Budget, Finance & Governance Committee

Council Chambers, Room 300

Agenda — 21 items

1. 1 AGENDA
2. 1 ROLL CALL
3. 3 MOTIONS
4. 1. MOTION, submitted by Councilmember Walsh, WE MOVE that the $1,782,421 returned to the City of Cincinnati from the Hamilton County Auditor from the Real Estate Assessment Fund be directed to the Capital Project Reserve. WE FURTHER MOVE that the attached policy go in place with the allocation of the fund. (STATEMENT ATTACHED) 202402426 Indefinitely Postponed
5. 2. MOTION, submitted by Councilmembers Albi, Parks, Owens and Vice Mayor Kearney, WE MOVE that the administration to provide a report within sixty (60) days on the current availability and quality of lactation rooms in City-owned or City-maintained properties. (BALANCE ON FILE IN THE CLERK’S OFFICE) (STATEMENT ATTACHED) 202402435 Adopt
6. 7 GRANTS AND DONATIONS
7. 3. ORDINANCE submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 11/20/2024, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant of up to $199,691.96 from the National Association of County and City Health Officials Adaptation of Project Firstline Tools and Resources program to develop tools and resources related to infection prevention and control activities and to promote them to community healthcare facility partners; and AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the grant funds into Public Health Research Fund revenue account no. 350x8571. 202402390 Recommend Passage
8. 4. ORDINANCE submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 11/20/2024, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant of up to $25,569 from the Cincinnati Police Department Community Preventive Education Grant Program to operate the Cincinnati Recreation Commission’s Queen City Safety While Integrating Skills and Hoops (SWISH) Program; and AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the grant funds into Fund 319, “Contributions for Recreation Purposes,” revenue account no. 319x8571. 202402395 Recommend Passage
9. 5. ORDINANCE submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 11/20/2024, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant of up to $10,000 from the FC Cincinnati Foundation to support the City’s Rec@Nite program at the Lincoln Recreation Center in the West End neighborhood; and AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the grant funds into Fund 319, “Contributions for Recreation Purposes,” revenue account no. 319x8571. 202402397 Recommend Passage
10. 6. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 11/20/2024, AMENDING Ordinance No. 31-2023, which authorized the City Manager to accept and appropriate a grant of up to $6,000,000 from the Congestion Mitigation/Air Quality program awarded through the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI) (ALN 20.205) to provide resources to upgrade and install a fiber optic Coordinated Traffic Control System in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, to increase the grant resource value to up to $6,600,000. 202402398 Recommend Passage Emergency
11. 7. ORDINANCE submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 11/20/2024, ESTABLISHING new capital improvement program project account no. 980x199x251924, “Hartwell Field - FCC Donation,” to provide resources for the installation of a turf field at the Hartwell Recreation Complex; AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept and appropriate a donation of $30,000 from FC Cincinnati into newly established capital improvement program project account no. 980x199x251924, “Hartwell Field - FCC Donation,” to provide resources for the installation of a turf field at the Hartwell Recreation Complex; and AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit $30,000 from FC Cincinnati into capital improvement program project account no. 980x199x251924, “Hartwell Field - FCC Donation.” 202402396 Recommend Passage
12. 14 LEASE AGREEMENT
13. 8. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 11/20/2024, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a Lease Agreement with 39th Parallel Leasing, LLC., pursuant to which the City will enter into a new lease for the use and occupancy of Lunken Airport Lease Areas 11, 28, and 29 for up to twenty years. 202402392 Recommend Passage Emergency
14. 17 COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT AREA AGREEMENTS
15. 9. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 12/2/2024, APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a First Amendment to Community Reinvestment Area Tax Exemption Agreement (LEED or Living Building Challenge) with Jobs Cafe, LLC, an affiliate of The Model Group, thereby authorizing a ten-year extension to an existing tax exemption for 100 percent of the value of improvements made to real property located at 1731, 1807-1809, 1811-1817, and 1819 Elm Street, 1834 Race Street, and 30-34 Findlay Street in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati. 202402454 Recommend Passage Emergency
16. 10. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 12/2/2024, APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a First Amendment to Community Reinvestment Area Tax Exemption Agreement (LEED or Living Building Challenge) with Broadway Square II, LLC, an affiliate of The Model Group, thereby authorizing a ten-year extension to an existing tax exemption for 100 percent of the value of improvements made to real property located at 1126, 1201-1203, 1211, and 1218 Broadway, 412 E. 12th Street, and 331 E. 13th Street in the Pendleton neighborhood of Cincinnati. 202402455 Recommend Passage Emergency
17. 11. ORDINANCE submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 12/2/2024, APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a First Amendment to Community Reinvestment Area Tax Exemption Agreement (LEED or Living Building Challenge) with Paramount Square, LLC, an affiliate of The Model Group, and the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority, thereby authorizing a ten-year extension to an existing tax exemption for 100 percent of the value of improvements made to real property located at 900 E. McMillan Street in the Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati. 202402458 Recommend Passage
18. 12. ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 12/2/2024, APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a First Amendment to Community Reinvestment Area LEED Tax Exemption Agreement with Market Square I, LLC and 1826 Race Street, LLC, affiliates of The Model Group, thereby authorizing a ten-year extension to an existing tax exemption for 100 percent of the value of improvements made to real property at 24 W. Elder Street, 1804-1814 Race Street, 1818 Race Street, and adjoining properties in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati. 202402459 Recommend Passage Emergency
19. 23 REPORT
20. 13. REPORT, dated 11/20/2024, submitted Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, regarding road closure policy update. (See Ref. Doc. 202401922) 202402399 Filed
21. 26 ADJOURNMENT