Berea mayor appoints diverse Charter Review Commission
Updated Jan 11, 2021;
Posted Jan 10, 2021
Mayor Cyril Kleem appointed nine residents to serve on the Berea Charter Review Commission, which will meet for the next few months to decide if charter changes are needed. (Beth Mlady, special to cleveland.com)
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BEREA, Ohio Nine residents have been appointed to serve on the Berea Charter Review Commission, a task Mayor Cyril Kleem undertakes every five years.
Kleem chose six women and three men to meet regularly and analyze the city charter. Their work could result in recommended changes to the document. Those revisions would be reviewed by City Council, followed by Berea voters deciding at the polls if the final recommendations should be approved.
Longtime Sandstone Ridge streetlights issue in Berea to be resolved
Updated Jan 02, 2021;
Posted Jan 02, 2021
A section of Sandstone Ridge subdivision in Berea will get streetlights in 2021 after being in the dark for several years. (Google Maps)
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BEREA, Ohio A longstanding situation involving the lack of streetlights in one section of the Sandstone Ridge housing development in Berea will be resolved in 2021.
Mayor Cyril Kleem told City Council at its Dec. 21 meeting that the problem originated in 2009 when electric supplier CEI opted to no longer install streetlights in developments, which left it up to the developers.
“This has been an ongoing issue,” Kleem said. “All of the (Sandstone Ridge) development prior to this phase has lights, and all the development after this phase has lights. This phase was skipped.”
Shortfall in Berea Municipal Court budget deemed ‘a pretty big deal’
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
Posted Dec 23, 2020
Berea Municipal Court has a current budget shortfall of more than $200,000 and will operate at a deficit for the next few years.
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“That represents about two months’ worth of revenues they missed out on by being closed (due to the pandemic),” Morris said. “This shortfall is the worst-case scenario. They will have some more credits apply to the court operations that we receive for unemployment and things of that nature, but this is definitely an area we’re going to have to work on at the beginning of the year.”