Broadway–Slavic Village

And guess what? Now that costs even more money because now you have to go back and do things.

APA to remove... hazardous substances from a warehouse in Cleveland's Broadway Slavic Village neighborhood.

Agencies held a public meeting on October 6 to answer questions about the cleanup.

This is out of Chicago.

Entonces, ten eso presente.

También está Slavic Village, que, pues, tiene un equipo-- necesitas, no tiene, necesitas un equipo sólido para manejar.

Entonces, en esas zonas ten más cuidado.

De pronto, esas zonas no son tan buenas para el inversionista remoto, es mejor para la inversión local.

They built communities.

You can still see their fingerprints all over the map in Little Italy, Slavic Village, Asia Town, Tremont, St. Clair, Superior, and beyond.

And Cleveland's immigration story didn't stop when the smokestacks went quiet.

New generations of people from Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and all around the world have continued adding to our story.

Last Thursday, we talked with a group called the People's Budget Cleveland.

They're piloting a program in Slavic Village where residents get to directly vote on how to use grant money.

This grant money has been earmarked for public projects.

This concept is called participatory budgeting when it's used to decide how to spend tax dollars, so a little bit different with the pilot program here.

That initiative failed, but the desire of some residents to have a greater say in what projects are funded in their community lives on with a group known as People's Budget Cleveland, or P.B. Klee.

The group has been working in Cleveland's Slavic Village neighborhood on a pilot program, allowing residents to decide how to spend $100,000 in grant funding.

With me now to talk about this pilot program and participatory budgeting in general is Cassie Park.

She's the program coordinator for People's Budget Cleveland.

Cassie, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

Also joining us today, we have Chuck Gleha, a longtime Slavic Village resident who weighed in on this pilot program.

Chuck, thanks for being here.