Photo/Video Assignment: Lead Safe Advisory Board [IN-PERSON ONLY]

601 Lakeside Ave E Cleveland, OH 44114 (Directions)

Cleveland City Hall, Room 509 (or watch remotely on WebEx)

For this assignment, we are asking you to document this Lead Safe Advisory Board meeting with horizontal photos and video. We may use your photos in our summaries of Documenters’ work, or elsewhere on the Signal Cleveland site.

What you will capture in photos and video:

• Scenes of the room.
• City representatives and others presenting and answering questions.
• The audience watching the hearings.
• Anything of note that happens when you are in the room (e.g. protests).

What you’ll submit:

• 15-20 landscape/horizontal photos.
• 3 vertical videos 1-5 minutes in length.
• Captions of your photos with the names of people in each photo (to the best of your ability).

Hours and pay:

• This is a** 2 hour assignment** that starts when the meeting begins.
• You do not need to stay longer than 2 hours. But, you are welcome to.
• Pay for this assignment is fixed at 6 hours total (2 meeting hour + 2 for prep and review + 2 hour for attending in-person).
• Total pay for this assignment is fixed at $108.

For this assignment:

• You will need to attend this meeting in-person in Cleveland City Hall, Room 509, 601 Lakeside Ave E Cleveland, OH 44114.
• There is paid parking connected to City Hall at the Willard Parking Garage, located at 601 Lakeside Ave.
• You will need to present a photo ID to enter the building.
• You will need a mobile phone with the ability to take high resolution photos and video, OR
• A camera with the ability to take high resolution photos and video.

How to submit: You will submit your photos, video and names document in the “Documents” section of your assignment page (linked in the “you next assignment” email):

• Click the button that says “Add document.”
• For photos, click the “Image” link in the drop down menu, and select “Choose a file” to upload an image. Do this for every image you are submitting. Enter a caption for each image that includes the names of the people in the image.
• For video, click “File” link in the drop down menu, and select “Choose a file” to upload a video. Do this for every video you are submitting.
• Don’t forget to complete your assignment checklist!

Some photo/video resources:

• Here are a few tips on taking photos and video from the Documenters Field Guide.
• How to take awesome pictures with your phone camera (WikiHow)
• How to shoot a video (WikiHow)

Some tips for taking photos and videos in a public meeting:

• Under the Ohio Open Meetings Act, you are absolutely allowed to document local government meetings with photos and video.
• In general, try to get as close to the table as you can to get shots of individuals, as well as the whole group.
• You may have an easier time shooting from the ends of the table.
• However, you may be told that you cannot record from certain positions in the room.
• If you’d like, we can provide you with a Documenters badge to identify yourself as a Cleveland Documenter.
• If asked about your presence at the meeting, feel free to use this language: I am a Greater Clevelander trained to document public meetings in the public interest. My work as a Cleveland Documenter is published in partnership with Signal Cleveland.

The Lead Safe Advisory Board was created as part of the Lead Safe ordinance (Ordinance 747-2019) passed in July 2019 by Cleveland City Council.

The board’s charge is to:

• Provide recommendations for improvements to the City’s lead safe policies and procedures
• Report quarterly on the progress and status of the certification efforts
• Complete an impact analysis of the lead safe certification program

Board members:

• Wyonette Cheairs, Enterprise Community Partners & Lead Safe Cleveland Coalition
• Rob Fischer, Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University
• Scot Kroehle, Landlord
• Sonia Monroy Matis, Alliance for Safety and Justice
• Rebecca Maurer, Cleveland City Council, Ward 12
• Diana Shulsky, Howard Hanna Realtors
• Carol Smith, Metro West Community Development Organization/Licensed Lead Assessor

Agenda: We’ll keep an eye out for an agenda and pass it along when we receive it.

Find past Documenters coverage of this board here: https://www.documenters.org/reporting/?agency=426