Meeting Name: Budget and Finance Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 3/22/2021 1:00 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Council Chambers, Room 300
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202101189 11.MotionMOTION, dated 03/18/2021, submitted by Councilmember Mann, Budget Policy Direction to City Administration for Recommended FY 2022 General Fund Operating Budget. WE MOVE that the City administration prepare a Fiscal Year 2022 Recommended General Fund Operating Budget which respects the following policy guidelines and priorities: 1. The Fiscal Year 2022 General Fund Operating Budget must be balanced. While continuing to strive to have a structurally balanced budget, the fiscal impacts of the pandemic may necessitate the use of one-time sources to balance in Fiscal Year 2022. 2. Given the projected $30.0 million gap between General Fund revenues and expenditures, federal stimulus funds should be used to offset the projected FY 2022 operating budget deficit based on the eligible uses of funds for pandemic related expenditures and/or loss of revenue. (BALANCE OF MOTION ON FILE IN CLERKS OFFICE)Held  Action details Video Video
202101200 12.PresentationPRESENTATION submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, dated 3/22/2021, regarding the Enterprise Technology Solutions’ FY 2022-2023 Biennial Operating Budget needs.Held  Action details Not available
202101176 13.PresentationPRESENTATION submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, dated 3/22/2021, regarding the Office of Environment and Sustainability’s FY 2022-2023 Biennial Operating Budget needs.Held  Action details Not available
202101116 14.PresentationPRESENTATION submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, dated 3/22/2021, regarding is the Department of Finance’s FY 2022-2023 Biennial Operating Budget needs.Held  Action details Not available
202101167 15.PresentationPRESENTATION submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, dated 3/22/2021, regarding the Department of Human Resources’ FY 2022-2023 Biennial Operating Budget needs.Held  Action details Not available
202101198 16.PresentationPRESENTATION, dated 03/19/2021, submitted by Councilmember Mann, from Ali Trianfo, regarding MORTAR.Held  Action details Not available
202101182 17.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY), submitted by Councilmember Mann, from Andrew W. Garth, City Solicitor, DECLARING that Hatch Street between Louden Street and Wareham Street in the Mt. Adams neighborhood shall hereby receive the honorary, secondary name of Pat Barry Way in honor of Pat Barry and in recognition of his contributions and dedication to the City of Cincinnati.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202101096 18.CommunicationCOMMUNICATION, submitted by Councilmember Mann from Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, regarding a report concerning state of CRS Pension trust and Healthcare Trust as of December 31, 2019.Referred to CM for a Report  Action details Not available
202101152 19.MotionMOTION, submitted by Councilmember Goodin, Vice Mayor Smitherman, Councilmember Sundermann, Keating and Kearney, During the COVID-19 pandemic, Cincinnati workers have adopted remote working at an amazing pace. Many routine office activities have been replaced by video conferencing and digital access to documents. While these innovations have kept our economy moving, they also present a looming crisis for Ohio’s cities. More than 70 percent at Cincinnati’s revenue is derived from its earning tax, and a significant portion of that percentage is derived from non-City residents who formerly worked in downtown offices. Recent litigation and potential legislation have called into question our ability to tax those workers in the long term. These actions notwithstanding, many businesses may simply choose to close their offices or reduce their physical footprint in the City, thus shrinking the tax base over time. Accordingly, WE MOVE that the Administration prepare a report outlining the loss in revenue to the City per annum if, variably, 10, 20 or 30 percent of non-resident City workers woulAdopt  Action details Not available
202101076 110.MotionMOTION, submitted by Councilmember Kearney, WE MOVE for the administration to compare the Balanced Development Priorities Analysis to the Peaslee Neighborhood’s Developer Questionnaire. Include in the report any information requested from developers by Peaslee’s Developer Questionnaire that is not gathered by the Department of community and Economic Development that City Council will not be provided in response to the Balanced Development Priorities Analysis and information requested by the Department of Community and Economic Development.Adopt  Action details Not available
202101049 111.MotionMOTION, submitted by Councilmember Kearney, WHEREAS it has been determined that the City of Cincinnati is lacking in an estimated 28,000 affordable housing units, and; WHEREAS, the City of Cincinnati established an Affordable Housing Trust Fund in 2018 with $700,000 from the proceeds from the sale of the Norfolk Railroad, and; WHEREAS, the amount currently in the City’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund is insufficient to meet the demand for affordable housing in the City of Cincinnati, and; WHEREAS, the City of Cincinnati is to receive $290 million from the American Rescue Plan, President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill; Now, therefore: WE MOVE that the City Administration prepare a REPORT on the feasibility of depositing a total of $50 million from the American Rescue Plan into the City of Cincinnati’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund immediately upon receipt of such funds. (STATEMENT ATTACHED).Adopt  Action details Not available
202101124 112.MotionMOTION, submitted by Councilmember Keating, Mann, Sundermann and Kearney, Our small businesses have suffered from the negative impacts of COVID-19 at a disproportionate level. The City of Cincinnati is to receive $290 million from the American Rescue Plan, President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill. WE MOVE that the City Administration prepare a REPORT on how much money, of the $290 million from the American Rescue Plan, that the city could feasibly set aside to aid the small business community in their COVID-19 recovery efforts. This approach needs to be a two-pronged effort that not only targets specific small businesses but also takes a blanketed approach to focus on providing aid to neighborhood business districts. Therefore, WE FURTHER MOVE that the City Administration prepare a REPORT on how much money of $290 million from the American Rescue Plan, that the city could feasibly set aside to identify and aid the neighborhood business districts that have been most negatively impacted by the COVID-19 impact. WE FURTHER MOVE that the City Administration prepare a Adopt  Action details Not available
202101131 113.MotionMOTION, submitted by Councilmember Sundermann, Kearney, Mann and Goodin, WE MOVE the Administration draft an ordinance to provide $3,000,000 for the final gap in funding needed for the Warsaw Avenue Creative Campus in East Price Hill being developed by Price Hill Will, the premier nonprofit community development corporation serving the neighborhoods of East, West, and Lower Price Hill. The source of city revenue should be a portion of the anticipated $291,590,000 that Cincinnati is anticipated to receive from the recently passed federal law, American Rescue Plan. (STATEMENT ATTACHED)Adopt  Action details Not available
202101054 114.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 3/17/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate the sum of up to $150,000 from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency’s Water Pollution Control Loan Fund for the purpose of providing financial assistance to Cincinnati homeowners with defective household sewage treatment systems; and AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the grant funds into Public Health Research Fund 350.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202101066 115.OrdinanceORDINANCE submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 3/17/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for grant resources from the Clean Ohio Trails Fund grant program to be awarded by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources in an amount up to $500,000 for the purpose of providing resources for the construction of Phase 6a of the Wasson Way Trail project.Recommend Passage  Action details Not available
202101067 116.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 3/17/2021, DETERMINING to proceed with a special assessment for the Urban Forestry Program for the calendar year 2022, for the control of blight and disease of shade trees and for planting, maintaining, trimming, and removing shade trees in the public right-of-way in the City of Cincinnati’s Urban Forestry Maintenance District.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202101068 117.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 3/17/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept and deposit a donation in an amount of $100,000 from the Cincinnati Parks Foundation into Fund No. 430, “Parks Private Endowment,” for the purpose of providing resources for the design and construction of the accessible plaza for the Ezzard Charles statue in Laurel Park; ESTABLISHING new capital improvement program project account no. 980x203x212009, “Ezzard Charles Statue Plaza,” for the purpose of providing resources for the design and construction of the accessible plaza for the Ezzard Charles statue in Laurel Park; and further AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of $100,000 from the unappropriated surplus of Fund No. 430, “Parks Private Endowment,” to newly established capital improvement program project account no. 980x203x212009, “Ezzard Charles Statue Plaza.”Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202101069 118.OrdinanceORDINANCE submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 3/17/2021, LEVYING a special assessment for the Urban Forestry Program for the calendar year 2022, for control of blight and disease of shade trees and for planting, maintaining, trimming, and removing shade trees within the public right-of-way in the City of Cincinnati’s Urban Forestry Maintenance District.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202101077 119.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 3/17/2021, ESTABLISHING new capital improvement program project no. 980x199x211923, “Nature Playscape - Bramble Park”; and further AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant in the amount of up to $75,000 from the State of Ohio, Department of Natural Resources, Office of Real Estate & Land Management for the purpose of funding the design and construction of a new nature playscape at the Bramble Recreation Area, located at 6395 Bramble Avenue.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202101078 120.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 3/17/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant in the amount of up to $68,000 from the Ohio Attorney General; and AUTHORIZING the appropriation of the sum of $60,000 to Police’s General Fund personnel operating budget account no. 050X228X7100, and $8,000 to Cincinnati Police Department General Fund non personnel operating budget account no. 050X228X7200, for the purpose of funding threat assessment training for school resource officers and conducting school building vulnerability assessments.Recommend Passage Emergency  Action details Not available
202100669 121.OrdinanceORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on 2/18/2021, MODIFYING the salary range schedule for the classification of Water Works Construction Inspector by repealing existing Section 463, Division I, of Chapter 307 of the Cincinnati Municipal Code in order to ensure that the new salary range is consistent with the level of responsibility and competitive with similar positions across internal and external job markets.Held  Action details Not available