Cleveland Agenda Center offers residents easier access to city meetings

Cleveland’s Agenda Center gives residents one place to see what city boards, commissions and committees are weighing before the votes happen. Residents can track decisions on roads, drainage, water service, zoning, permits and public safety before they move from discussion to action.

What the Agenda Center puts in reach

The Agenda Center is a searchable source for current agendas and minutes across Cleveland’s boards and commissions, with previous years’ agendas and minutes moved to the Document Center. It is the working archive for Cleveland’s municipal decision-making.

The Mayor and Board of Aldermen are Cleveland, Mississippi’s governing body and policy-making entity. The agenda system covers the body that sets city policy, along with the other boards that handle narrower but still important parts of city business.

The meetings worth watching first

The Mayor and Board of Aldermen meet on the first Monday of every month at 5:30 PM in the Board Room at City Hall, 100 North Street, Cleveland, MS 38732. The Board of Aldermen directory also lists City Hall at 100 North Street, Cleveland, MS 38732, gives the mailing address as P.O. Box 1439, Cleveland, MS 38732, and lists the office phone number as 662-846-1471. If you want to confirm a meeting item, ask a question, or follow up on a posted agenda, that is the central contact point.

The Planning Commission meets at 4 pm on the third Thursday of every month at City Hall, 100 N Street, Board Room, Cleveland, MS 38732. Land use, development patterns and planning questions can surface there before they become more visible citywide.

Beautification Commission agendas are available before meetings and minutes are available after approval, with a link back to the Agenda Center. The city organizes records across multiple boards through the Agenda Center, so residents do not have to hunt through separate pages to follow what each group is doing.

What to look for on the agenda

The Community Development department is responsible for construction permits, inspections and enforcing city ordinances and codes tied to building, construction, design standards, parking, planning and related matters. Those issues are likely to surface in city records before they affect a block, a business district or a neighborhood.

A regular Board of Aldermen agenda posted for August 5, 2024 shows how practical those agenda items can be. The meeting included recognition of Officers Jakovis Stewart, Rebecca Benavides and Drew Lambre, a public hearing on adjudication of properties under MCA 21-19-11, and engineering items involving the 2023 Pump Station Improvement Project, the Shelby Sewer Basin Rehabilitation Project and the Feduccia Park Sanding Project. Residents can track property actions, utility projects and park improvements as they move toward a decision.

The Agenda Center shows when the city is about to act on an infrastructure change, a property hearing or a development issue instead of after the fact. If a neighborhood concern shows up in an agenda item, the window for public comment is often before the decision is final.

How the minutes help you follow the people and the timeline

Agendas show what is coming; minutes show what actually happened. Minutes from July 15, 2025 list Mayor Paul Janoush and aldermen Gary Gainspoletti, Zinnia Howze-Wince, Robert Sanders, Brian Bishop, Theodore “Ted” Campbell and Danny Abraham, along with City Attorney Danny Griffith, City Clerk Michelle Arbuckle and Deputy City Clerk Ashley Vickers. The record identifies who was present and what happened.

Older minutes make the city’s record even more useful. Minutes from July 6, 2021 list then-Mayor Billy Nowell and aldermen Zinnia Howze-Wince, Robert Sanders, Danny Abraham, J. Kirkham Povall, Gary Gainspoletti, Brian Bishop and Theodore “Ted” Campbell, and they note the meeting was held in person and remotely via Zoom. The minutes record a hybrid format in 2021 and give residents a way to compare leadership and meeting practices across years.

Because the Agenda Center links current material with older records in the Document Center, you can follow a topic over time instead of only seeing one meeting in isolation. If a project appears in one agenda and returns months later, the minutes can show whether the board advanced it, amended it or delayed it.

How to build a practical alert routine

Cleveland has paired the Agenda Center with other public notification tools. The Notify Me page lets residents opt in for email and SMS alerts, which is useful if you want meeting notices or city updates pushed to you instead of checking the site manually. Residents can text Hi to 662-441-4414 to start using TextMyGov for reporting issues or finding information.

Together, those tools create a straightforward way to stay ahead of city decisions. The Agenda Center tells you what the boards are about to discuss, Notify Me can keep those updates in your inbox or on your phone, and TextMyGov gives you a fast way to report a problem that may end up feeding into the city’s next round of agenda items.