Meeting Name: Cincinnati City Council Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 4/20/2022 2:00 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Council Chambers, Room 300
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202201047 11.AppointmentAPPOINTMENT, submitted by Mayor Aftab Pureval, I hereby appoint Julie Doyle to the Salary History Working Group for a term of two years. This appointment is submitted to City Council for its advice and consent pursuant to its Rules. (Female/White)Held one week pursuant to rule of council  Action details Not available
202201056 12.AppointmentAPPOINTMENT, submitted by Mayor Aftab Pureval, I hereby appoint Amber David to the Community Development Advisory Board for a term of three years. This appointment is submitted to City Council for its advice and consent pursuant to its Rules. (Female/African American)Held one week pursuant to rule of council  Action details Not available
202201030 13.MotionMOTION, submitted by Councilmembers Harris, Landsman and Owens, WE MOVE that, Buildings & Inspections provide a report within sixty (60) days outlining best practices for identifying and registering vacant buildings to the Vacated Building Maintenance License (VBML). This report should also identify if necessary any additional resources needed to adequately inspect and enforce buildings which have already been registered. Buildings & Inspections should take into consideration available data sources for identifying at-risk buildings such as but not limited to: water shut off, foreclosure, postal service, tax delinquency, constituent complaints, and other sources. (STATEMENT ATTACHED)Referred to Equitable Growth & Housing Committee  Action details Not available
202201023 14.MotionMOTION, submitted by Vice Mayor Kearney, WE MOVE that the Department of Transportation and Engineering provide a REPORT on suggestions and costs to provide attention-getting devices such as lights for crosswalks that exist on heavily travelled streets. (STATEMENT ATTACHED).Referred to Healthy Neighborhoods Committee  Action details Not available
202201032 15.MotionMOTION, (AMENDED) submitted by Councilmembers Landsman, Harris, Cramerding, Owens, Johnson, Jeffreys, Parks and Vice Mayor Kearney, WE MOVE that the City administration prepare a Fiscal Year 2023 Recommended General Fund Operating Budget which respects the following policy guidelines and priorities: 1. The Fiscal Year 2023 General Fund Operating Budget must be balanced. While continuing to strive to have a structurally balanced budget, the fiscal impacts of ongoing State cuts to the Local Government Fund, and revenue losses stemming from the pandemic, the use of one-time sources must be used to balance in Fiscal Year 2023.Referred to Budget & Finance Committee  Action details Not available
202200963 16.ReportREPORT, dated 4/20/2022, submitted by John P. Curp, Interim City Manager, regarding Department of Finance Report for the Month Ended February 28, 2022Referred to Budget & Finance Committee  Action details Not available
202200997 17.ReportREPORT, dated 4/20/2022 submitted by John P. Curp, Interim City Manager, on a communication from the State of Ohio, Division of Liquor Control, advising of a permit application for 3100 Vandercar Way Inc, DBA Mi Cozumel, 3100 Vandercar Way. (#88696010005, D5, New) [Objections: None]Filed  Action details Not available
202201016 18.ReportREPORT, dated 4/20/2022, submitted by John P. Curp, Interim City Manager, regarding Special Event Permit Application for Breaking Benjamin at the Brady Music Center.Filed  Action details Not available
202201017 19.ReportREPORT, dated 4/20/2022, submitted by John P. Curp, Interim City Manager, regarding Special Event Permit Application for Girls On The Run 2022 (Spring).Filed  Action details Not available
202201018 110.ReportREPORT, dated 4/20/2022, submitted by John P. Curp, Interim City Manager, regarding Special Event Permit Application for Turtles All The Way Down.Filed  Action details Not available
202201020 111.OrdinanceORDINANCE submitted by John P. Curp, Interim City Manager, on 4/20/2022, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a Property Exchange Agreement with Experimental Holdings, Inc. for the exchange of real property generally located between Walworth Avenue and Columbia Parkway in the Columbia Tusculum neighborhood.Referred to Budget & Finance Committee  Action details Not available
202201021 112.OrdinanceORDINANCE submitted by John P. Curp, Interim City Manager, on 4/20/2022, Authorizing the City manager to execute a Lease Agreement with Mutual Dance Theatre and Arts Centers pursuant to which Mutual Dance Theatre and Arts Centers will lease the College Hill Town Hall located at 1805 Larch Avenue in the College Hill neighborhood for up to 10 years.Referred to Budget & Finance Committee  Action details Not available
202201033 113.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by John P. Curp, Interim City Manager, on 4/20/2022, PROVIDING for the issuance of bonds, or notes in anticipation of such bonds, by the City of Cincinnati, Ohio in the principal amount of not to exceed $10,255,000 for the purpose of financing energy conservation measures.Referred to Budget & Finance Committee  Action details Not available
202201040 114.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by John P. Curp, Interim City Manager, on 4/20/2022, ESTABLISHING new capital improvement program project account no. 980x255x222534, “City Facility Lighting and Solar Improvements,” for the purpose of providing resources to install LED lighting, solar, and roofing improvements at City facilities; AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation the sum of $10,255,000 from the unappropriated surplus of Energy Conservation Bonds Fund 817 to newly established capital improvement program project account no. 980x255x222534, “City Facility Lighting and Solar Improvements”; and AUTHORIZING the City Manager to enter into an agreement with McKinstry Essention, LLC to provide LED lighting, solar, and roofing improvements at City facilities.Referred to Budget & Finance Committee  Action details Not available
202201022 115.StatementSTATEMENT, submitted by the Clerk of Council formally filing a copy of the Financial Disclosure Statement for Meeka D. Owens/Councilmember (ETHICS).Filed  Action details Not available
202201046 116.StatementSTATEMENT, submitted by the Clerk of Council formally filing a copy of the Financial Disclosure Statement for John Phillip Curp/Interim City Manager.Filed  Action details Not available
202200975 117.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by John P. Curp, Interim City Manager, on 4/13/2022, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept in-kind donations of rainbow flags from City Pride, the City of Cincinnati’s LGBTQIA+ Employee Resource Group, and subsequent similar replacement flags, valued at approximately $260 each; and AUTHORIZING the City Manager to fly a rainbow flag from the flagpole at City Hall from June 1 to June 30 each year in recognition of Cincinnati’s celebration of Pride Month and the Pride Month Parade as a symbol of support for the City’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersexual, and asexual employees and the LGBTQIA+ community in Cincinnati and the region.Passed EmergencyPass Action details Not available
202200975 1 OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by John P. Curp, Interim City Manager, on 4/13/2022, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept in-kind donations of rainbow flags from City Pride, the City of Cincinnati’s LGBTQIA+ Employee Resource Group, and subsequent similar replacement flags, valued at approximately $260 each; and AUTHORIZING the City Manager to fly a rainbow flag from the flagpole at City Hall from June 1 to June 30 each year in recognition of Cincinnati’s celebration of Pride Month and the Pride Month Parade as a symbol of support for the City’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersexual, and asexual employees and the LGBTQIA+ community in Cincinnati and the region.Emergency clause to remainPass Action details Not available
202200975 1 OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by John P. Curp, Interim City Manager, on 4/13/2022, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept in-kind donations of rainbow flags from City Pride, the City of Cincinnati’s LGBTQIA+ Employee Resource Group, and subsequent similar replacement flags, valued at approximately $260 each; and AUTHORIZING the City Manager to fly a rainbow flag from the flagpole at City Hall from June 1 to June 30 each year in recognition of Cincinnati’s celebration of Pride Month and the Pride Month Parade as a symbol of support for the City’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersexual, and asexual employees and the LGBTQIA+ community in Cincinnati and the region.Suspension of the three readingsPass Action details Not available
202200977 118.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by John P. Curp, Interim City Manager, on 4/13/2022, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept a donation from the USS Cincinnati Commissioning Foundation of a framed lithograph, signed by the artist Peter K. Hsu, and valued at approximately $95.00, of the original painting of the USS Cincinnati that was presented to the ship in 2019 during its commissioning ceremony.Passed EmergencyPass Action details Not available
202200977 1 OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by John P. Curp, Interim City Manager, on 4/13/2022, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept a donation from the USS Cincinnati Commissioning Foundation of a framed lithograph, signed by the artist Peter K. Hsu, and valued at approximately $95.00, of the original painting of the USS Cincinnati that was presented to the ship in 2019 during its commissioning ceremony.Emergency clause to remainPass Action details Not available
202200977 1 OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by John P. Curp, Interim City Manager, on 4/13/2022, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept a donation from the USS Cincinnati Commissioning Foundation of a framed lithograph, signed by the artist Peter K. Hsu, and valued at approximately $95.00, of the original painting of the USS Cincinnati that was presented to the ship in 2019 during its commissioning ceremony.Suspension of the three readingsPass Action details Not available
202200979 119.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by John P. Curp, Interim City Manager, on 4/13/2022, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept and appropriate a donation totaling $500,000 from the Cincinnati Park Board Commissioners’ Fund for the purpose of providing resources for horticultural supplies, maintenance contracts, salary reimbursements, Krohn Conservatory’s gift shop inventory, and other vital costs associated with running the City’s parks; and AUTHORIZING the Finance Director to deposit the funds into Parks Private Endowment and Donations Fund 430.Passed EmergencyPass Action details Not available
202200979 1 OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by John P. Curp, Interim City Manager, on 4/13/2022, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept and appropriate a donation totaling $500,000 from the Cincinnati Park Board Commissioners’ Fund for the purpose of providing resources for horticultural supplies, maintenance contracts, salary reimbursements, Krohn Conservatory’s gift shop inventory, and other vital costs associated with running the City’s parks; and AUTHORIZING the Finance Director to deposit the funds into Parks Private Endowment and Donations Fund 430.Emergency clause to remainPass Action details Not available
202200979 1 OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by John P. Curp, Interim City Manager, on 4/13/2022, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept and appropriate a donation totaling $500,000 from the Cincinnati Park Board Commissioners’ Fund for the purpose of providing resources for horticultural supplies, maintenance contracts, salary reimbursements, Krohn Conservatory’s gift shop inventory, and other vital costs associated with running the City’s parks; and AUTHORIZING the Finance Director to deposit the funds into Parks Private Endowment and Donations Fund 430.Suspension of the three readingsPass Action details Not available
202200980 120.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY), submitted by Mayor Aftab Pureval, from Andrew W. Garth, City Solicitor, AUTHORIZING the transfer and return to source Local Fiscal Recovery Fund 469 of the sum of $250,000 from American Rescue Plan grant project account no. 469x101xARP050, “FY 2021 COVID Expenses,” for the purpose of realigning sources with actual uses; ESTABLISHING new Local Fiscal Recovery Fund 469 American Rescue Plan grant project account no. 469x101xARP207, “Summer Safety Initiative,” for the purpose of providing funds to the Cincinnati Police Department for Police Visibility Overtime; AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of the sum of $250,000 from the unappropriated surplus of Local Fiscal Recovery Fund 469 to newly established American Rescue Plan grant project account no. 469x101xARP207, “Summer Safety Initiative,” for the purpose of providing funds to the Cincinnati Police Department for Police Visibility Overtime to address an increase in violent crime by strategically deploying overtime to hot spots and event areas in the City; and DECLARING expenditures from American Rescue PPassed EmergencyPass Action details Not available
202200980 1 OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY), submitted by Mayor Aftab Pureval, from Andrew W. Garth, City Solicitor, AUTHORIZING the transfer and return to source Local Fiscal Recovery Fund 469 of the sum of $250,000 from American Rescue Plan grant project account no. 469x101xARP050, “FY 2021 COVID Expenses,” for the purpose of realigning sources with actual uses; ESTABLISHING new Local Fiscal Recovery Fund 469 American Rescue Plan grant project account no. 469x101xARP207, “Summer Safety Initiative,” for the purpose of providing funds to the Cincinnati Police Department for Police Visibility Overtime; AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of the sum of $250,000 from the unappropriated surplus of Local Fiscal Recovery Fund 469 to newly established American Rescue Plan grant project account no. 469x101xARP207, “Summer Safety Initiative,” for the purpose of providing funds to the Cincinnati Police Department for Police Visibility Overtime to address an increase in violent crime by strategically deploying overtime to hot spots and event areas in the City; and DECLARING expenditures from American Rescue PEmergency clause to remainPass Action details Not available
202200980 1 OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY), submitted by Mayor Aftab Pureval, from Andrew W. Garth, City Solicitor, AUTHORIZING the transfer and return to source Local Fiscal Recovery Fund 469 of the sum of $250,000 from American Rescue Plan grant project account no. 469x101xARP050, “FY 2021 COVID Expenses,” for the purpose of realigning sources with actual uses; ESTABLISHING new Local Fiscal Recovery Fund 469 American Rescue Plan grant project account no. 469x101xARP207, “Summer Safety Initiative,” for the purpose of providing funds to the Cincinnati Police Department for Police Visibility Overtime; AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of the sum of $250,000 from the unappropriated surplus of Local Fiscal Recovery Fund 469 to newly established American Rescue Plan grant project account no. 469x101xARP207, “Summer Safety Initiative,” for the purpose of providing funds to the Cincinnati Police Department for Police Visibility Overtime to address an increase in violent crime by strategically deploying overtime to hot spots and event areas in the City; and DECLARING expenditures from American Rescue PSuspension of the three readingsPass Action details Not available
202200981 121.Legislative ResolutionRESOLUTION (LEGISLATIVE) submitted by John P. Curp, Interim City Manager, on 4/13/2022, DECLARING the necessity of assessing properties in Lighting Group 3 that benefit from special street lighting within the City of Cincinnati for the cost of such lighting for the three-year period beginning August 1, 2021.PassedPass Action details Not available
202200981 1 Legislative ResolutionRESOLUTION (LEGISLATIVE) submitted by John P. Curp, Interim City Manager, on 4/13/2022, DECLARING the necessity of assessing properties in Lighting Group 3 that benefit from special street lighting within the City of Cincinnati for the cost of such lighting for the three-year period beginning August 1, 2021.Suspension of the three readingsPass Action details Not available
202200872 122.MotionMOTION, submitted by Councilmember Parks, WE MOVE that the Administration provide a report back to Council within thirty (30) days with recommendations for how the City administration can support and encourage the Civil Service Commission (CSC) to provide Spanish language options for civil service exams along with HR and recruiting communications. The report should identify additional resources that would be required, if any, for the CSC to approve and implement such recommendations.AdoptedPass Action details Not available