus’s flashing red lights. Plus, RTA’s CEO India Birdsong-Terry and Metroparks’ CEO Brian Zimmerman named projects that could be affected, and some that won’t, by federal funding cuts to their board members. Learn more in this week’s episode. 

The Documenters whose work contributed to this episode are:

• Bilal Hakeem

• Nick Ventura

• Lori Ingram

• 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: 

• Metroparks forecast: fewer federal dollars? Cleveland Metroparks Board of Commissioners, March 20, 2025.  

Documenters coverage: 

• Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Board of Trustees Notes, March 18, 2025 
• Cleveland City Council Notes, March 18, 2025 
• Cuyahoga County Council Health, Human Services and Aging Committee Notes, March 19, 2025
• Cleveland Metroparks Board of Commissioners Notes, March 20, 2025

Signal Cleveland reporting: 

• Thousands of Cleveland voters’ polling places will change. City Council wants to know why By Frank Lewis and Rachel Dissell 
• Federal judge restores fair housing funding to Cleveland center By Olivera Perkins
• Cleveland on edge waiting for word on federal money for neighborhoods By Nick Castele 
• Legislation:
• Cleveland City Council Resolution No. 333-2025 urging CMSD to install bus cameras  

Recordings: 

• Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Board of Trustees, March 18, 2025  
• Cleveland City Council, March 18, 2025
• Health, Human Services and Aging Committee Cuyahoga County Council, March 19, 2025

Other resources:

• Cleveland Metroparks’ CHEERS project