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Meeting Name: Budget and Finance Committee Agenda status: Final-revised
Meeting date/time: 9/2/2025 1:00 PM Minutes status: Draft  
Meeting location: Council Chambers, Room 300
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202501272 11.CommunicationCOMMUNICATION, submitted by Councilmember Owens, regarding the Cincinnati Futures Commission.   Not available Not available
202501616 12.CommunicationCOMMUNICATION, submitted by Mayor Aftab Pureval from The HPSRD Development Team regarding residential opportunities in Cincinnati.   Not available Not available
202501515 13.ReportREPORT, dated 8/6/2025, submitted Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, regarding the Tax Incentive Review Council status of property tax exemptions for Year End 2024.   Not available Not available
202501533 14.OrdinanceORDINANCE submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 8/6/2025, DEDICATING, ACCEPTING, AND CONFIRMING the dedication to public use of an approximately 0.6991-acre tract of real property as a portion of North Bend Road, Colerain Avenue, and Shepherd Road, public rights-of-way in the Mt. Airy neighborhood of Cincinnati.   Not available Not available
202501560 15.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 8/6/2025, AUTHORZING the scheduling of two public hearings to consider approving the Plan of Operation and Governance for the Southeast Ohio Public Energy Council and enabling the City to act jointly with other municipalities, townships, counties, and other political subdivisions to maximize the potential benefits of electricity procurement through group purchasing efforts in a retail electric aggregation program.   Not available Not available
202501612 26.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY), submitted by Vice Mayor Kearney, from Emily Smart Woerner, City Solicitor, AUTHORIZING the transfer of and return to source of $500,000 from various capital or permanent improvement program project accounts to close out or decrease certain existing capital or permanent improvement program project accounts, according to Schedule A of the attached Schedule of Transfer; AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of $250,000 from the unappropriated surplus of Income Tax Permanent Improvement Fund 758 to a certain capital improvement program project account to provide resources for a certain capital improvement program project account, according to Schedule B of the attached Schedule of Transfer; AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of $250,000 from the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund to General Fund Department of Community and Economic Development non-personnel operating budget account no. 050x164x7400 to provide resources for the Grow Avondale Businesses Initiative public-private partnership to support Avondale Town Center; and DECLARING expenditu   Not available Not available
202501594 17.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY), submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 9/2/2025, ESTABLISHING new capital improvement program project account no. 980x232x262317, “HAM Cincinnati Crossings Grant PID 121898,” to provide resources for safety improvements at the following seven locations: the Calhoun St. and Clifton Ave. intersection; the crossing on Calhoun St. at address 265; the Calhoun St. and Ohio Ave. intersection; the McMillan St. and Wheeler St. intersection; the McMillan St. and Moerlein Ave. intersection; the McMillan St. and Scioto Ln. intersection; and the Madison Rd. and Anderson Pl. intersection; AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate an Ohio Department of Transportation (“ODOT”) Highway Safety Improvement Program (“HSIP”) grant of up to $1,552,500 to the newly established capital improvement program project account no. 980x232x262317, “HAM Cincinnati Crossings Grant PID 121898”; AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the grant resources into capital improvement program project account no. 980x232x262317, “HAM Cincinnati Crossings Grant    Not available Not available
202501595 18.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY), submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 9/2/2025, ESTABLISHING new capital improvement program project account no. 980x232x262319, “Reading and Summit Safety Grant PID 119753,” to make improvements and enhance pedestrian safety at the intersection of Reading Road and Summit Road in the Roselawn neighborhood (the “PID 119753 project); AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept and appropriate a Highway Safety Improvement Program Systemic Safety grant awarded by the Ohio Department of Transportation (“ODOT”) of up to $1,080,000 to newly established capital improvement program project account no. 980x232x262319, “Reading and Summit Safety Grant PID 119753”; AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the grant resources into new capital improvement program project account no. 980x232x262319, “Reading and Summit Safety Grant PID 119753”; and AUTHORIZING the City Manager to do all things necessary to cooperate with the Director of ODOT to complete the PID 119753 project.   Not available Not available
202501603 19.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY), submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 9/2/2025, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency, FY 2025 Port Security Grant Program (ALN 97.056) of up to $102,500, consisting of $35,000 to support the Cincinnati Police Department’s Port of Cincinnati Ohio River Surveillance Camera Network, and up to $67,500 to support the Cincinnati Fire Department’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robot for marine vessels; and AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the grant funds for the Police Department into Law Enforcement Grant Fund revenue account no. 368x8553, project account no. 25PORT, and the grant funds for the Fire Department into Fire Grant Fund revenue account no. 472x8542.   Not available Not available
202501602 110.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY), submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 9/2/2025, AUTHORIZING the payment of $396,325.78 from the Cincinnati Police Department General Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 050x226x3500x7299 as a moral obligation to Hamilton County for outstanding charges related to the processing of warrants in FY 2025.   Not available Not available
202501599 111.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Sheryl M. M. Long, City Manager, on 9/2/2025, AUTHORIZING a payment of $17,350 from County Law Enforcement Applied Regionally (CLEAR) Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 457x093x7100x7417 to the Ohio State Highway Patrol for access to the Law Enforcement Automated Data System (LEADS) statewide criminal records database for over fifty Hamilton County law enforcement agencies and sub-agencies for the period of June 1, 2021, through June 30, 2021, pursuant to the attached then and now certificate from the Director of Finance.   Not available Not available
202501614 112.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY), submitted by Mayor Aftab Pureval, Vice Mayor Kearney, President Pro Tem Parks and Councilmembers Albi, Cramerding, Jeffreys, Johnson, Nolan, Owens and Walsh from Emily Smart Woerner, City Solicitor, REPEALING Ordinance No. 97-2025, passed by Council on April 23, 2025, which amended the official zoning map of the City of Cincinnati to rezone the real property located at 2719 Erie Avenue in the Hyde Park neighborhood from the CN-P-B, “Commercial Neighborhood Pedestrian- Neighborhood Business District,” zoning district to Planned Development District No. 103.   Not available Not available
202501624 113.MotionMOTION, submitted by Councilmembers Cramerding, Walsh, Owens and Jeffreys, WE MOVE that the $2 million allocated to public safety in Motion #202501522 and an additional $2.63 million from the General Fund Contingency Account be used for the following items: Police, Public Visibility Overtime for CPD*, $1,500,000.00 Police PIVOT Specialized Training $30,000.00 Police CPD Recruitment Efforts $90,000.00 Police Bond and Sentencing Project $250,000.00 Outreach 3CDC Expanded Ambassador Program $880,000.00 Outreach Curfew Center - Lighthouse $195,000.00 Outreach Curfew Center - Seven Hills $185,000.00 Technology DOTE/CPD Streetlighting and Cameras $500,000.00 Technology License Plate Readers $360,000.00 Technology CPD West End Camera Expansion $150,000.00 Technology Findlay Market Safety Improvements $150,000.00 Technology CGIC/PIVOT Drones $40,000.00 Technology Drone Expansion $100,000.00 Technology Fusus Expansion $100,000.00 Technology Mobile Safety Camera Trailers $100,000.00 Total $4,630,000.00 (BALANCE ON FILE IN CLERK’S OFFICE)   Not available Not available