Editing Shaker Heights, Ohio (section)

==Government and politics==
[[Image:Shaker Heights City Hall.jpg|thumb|Shaker Heights City Hall]]
The Shaker Heights City Charter was adopted in 1931 and revised in 1974, 1986, and 1999. This [[municipal charter|charter]] provides for a [[mayor]] and seven members of a [[city council]], elected on an [[at-large]], non-partisan basis. The current mayor of Shaker Heights is David Weiss. He was elected in 2018 after serving briefly as interim mayor to fulfill the term of the previous three-term mayor Earl Leiken, who resigned to take the position of [[chief of staff]] with [[County Executive of Cuyahoga County, Ohio|Cuyahoga County Executive]] [[Armond Budish]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Jewell|first=Thomas|title=David Weiss takes the oath and reins as interim Shaker Heights mayor|url=http://www.cleveland.com/shaker-heights/index.ssf/2018/04/david_weiss_takes_the_oath_and.html|access-date=April 24, 2018|newspaper=Cleveland.com|date=April 10, 2018}}</ref> In 2019, David Weiss ran unopposed and was re-elected to a four-year term as mayor.<ref>{{cite news |first=Emily |last=Bamforth |title=17 Cuyahoga County mayors running unopposed in 2019 election |url=https://www.cleveland.com/news/2019/11/17-cuyahoga-county-mayors-running-unopposed-in-2019-election-see-uncontested-races-in-your-city.html |work=Cleveland.com |date=November 5, 2019 |access-date=November 6, 2019}}</ref> He was re-elected to a second full term in a landslide in 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Raspe |first=Becky |date=2023-11-08 |title=Mayor Weiss wins reelection in Shaker Heights |url=https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/politics/elections/mayor-weiss-wins-reelection-in-shaker-heights/article_d083747c-7e51-11ee-95b7-ffe3f2c4d101.html |access-date=2024-08-16 |website=Cleveland Jewish News |language=en}}</ref> Council members are elected to four-year terms, with four of the elections coinciding with mayoral elections and the other three two years later in order to stagger terms.<ref>{{cite web| title=City Council|url=https://shakeronline.com/386/City-Council|publisher=Shaker Heights|access-date=November 6, 2019}}</ref>

The [[Georgian architecture|Neo-Georgian]] city hall, designed by [[Charles Sumner Schneider|Charles Schneider]], was built in 1930.<ref name=Shaker>{{cite book|last=Forgac|first=Patricia|title=The Physical Development of Shaker Heights|date=May 1981|publisher=[[Kent State University]]|location=Ohio|chapter=Architecture|page=106}}
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Over the years it has hosted 12 Keys to the city ceremonies starting in 1935 to Oris Paxton Van Sweringen and ending in 1993 to Dean Yoder.

Shaker Heights is a stronghold of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]], with [[Joe Biden]] winning nearly 90% of vote in the [[2020 United States presidential election|most recent Presidential election]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/2020/11/official-results-joe-biden-won-42-of-59-cuyahoga-county-communities-664-of-the-vote-see-details-by-precinct.html | title=Official results: Joe Biden won 42 of 59 Cuyahoga County communities, 66.4% of the vote; see details by precinct | date=November 19, 2020 }}</ref> Shaker Heights is entirely within the [[Ohio's 11th congressional district|Eleventh Congressional District]], a seat in the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]], represented by [[Shontel Brown]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|D]]).<ref>{{Cite web|date=November 4, 2021|title=Shontel Brown sworn in as representative for Ohio's 11th Congressional District|url=https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/politics/elections/ohio-11th-congressional/shontel-brown-sworn-in-representative-ohio-11th-congressional-district/95-8612d7f3-34b9-4513-a1af-fceb404d49ce|access-date=2022-01-29|website=wkyc.com|language=en-US}}</ref> At the state level, Shaker Heights is located within the [[Ohio's 21st senatorial district|21st senatorial district]], represented by [[Kent Smith (American politician)|Kent Smith]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|D]]) in the [[Ohio Senate]], and in the 22nd District of the [[Ohio House of Representatives]], represented by [[Juanita Brent]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|D]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://shakeronline.com/for-residents/resources/government-resources|title=Government Resources: State|publisher=City of Shaker Heights|access-date=2017-05-06}}</ref>