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Monday, Dec. 5, 2022
7:00 p.m. — 9:00 p.m. EST

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Cleveland City Council is the legislative branch of the government of the City of Cleveland in Ohio. In this meeting, residents may address council with public comments, and council typically introduces legislation and votes on legislation. Council does not typically discuss legislation in detail at this meeting; that happens in council’s committee meetings.

There are 17 elected Cleveland City Council members representing the 17 wards of the City of Cleveland. Each ward has approximately 25,000 residents. Council Members are elected to serve a four-year term. Council members serve two roles in their duties: to draft and enact legislation for the city of Cleveland and act as ombudspersons for their constituents. Attendees should observe COVID protocols, including social distancing and wearing a face mask.

Find meetings streamed online on TV20 at: http://www.tv20cleveland.com/watch-now/

The meetings are also streamed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ClevelandCityCouncil/

For more information go to Cleveland City Council’s website: https://www.clevelandcitycouncil.org.

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Reporting

Edited and summarized by the Cleveland - OH Documenters Team

Note-taking by Kellie Morris

Council passes dozens of pieces of legislation in last meeting of the year; approves new Community Police Commission

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Live reporting by Jenna Thomas

Council passes legislation to guard against wage theft in year's final meeting

jenna thomas @jennaincle

Happy Monday! I'll be live-tweeting tonight's Cleveland City Council meeting for #CLEdocumenters @cledocumenters
Check out tonight's agenda here: cleveland.documenters.org/documents/agen…

06:02 PM Dec 5, 2022 CST

jenna thomas @jennaincle 2/17

Loh, a Ward 7 resident and community activist, is speaking in support of participatory budgeting and its benefits for the council members. Following Loh, Ward 4 resident Shirley also speaks in support of participatory budgeting.

jenna thomas @jennaincle 3/17

Although Shirley is there for participatory budgeting, she's speaking more broadly about land bank policies, mental health responses, and more that could benefit from the new policy. Following her, another public commenter is at the mic in support of participatory budgeting. https://t.co/77MoZhB4s5

jenna thomas @jennaincle 4/17

Ward 3 resident Ellen says that participatory budgeting "allows for Cleveland residents to have a direct say in how public money is spent in their communities." She talks about the good outreach work that's been done by PB Cle: pbcle.com

jenna thomas @jennaincle 5/17

Next, Thomas Fox of W3 talks about the need for better public space for arts & culture, particularly on the waterfront. "For this to happen, we don't need a half decade & hundreds of millions of dollars to build new properties, we actually just need to cut a little red tape."

jenna thomas @jennaincle 6/17

Justin Strekal is speaking in support of worker protections against wage theft. He is taking his time to thank the many individuals and organizations that have supported the Guardians for Fair Work effort. That legislation is going through its 2nd reading tonight https://t.co/OuNaBw5Umh

jenna thomas @jennaincle 7/17

Tonight is also a big night for the Issue 24 & Community Police Commission supporters: council is approving their nominees and the mayor's nominees to the police commission. Council got 3 appointments: John Adams, Shandra Benito, Audrianna Rodriguez. Bibb appointed 10 others.

jenna thomas @jennaincle 8/17

Kevin Conwell is presenting on the recognition of Cleveland State's College of Law name change. He's inviting CSU Law students in the audience up to recognize their hard work & advocacy. https://t.co/ggmkMZbOIk

jenna thomas @jennaincle 9/17

Tonight's passing leg also includes:
- a new "Strategic Priority Subfund" of $215 mil from the general fund for economic recovery, housing, public safety, arts, civic participation, & more.
- paid safe leave
- approving a consultant for the North Coast Lakefront Master Plan

jenna thomas @jennaincle 10/17

If you're interested in knowing about what kinds of grants the city is seeking/getting, purchases/sales of city land, general fund appropriations, contracts, & lots more, I encourage you to read through the agenda from tonight: cleveland.documenters.org/documents/agen…

jenna thomas @jennaincle 11/17

A handful of ordinances were not passed unanimously - there was 1 nay on: 1065-2022, 1117-2022, 1232-2022, 1267-2022, and 1269-2022
Anyone know how to check out who that 1 no vote was for these?

jenna thomas @jennaincle 12/17

Packed house at the council meeting tonight. Council members are recognizing constituents in the audience, many of which are there to celebrate important policy wins with wage theft, safe leave, community police commission, & more.

jenna thomas @jennaincle 13/17

Plus celebrating our state football champs in Glenville! cleveland.com/highschoolspor…

jenna thomas @jennaincle 14/17

Councilman Chris Harsh shares his concern about the community police commission appointments & whether the admin has properly followed the city charter: cleveland.com/metro/2022/12/…

jenna thomas @jennaincle 15/17

Councilwoman Howse recognizes the hard work that went into the paid safe leave legislation & Council President Griffin acknowledges CM Brian Mooney as this will be his last council meeting. In January he will start his new job as judge on county common pleas court.

jenna thomas @jennaincle 16/17

Mooney's seat will be filled by appointment until a special election in fall 2023.
clevescene.com/news/heres-how…

jenna thomas @jennaincle 17/17

And that's it! Have questions? Think we got something wrong? Send any inquiries on the meeting or these tweets to @cledocumenters. Or email us at cledocumenters@gmail.com

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Cleveland City Council is the legislative branch of the government of the City of Cleveland in Ohio. There are 17 elected Cleveland City Council members representing the 17 wards of the City of Cleveland. Each ward has approximately 25,000 residents. Council Members are elected to serve a four-year term. Council members serve two roles in their duties: to draft and enact legislation for the city of Cleveland and act as ombudsmen for their constituents.

Find meetings streamed at: *online on TV20 at: http://www.tv20cleveland.com/watch-now/

*The meetings are also streamed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ClevelandCityCouncil/