Shaker Heights Cancels All City Meetings Until April 30

SHAKER HEIGHTS, OH — All Shaker Heights municipal meetings will be cancelled between March 11 and April 30. The State of the City event scheduled for March 12 has also been delayed by the League of Women Voters.

Only five meetings will go on as currently planned, Mayor David Weiss said on Wednesday. However, those meetings will be held with changes to address social distancing.

Here are the meetings that will still be held in coming weeks:

• Architectural Board of Review: March 16 and April 6
• City Council: March 14 (9 a.m. special meeting); March 30 (regular meeting); and April 27 (regular meeting)
• Planning Commission/Board of Zoning Appeals: April 7

Updates will be made on the city's meetings calendar.

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"We are taking these measures to protect everyone’s health and safety and to mitigate the impact on our first responders and hospital systems. While these temporary cancellations are disruptive, I am hopeful that these actions, and together with those we each take individually, will help us move through this outbreak, protect ourselves and each other, and return to normal operations as soon as possible," Weiss said in an email to residents.

Ohio's first confirmed cases of COVID-19, were announced on Monday. All three infected people live in Cuyahoga County. The state is currently waiting for test results on five other individuals. More than 250 residents are being monitored by the Ohio Department of Health.

There are currently 1,050 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S., Johns Hopkins University reported. Twenty-nine Americans have been killed by the virus.