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Making a Public Comment

Council welcomes public comment before regular council meetings. Fill out the online form below for your chance to make a public comment at the next regular Monday Council meeting.  Please read the revised rules and procedures. 

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WCSB
I am commenting personally and as the President of Progressive Urban Real Estate on the loss of WSCB.  Personally there is a hole in my heart that was once filled with music and programming from the student programmers at WCSB.  My love of Cleveland, its uniqueness and diversity, was represented by the different, strange and sometimes wild programming of WSCB.  There is something that makes Cleveland special, different from the chain filled, generic America   The WCSB community embodies that special sauce that makes Cleveland, Cleveland.  Professionally I have been selling Cleveland to anyone who will listen, my entire career of 32 years and counting.  My passion for the City is evident and on October 3rd when Cleveland State University, my alma mater, shuttered WCSB and escorted its student programmers out with a police escort part of that passion was quelled.  I started questioning; is Cleveland actually different or are we going to be like everywhere else?    The answer to that question is no; we will not be like everyone else and I implore Council to help reverse this terrible decision made by the leaders of CSU and ideastream.  These leaders are not Clevelanders and do not understand what community is or what Cleveland is all about.  The City of Cleveland should take a stand against outsiders who are chipping away at our unique personality and help return WCSB to the student programmers and the whole creative and arts loving community.  Thank you for the opportunity to comment.
David Sharkey
Student/Community run WCSB loss
I have been reading the comments left regarding the takeover of student/community run radio 89.3FM WCSB Cleveland. It is amazing to see all the heartfelt comments and commentary on this takeover from Ideastream and CSU leadership.
Leadership is meant to empower students, and fulfill a pledge to those students attending CSU and the greater community. This leadership took away voices, took away empowerment, and took away a community.
I know that many are grieving and this resolution is a solution that many can get behind. I may not live in Cleveland proper anymore, but I support free radio that empowers students with management skills, learning on the fly, and finding their voice within a society that is squeezing freedom into one neat little package (24/7 jazz).
Personally, the 50th Anniversary would have been my 20th year at the station. Its a small number compared to many, but when I was a student at CSU and a member of WCSB (2006-2010) I found a voice I never knew existed. I was introduced to so many people, I learned so many skills, and I learned to be apart of something greater than individuality.
Adam R
The WCSB takeover
I attended CSU in the 80s. I have personally witnessed the effect it has had on community decades after my time at csu. Even though its a student organization it has continued to bring people together long after their college years. Its a creative outlet that is necessary in this time of uncertainty and censorship. Please consider how the abrupt end of WCSB might effect the confidence that we have as a free society. Mainstream 24/7 jazz and commercial and corporate goals do not reflect what students (and the public) need right now. Those selfish goals send the wrong message to the student body and the community. We need to double down on messages of hope, freedom and diversity. That is the essence of college run radio. I stand with XWCSB.
Barbara Merritt
WCSB Takeover
CSU and Ideastream have done a great disservice to our community in silencing this unique and diverse station, and for no good reason. Thank you Councilman Polensek for your support.
Mike Uva
WCSB
XCSB was a tremendous asset to the Cleveland area, a marvel of community built around arts programming. The students and volunteers raised funds to purchase music, recorded PSAs, promos, acquired new music, and hosted events. Best of all, they dedicated time to curating radio shows that exposed listeners to new and interesting music, traced musical influences, promoted new artists and local shows, and generally brought people together around these shared interests. THAT’S COMMUNITY! Nothing can replace it, not podcasts, not streaming. Please restore this authentic, beloved Cleveland treasure.
Emmie Hutchison
WCSB
At the very least, please consider helping the students regain access to the physical station so they can continue recording and broadcasting programs online. Many community members, alumni, and students have long supported Cleveland’s live music scene by announcing shows that might otherwise go unheard. Our city’s venues, musicians, and concertgoers depend on that connection — it’s an essential part of keeping Cleveland’s music culture + music economy alive. I'm not sure what City Council can actually do, other than put pressure on CSU to restore access. Please help keep the spirit of community radio alive!
Leia Hohenfeld
WCSB Hostile Takeover
WCSB is known and loved far beyond the few blocks of the Cleveland State campus proper as one of the greatest campus radio stations in the country. Cleveland State's incredibly hamfisted and poorly thought out decision to shutter the station came as a gut punch, not only to those of us who volunteered countless hours creating programming, but to the listeners who tuned in weekly to their favorite shows. Additionally, I learned skills from my time there that continue to serve me to this day; I cannot say the same for any of the broadcasting classes I took at CSU. If there is any possibility of reversing course on this horrendous decision, do what is right - let Ideastream keep their bland jazz streaming online and bring back one of the greatest things Cleveland - and Cleveland State - had to offer.
Sade Linn
WCSB
I strongly urge Cleveland City Council to do what it can to return Cleveland State University students and community programmers to the airwaves on WCSB 89.3FM. Greater Cleveland is suffering an insurmountable loss at the hands of Laura Bloomberg and Kevin Martin. The decision to automate programming on the campus radio signal will have a measurable impact on already marginalized communities across our city, in addition to undue harm to arts & culture programming and, of course, the economics surrounding it. Our namesake public university and local public media are meant to operate in the interest of the greater good of the community in which they serve, and what Ideastream and CSU have done with WCSB-FM, a volunteer-run public service, is reprehensible.
Lindsey Bryan
WCSB 89.3 Shutdown by CSU/Ideastream
I'm a long time listener (and donor) to WCSB Cleveland 89.3

WCSB was a unique and incredibly valuable asset to our community as a person living in Cleveland. The diversity of programming, interesting content, exposure to obscure or off the beaten path music, and local focus made it an absolutely invaluable hallmark of our art scene as a city.

CSU's choice and ideastreams complicity in shuttering this incredible station shows an absolute disregard for the art communities of the world and of the critical independent voice of our city.

It should be considered priority one by Cleveland to restore this radio station so we can continue to have crucial access to local music, independent music, ideas of our community, and all the benefits that this station brought for nearly 50 years. We also deserve to have universities in our city that do not turn their backs on independent art and student broadcasting.
Nathan Hestley
WCSB Shutdown
WCSB is one of the bright stars of the creative spirit of Cleveland. Growing up here it was always one of my sources of new music and good vibes! One of the things that makes Cleveland so good is its artists and community led radio is an anchor for creative folks of all kinds. Bring it back!
Adair S