Akron

Top issues

The five most-discussed unresolved issues, ranked by recorded discussion time (a measure of importance and contention), then by how many meetings they came up in.

Issues on upcoming agendas

Issues linked from the meetings scheduled in the next 10 days.

Recent updates

Issues with new information found in the last 7 days, newest first.

Upcoming meetings

Recent meetings

One page per meeting, summarizing every record we have of it (agenda, minutes, video and transcript).

Issues with near term decisions

Long running topics

No actions pending

Completed

Sources

Where the data comes from

• City website: https://www.akronohio.gov and City Council website: https://akroncitycouncil.org (meeting schedule, committees, staff)
• Council agendas: Agenda Online, https://onlinedocs.akronohio.gov/OnBaseAgendaOnline/. Committees meet the same afternoon under the same agenda document.
• Planning Commission: https://akronohio.gov/government/boards_and_commissions/planning_commission.php (meeting programs)
• Board of Zoning Appeals: https://akronohio.gov/government/boards_and_commissions/board_of_zoning_appeals.php (meeting programs)
• Passed legislation and minutes are kept in the City's Public Access Viewer, https://onlinedocs.akronohio.gov/PublicAccess/recordsearch/cq/index.html.
• Collected 2026-11-04 (added at Dewey's request).

Governing body

• City Council (13 members, regular meetings every Monday at 6:30 PM, Council Chambers, 166 S. High St.): President Margo Sommerville (Ward 3), Vice President Brad McKitrick (Ward 6), President Pro Tem Tina Boyes (Ward 9)
• At-Large: Mark Greer, Linda F. R. Omobien and Eric D. Garrett Sr
• Wards: 1 Fran Wilson, 2 Phil Lombardo, 3 Sommerville, 4 Jan Davis, 5 Johnnie Hannah, 6 McKitrick, 7 Donnie Kammer, 8 Bruce Bolden, 9 Boyes, 10 Sharon L. Connor
• Committee chairs (October 2026 agendas): Rules and Public Safety, McKitrick; Budget and Finance, Lombardo; Planning and Economic Development and Public Service, Public Utilities and Green, Kammer; Health and Social Services, Davis; Parks and Recreation, Connor; Housing and Neighborhood Assistance, Bolden. Committees meet Monday afternoons when they have legislation, at times that shift weekly.
• Council staff: Clerk of Council Sara Biviano, Deputy Clerk Summer Owen, Chief of Staff Joan M. Williams
• Mayor: Shammas Malik, reported in news coverage but not confirmed on a City page we read (unverified for 2026)
• Planning and Urban Development: Kyle Julien is reported as director, from a single search result (unverified)
• Planning Commission: appointed by the Mayor with Council consent, Fridays 9:00 AM roughly every four weeks (2026 dates seen: 8/14, 9/18, 10/16, 11/20, 12/18). The City's page lists six names (Freeman, Greene, Owen, Thurman, Wyatt, York) although the charter calls for five members; the page is inconsistent.
• Board of Zoning Appeals: five members, Wednesdays 9:00 AM (2026 dates seen: 8/26, 9/30, 10/28). Listed members: Avalos, Brady, Clark, Eberhardt, Johansen. Zoning staff: [email protected], 330-375-2350.

Data quality notes

• Only agendas and meeting programs were read. No minutes are online for the window, so no item is verified as passed; the only outcome evidence is the vote count on the prior minutes printed on the next Council agenda. Ordinance and resolution titles were read, not full text.
• The 2026-11-09 Council agenda was refreshed on 2026-11-10; ordinance numbers and dollar amounts for its items were not yet assigned. The 2026-11-02 passage record comes from the 11/9 agenda. No agendas are posted yet for 11/16 onward; council regular meetings are scheduled Mondays at 6:30 PM (11/16, 11/23, 11/30, 12/7, 12/14).
• Recordings of the 2026-11-02 and 2026-11-09 Council meetings and the 2026-11-09 special meeting and committees are linked on their pages (captions pending). No recordings were found for the Planning Commission or Board of Zoning Appeals.
• Agenda Online skips meeting ID 699, which is unexplained. The Planning Commission 2026-11-20 program is a placeholder. The next Board of Zoning Appeals date after 2026-10-28 was not found.
• Meeting pages begin with 2026-09-01. The Council recesses in August and the last two weeks of December.