Meeting Name: Budget and Finance Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 12/11/2023 1:00 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Council Chambers, Room 300
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202302760 11.Legislative ResolutionRESOLUTION (LEGISLATIVE) (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 12/6/2023, Adopting the Calendar Year Budget for Current Operating Expenses of the City of Cincinnati for the calendar year 2025 and submitting the same to the County Auditor.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202302814 12.PresentationPRESENTATION submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, dated 12/11/2023, regarding Presentation - 2025 Tentative Tax Budget.Filed  Action details Not available
202302770 13.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 12/6/2023, ESTABLISHING department number 016, “Councilmember Anna Albi,” to establish an office budget for Councilmember Anna Albi; AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of $65,628 from Councilmember Liz Keating’s General Fund personnel services operating budget account no. 050x012x7100 to Councilmember Anna Albi’s General Fund personnel services operating budget account no. 050x016x7100 to provide personnel resources to the office budget for incoming Councilmember Anna Albi; and further AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of $1,257 from Councilmember Liz Keating’s General Fund contractual services account no. 050x012x7200 to Councilmember Anna Albi’s General Fund contractual services account no. 050x016x7200 to provide non-personnel resources to the office budget for incoming Councilmember Anna Albi.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202302774 14.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 12/6/2023, AUTHORIZING the transfer and return to source of $400,000 from existing capital improvement program project account no. 980x104x231029, “Green Cincinnati Sustainability Initiatives - GF,” to source Fund No. 050, “General Fund,” to realign sources with uses; and AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of $400,000 from the unappropriated surplus of Fund No. 050, “General Fund,” to Office of Environment and Sustainability General Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 050x104x7200 to provide resources for a City fleet electrification plan.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202302779 15.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 12/6/2023, AUTHORIZING a payment of $63,916.59 to EMS Brüel & Kjær Inc., dba Envirosuite Inc., from General Aviation Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 104x234x1000x7289 as a moral obligation for services provided to the City at the Lunken Municipal Airport.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202302782 16.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 12/6/2023, ESTABLISHING new capital improvement program project account no. 980x164x241617, “EV Charging Infrastructure - OKI Grant,” to provide grant resources to install electric vehicle charging infrastructure in off-street parking facilities located in Over-the-Rhine (“OTR”) and the Central Business District (“CBD”); AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept and appropriate grant resources of up to $558,751 from Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (“OKI”) via federal Carbon Reduction Program funding (ALN 20.205) to newly established capital improvement program project account no. 980x164x241617, “EV Charging Infrastructure - OKI Grant”; AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the grant resources into capital improvement program project account no. 980x164x241617, “EV Charging Infrastructure - OKI Grant”; ESTABLISHING new capital improvement program project account no. 980x164x241618, “EV Charging Infrastructure - 3CDC Contribution,” to provide the local match resources and contributions tRecommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202302769 17.OrdinanceORDINANCE submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 12/6/2023, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant of up to $100,000 from the Cincinnati Dental Society’s Oral Health Foundation to provide resources for dental equipment and office equipment for the new dental center at the Roberts Academy School-Based Dental Center; and AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the grant funds into Public Health Research Fund revenue account no. 350x8571.Recommend Passage  Action details Not available
202302772 18.OrdinanceORDINANCE submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 12/6/2023, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept and appropriate a grant of up to $500,000 from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Brownfields Community-Wide Assessment Grant (ALN 66.818) through the EPA Brownfields Assessment Grant Program; and AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the grant resources into Environment and Sustainability Fund 436, revenue account no. 436x8543.Recommend Passage  Action details Not available
202302773 19.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 12/6/2023, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant of up to $4,500 from the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, Ohio School Safety Grant Program, School-Response Training Grant, for eligible costs incurred by the Cincinnati Police Department in providing its employees with School-Response Training for Members of Ohio Law Enforcement Tactical Teams; and AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the grant funds into General Fund revenue account no. 050x8533.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202302819 110.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY), submitted by Emily Smart Woerner, City Solicitor, dated December 13, 2023, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept an in-kind donation of event space valued at $2,750 from the Cincinnati Arts Association for the purpose of holding the 2024 City Council Inaugural Session at Music Hall on January 2, 2024.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202302775 111.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 12/6/2023, MODIFYING Chapters 517, “Commercial and Heavy Vehicles,” 721, “Streets and Sidewalks, Establishment and Maintenance,” and 723, “Streets and Sidewalks, Use Regulations,” by AMENDING Sections 517-37, “Excess Load; Moving Permit,” 721-75, “Sidewalk Repair Permit Fees,” 721-87, “Bond and License Fee of Street Contractor,” and 723-89, “Permits for Barricading Public Rights-of-Way,” and REPEALING Sections 723-91, “Sidewalk Barricade Permit Fees,” 723-93, “Roadway Barricade Permit Fees,” and 723-95, “Other Barricade Permit Fees,” to authorize the City Manager to establish fees for recovering costs and expenses associated with permits and licenses issued for work in the public right-of-way.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202302780 112.ReportREPORT, dated 12/6/2023, submitted Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, regarding Finance and Budget Monitoring Report for the Period Ending September 30, 2023.Approve & File  Action details Not available
202302795 113.MotionMOTION, submitted by Councilmembers Keating and Owens, WE MOVE that the Administration supplement its process for granting easements to third parties. This supplement should include (but not limited to): detailed guidelines for community engagement and communication for easements authorizing large-scale construction or earth movement with the potential to impact neighbors, and restoration and replacement of removal of trees and vegetation. (STATEMENT ATTACHED)Adopt  Action details Not available
202302755 114.MotionMOTION (AMENDED), submitted by Vice Mayor Kearney and Councilmembers Johnson, Walsh, Parks and Jeffreys, WE MOVE that the following allocations from the Operating Contingencies Fund be made as indicated by the chart below: Bethany House- Emergency Shelter Operations $75,000, CincySmiles Foundation- Workforce Development $60,000, Invest in Neighborhoods- Operating Needs $25,000 and Neighborhood Historic Preservation Program $40,000, Total $200,000.Adopted as AmendedPass Action details Not available