Budget, Finance & Governance Committee
Council Chambers, Room 300
Agenda — 30 items
- 1 ROLL CALL
- 2 PRESENTATIONS
- 3 SOPEC
- 4 Oliver Kroner, Director, Office of Environment and Sustainability
- 5 CRC FY 2025 BUDGET VARIANCE
- 6 Daniel Betts, Director and Tiffany Stewart, Assistant Director of Administration
- 7 AGENDA
- 8 PUBLIC HEARING
- 9 CONVENTION DISTRICT COMMUNITY AUTHORITY
- 1. PETITION (AMENDED), submitted by the Clerk of Council, from Donald L. Winter, III, Frost Brown Todd LLP, regarding an amended and restated petition to establish the Convention District Community Authority as a new community authority and a new community district pursuant to Chapter 349 of the Ohio Revised Code.
- 2. RESOLUTION (LEGISLATIVE) (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 12/1/2025, ORGANIZING the Convention District New Community Authority; APPROVING the amended petition; ESTABLISHING the boundaries of the authority; APPOINTING members of the board of trustees of the authority; ESTABLISHING the method for selecting the board of trustees of the authority; FIXING the surety bond amount for the members of the board of trustees; and ESTABLISHING the method for selecting the board of trustees of the authority.
- 12 END OF PUBLIC HEARING
- 13 SOPEC
- 3. REPORT, dated 12/1/2025, submitted Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, regarding Options for Energy Aggregation Through Shared Electricity Procurement. (Reference Document # 202501981)
- 4. ORDINANCE, submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to enter into any agreements necessary to enable the City to join the Southeast Ohio Public Energy Council (“SOPEC”) and act jointly with other municipalities, townships, counties, and other political subdivisions to maximize the potential benefits of electricity procurement through group purchasing efforts; and APPROVING the SOPEC Plan of Operation and Governance and the Amended and Restated Bylaws Governing SOPEC.
- 5. ORDINANCE (B VERSION) (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 12/1/2025, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to enter into any agreements necessary to enable the City to join the Southeast Ohio Public Energy Council (“SOPEC”) and act jointly with other municipalities, townships, counties, and other political subdivisions to maximize the potential benefits of electricity procurement through group purchasing efforts for mercantile customers; and APPROVING the SOPEC Plan of Operation and Governance and the Amended and Restated Bylaws Governing SOPEC.
- 17 TRANSFERS AND APPROPRIATIONS
- 6. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 11/19/2025, AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of $1,174,000 from the unappropriated surplus of Recreation Special Activities Fund 323 to various Cincinnati Recreation Commission Recreation Special Activities Fund operating budget accounts according to the attached Schedule of Transfer to provide resources for planned expenditures.
- 7. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 11/19/2025, AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of $480,000 from the unappropriated surplus of Municipal Golf Fund 105 to Cincinnati Recreation Commission Municipal Golf Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 105x195x7200 to provide resources for planned expenditures.
- 20 GRANTS AND DONATIONS
- 8. ORDINANCE submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 11/19/2025, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for a grant of up to $120,000 from the National Recreation and Parks Association (“NRPA”) for lighting and parking infrastructure improvements at the Losantiville Recreation Area; AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept an in-kind donation of lighting and parking infrastructure from NRPA through Musco Lighting for the Losantiville Recreation Area valued at up to $100,000; AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept and appropriate up to $20,000 in grant resources from NRPA; and AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the grant funds into Fund 319, “Contributions for Recreation Purposes,” revenue account no. 319x8571.
- 9. ORDINANCE submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 11/19/2025, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept a donation of up to $11,520 from the Cincinnati Fire Foundation to provide resources for the installation of an equipment storage unit at the new Fire Training Facility; AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the donated funds into General Fund 050 revenue account no. 050x8571; and AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of up to $11,520 from the unappropriated surplus of General Fund 050 to Cincinnati Fire Department General Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 050x272x7200 to provide resources for the installation of an equipment storage unit at the new Fire Training Facility.
- 23 WATER SERVICE AGREEMENT
- 10. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 11/19/2025, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a Second Amendment to the Water Service Agreement between the City of Cincinnati and the City of Lebanon, Ohio to permit the installation of a new wholesale water connection to serve new residential properties within the City of Lebanon.
- 25 EASEMENTS
- 11. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 11/19/2025, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a release of easements to terminate certain easements for road and flood protection levee purposes and acquire an easement for road and flood protection levee purposes over a portion of real property located along or near Madison Road in the Madisonville neighborhood of the City of Cincinnati.
- 27 PRESENTATIONS
- 12. PRESENTATION submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, dated 12/1/2025, regarding the Cincinnati Recreation Commission (CRC) FY 2025 Budget Variance.
- 13. PRESENTATION, submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, dated 12/1/2025, regarding Energy Aggregation & SOPEC.
- 31 ADJOURNMENT