File #: 202001387    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed Emergency
File created: 8/31/2020 In control: Cincinnati City Council
On agenda: 9/1/2020 Final action: 9/2/2020
ORD/RES# date: 9/2/2020 ORD/RES#: 0281-2020
Title: ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY), submitted by Councilmember Seelbach, dated August 31, 2020, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to take such actions as are necessary to establish fare-free transit service for the Cincinnati Bell Connector beginning on September 2, 2020, which program shall be consistent with the adopted Fiscal Year 2021 streetcar budget; AUTHORIZING the suspension for sixty days of those sections of the Cincinnati Municipal Code that would otherwise require payment of fares by streetcar rides; and DECLARING Council's intent to introduce additional legislation within sixty days to modify the Cincinnati Municipal Code to allow for an ongoing fare-free service option for the Cincinnati Bell Connector. **(VETOED BY MAYOR JOHN CRANLEY ON 9/1/2020)
Sponsors: Chris Seelbach
Indexes: Vetoed
Attachments: 1. ORDINANCE, 2. TRANSMITTAL, 3. 281-2020, 4. 281-2020 T

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ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY), submitted by Councilmember Seelbach, dated August 31, 2020, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to take such actions as are necessary to establish fare-free transit service for the Cincinnati Bell Connector beginning on September 2, 2020, which program shall be consistent with the adopted Fiscal Year 2021 streetcar budget; AUTHORIZING the suspension for sixty days of those sections of the Cincinnati Municipal Code that would otherwise require payment of fares by streetcar rides; and DECLARING Council’s intent to introduce additional legislation within sixty days to modify the Cincinnati Municipal Code to allow for an ongoing fare-free service option for the Cincinnati Bell Connector. **(VETOED BY MAYOR JOHN CRANLEY ON 9/1/2020)

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VETOED