Budget, Finance & Governance Committee

Council Chambers, Room 300

Agenda — 25 items

1. 1 REVISED
2. 1 ROLL CALL
3. 3 PRESENTATIONS
4. 4 Greater Cincinnati Sports Commission
5. 5 Julie Calvert, President & CEO, VisitCincy
6. 6 Matt Jones, Vice President, Cincinnati Business Committee & Cincinnati Regional Business Committee
7. 8 AGENDA
8. 10 PRESENTATIONS
9. 1. PRESENTATION submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, dated 1/27/2025, regarding the Cincinnati Regional Sports Commission. 202500160 Filed
10. 13 MOTIONS
11. 2. MOTION, submitted by Vice Mayor Kearney, WE MOVE that the Administration provide a report within two (2) weeks reviewing the plan by Pig Works to acquire and renovate 792 E. McMillan in Walnut Hills for use as its headquarters with $340,000 in funding from the Capital Project Fund. This report should include a brief summary of the project, past requests and funding of the project by the City of Cincinnati, any pertinent information from the Administration on the project, and a final recommendation by the Administration as to whether to fund the project. (STATEMENT ATTACHED) 202500136 Held
12. 3. MOTION, submitted by Vice Mayor Kearney, WE MOVE that the Administration provide a report within two (2) weeks reviewing the plan by the Winton Hills Community Council to acquire and renovate the Mother of Christ Church, located at 5301 Winneste Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45232 in Winton Hills, for use as a community hub and resource center with $250,000 in funding from the Capital Project Fund. This report should include a brief summary of the project, past requests and funding of the project by the City of Cincinnati, any pertinent information from the Administration on the project, and a final recommendation by the Administration as to whether to fund the project. (STATEMENT ATTACHED) 202500137 Held
13. 4. MOTION, submitted by Councilmember Owens, WE MOVE that the Administration provide a report within two (2) weeks review the American Sign Museum’s Solar Conversion Project for possible usage from the Capital Project Fund. This report should include a brief summary of the project, past asks for funding and administrative support of the project by the City of Cincinnati, any additional information the city administration deems pertinent to the project, and a final recommendation by the administration as to whether or not fund the project. (STATEMENT ATTACHED) 202500138 Held
14. 5. MOTION (AMENDED), submitted by Councilmember Albi, Vice Mayor Kearney, and Councilmembers Owens and Nolan, WE MOVE that the FY26 Human Services Impact Award be spent on food insecurity as part of the broader gun violence prevention bucket. *This Impact Award would be used specifically for a grocery delivery pilot program. (BALANCE ON FILE IN THE CLERK’S OFFICE). 202500146 Adopt
15. 6. MOTION, submitted by Councilmembers Owens, Jeffreys, Albi, Nolan and Cramerding, WE MOVE that the Administration prepare an updated Human Services Fund ordinance with the following revisions. FURTHER WE MOVE that Council have the ability to declare, define, and identify the focus area for the FY26 Impact Award. (BALANCE ON FILE IN THE CLERK’S OFFICE) 202500147 Adopt
16. 20 MUNICIPAL CODE CHANGES
17. 7. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 1/23/2025, MODIFYING Chapter 402, “Airport,” by AMENDING Section 402-24, “Lunken Airport Use Fees,” to authorize the City Manager to establish fees for the landing, parking, and mooring of aircraft, for special events, and other uses including the United States Customs and Border Protection facility at Lunken Airport. 202500052 Held
18. 23 DONATIONS
19. 8. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 1/23/2025, AUTHORIZING the redirection of a donation from the Joseph Family of $5,000 from existing capital improvement program project account no. 980x255x182513, “Replacement Facilities - Police District 5,” to the unappropriated surplus of Public Safety Special Projects Fund 456 to be used to support the Cincinnati Police Department’s Community Relations Squad. 202500109 Recommend Passage Emergency
20. 9. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 1/27/2025, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept in-kind donations from the Sundance Film Festival and Film Cincinnati for the Mayor, the City Manager, and one City Manager’s Office employee to attend the four-day 2025 Sundance Film Festival beginning on January 23, 2025, in Park City, Utah. 202500156 Recommend Passage Emergency
21. 27 TRANSFERS AND APPROPRIATIONS
22. 10. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 1/23/2025, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a Funding Agreement with Corryville Community Development Corporation, providing for a grant from the City to fund streetscape and other public infrastructure improvements to public rights-of-way including William H. Taft Road, Auburn Avenue, and McMillan Street in the Corryville neighborhood of Cincinnati; AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of the sum of $1,106,558 from the unappropriated surplus of Corryville Equivalent Fund 488 (Corryville TIF District) to the Department of Community and Economic Development non-personnel operating budget account no. 488x164x7200 to provide resources for streetscape improvements and other public infrastructure improvements along to rights-of-way including William H. Taft Road, Auburn Avenue, and McMillan Street in the Corryville neighborhood of Cincinnati; AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of the sum of $110,000 from the unappropriated surplus of Corryville Equivalent Fund 488 (Corryville TIF District) to the Department of Community and Economic Development personnel operating budget account no. 488x164x7100 to provide staffing resources in support of the streetscape improvements and other public infrastructure improvements to public rights-of-way including William H. Taft Road, Auburn Avenue, and McMillan Street in the Corryville neighborhood of Cincinnati; and further DECLARING expenditures from such accounts related to the streetscape and other public infrastructure improvements to public rights-of-way including William H. Taft Road, Auburn Avenue, and McMillan Street in the Corryville neighborhood of Cincinnati, to be a public purpose and constitute a “Public Infrastructure Improvement” (as defined in Ohio Revised Code Section 5709.40(A)(8)) that will benefit and/or serve the District 9-Corryville District Incentive District, subject to compliance with Ohio Revised Code Sections 5709.40 through 5709.43. (Subject to the Temporary Prohibition List <https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/law/ethics/city-business>). 202500111 Recommend Passage Emergency
23. 30 DISBURSEMENTS
24. 11. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 1/27/2025, AUTHORIZING the disbursement of $250,000 of Major Events Funding included in the Approved FY 2025 General Fund Operating Budget Update for the Cincinnati Regional Sports Commission, incorrectly identified as the Greater Cincinnati Sports Commission in the Approved FY 2025 General Fund Operating Budget Update. 202500153 Recommend Passage Emergency
25. 33 ADJOURNMENT