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I’ve frequently told the story about how one of my social work field placements was in Cleveland City Council during the summer of 1990. My assignment was to investigate and report back on which sites would be the best for building a recreation center for North and South Collinwood (I worked under Allan Dryer – sorry if I butchered your name, Allan – who was then-Council President Jay Westbrook’s right-hand person). There were at least three viable sites but my conclusion was that the politics between the wards and the communities were the most serious obstacle.
Here ya go – twenty years later, it’s going in N. Collinwood:
Polensek was anything but grateful to Mayor Frank Jackson three years ago, when the city appeared poised to build a recreation center south of Interstate 90 in the South Collinwood ward of then-Councilman Roosevelt Coats. Polensek and Coats had been arguing over where a recreation center should be built since the late 1990s.
Not one quote from Ward 10′s current council member though. Someone might want to get that input.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:00 pm March 3rd, 2010 in Cleveland+, Politics
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It’s amazing how these fights (N. vs S. Collinwood) continue in Cleveland. I lost a lot of respect for Polensek after the Arsenio Winston letter (I posted about that 3 years ago — It’s been that long? – http://subsetofderek.crabrising.info/2007/07/26/straight-outta-touch/). The sad thing is the only place that could probably make both parties happy is the railyards…and that’s not practial.
Actually, it’s spelled “Dreier.” I wonder what he’s up to these days. He was a good guy.