Meeting Name: Budget and Finance Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 5/24/2021 1:00 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Council Chambers, Room 300
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202101885 11.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 5/19/2021, AUTHORIZING a payment of $10,000 from the Other City Obligations contractual services operating budget account no. 050x959x1000x7289 to Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled, Inc. as a moral obligation of the City for payment of charges owed for the City’s sponsorship of the Over-The-Rhine International Film Festival in 2018 and 2019.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202101889 12.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 5/19/2021, AUTHORIZING the payment of $34,837 from the Audit and Examiner’s Fees non-departmental, non-personnel operating budget account no. 050x941x0000x7289 as a moral obligation to Clark Schaefer Hackett for consulting and preparation assistance with the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the City of Cincinnati.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202101890 13.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 5/19/2021, AUTHORIZING the payment of $11,287.12 from the Health Department’s Cincinnati Health District Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 416x264x7110x7289 as a moral obligation to the Applied Policy Research Institute at Wright State University for the 2020 Community Health Assessment update.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202101886 14.OrdinanceORDINANCE submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 5/19/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept in-kind donations from the Cincinnati Parks Foundation of park supplies, contract services, and pickle ball equipment valued at approximately $2,893.63, to benefit and improve various City parks.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202101887 15.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 5/19/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant in the amount of $175,000 from the United States Conference of Mayors and the Target Corporation, FY21 Police Reform and Racial Justice Grant Program, for the purpose of assisting with expansion of existing Mobile Crisis Response Services for the Cincinnati Police Department; and AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the grant funds into revenue account no. 050x8579.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202101888 16.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 5/19/2021, ESTABLISHING new capital improvement program project account no. 980x199x211917, “ODNR LeBlond Walking Trail Grant,” for the purpose of providing grant resources for the engineering, design, and construction of a 0.25 mile long trail connecting the LeBlond Playground to the St. Rose Soccer Field; and AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant in an amount up to $120,000 from the NatureWorks grant program awarded by the State of Ohio, Ohio Department of Natural Resources to newly established capital improvement program project account no. 980x199x211917, “ODNR LeBlond Walking Trail Grant,” for the purpose of assisting the Cincinnati Recreation Commission with the construction of a walking trail at the LeBlond Recreation Center.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202101893 17.Legislative ResolutionRESOLUTION (LEGISLATIVE) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 5/19/2021, DELCARING the need for emergency repairs that have been made to sidewalks, sidewalk areas, curbs, or gutters at a variety of locations in the City and the need for levying assessments for the cost of such repairs on the abutting properties in accordance with Cincinnati Municipal Code Sections 721-149 through 721-169.Recommend Passage  Action details Not available
202101901 18.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 5/19/2021, APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a Community Reinvestment Area Tax Exemption Agreement with Pendleton Housing Partners, L.P., thereby authorizing a 15-year tax exemption for 100% of the value of improvements made to real property located at 210 E. 13th Street, 402-404 E. 13th Street, 409-415 E. 13th Street (415 E. 13th Street a/k/a 1207 Spring Street), 421 E. 13th Street, 430 E. 12th Street, 511-513 E. 12th Street, 557-563 E. 13th Street (a/k/a 610-612 Reading Road), 1210 Spring Street, 1320 Pendleton Street, 1336-1338 Broadway Street, 1347 Broadway Street, 500-502 E. 12th Street, and 500 E. 13th Street, in the Pendleton neighborhood of Cincinnati, in connection with the remodeling of existing buildings into approximately 81,048 square feet of residential space consisting of 78 residential units, at a total construction cost of approximately $10,000,000.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202101963 19.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 5/19/2021, ESTABLISHING certain policies and conditions regarding the application of residential Community Reinvestment Area real property tax abatements at 2800 Robertson Avenue in the Oakley neighborhood of Cincinnati, notwithstanding Ordinance Nos. 276-2017 and 370-2020.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202101964 110.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 5/19/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a Development Agreement with Oakley Yards Land, LLC, an affiliate of Neyer Properties, Inc., pertaining to the redevelopment of property located at 2800 Robertson Avenue in the Oakley neighborhood of Cincinnati, pursuant to which the City will assign service payments in lieu of taxes received by the City of Cincinnati to the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority to facilitate the mixed-use project.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202101966 111.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 5/19/2021, APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a Community Reinvestment Area Tax Exemption Agreement with Oakley Yards Land, LLC, thereby authorizing a 15-year tax exemption for 90% of the value of improvements made to real property located at 2800 Robertson Avenue in the Oakley neighborhood of Cincinnati, in connection with the construction of 393 apartment units, at a total construction cost of approximately $54,000,000.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202101968 112.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 5/19/2021, APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a Community Reinvestment Area Tax Exemption Agreement with Oakley Yards Land, LLC, thereby authorizing a 15-year tax exemption for 45% of the value of improvements made to real property located at 2800 Robertson Avenue in the Oakley neighborhood of Cincinnati, in connection with the construction of 150 to 200 units of senior housing, at a total construction cost of approximately $35,000,000.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202102028 113.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY), dated 12/21/2021, submitted by Councilmember Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney, from Andrew W. Garth, City Solicitor, AUTHORIZING the transfer of $125,000 from the General Fud balance sheet reserve account no. 050x2580, “Reserve for Weather Related Events, Other Emergency and One-Time Needs,” to the unappropriated surplus of General Fund 050; AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of $125,000 from the unappropriated surplus of General Fund 050 to City Manager’s Office non-personnel operating budget account no. 050x101x7200 for the purpose of providing funds to restore the Black Lives Matter mural on Plum Street between Eight Street and Ninth Street and to install a historical plaque explaining the mural’s background.Recommend Passage EmergencyPass Action details Not available
202102031 114.OrdinanceORDINANCE, (EMERGENCY), dated 02/21/2021, from Andrew Garth, City Solicitor, AUTHORIZING the establishment of American Rescue Plan grant project account no. 469x101xARP053, “Hazard Pay,” for the purpose of providing additional compensation to employees during the COVID-19 pandemic; and AUTHORIZING the appropriation of the sum of $2,800,000 from the unappropriated surplus of Local Fiscal Recovery Fund 469 to newly established American Rescue Plan grant project account no. 469x101xARP053, “Hazard Pay,” for the purpose of providing additional compensation to employees during the COVID-19 pandemic; and DECLARING expenditures from American Rescue Plan grant project account no. 469x101xARP053, “Hazard Pay,” to be for the public purpose.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202101951 115.MotionMOTION, submitted by Councilmember Keating, WE MOVE that the Administration apply for a $6,000,000 Surface Transportation Block Grant or Congestion Mitigation / Air Quality Grant from OKI Regional Council of Governments for the Ohio River Trail from Lunken Airport to Theodore M. Berry International Friendship Park along the Oasis rail line, due June 4, 2021. (STATEMENT ATTACHED)Adopt  Action details Not available
202102045 116.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY), submitted by Andrew W. Garth, City Solicitor, DESIGNATING Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts, doing business as ArtsWave, an Ohio non-profit corporation established in 1927, as the Local Arts Agency of the City of Cincinnati for purposes of applying for grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available