Budget, Finance & Governance Committee
Council Chambers, Room 300
Agenda — 45 items
- 1 PRESENTATIONS
- 1 ROLL CALL
- 2 CINCY ON TRACK
- 3 William “Billy” Weber, Assistant City Manager and Dr. Andrew Dudas, Budget Director
- 4 FINDLAY COMMUNITY CENTER
- 5 3CDC
- 7 DEPARTMENT BUDGET PRESENTATIONS
- 8 HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT
- 9 Latisha Hazell, Director
- 10 CITIZEN COMPLAINT AUTHORITY
- 11 Dena Brown, Interim Director
- 12 ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
- 13 Sean Ware, Director
- 14 CINCINNATI HEALTH DEPARTMENT
- 15 Grant Mussman, Health Commissioner
- 17 AGENDA
- 19 MOTION
- 1. MOTION, submitted by Councilmember Walsh, WE MOVE that the Administration provide a report within forty-five (45) days regarding all policies related to TIF funding and how it be utilized. This report should be an audit of all policies adopted by Council or implemented by the Administration since the establishment of the TIFs as well as the adoption date of each policy. (STATEMENT ATTACHED)
- 22 REPORTS
- 2. REPORT, dated 3/24/2025, submitted Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, regarding Cincy On Track Initiative and Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Planning. (Reference Document # 202400593 and 202500167)
- 3. REPORT, dated 3/24/2025, submitted Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, regarding the Department of City Planning and Engagement revised fees. (Reference Document # 202402596)
- 26 FEE ADJUSTMENT
- 4. ORDINANCE submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 12/16/2024, AUTHORIZING the Department of City Planning and Engagement (“DCPE”) to adjust fees charged for certain services for planning-related functions and in administering the Cincinnati Zoning Code to allow the DCPE to recover a higher portion of its true cost of the services provided.
- 29 GRANTS
- 5. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 3/19/2025, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept and appropriate energy credits from energy projects and U.S. Department of the Treasury Elective Pay benefits of up to $1,100,000 in FY 2025 to Revolving Energy Loan Fund 883 to reinvest resources into other City energy projects; and AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit proceeds into Revolving Energy Loan Fund 883 revenue account no. 883x8569.
- 6. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 3/19/2025, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant of up to $3,536 from the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General, National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Community Awareness Project to provide resources for the Cincinnati Police Department’s Victims Assistance Liaison Unit and the Cincinnati Citizens Respect Our Witnesses program to host the 9th Annual Homicide Memorial Ceremony; and AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the grant funds into Law Enforcement Grant Fund 368x8533, project account no. 25CVRW.
- 7. ORDINANCE submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 3/19/2025, AMENDING Ordinance No. 99-2023 to increase the amount of funding the City Manager is authorized to accept from the Surface Transportation Block Grant Program (ALN 20.205) awarded through the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments, from $1,199,998 to $1,325,370 and to appropriate the additional $125,372 to existing capital improvement program project account no. 980x232x222355, “Wasson Way Federal STBG 2022,” to provide additional resources to complete the Wasson Way Trail project.
- 34 FINDLAY COMMUNITY CENTER
- 8. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 3/17/2025, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to take any and all steps as may be necessary in order to vacate as public right-of-way and retain approximately 0.1341 acres of public right-of-way, being a portion of Republic Street in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati.
- 9. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 3/17/2025, DEDICATING, ACCEPTING, AND CONFIRMING the dedication to public use of an approximately 0.0332-acre tract of real property as a portion of Bardes Alley, a public right-of-way in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati.
- 10. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 3/12/2025, PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE, SALE AND DELIVERY OF NOT TO EXCEED $5,525,000 OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REVENUE BONDS (OTR HEALTH CENTER PROJECT), OR NOTES IN ANTICIPATION THEREOF, OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI, COUNTY OF HAMILTON, STATE OF OHIO, FOR THE PURPOSE OF FINANCING CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS; AUTHORIZING A PLEDGE AND LIEN ON CERTAIN REVENUES AND OTHER CITY RESOURCES TO SECURE SUCH BONDS OR NOTES; AUTHORIZING NECESSARY DOCUMENTS TO SECURE SUCH BONDS OR NOTES.
- 11. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 3/12/2025, PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE, SALE AND DELIVERY OF NOT TO EXCEED $29,005,000 OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REVENUE BONDS (FINDLAY COMMUNITY CENTER PROJECT), OR NOTES IN ANTICIPATION THEREOF, OF THE CITY OF CINCINNATI, COUNTY OF HAMILTON, STATE OF OHIO, FOR THE PURPOSE OF FINANCING CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS; AUTHORIZING A PLEDGE AND LIEN ON CERTAIN REVENUES AND OTHER CITY RESOURCES TO SECURE SUCH BONDS OR NOTES; AUTHORIZING NECESSARY DOCUMENTS TO SECURE SUCH BONDS OR NOTES.
- 40 PRESENTATIONS
- 12. PRESENTATION, submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, dated 3/10/2025, regarding the Cincy On Track Update.
- 13. PRESENTATION submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, dated 3/19/2025, regarding the Cincinnati Police Department’s (CPD) Budget Presentation.
- 14. PRESENTATION submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, dated 3/19/2025, regarding the Department of Buildings and Inspections (B&I) Budget Presentation.
- 15. PRESENTATION submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, dated 3/19/2025, regarding the Department of Transportation and Engineering’s (DOTE) Budget Presentation.
- 16. PRESENTATION submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, dated 3/19/2025, regarding the Cincinnati Fire Department’s (CFD) Budget Presentation.
- 17. PRESENTATION submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, dated 3/24/2025, regarding the Department of Human Resources (HR) Budget Presentation.
- 18. PRESENTATION submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, dated 3/24/2025, regarding the Citizen Complaint Authority’s (CCA) Budget Presentation.
- 19. PRESENTATION submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, dated 3/24/2025, regarding the Enterprise Technology Solutions (ETS) Budget Presentation.
- 20. PRESENTATION submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, dated 3/24/2025, regarding the Cincinnati Health Department’s (CHD) Budget Presentation.
- 51 ADJOURNMENT
- 52 NEW BUSINESS
- 21. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 3/24/2025, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a Funding Agreement with OTR Holdings, Inc., an affiliate of 3CDC, providing for a grant from the City to fund the acquisition of real property located at 1506 and 1518 Vine Street in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati; AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of the sum of $1,500,000 from the unappropriated surplus of the Downtown/OTR West Equivalent Fund 482 (Downtown/OTR West TIF District) to the Department of Community and Economic Development non-personnel operating budget account no. 482x164x7200 to provide resources for the acquisition of real property located at 1506 and 1518 Vine Street in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati; and further DECLARING expenditures from such project account related to the acquisition of real property located at 1506 and 1518 Vine Street in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, to be a public purpose and constitute a “Public Infrastructure Improvement” (as defined by Ohio Revised Code Section 5709.40(A)(8)) the will benefit and/or serve the District 3-Downtown/OTR West District Incentive District, subject to compliance with the Ohio Revised Code Sections 5709.40 through 5709.43.