Next up at Corporate Club
Thursday, July 09, 2009
11:30am Registration | 12 noon Luncheon and Program
Moderator:
LEON BIBB, Emmy Award-Winning Anchor, NewsChannel 5
Frank G. Jackson, the 56th Mayor of Cleveland, lives in the Central neighborhood on the same street where he grew up. He graduated from Cleveland Public Schools and served in the U.S. Army. After returning to Cleveland, he earned an associate’s degree from Cuyahoga Community College and his bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and law degree from Cleveland State University.
His commitment to public service began as an Assistant City Prosecutor in the Cleveland Municipal Court Clerk’s Office. In 1989, Jackson was elected to Cleveland City Council, where he represented Cleveland’s 5th Ward for 16 years. From 2002-2005, Jackson served as President of Cleveland City Council. In January, 2006, Jackson began his tenure as Mayor of Cleveland.
As Mayor, Jackson has continued to focus on his commitment to improve the quality of life in the City of Cleveland, improve city services and provide opportunities for success for residents and business. This has led to a reduction in violent crime, enhanced services for senior citizens and youth and a streamlining of business support services to promote economic development.
Jackson’s accomplishments include;
• Rebuilding the City’s 36 neighborhoods with streetscape projects, storefront renovations, new recreation facilities, and improvements to city parks using Connecting Cleveland 2020, the first comprehensive citywide plan since 1991
• Launching the Mayor Frank G. Jackson Scholarship Program
• Providing summer jobs for more than 4,000 young people
• Securing commitments to provide free tuition to Cuyahoga Community College for Cleveland Metropolitan School District graduates.
• Revising the Use of Deadly Force Policy to help heal the breach between the community and the police
• Improving police officer training and implemented new technology to reduce response time and provide better service
• Implementing a new police deployment plan that has increased the number of officers patrolling City neighborhoods, uses gun suppression and neighborhood safety initiatives, and has reduced violent crime in the City by 12% since 2006
• Leading international trade missions, instituting joint economic development agreements with suburbs and the implementation of the City’s first capital improvement plan in more than a decade
• Reducing City operating costs by more than three percent and leading the Operations Efficiency Task Force to improve internal processes, procedures and improve customer service.
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