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Budget, Finance & Governance Committee

May 18, 2026 ·1:00 PM Final

Council Chambers, Room 300

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Agenda — 21 items

  1. 1 AGENDA
  2. 1 ROLL CALL
  3. 2 Also in attendance were Dr. Andrew Dudas, Budget Director, Colleen Swim, Law Department and Steve Webb, Finance Director. The meeting began at 1:02pm adjourned at 1:30pm.
  4. 3 PAYMENTS
  5. 1. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 5/13/2026, AUTHORIZING a payment of $136.40 to Rumpke from Cincinnati Parks Department General Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 050x202x1000x7276 as a moral obligation for trash collection services rendered in February 2025; AUTHORIZING a payment of $775 to Irvine Wood Recovery, Inc. from Cincinnati Parks Department General Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 050x202x3000x7373 as a moral obligation for providing playground turf to the Sinton facility in April 2025; AUTHORIZING a payment of $119.12 to the Cincinnati Color Company from Cincinnati Parks Department General Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 050x202x5000x7335 as a moral obligation for paint supplies provided in May 2025; AUTHORIZING a payment of $1,562.02 to Professional Awards Service, Inc. from Cincinnati Parks Department General Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 050x202x5000x7364 as a moral obligation for Cincinnati Parks Department uniforms provided in September 2025; AUTHORIZING a payment of $119.99 to S&S Worldwide from Cincinnati Parks Department General Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 050x202x5000x7381 as a moral obligation for providing a teen and adult balance ball chair in September 2024; AUTHORIZING a payment of $1,300.50 to HercRentals from Cincinnati Parks Department General Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 050x202x5000x7413 as a moral obligation for light tower trailer and surveillance camera unit rentals for Burnet Woods in July 2025; AUTHORIZING a payment of $1,785 to Power Equipment Solutions from Cincinnati Parks Department General Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 050x202x5000x7413 as a moral obligation for golf cart rentals provided in November 2025; AUTHORIZING a payment of $730 to Tree Care, Inc. from Cincinnati Parks Department Park Miscellaneous Revenue and Special Activity Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 326x202x5100x7278 as a moral obligation for tree care services provided in August 2024; AUTHORIZING a payment of $1,366.50 to Forevergreen from Cincinnati Parks Department Park Miscellaneous Revenue and Special Activity Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 326x202x5200x7373 as a moral obligation for bridge planter maintenance on Fort Washington Way provided in June 2025; AUTHORIZING a payment of $6,564.95 to CINCYTICKET from Cincinnati Parks Department Krohn Conservatory Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 332x202x3100x7289 as a moral obligation for online ticketing services provided for Krohn Conservatory between August and October 2025; AUTHORIZING a payment of $1,958 to General Factory Supply from Cincinnati Parks Department Krohn Conservatory Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 332x202x3100x7362 as a moral obligation for horticulture supplies provided for Krohn Conservatory in February 2023; AUTHORIZING a payment of $4,535.16 to Eason Horticultural Resources, Inc. from Cincinnati Parks Department Krohn Conservatory Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 332x202x3100x7373 as a moral obligation for horticulture supplies provided for Krohn Conservatory in May 2024; AUTHORIZING a payment of $3,800 to Tree Care, Inc. from Cincinnati Parks Department Urban Forestry Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 428x202x5100x7278 as a moral obligation for tree care services provided in April 2024; AUTHORIZING a payment of $295 to Nelbud from Cincinnati Parks Department Parks Private Endowment and Donations Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 430x202x5000x7258 as a moral obligation for sprinkler inspections and an air/water gauge provided in June 2025; AUTHORIZING a payment of $2,216.67 to Winstel Controls from Cincinnati Parks Department Parks Private Endowment and Donations Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 430x202x5000x7258 as a moral obligation for equipment maintenance supplies provided in June 2025; AUTHORIZING a payment of $607.06 to GBEX from Cincinnati Parks Department Parks Private Endowment and Donations Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 430x202x5000x7335 as a moral obligation for plumbing supplies provided in May 2025; AUTHORIZING a payment of $18,062.65 to Wm. A. Natorp Co. from Cincinnati Parks Department Parks Private Endowment and Donations Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 430x202x5200x7373 as a moral obligation for horticulture supplies provided in August 2025; AUTHORIZING a payment of $1,004.75 to Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company from Cincinnati Parks Department Parks Private Endowment and Donations Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 430x203x2000x7281 as a moral obligation for title insurance related to a land purchase in February 2026; AUTHORIZING a payment of $6,898.50 to Graf Coyne from Cincinnati Parks Department Parks Private Endowment and Donations Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 430x203x2000x7281 as a moral obligation for outside legal counsel provided in December 2022; and AUTHORIZING a payment of $770 to First Student, Inc. from Cincinnati Parks Department Parks Private Endowment and Donations Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 430x203x4000x7219 as a moral obligation for busing services provided in April 2025 and March 2026. 202601559 Recommend Passage Emergency
  6. 2. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 5/13/2026, AUTHORIZING the payment of $614.25 to First Student, Inc. from Cincinnati Parks Department Park Miscellaneous Revenue and Special Activity Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 326x203x4000x7219 for chartered busing services provided to the City in October 2025, pursuant to the attached then and now certificate from the Director of Finance. 202601555 Recommend Passage Emergency
  7. 3. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 5/13/2026, AUTHORIZING the payment of $133,200.79 from General Fund Enterprise Software and Licenses Non-Departmental non-personnel operating budget account no. 050x952x0000x7418 to AskReply, Inc. dba B2Gnow for the annual subscription fee for the B2Gnow and LCPtracker compliance management tracking system for the period of July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, the end of the license term, pursuant to the attached then and now certificate from the Director of Finance. 202601552 Recommend Passage Emergency
  8. 8 GRANTS
  9. 4. ORDINANCE submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 5/13/2026, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant of up to $300,000 from the United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance, FY 2025 Local Law Enforcement Crime Gun Intelligence Center Integration Initiative (ALN 16.738) to support expansion of the Cincinnati Police Department Crime Gun Intelligence Center; and AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the grant funds into Law Enforcement Grant Fund 368x8553, project account no. 25CGIC. 202601553 Recommend Passage
  10. 5. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 5/13/2026, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for various grants of up to $6,000,000 per application from the Metro Transit Infrastructure Fund (“MTIF”) program as awarded by the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (“SORTA”), the Municipal Road Fund (“MRF”) program awarded by Hamilton County, the State Capital Improvement Program (“SCIP”), Local Transportation Improvement Program (“LTIP”), and Revolving Loan Program (“RLP”) grants awarded by the Ohio Public Works Commission (“OPWC”), and the Surface Transportation Block Grants (“STBG”), Congestion Mitigation/Air Quality (“CMAQ”) grants, Transportation Alternatives (“TA”) grants, and STBG Repaving program grants awarded by the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (“OKI”) (ALN 20.205), to fund various City road, bridge, pedestrian, and bicycle construction projects identified in Attachment A. 202601551 Recommend Passage Emergency
  11. 12 TRANSFERS AND APPROPRIATIONS
  12. 6. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 5/13/2026, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a Purchase, Funding, and Development Agreement with Whex Garage LLC, (a wholly-owned subsidiary of 3CDC), pursuant to which the City will: (i) purchase certain property located on the southwest corner of W. 5th Street and Elm Street in Cincinnati, (ii) then lease such property to Whex Garage LLC, and (iii) provide a grant in an amount not to exceed $4,000,000 to Whex Garage LLC to renovate the existing garage, commonly known as the Whex Garage, located on such property; ESTABLISHING new capital improvement program project account no. 980x105x261021, “Convention Center District Whex Garage TIF,” to provide resources for improvements to the Whex Garage and related infrastructure improvements; AUTHORIZING the transfer and return to source of $4,000,000 from capital improvement program project account no. 980x164x241620, “Convention Center District Urban Renewal TIF,” to the unappropriated surplus of Urban Renewal - Tax Increment Bond Fund 852; AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of $4,000,000 from the unappropriated surplus of Urban Renewal - Tax Increment Bond Fund 852 to the newly established capital improvement program project account no. 980x105x261021, “Convention Center District Whex Garage TIF,” to provide resources for improvements to the Whex Garage and related infrastructure improvements; and DECLARING that (i) the improvement of the Whex Garage to be an urban renewal project located in an urban renewal area, each as defined in Ohio Revised Code Chapter 725, and (ii) expenditures from the newly established capital improvement program project account no. 980x105x261021, “Convention Center District Whex Garage TIF,” to provide resources for improvements to the Whex Garage and related infrastructure improvements serve a public purpose because the project will foster additional redevelopment and reinvestment in the Convention Center District in support of the City-owned Convention Center. (Subject to the Temporary Prohibition List <https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/law/ethics/city-business>). <https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/law/ethics/city-business%3e).> 202601549 Recommend Passage Emergency
  13. 15 EASEMENTS
  14. 7. ORDINANCE submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 5/13/2026, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a plat entitled Waterline Easement Vacation Plat Quitclaim E127-Q for Easement E127-WSL 1729 to release and quitclaim a portion of a public utility easement held by the City of Cincinnati for the use and benefit of Greater Cincinnati Water Works for a water main and associated appurtenances located in an upon certain real property located in Section 13, Town 4, E.R. 1 M.P. and Section 18, Town 4, F.R. 2, in the Village of Silverton, Hamilton County, Ohio. (Subject to the Temporary Prohibition List <https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/law/ethics/city-business>). <https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/law/ethics/city-business%3e).> 202601550 Recommend Passage
  15. 8. ORDINANCE submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 5/13/2026, ACCEPTING AND CONFIRMING the grant of a public utility easement in favor of the City of Cincinnati for water mains and related fixtures, equipment, and appurtenances through certain real property in the Anderson Township, Hamilton County, Ohio as designated on the plat entitled Water Main Easement E-1158, The Views at Coldstream, as recorded in Plat Book 513, Page 9, Hamilton County, Ohio Recorder’s Office, and a grant of easement in favor of the City of Cincinnati for ingress and egress, to access the aforementioned water mains and related fixtures, over certain real property in Anderson Township, Hamilton County, Ohio as designated in the Grant of Easement as recorded at Official Record Volume 15397, Page 00001, Hamilton County, Ohio Recorder’s Office. (Subject to the Temporary Prohibition List <https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/law/ethics/city-business>). <https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/law/ethics/city-business%3e).> 202601554 Recommend Passage
  16. 19 LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION
  17. 9. RESOLUTION (LEGISLATIVE) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 4/29/2026, DECLARING the necessity of assessing properties in Lighting Group 2 that benefit from special street lighting within the City of Cincinnati for the cost of such lighting for the three-year period beginning August 1, 2025. 202601482 Held
  18. 22 MOTIONS
  19. 10. MOTION, submitted by Councilmember Jeffreys, WE MOVE that City Council approve the allocation of $50,000 from the Carryover FY’25 Special Events Fund to support the OwnCincy Workshop series that promotes homeownership through 12 workshops, a wealth marketplace (financial institutions), vendors, a youth financial education series, and home repair how-to segments at Xavier University’s Cintas Center on Saturday, June 27th, 2026, 8 a.m.- 4 p.m. (BALANCE ON FILE IN THE CLERK’S OFFICE) 202601566 Adopt
  20. 11. MOTION, submitted by Councilmembers Nolan, Cramerding, Walsh, Owens and Albi, WE MOVE that the City Administration assess the efficacy of the City’s current housing and economic development tools, programs, and funding sources utilized to incentivize and invest in housing development and economic development generally across the City of Cincinnati. (BALANCE ON FILE IN THE CLERK’S OFFICE) 202601565 Adopt
  21. 26 ADJOURNMENT