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Budget, Finance & Governance Committee

March 17, 2025 ·1:00 PM Final

Council Chambers, Room 300

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Agenda — 31 items

  1. 1 PRESENTATIONS
  2. 1 ROLL CALL
  3. 2 CITY MANAGER’S STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
  4. 3 Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager
  5. 4 PERFORMANCE BASED BUDGETING AND QUALITY OF LIFE AND BUDGET PRIORITIES SURVEY
  6. 5 Eric Jamison, Director, Office of Performance and Data Analytics
  7. 6 CINCY ON TRACK UPDATE
  8. 7 Dr. Andrew Dudas, Budget Director
  9. 9 DEPARTMENT BUDGET PRESENTATIONS
  10. 10 EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
  11. 11 Bill Vedra, Director
  12. 13 AGENDA
  13. 15 MOTIONS
  14. 1. MOTION (AMENDED), submitted by Councilmembers Jeffreys and Cramerding, WE MOVE that the Cincinnati Parks Department work with Great Parks of Hamilton County to evaluate: The Futures Commission’s recommendation to have Great Parks manage Mt. Airy Forest and French Park, any associated costs to Great Parks, as well as any cost savings to Cincinnati Parks. (BALANCE ON FILE IN THE CLERK’S OFFICE) (STATEMENT ATTACHED). 202500471 Adopt Pass
  15. 2. MOTION, submitted by Councilmembers Jeffreys and Cramerding, WE MOVE that within 90 days, the Cincinnati Parks Department and Cincinnati Recreation Commission (CRC) evaluate the Futures Commission’s proposal for transferring the management of the 954 acres of greenspace currently under CRC to Cincinnati Parks, including any implications for staffing, equipment, potential cost savings, and the ability of CRC to focus on managing recreation centers and continue to deliver best-in-class programming. (STATEMENT ATTACHED). 202500472 Adopt
  16. 19 REPORT
  17. 3. REPORT, dated 3/12/2025, submitted Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, regarding current availability and quality of lactation rooms in City properties. (Reference Document # 202402435) 202500476 Filed
  18. 22 GRANTS
  19. 4. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 3/12/2025, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept and appropriate a U.S. Department of Energy Resilient and Efficient Codes Implementation grant (ALN 81.117) of up to $100,000 from the University of Cincinnati to Environment and Sustainability Fund 436 to research and develop building performance standards; and AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the grant funds into Environment and Sustainability Fund revenue account no. 436x8543, Office of Environment and Sustainability project account no. 25DOERECI, “FY 2025 DOE Resilient and Efficient Codes Implementation.” 202500461 Recommend Passage Emergency
  20. 5. ORDINANCE submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 3/12/2025, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant of up to $15,881 from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Mosquito Control Grant Program to investigate the prevalence of mosquito vectors and the incidence of infection in the mosquito populations, to identify density locations for mosquito vector species, and to educate communities in the immediate area on how to reduce the mosquito populations; and AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the grant funds into Public Health Research Fund revenue account no. 350x8536. 202500462 Recommend Passage
  21. 26 BOND ORDINANCES
  22. 6. 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. 202500473 Held
  23. 7. 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. 202500474 Held
  24. 30 PRESENTATIONS
  25. 8. PRESENTATION, submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, dated 3/10/2025, regarding the Cincy On Track Update. 202500463 Held
  26. 9. PRESENTATION submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, dated 3/17/2025, regarding the Performance Based Budgeting and Quality of Life and Budget Priorities Survey. 202500494 Filed
  27. 10. PRESENTATION submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, dated 3/17/2025, regarding the City Manager’s Strategic Priorities. 202500519 Filed
  28. 11. PRESENTATION submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, dated 3/17/2025, regarding the Emergency Communication Center (ECC) Department Budget Presentation. 202500520 Filed
  29. 37 ADJOURNMENT
  30. 12. 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. 202500529 Held
  31. 13. 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. 202500530 Held