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Meeting Name: Budget, Finance & Governance Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 2/9/2026 1:00 PM Minutes status: Draft  
Meeting location: Council Chambers, Room 300
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202600254 11.MotionMOTION, submitted by Vice Mayor Kearney, WE MOVE that City Council support the $87 million Burnet Square project that includes approximately 300 mixed -income residential units as well as retail units, by committing to working with the administration to find the needed resources left by the unexpected gap in the capital stack. (STATEMENT ATTACHED)   Not available Not available
202600243 12.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Councilmember Owens, from Emily Smart Woerner, City Solicitor, ADOPTING a Council Code of Conduct pursuant to Section 101-45, “Code of Conduct,” of the Cincinnati Municipal Code to govern conduct by Councilmembers and their staff.   Not available Not available
202600237 13.OrdinanceORDINANCE submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 2/4/2026, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant of up to $15,000 from the Ohio Association of Community Health Centers to support City of Cincinnati Primary Care’s participation in the Tobacco Cessation Project, implementing a multi-faceted strategy focused on preventing tobacco initiation, enhancing evidence-based screening protocols, and increasing patient engagement in cessation treatments; and AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the grant resources into Public Health Research Fund revenue account no. 350x8571.   Not available Not available
202600238 14.OrdinanceORDINANCE submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 2/4/2026, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant of up to $112,790 from the FY 2025 Ohio Drug Law Enforcement Fund through the Ohio Department of Public Safety, Office of Criminal Justice Services, to provide resources for personnel costs related to investigations conducted pursuant to Title III of the Federal Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968; and AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the grant funds into Law Enforcement Grant Fund 368, project account no. 26ODLE.   Not available Not available
202600240 15.Legislative ResolutionRESOLUTION (LEGISLATIVE) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 2/4/2026, DECLARING the necessity of assessing for the control of blight and disease of shade trees within the public right-of-way, and for planning, care, maintenance, trimming, and removing shade trees in and along the streets of the City of Cincinnati Urban Forestry Maintenance District for Calendar year 2027.   Not available Not available
202600239 16.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 2/4/2026, AMENDING Ordinance Nos. 411-2002, 412-2002, 413-2002, 414-2002, 415-2002, 416-2002, 417-2002, 418-2002, 419-2002, 420,2002, 421-2002, 408,2005, 409-2005, 410-2005, 411-2005, 412-2005, 413-2005, 414-2005, 415-2005, and 416-2005, each as may have been amended previously, to extend the term of the City’s tax increment financing districts (the “TIF Districts”) for an additional fifteen years pursuant to Ohio Revised Code Section 5709.40 (L).   Not available Not available
202600210 17.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY), submitted by Mayor Aftab Pureval, from Emily Smart Woerner, City Solicitor, AUTHORIZING the transfer of $200,000 from General Fund balance sheet reserve account no. 050x2581, “Reserve for Special Events Support,” to the unappropriated surplus of General Fund 050; AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of $200,000 from the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund to City Manager’s Office General Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 050x101x7400 to provide one-time special events support of $100,000 each for the Black Family Reunion and the Abercrumbie Group; AUTHORIZING the transfer of $1,006,417 from General Fund balance sheet reserve account no. 050x3440, “Infrastructure and Capital Project Reserve,” to the unappropriated surplus of General Fund 050; and AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of $1,006,417 from the unappropriated surplus of General Fund 050 to capital improvement program project account no. 981x256x262505, “Fleet Replacements” to provide resources for additional replacement fleet vehicles.   Not available Not available