Mr. Clerk, can you please call roll call . Item one, roll call. [roll call] we have a quorum. Thank you. I will proceed with the chairs reports. Colleagues, i would like to begin this meeting with offering our collective deepest condolences to the families of Michael Evans and Benjamin Dean who were hit and killed in horrific crashes on our streets last week, as well as kelly dean who is critically injured and in the hospital. As was noted at the rally on the steps of city hall this morning, commissioner haney organized it, and motorists must slow down. The tenderloin, which is an area that commissioner haney and i share, his not a traffic sewer, it is a neighborhood, and i did not have a chance to say this morning at the rally, but when you drive through there, if you are watching my face, when you drive through there, you drive through there at 25 miles an hour or less. Speed kills. I am going to depart from my remarks and say the following thing, which is we are joined by we were jo
Exhaustive. Abuse and misused by man and his machines. Without the cuyahoga, clevelandakron would not exist. The river was a reason for settling the portion of this western reserve in the 1780s. The river called crooked by the delaware indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio and so man came and continued coming until today nearly two Million People live and work in the river basin. In creating this urban complex, man has used the river as men have always used rivers. The flow has been put to work as a water supply and as a sewer. Mans mark is everywhere. Is this mark an epethithat for cuyahoga . Joining us is the coauthor of where the river burned. Where are you located and explain what happened 50 years ago this month . Thanks for having me. Were sitting near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. Were sitting where the cuyahoga reaches lake erie. You can see one of the railroad tr trussels that crosses the cuyahoga. Downtown cleveland is to my left. They run up several miles. T
Lake erie after a 100mile twisting and turning journey from its headwaters, is an exhaustive stream. Abused and misused by man and his machines. Without the cuyahoga, the spreading megalopolis of clevelandakron would not exist. The river was the reason for settling in the 1780s. The river called crooked by the delaware indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio so man came and nearly 2 Million People live and work in the river basin. In creating this urban complex, man has used the river as men have always used rivers. The flow has been put to work as a navigable stream, a water supply and as a sewer. Mans mark is everywhere. Is this mark an epitaph for the cuyahoga . Joining us from the cleveland area is David Stradling, a professor of history at the university of cincinnati and the coauthor of where the river burned carl stokes and the struggle to save cleveland. Let me begin, though, by asking, physically, where are you located and explain what happened 50 years ago this mo
We have a quorum. Thank you. I will proceed with the chairs reports. Colleagues, i would like to begin this meeting with offering our collective deepest condolences to the families of Michael Evans and Benjamin Dean who were hit and killed in horrific crashes on our streets last week, as well as kelly dean who is critically injured and in the hospital. As was noted at the rally on the steps of city hall this morning, commissioner haney organized it, and motorists must slow down. The tenderloin, which is an area that commissioner haney and i share, his not a traffic sewer, it is a neighborhood, and i did not have a chance to say this morning at the rally, but when you drive through there, if you are watching my face, when you drive through there, you drive through there at 25 miles an hour or less. Speed kills. I am going to depart from my remarks and say the following thing, which is we are joined by we were joined by senator weiner this morning who lamented the fact that Law Enforceme
We have a quorum. Thank you. I will proceed with the chairs reports. Colleagues, i would like to begin this meeting with offering our collective deepest condolences to the families of Michael Evans and Benjamin Dean who were hit and killed in horrific crashes on our streets last week, as well as kelly dean who is critically injured and in the hospital. As was noted at the rally on the steps of city hall this morning, commissioner haney organized it, and motorists must slow down. The tenderloin, which is an area that commissioner haney and i share, his not a traffic sewer, it is a neighborhood, and i did not have a chance to say this morning at the rally, but when you drive through there, if you are watching my face, when you drive through there, you drive through there at 25 miles an hour or less. Speed kills. I am going to depart from my remarks and say the following thing, which is we are joined by we were joined by senator weiner this morning who lamented the fact that Law Enforceme