Cleveland Heights League of Women Voters weighs in on 10-month City Council vacancy Thomas Jewell, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio The city’s League of Women Voters has taken City Council to task over its failure to fill a vacancy that will soon be entering its 11th month.
That comes after the advocacy group took on the considerable task of interviewing more than 20 applicants for the seat last year at council’s request LWV Cleveland Heights-University Heights Chapter Chair Maryann Barnes pointed out in a letter to the city last week.
Those interviews were completed April 30, less than two months after Councilwoman Melissa Yasinow stepped down with nearly two years left on her term.
Cleveland Heights Councilwoman Davida Russell gets a seat at Biden-Harris transition team table Thomas Jewell, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio Councilwoman Davida Russell offered a simple explanation for her seat at the table with the Biden transition committee overseeing housing and urban development, as well as education.
“They told me I checked all the boxes,” said the Black woman serving as an elected official in a racially diverse inner-ring suburb, as well as a longtime regional and state labor leader, school bus driver and substitute teacher.
It also doesn’t hurt that Russell lives within the district of Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, who is incoming President Joe Biden’s nominee for HUD secretary.
Resolution in order: Coming up on 10 months, Cleveland Heights yet to fill vacant council seat
Updated Dec 28, 2020;
Posted Dec 28, 2020
Progress does continue on the $80 million Top of the Hill project, with the 525-space parking garage under construction on the right and the 260-unit luxury apartment building in the distance on the left. In the middle, Nighttown remains closed due to the pandemic, although a virtual New Year s celebration is being planned.Tom Jewell/Special to cleveland.com
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CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio Approaching the 10-month mark and a new year, the City Council seat left vacant since early March remains unfilled.