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Meeting Name: Budget and Finance Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 12/13/2021 1:00 PM Minutes status: Draft  
Meeting location: Council Chambers, Room 300
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202103299 11.MotionMOTION, dated 12/10/2021, submitted by Councilmember Kearney, WE MOVE for the City Administration to execute a parking study to evaluate the parking needs for the Madison and Whetsel Business District, as previously requested by Item 202100102 passed by City Council on 9/30/20. The parking study will be funded from the Madisonville District TIF in the amount of $30,000. The study will be hared with the Madisonville Community Council and other community stakeholders to provide input on the parking needs of the Madison and Whetsel Business District in order to inform a final decision of parking needs for the neighborhood. (STATEMENT ATTACHED)   Not available Video Video
202102316 12.ReportREPORT, dated 12/1/2021, submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, regarding SMART CITIES PLATFORM. (REFERENCE DOCUMENT #202100599)   Not available Not available
202103232 13.OrdinanceORDINANCE submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/8/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept in-kind donations from the Cincinnati Parks Foundation of park supplies, professional services, and contracted services valued at approximately $8,632 to benefit and improve various City parks.   Not available Not available
202103233 14.OrdinanceORDINANCE submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/8/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant in an amount of up to $150,000 from the HealthPath Foundation of Ohio for the purpose of providing support for the establishment of an interprofessional, collaborative practice to integrate oral health care with primary care for children ages 0-5 at Cincinnati Health Department community health centers; and AUTHORIZING the Finance Director to deposit such grant funds into Public Health Research Fund 350.   Not available Not available
202103235 15.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/8/2021, Establishing new capital improvement program project account no. 980x195x221907, “Golf Course Improvements”; and further AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation in the amount of $800,000 from the unappropriated surplus of Municipal Golf Activities Fund 105 to newly established capital improvement program project account no. 980x195x221907, “Golf Course Improvements,” for the purpose of providing resources to facilitate the reconstruction of the Reeves Driving Range, golf course pavement repairs, and other facility improvements.   Not available Not available
202103236 16.OrdinanceORDINANCE submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/8/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant in an amount of up to $250,000 from the Get Cincy Fed: Food Access and Sustainability Alliance's Buyers Club Initiative Grant for the purpose of providing resources for the Live-Work-Play Cincinnati program to improve health outcomes for Cincinnati residents; and AUTHORIZING the Finance Director to deposit the grant funds into Public Health Research Fund 350.   Not available Not available
202103237 17.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/8/2021, AUTHORIZING the transfer of the sum of $375,554.94 within the General Fund, from and to various City Council operating budget accounts, for the purpose of providing resources to incoming Councilmembers for the remainder of FY 2022, in accordance with the attached Schedule of Transfer.   Not available Not available
202103239 18.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/8/2021, AUTHORIZING a payment of $4,590 from the Department of Community & Economic Development Home Investment Trust Fund project account no. 411x162x0000x7698x4111901x4539, “HOME Administration ’19,” as a moral obligation to US Bank for payment of expenses incurred on a purchase card.   Not available Not available
202103241 19.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/8/2021, ESTABLISHING new capital improvement program project account no. 980x199x221918, “Recreation Improvements,” for the purpose of providing resources to facilitate improvements and renovations, upgrade security cameras, and upgrade signage at recreation centers and outdoor recreation areas; and AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation in the amount of $1,500,000 from the unappropriated surplus of the Recreation Special Activities Fund 323 to the newly established capital improvement program project account no. 980x199x221918, “Recreation Improvements,” for the purpose of providing resources to facilitate improvements and renovations, upgrade security cameras, and upgrade signage at recreation centers and outdoor recreation areas.   Not available Not available
202103242 110.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/8/2021, AUTHORIZING the establishment of new capital improvement program project account no. 980x101x221010, “Findlay Playground, Grant Park, & OTR Rec Grant”; and AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate State of Ohio Capital Budget Grant resources in the amount of $150,000 from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, as authorized by the 133rd Ohio General Assembly in Senate Bill 310, to the newly established capital improvement program project account no. 980x101x221010, “Findlay Playground, Grant Park, & OTR Rec Grant,” for the purpose of providing resources for improvements at Findlay Playground, Grant Park, and the Over-the-Rhine Recreation Center.   Not available Not available
202103243 111.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/8/2021, AUTHORIZING the payment of $5,099 from Cincinnati Recreation Commission operating budget account nos. 050x194x1650x7215, 050x194x4610x7215, 050x194x2610x7215, 050x194x3610x7215, 050x199x1910x7215, and 323x197x3440x7215 in accordance with the attached schedule, as a moral obligation to US Bank for trainings and conferences that were inadvertently billed as a single transaction to a purchase card resulting in charges that exceeded the State of Ohio’s $3,000 purchasing limit without certification.   Not available Not available
202103248 112.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/8/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept and appropriate the transfer of the remaining balances and the obligations associated with four (FY 2018, FY 2019, FY 2020, and FY 2021) Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency, State Homeland Security Program - Law Enforcement grants (Assistance Listing #97.067) as pass through grants from the Ohio Emergency Management Agency for Ohio Region 6 in the total amount of up to $548,048.39 from the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office for the purpose of deobligating the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office as the lead agency for the Greater Cincinnati Fusion Center and establishing new grant award agreements with the Cincinnati Police Department as the new lead agency; and AUTHORIZING the Finance Director to deposit the grant funds in the amounts of $15,508.82 for the State Homeland Security Program - Law Enforcement to Law Enforcement Grant Fund 368, Project Account No. 18SHSP, $107,060.57 for the State Homeland Security Program - Law Enforcemen   Not available Video Video
202103240 113.OrdinanceORDINANCE submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/8/2021, ESTABLISHING new capital improvement program project account no. 980x164x221627, “Madisonville Business District Public Parking - TIF,” for the purpose of providing resources necessary to increase and improve public parking in the Madisonville Business District; AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of the sum of $430,000 from the unappropriated surplus of the Madisonville District Equivalent Fund 498 to newly established capital improvement program project account no. 980x164x221627, “Madisonville Business District Public Parking - TIF”; AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of $30,000 from the unappropriated surplus of the Madisonville District Equivalent Fund 498 to the Department of Community and Economic Development non-personnel operating budget account no. 498x164x7200; DECLARING this capital improvement project constitutes a “Public Infrastructure Improvement”; and DECLARING expenditures from capital improvement program project account no. 980x164x221627, “Madisonville Business District Public   Not available Not available
202103229 114.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/8/2021, DEDICATING, ACCEPTING, AND CONFIRMING the dedication of certain real property as public right-of-way for street purposes as portions of the public streets designated as East McMillan Street and Auburn Avenue located in the Mt. Auburn neighborhood.   Not available Not available
202103238 115.OrdinanceORDINANCE submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/8/2021, ACCEPTING AND CONFIRMING the dedication of a permanent utility easement granted by Grand Communities, LLC in favor of the City of Cincinnati for the construction, maintenance, and repair of watermains and appurtenances in and upon certain real property being part of the Magnolia Woods Subdivision, Section 3 in Colerain Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, in accordance with an easement plat recorded in Plat Book 480, Page 62, Hamilton County, Ohio Records.   Not available Not available
202103227 116.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/8/2021, AMENDING Article XVIII, Section 11, “Criminal Offenses in Time of Public Danger or Emergency” of the Administrative Code of the City of Cincinnati for the purpose of removing the obsolete “confinement in the workhouse” penalty currently in place for a violation of orders issued during a state of emergency.   Not available Not available
202103257 117.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/13/2021, AUTHORIZING the transfer and return to source Fund 438, “Neighborhood Stabilization,” of the sum of $152,303.30 from various Neighborhood Stabilization Program project accounts, as listed on the attached Schedule of Transfer; and AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of the sum of $355,552.78 from the unappropriated surplus of Fund 438, “Neighborhood Stabilization,” to various Neighborhood Stabilization Program project accounts, as listed on the attached Schedule of Transfer, for the purpose of appropriating program resources from the Neighborhood Stabilization Program 1 and the Neighborhood Stabilization Program 3 for use in United States Department of Housing and Urban Development-approved Neighborhood Stabilization Program 1 and Neighborhood Stabilization Program 3 target areas in the neighborhood of Northside.   Not available Not available
202103286 118.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/13/2021, AUTHORIZING the transfer of the sum of $3,112 within the General Fund from and to various operating budget accounts for the purpose of realigning the office budgets of various City Councilmembers in accordance with the attached Schedule of Transfer.   Not available Not available
202103287 119.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/13/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept a monetary donation of $2,585 from Indigo Sports to support the Cincinnati Recreation Commission’s Christmas activities for youth; AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept an in-kind donation of assorted gifts collected by the Cincinnati Recreation Department’s annual toy drive at its gold facilities to support the Cincinnati Recreation Commission’s Christmas activities for youth; and AUTHORIZING the Finance Director to deposit the monetary donation from Indigo Sports into Fund 319, “Contributions for Recreation Purposes.”   Not available Not available
202103288 120.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/13/2021, AUTHORIZING the transfer of the sum of $177,000 within the General Fund, from the non-departmental Lump Sum Payments personnel operating budget account no. 050x924x7100 to the General Fund City Manager’s Office non-personnel operating budget account no. 050x101x7200, for the purpose of providing additional one-time funding for COVID-19 related homeless shelter improvements; AUTHORIZING the acceptance of the sum of up to $177,000 from Hamilton County, Ohio’s Coronavirus Relief Fund (“CRF”) allocation; and AUTHORIZING the Finance Director to deposit the CRF funds into COVID-19 Fund 473.   Not available Not available
202103289 121.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/13/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept and appropriate a grant in an amount up to $1,000 from the Cincinnati Recreation Foundation for the purpose of providing funding support to youth sports programs in need; and AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the grant funds into Fund 319, “Contributions for Recreation Purpose.”   Not available Not available
202103291 122.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/13/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept an in-kind donation from Uptown Rental Properties valued at $150,000 for fitness equipment, updated scoreboards, and other facility improvements at the Corryville Recreation Center.   Not available Not available
202103292 123.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/13/2021, APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a Community Reinvestment Area Tax Exemption Agreement with Seven Hills Neighborhood Houses and the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority, thereby authorizing a 15-year tax exemption for 100% of the value of improvements made to real property located at 1904 Linn Street, 2011 Colerain Avenue, and 2025 Colerain Avenue in the West End neighborhood of Cincinnati, in connection with the remodeling of 3 existing buildings into approximately 10,824 square feet of residential space, consisting of 16 residential rental units, and approximately 3,746 square feet of commercial space, at a total construction cost of approximately $1,911,500.   Not available Not available
202103293 124.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/13/2021, APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a Community Reinvestment Area Tax Exemption Agreement with Warsaw Creative LLC and the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority, thereby authorizing a 15-year tax exemption for 100% of the value of improvements made to real property located at 3108-3120 Warsaw Avenue in the East Price Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, in connection with the remodeling of 7 existing buildings into approximately 11,150 square feet of residential space, consisting of 13 residential rental units, and approximately 13,820 square feet of commercial space, at a total construction cost of approximately $5,503,972.   Not available Not available
202103294 125.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/13/2021 APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a Community Reinvestment Area Tax Exemption Agreement with 2001 Vine, LLC, thereby authorizing a 12-year tax exemption for 100% of the value of improvements made to real property located at 2001 Vine Street in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, in connection with the remodeling of an existing building to include approximately 3,064 square feet of residential space, consisting of 4 residential rental units, and approximately 1,168 square feet of commercial space, at a total construction cost of approximately $1,350,408.   Not available Video Video
202103295 126.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/13/2021, APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a Community Reinvestment Area Tax Exemption Agreement with 1209 Elm, LLC, thereby authorizing a 12-year tax exemption for 100% of the value of improvements made to real property located at 1209 Elm Street in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, in connection with the remodeling of an existing building into approximately 4,740 square feet of residential space, consisting of 4 residential rental units, at a total construction cost of approximately $1,367,937.50.   Not available Not available
202103296 127.OrdinanceORDINANCE submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/13/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a Property Sale and Development Agreement with The Acanthus Group, LLC for the sale of City-owned real property located at 127 Green Street in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood.   Not available Video Video
202103297 128.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/13/2021, CLASSIFYING certain improvements to real property located at 3035 Clifton Avenue in the CUF neighborhood of Cincinnati as residential improvements eligible for a real property tax abatement, notwithstanding Ordinance Nos. 274-2017, 275-2017, 276-2017, and 370-2020.   Not available Video Video
202103298 129.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/13/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a Property Sale and Development Agreement with Auburn Land Holdings LLC, an affiliate of Uptown Rental Properties LLC and North American Properties LLC, for the sale of City property located at 2429 Macauley Street, 2434 Vine Street, and 13 E. McMillan Street, in the Mt. Auburn neighborhood of Cincinnati, in connection with the construction of (i) a four-story apartment building consisting of 270 market-rate residential rental units on top of a three-story podium parking garage, and (ii) 5 three-story market-rate townhomes.   Not available Not available
202103300 130.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by William P. Weber, Assistant City Manager, on 12/13/2021, AUTHORIZING the City to enter into a Lease Agreement with vR Hospitality LLC or other affiliated organization acceptable to the City Administration, pursuant to which the City will grant a leasehold interest in the Lunken Airport Terminal Building and adjoining real property at Lunken Airport in the Linwood neighborhood for a term of up to 50 years; and further AUTHORIZING the City to enter into a Development Agreement and Service Agreement with vR Hospitality LLC or other affiliated organization acceptable to the City Administration, to facilitate the company’s redevelopment activities at the Lunken Airport Terminal Building and adjoining property at Lunken Airport, and providing for City assistance to the project in the form of a rebate of a portion of the service payments in lieu of taxes imposed in connection with a proposed 30-year property tax exemption for improvements pursuant to Ohio Revised Code Section 5709.41, subject to the passage by this Council of a separate ordinance authorizi   Not available Video Video
202103301 131.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted William P. Weber, Assistant City Manager, on 12/13/2021, DECLARING improvements to certain real property located at 262 Wilmer Avenue in the East End neighborhood of Cincinnati, including the Lunken Airport Terminal Building and surrounding areas, to be a public purpose and exempt from real property taxation for a period of 30 years pursuant to Section 5709.41 of the Ohio Revised Code.   Not available Not available
202103302 132.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by William P. Weber, Assistant City Manager, on 12/13/2021, AUTHORIZING the City to enter into a Lease Agreement with vR Hospitality LLC or other affiliated organization acceptable to the City Administration, pursuant to which the City will grant a leasehold interest in certain City-owned property at Lunken Airport in the Linwood neighborhood known as Lease Area 52 for a term of up to 40 years to facilitate the company’s establishment and operation of a fixed-base operator business involving the sale of fuel and the storage and servicing of aircraft.   Not available Not available
202103290 133.OrdinanceORDINANCE submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 12/13/2021, AUTHORIZING the Greater Cincinnati Water Works (“GCWW”) to provide 100% utility-funded private lead service line replacement, subject to the availability of appropriated funds in Private Lead Service Line Replacement operating account no. 312x301x7200, when the property owner and the City have entered into a contract for GCWW to replace the private lead service line on the owner’s property.   Not available Video Video
202103304 134.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY), dated 12/13/2021, submitted by Vice Mayor Smitherman and Councilmember Mann, ESTABLISHING new capital improvement program project account no. 980x233x222390, “Red Bike Program Expansion,” for the purpose of expanding the Red Bike program to include Bond Hill, Roselawn, Evanston, and Avondale to provide for fitness, transportation, and healthy living; AUTHORIZING the transferer of $500,000 from the General Fund 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 $500,000 from the unappropriated surplus of General Fund 050 to newly established capital improvement program project account no. 980x233x222390, “Red Bike Program Expansion,” for the purpose of expanding the Red Bike program to include Bond Hill, Roselawn, Evanston, and Avondale to provide for fitness, transportation, and healthy living, and DECLARING expenditures from capital improvement program project account no. 980x233x222390, “Red Bike    Not available Video Video
202103303 135.ReportREPORT, dated 12/13/2021, submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, regarding Roll Hill School students pedestrian safety. (SEE DOC. #202103043-Amended)   Not available Not available