Greater Cleveland RTA Board re-elects president and vice president

March 26, 2020
Dennis Clough has been re-elected to serve as president of the board and Rev. Charles Lucas has been re-elected to serve as vice president.

The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) Board of Trustees has elected Westlake Mayor Dennis Clough to serve as president of the board and Rev. Charles Lucas to serve as vice president, each serving for another year.

The 10-member board held the elections at its annual meeting.

Clough was appointed to the Greater Cleveland RTA Board by the Cuyahoga County Mayors and City Managers Association in 1999. He was elected board vice president in 2011. His has served as president since 2018.

Rev. Lucas joined the Greater Cleveland RTA Board in 2016 and was reappointed in March of 2018 for his second, three-year term. He has served as vice president since 2018. He is one of four appointees from the city of Cleveland.  He chairs Greater Cleveland RTA’s Organizational, Services & Performance Monitoring Committee.

Rev. Lucas is Vicar of St. James AME Church on Cedar Avenue. He also serves as chairman of the city’s Community Relations Board, as well as the former chairman of the Council of Economic Opportunities in Greater Cleveland. He is past president of the Cleveland Chapter of the NAACP.