Frank C. Comunale, who represents Summit County Council District 4, serves as Vice President of the County Council.  Mr. Comunale also acts as Chair of the Public Works Committee, and is on the Health and Human Services, Personnel, and Planning and Economic Development Committees.   

Mr. Comunale is the former President of the Akron-Summit County Public Library Board of Trustees, former President of the First Friday Club of Greater Akron Board of Trustees, former President of the Good Samaritan Hunger Center Board of Trustees, and former First Vice Chairman of the Towpath Credit Union Board of Directors.  

Mr. Comunale served as the Chair of the 2003 Campaign for the United Way of Barberton and Southern Summit County. In 2008, he chaired the Alexis de Tocqueville Society Campaign. Our United Way had the largest increase in donations in the country that year. 

He is a lifetime member of the Sierra Club and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). 

He is an active member of St. Sebastian Parish, formerly serving as Chairman of Parish Council, Stewardship Committee, and currently serves as a Eucharistic Minister. Recently he served as Treasurer of the Citizens Advisory Committee to Summit County Children Services. There, Councilman Comunale chaired two successful levy campaigns.

Mr. Comunale’s extensive community involvement also includes serving as a member of the City of Akron Holocaust Commemorative Committee, Our Lady of the Elms Sisters of St. Dominic Foundation Board of Trustees, member of the Board of Directors of the Wesley Temple Foundation, Inc., the Ohio United Way Board of Trustees, former Board Member of Stewart’s Caring Place, and a KSU Porthouse Theatre Action Committee member. Mr. Comunale is also a Third Degree Knight of Columbus member and a member of the Certified Grievance Committee of the Akron Bar Association.

In April of 2010, Mr. Comunale was selected for membership in Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society, founded in 1914, and chartered at The University of Akron in 1922.

Professionally, Mr. Comunale is a vice president with S.A. Comunale, fire protection contractors, located in Barberton. A resident of West Akron, Mr. Comunale is a graduate of Firestone High School and earned his bachelor’s degree from The University of Akron, where he served as President of his senior class. 

Councilman Comunale is the recipient of several prestigious awards in recognition of his many achievements in community service. In 2002 he received the Bishop William M. Cosgrove Justice Award for Community Service. Additionally, in 2005, Mr. Comunale received the Peter Bommarito Outstanding Voluntary Achievement Award and United Way Distinguished Service Award. He was honored with the Urban Lights Award from The University of Akron’s Department of Public Administration as well as a Shining Star Award from Summit County Children Services in 2007.