Bibb makes new appointments to planning commission, landmarks commission, and community relations board
The mayor named six new appointees and two re-appointees to three city departments.
“We’re excited about you being added to community relations and what you bring,” said committee chair Joseph Jones of Ward One. “We have a lot of challenges in the city of Cleveland, and we will need your dedication, your commitment and your engagement to be able to handle some of the most difficult things that are coming up within this city.”
Robert Render III is a precinct committeeman, 128th Street Club president and a community activist. He served in the Air Force, worked at Cleveland Public Libraries for 10 years, has done outreach work for Lutheran Metro Ministry, helped establish the African American Cultural Gardens and was a member of the Western Reserve Historical Society.
Former Cleveland City Council President Jay Westbrook is also among the new Community Relations Board appointees. During his tenure as president, Westbrook linked community relations with neighborhood safety and community development and the safety initiative worked with Community Development, Housing and Cleveland Police.
Lucas is the chair of the Community Relations Board, president of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority board of trustees and pastor emeritus at St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church. He has also served as the president of the Cleveland Branch of the NAACP, chair of the Greater Cleveland Methodist Association and chair of the Council for Economic Opportunities in Greater Cleveland , in the past.
Dr. Regennia Williams is a published academic and distinguished scholar of African American history and culture. Williams’s dissertation explored Black schoolchildren in the city of Cleveland in the first half of the 20th century and she has published works about historic Clevelanders like Charles Waddell Chesnutt and Mary Brown Martin.
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