Clifton Town Meeting (CTM) is the recognized community council representing the Clifton neighborhood in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio. CTM sponsors and maintains this community website to provide information to residents, business owners, and visitors. Welcome!

Announcements 

• CTM Monthly Meeting Dec 1, 2025November 28, 2025

  The public is welcome to attend. Public input on CTM agenda items will be heard after Trustee discussion is complete.  Community members wishing to address the Board on an agenda item should sign up to speak at least 24 hours before start of the meeting by completing this Google form or with an email request directed to the president at contactctm@cliftoncommunity.org. Individual input on agenda items will last no more than two minutes.

  Community members may speak on non-agenda issues during the public questions and concerns period at the end of the meeting. Individuals with statements are asked to sign in before the start of the meeting. Such statements should last not more than two minutes and are invited during the public questions and concerns period. Email your request to speak (specify the topic), or to request an agenda item at the next meeting to contactctm@cliftoncommunity.org.

  Agenda

  Join in-person: Clifton Recreation Center, 320 McAlpin Avenue  
  Join Remotely: https://meet.google.com/qym-wjou-ncx

  Motions below are detailed in the hyperlink. Click the link to see more.

  Start	Time	Topic	Topic Lead
  7:00	1	Welcome	President Pantoja
  	3	Roll Call/Approve Agenda/Approve minutes	Secretary Waller
  	5	Fire Report
  	5	Clifton Library	Jeanne Strauss de Groote
  	5	Clifton Rec Center	Brittany Havens
  	5	Treasurer’s Report	Bridget Waller
  7:25	15	Committee Reports	President Pantoja
  	5	Holidays on Ludlow tree install 12/11, event 12/20	Mindi Rich
  	45	Motion on Gaslight democratic process   Presentation	President Pantoja
  	5	Clifton Plan update	Gerald Checco
  	5	Annual offsite on boarding and planning	President
  8:40	10	Community Questions/Concerns	President
  8:50		Adjournment	President

• Community engagement for GaslightsNovember 28, 2025

  

  There have been many Facebook posts and comments lately about Clifton gaslights. As President of Clifton Town Meeting (CTM), I’d like to clarify a point of confusion. There never was a decision by CTM to retrofit the gaslights with LED’s. A rough draft of the Clifton Plan was released that listed all the recommendations made by Clifton Plan subcommittees even though none of these recommendations have yet been approved. One of the Clifton Plan subcommittees recommended retrofitting the gaslights with LED’s. Many subsequent posts and comments on this and other Facebook pages responded correctly that much more community engagement is needed before making this kind of decision. These posts and comments were absolutely correct.
  In Monday’s CTM Board meeting at the Clifton Recreation Center at 7pm, CTM will discuss a motion regarding a highly democratic community engagement process for deciding what to recommend for the final Clifton Plan. The key points of the motion are:
  • The first 2026 published version of the Clifton Plan should NOT include any statement whether to retrofit the gaslights with LED’s. Instead, it should include a recommended process for community engagement that is likely to take many months or even more than a year. No recommendation regarding retrofitting the gaslights would be made until this community engagement is complete. Once the engagement is complete, the Clifton Plan would be revised based on that recommendation.
  • The key elements of the process would be to have the city install 1 prototype LED light in an existing gaslight so that people could look at it and decide whether it is close enough to the warmth and character of the existing gaslights to serve as an acceptable long term retrofit. If you look at the picture in this post, it shows an existing gaslight on the left and an LED designed to mimic the gaslight on the right. Nobody in Clifton has ever seen a gaslight with these kinds of LED’s so nobody really knows whether the LED might look almost as good. Once the pilot is installed, there would be a professionally designed survey to see if people would support a retrofit due to the environmental benefits of the retrofit. CTM would abide by the results of the survey when it comes to revising the Clifton Plan.
  Please feel free to attend the CTM Board Meeting, December 1st, at the Clifton Recreation Center. We will have at least 40 minutes for this topic. We will follow the normal process: read the motion, second the motion, board discussion, audience comments, and vote on motion. Audience comments are limited to 2 minutes. The President calls on the audience members. Ideally, no more than 1 comment per audience member. As an option, you can fill out this form to speak but we will also call on people who have not filled out the form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc_VVPFSsJZcTA-hpyzsfyQGJBuKuhBmSekdZg59O5jwP-yTw/viewform

Future CTM Meetings

Check the website calendar for all future meetings of the Board and also of various CTM Committees.