These briefings look like they’ll be delivered via the Mayor’s existing eNewsletter, and will provide “information and insight” on the work being done at City Hall, “as well as other issues that impact [the] city.”
As a foretaste, the newsletter’s authors provided some highlights from the Mayor’s proposed 2019 budget, released on Feb. 1. These include the ongoing implementation of the Neighborhood Transformation Initiative; a $34 million investment in LED streetlights; the razing of blighted structures as part of the Safe Routes to School program; and the completion of a new city kennel.
“As Mayor, for the last 13 years I have focused on doing the work,” the letter said. “There is a lot happening right now and it’s happening for the good. We see increased service delivery, economic development and expanded opportunities for our neighborhoods. Through these briefings, I look forward to communicating with you as I continue to work and serve the great people of Cleveland.”
Jackson’s desire to promote his achievements and to communicate with residents is an abrupt about-face from recent months. These regular briefings, which are unlikely to be more than a series of themed press releases, may have been spurred by press coverage focused on his routine absences from City Hall and the sluggishness and silence from his administration, for which Jackson has been lately taken to task.
This article appears in Feb 13-19, 2019.
What about a briefing to announce that Taxin Jackson will be resigning immediately??? What other kind of lifetime career can you not show up for since May, yet still expect business as usual???
Once his resignation is announced, his next step should be right to jail for his constant shenanigans and utter waste of taxpayer funds!!!
After that, thief Budish should be the next to get removed from office before he steals any more taxpayer funds for his constant shenanigans!!!
Until these thieves are removed from office and in jail for their blatant crimes against us taxpayers, nothing will ever change in this corruption filled, outrageously high-taxed city and county!!!!
What does it matter if we keep this current roster of crooks or vote in new ones? This is Cuyahoga County, damnit! Keep voting Democrat, dumbasses, keep voting Democrat!
Give the guy a break! If you’re happy with the results, he’s proved that however he goes about his job works. If you don’t like the results, it wouldn’t matter if you knew what he was doing moment by moment.
Get that overpass at East 55th and 490 underway before NEXT winter, Frank, or the OC (AKA Frank Jackson Blvd.) won’t be done in time for your next re-election campaign! Get on the stick, Frank!
I see repeated comments on this site about Frank Jackson’s influence in pushing for the Opportunity Corridor and that’s just not accurate. You know, like calling it “Frank Jackson Blvd” and stuff like that. That project was pushed for, designed by, and sold by ODOT and their consultants. Planning for it started long before Frank Jackson was mayor. Yes the City was asked for their input in some aspects of planning and design, but to imply that this was Frank’s big idea or something like that is flat out wrong. Besides, do you really think he has big ideas like that floating around in that head of his? I don’t.
Abe, i’m going by what I’ve read in this publication over the years…many, many years. According to SCENE archived stories, the first closed-door discussions about the OC were held all the way back in 2005, followed by a story in the PD that same year. Things remained in the talking stage, both privately and publicly, for another seven years.
Public hearings were held, and maps and plans were first finalized in 2013. The city okayed the plans the following year. Construction began in 2015, a full decade after the original discussions.
Delays of various kinds pushed completion of the first stages back to this year, and completion of the whole project back to 2020. Now it’s 2021.
Frank was elected in the fall of 2005. The firsr discussions may have begun just before he became mayor, but most of the OC boondoggle has been on his watch, and if he wanted to speed up its completion, he might have had the clout to give the timetable a bit of a nudge. Sixteen years for a three-mile connector is ridiculous. But I suppose he has bigger things to worry about…whatever became of that dirtbike track?
Obviously he is doing some work….to accelerate th decline of this shithole,
Drive from Waterloo to University circle, without the freeway. Like E140 to st. Clair to E120. It is a horoscope. Mike after mile of dirt, neglect, broken windows. A child from that area is doomed.
Jackson works hard to maintain that neighborhood, it seems, sickening.
A horoscope? My stars, what a way to put it! I think you meant to say horror show. But we Clevelanders, at least the few who bother to vote in non-presidential years, are the ones who have ‘charted’ the course this city is on, so we shouldn’t “Crab” so much. We are the ones who have given him four consecutive terms, and by large pluralities every time. None of the contests have been anything resembling a horserace. The fault lies not within our stars, my friend, but within ourselves.
Damn betcha!
Frank’s four victories have been by substantial margins…averaging 29.5% (64.75% to 35.25%)
2005: Beat Campbell by 10% (55-45)
2009: Beat Patmon by 56% (78-22)
2013: Beat Lanci by 32% (66-34)
2017: Beat Reed by 20% (60-40)
2021: Beat ?????? by 14% (57-43)
The winning margins are steadily shrinking!
The liars can figure…but the figures don’t lie!
That’s five…oh, wait…I see now. The last one is a projected win in 2021, isn’t it? Never mind!