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Meeting Name: Budget, Finance & Governance Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 2/4/2015 Minutes status: Final  
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201500088 1 OrdinanceORDINANCE submitted by Harry Black, City Manager, on 1/22/2015, approving and authorizing the City Manager to execute a Community Revitalization Area Tax Exemption Agreement with Avondale Community Council, Inc., thereby authorizing a 12-year tax exemption for 100% of the value of the improvements made to real property located at 3635 Reading Road in Cincinnati in connection with the remodeling of the building located on such real property into a community headquarters and meeting space for itself and Avondale Youth Council, a leasable, shared-use commercial grade kitchen, and leasable office space, which remodeling shall be completed at a total construction cost of approximately $840,000.00 and a total project cost of approximately $952,371.00.Passed  Action details Not available
201500091 1 MotionMOTION, dated 1/14/2015 submitted by Councilmembers Simpson, Seelbach, Flynn, Sittenfeld, Smitherman and Murray, WE MOVE that the Administration prepare a report outlining the feasibility, process and cost associated with creating an escalation system for the City's Public Services Customer Service Request System. (STATEMENT ATTACHED)Adopt  Action details Not available
201500105 1 ResolutionRESOLUTION submitted by Harry Black, City Manager, on 1/28/2015, supporting the application of the Community Builders, Inc for Low Income Housing Tax Credits from the Ohio Housing Finance Agency to help finance the Avondale Town Center North new construction project located in the neighborhood of Avondale.Passed  Action details Not available
201500106 1 ResolutionRESOLUTION submitted by Harry Black, City Manager, on 1/28/2015, supporting the application of Bond Hill Senior Housing Limited Partnership for Low Income Housing Tax Credits from the Ohio Housing Finance Agency to help finance the Bond Hill Senior housing new construction project located in the neighborhood of Bond Hill.Passed  Action details Not available
201500107 1 ResolutionRESOLUTION submitted by Harry Black, City Manager, on 1/28/2015, supporting the application of Cincinnati Union Bethel and the Model Group, Inc. for Low Income Housing Tax Credits from the Ohio Housing Finance Agency to help finance the Cincinnati Scholar House new construction housing project located in the neighborhood of Evanston or Bond Hill.Passed  Action details Not available
201500110 1 ResolutionRESOLUTION submitted by Harry Black, City Manager, on 1/28/2015, supporting the application of Episcopal Retirement Homes Affordable Living, Inc. for Low Income Housing Tax Credits from the Ohio Housing Finance Agency to help finance the Marlowe Court senior housing new construction project located in the neighborhood of College Hill.Passed  Action details Not available
201500111 1 ResolutionRESOLUTION submitted by Harry Black, City Manager, on 1/28/2015, supporting the application of Morgan Apartments LLC for Low Income Housing Tax Credits from the Ohio Housing Finance Agency to help finance the Morgan Apartments housing rehabilitation project located in the neighborhood of Over-the-Rhine.Passed  Action details Not available
201500113 1 ResolutionRESOLUTION submitted by Harry Black, City Manager, on 1/28/2015, supporting the application of Residences at Drake LLC for Low Income Housing Tax Credits from the Ohio Housing Finance Agency to help finance the Residences at Drake housing adaptive reuse project located in the neighborhood of Hartwell. (MR. FLYNN IS EXCUSED FROM VOTING ON THIS ITEM)Passed  Action details Not available
201500115 1 ResolutionRESOLUTION submitted by Harry Black, City Manager, on 1/28/2015, supporting the application of Walnut Hills Housing Limited Partnership for Low Income Housing Tax Credits from the Ohio Housing Finance Agency to help finance the Walnut Hills Project Phase 1 housing new construction and rehabilitation project located in the neighborhood of Walnut Hills.Passed  Action details Not available
201500116 1 ResolutionRESOLUTION submitted by Harry Black, City Manager, on 1/28/2015, supporting the application of West Seventh and Race Street LLC for Low Income Housing Tax Credits from the Ohio Housing Finance Agency to help finance the West 7th and Race Street housing adaptive reuse project located in the Central Business District neighborhood.Passed  Action details Not available
201500117 1 ResolutionRESOLUTION submitted by Harry Black, City Manager, on 1/28/2015, supporting the application of Lighthouse Youth Services and the Model Group, Inc. for Low Income Housing Tax Credits from the Ohio Housing Finance Agency to help finance the Lighthouse Permanent Supportive Housing and Shelter adaptive reuse project located in the neighborhood of Walnut Hills.Passed  Action details Not available
201500118 1 OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Harry Black, City Manager, on 1/28/2015, establishing priority order of real property tax exemptions granted for certain parcels at The Banks located within Cincinnati's Central Riverfront District and clarifying property descriptions; REPEALING Ordinance No. 135-2014 and Ordinance No. 357-2014.Passed Emergency  Action details Not available
201500141 1 MotionMOTION, dated 02/02/2015, submitted by Councilmember Winburn, Chairman's Budget Policy Direction Relative to City Administration to Recommend Structurally Balanced 2016-2017 General Fund Operating Budget and Beyond. WE MOVE the City Administration prepare the Fiscal Years 2016-2017 Recommended General Fund Operating Budget that is structurally balanced and allocated resources among the City's General Fund departments reflecting the City Council's priorities and policies to minimally impact City services. In FY 2016 the General Fund is projected to have only a slight shortfall due to passing a structurally balanced budget in the FY 2015 budget. But our work is not done. The following policy guidelines and priorities should steer the Administration as they prepare the 2016-2017 Recommended General Fund Operating Budget. 1. The Fiscal Years 2016-2017 Recommended General Fund Operating Budget should be structurally balanced. 2. Police and Fire should be fully funded at their approved full strength complement. 3. This budget should reflect the pending Federal Consent Decree Findings regarAdopt  Action details Not available
201500137 1 OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Harry Black, City Manager, on 2/2/2015, establishing the classification and salary range schedule for the new employment classification of Director of Economic Inclusion; ESTABLISHING the Department of Economic Inclusion and establishing such department in the City of Cincinnati Administrative Code in new Chapter XXIX, "Department of Economic Inclusion"; and further ABOLISHING the position of Contract Compliance Officer and transferring all duties, in their entirety, currently assigned to the position of Contract Compliance Officer to the newly created Director of Economic Inclusion, including monitoring of the City's prevailing wage responsibilities under federal and state law and further transferring all responsibilities of the Office of Contract Compliance in their entirety to the newly created Department of Economic Inclusion; AMENDING Section 325-5 of the Cincinnati Municipal Code, "Duties of the Office of Contract Compliance"; and REPEALING existing Section 320 of Division 8 of Chapter 307 and enacting new Section 114 of Division 5, Chapter 3Passed Emergency  Action details Not available
201500104 1 OrdinanceORDINANCE submitted by Harry Black, City Manager, on 1/28/2015, approving and authorizing the execution of a Job Creation Tax Credit Agreement with Global Cloud, Ltd., pursuant to which the company agrees to create 20 new jobs at 30 W. Third Street in Cincinnati and, for a period of six years, the City agrees to provide an income tax credit equal to 40% of City income tax revenue from such new jobs.Passed  Action details Not available
201500074 1 OrdinanceORDINANCE submitted by Harry Black, City Manager, on 1/22/2015, authorizing the City Manager to execute an Amendment to Agreement of Lease with The Cincinnati Country Club, an Ohio non-profit corporation, pertaining to the lessee's lease of a portion of the Bedford Avenue public right-of-way which the lessee uses as part of its adjoining golf course, for purposes of granting the lessee the option to extend the Lease for three additional 5-year renewal periods, through August 31, 2039, during which periods the leased premises will not be needed for a municipal purpose.Passed  Action details Not available
201500109 1 ResolutionRESOLUTION submitted by Harry Black, City Manager, on 1/28/2015, supporting the application of Cincinnati Leased Housing Associates II Limited Partnership for Low Income Housing Tax Credits from the Ohio Housing Finance Agency to help finance the Courtyard Apartments housing rehabilitation project located in the neighborhood of Roselawn.Passed  Action details Not available
201401482 1 OrdinanceORDINANCE submitted by Harry Black, City Manager, on 12/17/2014, approving and authorizing the City Manager to execute a Community Reinvestment Area LEED Tax Exemption Agreement with TWG Development, LLC, thereby authorizing a 12-year tax exemption for 100% of the value of the improvements made to real property located at 940 Poplar Street in Cincinnati in connection with the remodeling of an existing building into 65 apartment units for seniors located on such real property, which remodeling shall be completed in compliance with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Silver, Gold or Platinum standards (as defined by the U.S. Green Building Council) at a total remodeling cost of approximately $11,950,000.Passed  Action details Not available
201401353 1 OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Harry Black, City Manager, on 11/13/2014, authorizing the City Manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant in the amount of up to $95,000 from the State of Ohio, Ohio Department of Public Safety, Office of Criminal Justice Services for the purpose of providing funds for a traffic enforcement program which aims to reduce deaths and injuries resulting from vehicular crashes due to speed, loss of control, operating vehicle under the influence (OVI) instances, commercial vehicle safety, motorcycle, and restraint violations; and further AUTHORIZING the Finance Director to deposit $57,000 of the grant funds into Law Enforcement Grant Fund 368, project account no. 14BLITZ; and further AUTHORIZING the Finance Director to deposit $38,000 of the grant funds into Law Enforcement Grant Fund 368, project account no. 14NONBLITZ.Passed Emergency  Action details Not available