A new Cleveland City Council subcommittee is meeting for the first time today, and its focus is to figure out how to improve .
Council President Kevin Kelley says he鈥檚 encouraged by the focus on the lake鈥檚 health by Gov. Mike DeWine鈥檚 proposed . However, President Donald Trump had proposed cutting Great Lakes Restoration funds by 90 percent 鈥� then, at a rally in Michigan last week, said he would reverse that decision. Kelley says it鈥檚 a volatile issue.
鈥淟et me just put it this way: I don鈥檛 trust anything that the President says at a rally or in a tweet until I see it in a budget document.鈥�
Kelley says today鈥檚 meeting will set a schedule for hearings that will include scientists, the and people who fish on Lake Erie. He hopes to announce a plan of action for keeping the lake clean by late June 鈥� just about the time of the events marking 50 years since the Cuyahoga River Fire which prompted a national environmental movement.
