801 Plum Street  
Cincinnati, OH 45202  
City of Cincinnati  
Agenda - Final  
Budget and Finance Committee  
Chairperson David Mann  
Vice Chair Chris Seelbach  
Councilmember Steve Goodin  
Councilmember Jan-Michele Kearney  
Councilmember Liz Keating  
Councilmember Greg Landsman  
Councilmember Betsy Sundermann  
Councilmember Wendell Young  
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AGENDA  
MOTION, dated 6/15/2021, submitted by Councilmember Kearney, WE MOVE  
that the City of Cincinnati allocate $2.5 million from the Fleet Replacement  
funds in the capital budget to remove the West Fork Incinerator in South  
Cumminsville. These bonded capital dollars should be allocated from the 40%  
portion of the fleet replacement funds that are not allocated to police and fire  
vehicles.  
1.  
Recommendation:  
BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE  
Kearney  
Sponsors:  
Attachments:  
COMMUNICATION, submitted by Councilmember Mann, from Melancthon W.  
Chatfield, regarding a property at 3500 Glenway Avenue, owned by The Hyde  
Park Lumber Company, requesting the City of Cincinnati forgive any and all  
current or back taxes.  
2.  
3.  
Recommendation:  
BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE  
Sponsors:  
Mann  
Attachments:  
REPORT, dated 6/23/2021, submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City  
Manager, regarding Motion for spin bicycles and Red Bike program expansion.  
(See Doc. #202101653)  
Recommendation:  
BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE  
City Manager  
Sponsors:  
Attachments:  
ORDINANCE submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on  
6/23/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for, accept, and  
appropriate a Victims of Crime Act Grant in an amount up to $42,000  
from the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General, for the purpose  
of providing funds for the Homicide Unit’s Victims’ Assistance  
Practitioner in the State Victims Assistance Act and the federal Victims  
of Crime Act grant programs; and AUTHORIZING the Director of  
Finance to deposit the grant funds in Law Enforcement Grant Fund  
368, Project Account No. 22VALU.  
4.  
Recommendation:  
BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City  
Manager, on 6/23/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept and  
appropriate a grant in the amount of up to $70,000 from the Interact for Health  
COVID-19 Relief Fund for the purpose of providing support for Cincinnati  
Health Department dental and vision school-based health centers; and  
AUTHORIZING the Finance Director to deposit the grant funds into Public  
Health Research Fund 350.  
5.  
Recommendation:  
BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE  
City Manager  
Sponsors:  
Attachments:  
ORDINANCE submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on  
6/23/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply for, accept, and  
appropriate a grant from the United States Department of Justice,  
Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance, FY2021  
Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership Program, which would  
provide the Cincinnati Police Department with reimbursement of up to  
$146,000 for bulletproof vest body armor expenditures, related to the  
projected departmental expenditures in Fiscal Years 2022 and 2023 for  
bulletproof vest body armor that is approximated to be $292,000; and  
AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the grant funds into  
Law Enforcement Grant Fund 368, Project Account No. 22VEST.  
6.  
Recommendation:  
BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE  
City Manager  
Sponsors:  
Attachments:  
ORDINANCE submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City Manager, on  
6/23/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to partner with the HOPE  
Community Center in applying for and accepting, as a sub-recipient, a  
grant from the Ohio Department of Public Safety, Office of Criminal  
Justice Services, FY 2021 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance  
Grant, for resiliency training for local law enforcement.  
7.  
Recommendation:  
BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMMITTEE  
City Manager  
Sponsors:  
Attachments:  
MOTION, submitted by Councilmembers Kearney and Keating, WE MOVE that  
City Council allocate to Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Cincinnati $2,250,000 for  
the creation of a Boys and Girls Club in the community of Roll Hill from the  
Carryover Budget of fiscal year 2021, or from another source immediately  
identified by City Administration, including reserve funds. (STATEMENT  
ATTACHED).  
8.  
Recommendation:  
BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE  
Kearney and Keating  
Sponsors:  
Attachments:  
9.  
202102443 MOTION Submitted by Councilmember Kearney. WE MOVE that City  
Council allocate $40,000 to the community of Mt Adams to purchase a  
greenspace parcel at the intersection of Parkside Place and Martin  
Drive.  
Sponsors:  
Kearney  
Attachments:  
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SUPPLEMENTAL AGENDA  
ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City  
Manager, on 8/2/2021, PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF NOTES IN THE  
PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF $2,000,000 BY THE CITY OF CINCINNATI IN  
ANTICIPATION OF THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS, AND TO PROVIDE FUNDS  
FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IMPROVEMENTS.  
10.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething,  
11.  
City Manager, on 8/2/2021, AUTHORIZING the establishment of  
capital  
improvement  
program  
project  
account  
no.  
980x164x221648, “8th and Overlook Permanent Improvements,”  
for the purpose of providing resources to facilitate commercial  
business district capital improvements; AUTHORIZING the  
transfer and return to source of the sum of $100,000 from capital  
improvement program project account no. 980x162x171640,  
“West Price Hill Mixed-Use Development,” to the unappropriated  
surplus of Urban Development Bond Fund 862; AUTHORIZING  
the transfer and appropriation of the sum of $100,000 from the  
unappropriated surplus of Urban Development Bond Fund 862 to  
the newly established capital improvement program project  
account no. 980x164x221648, “8th and Overlook Permanent  
Improvements,” for the purpose of providing resources for right of  
way improvements related to signage, beautification, and safety  
and security, and to facilitate permanent improvements on  
property adjacent to the 8th Street and Overlook intersection in  
the West Price Hill neighborhood; and DECLARING expenditures  
from capital improvement program project account no.  
980x164x221648, “8th and Overlook Permanent Improvements,”  
to be for a public purpose because the project will stabilize and  
revitalize this business district in the West Price Hill  
neighborhood.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
12.  
202102539 ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs  
Muething, City Manager, on 8/2/2021, ESTABLISHING new  
capital  
improvement  
program  
project  
account  
no.  
980x233x222346, “River Road Rehab (PID 108937) ODOT  
Grant,” for the purpose of rehabilitating River Road from  
Anderson Ferry Road to Fairbanks Avenue (HAM-50-14.21 PID  
108937); AUTHORIZING the City Manager to accept and  
appropriate a grant in the amount of up to $1,350,000 from the  
Federal Highway Administration (Assistance Listing Number  
20.205), as administered by the Ohio Department of  
Transportation, to newly created capital improvement program  
project account no. 980x233x222346, “River Road Rehab (PID  
108937) ODOT Grant,” for the purpose of providing grant  
resources for the HAM-50-14.21 PID 108937 project, which will  
rehabilitate River Road from Anderson Ferry Road to Fairbanks  
Avenue in the Riverside community; and further AUTHORIZING  
the City Manager to do all things necessary to cooperate with the  
Director of the Ohio Department of Transportation in order to  
complete the HAM-50-14.21 PID 108937 Project.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething,  
City Manager, on 8/2/2021, AUTHORIZING the establishment of  
new capital improvement program project account no.  
980x162x221645, “OTR Affordable Housing FHAct50 - TIF,” for  
the purpose of providing resources for Logan Commons and  
Willkommen II, two affordable Low-Income Housing Tax Credit  
13.  
housing  
developments  
located  
in  
Over-the-Rhine;  
AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of $2,350,000 from  
the unappropriated surplus of Downtown/OTR West Equivalent  
Fund 482 to newly established capital improvement program  
project account no. 980x162x221645, “OTR Affordable Housing  
FHAct50 - TIF,” to provide resources for construction and  
development costs associated with the Logan Commons and  
Willkommen II housing developments; and further DECLARING  
that expenditures from capital improvement program project  
account no. 980x162x221645, “OTR Affordable Housing  
FHAct50 - TIF,” will serve a public purpose because the project  
will create additional affordable housing in the Over-the-Rhine  
neighborhood.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
14.  
202102544 ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs  
Muething, City Manager, on 8/2/2021, AUTHORIZING the City  
Manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant in an  
amount up to $700,000 from the United States Department of  
Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice  
Assistance, assistance listing #16.738, for the purpose of  
developing and expanding the newly formed Crime Gun  
Intelligence Center by adding dedicated crime analysts and a  
project coordinator, and collaborating with regional training in the  
National Integrated Ballistic Information Network; and  
AUTHORIZING the Finance Director to deposit the grant funds  
into Law Enforcement Grant Fund 368, Project Account No.  
21CGIC.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething,  
City Manager, on 8/2/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to apply  
for, accept, and appropriate a grant of an amount up to $290,309  
from the United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice  
Assistance, Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant  
Program Local Solicitation (ALN #16.738); and further  
AUTHORIZING the Director of Finance to deposit the grant funds  
into Justice Assistance Grant Fund 368, project account no. 21JAG.  
15.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
16.  
202102550 ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs  
Muething, City Manager, on 8/2/2021, AUTHORIZING the City  
Manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant of up to  
$31,250,000 from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of  
Community Oriented Policing Services (“COPS”), FY 2021 COPS  
Hiring Program (ALN 16.710), for the purpose of creating and  
filling up to 250 entry-level, sworn Police Officer positions within  
the Cincinnati Police Department over a five year grant period to  
provide an opportunity for the Police Department to increase its  
sworn strength levels; and further AUTHORIZING the Finance  
Director to receive and deposit the grant funds into Law  
Enforcement Grant Fund 368.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
17.  
202102556 ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs  
Muething, City Manager, on 8/2/2021, AUTHORIZING the City  
Manager and the employees of the Office of Human Relations to  
solicit and accept donations of money, in-kind contributions, and  
other things of value from the Cincinnati business community,  
individual benefactors, and other available sources for the Office of  
Human Relations to support the West End History Project; and  
AUTHORIZING the Finance Director to deposit funds donated to the  
City of Cincinnati for the West End History Project into Special  
Revenue Fund No. 435, “Human Relations.”  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City  
Manager, on 8/2/2021, AUTHORIZING the transfer and appropriation of  
$740,000 from the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund to the  
City Manager’s Office General Fund non-personnel operating budget  
account no. 050x101x7300 for the purpose of providing funds for  
supplies and materials necessary to help prevent the spread of the  
coronavirus known as COVID-19.  
18.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
19.  
202102558 ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs  
Muething, City Manager, on 8/2/2021, AMENDING Ordinance  
No. 0362-2018 to increase the amount of funding the City  
Manager is authorized to accept from the Ohio Department of  
Transportation’s Ohio Bridge Partnership Program from  
$3,064,000 to $3,250,000 and to appropriate the additional  
amount of $186,000 to existing capital improvement program  
project account no. 980x233x192348, “Kennedy Avenue Bridge  
Grants,” for the purpose of providing resources for the  
replacement of the Kennedy Avenue Bridge.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
20.  
202102559 ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs  
Muething, City Manager, on 8/2/2021, AUTHORIZING the  
payment of $29,500 as a moral obligation to Matlock Electric Co.,  
Inc. for payment of outstanding charges for services received by  
Greater Cincinnati Water Works for the reconditioning of the  
hydro turbine generators at the Richard Miller Treatment Plant.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
21.  
202102561 ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City  
Manager, on 8/2/2021, AUTHORIZING the payment of $23,983 as a  
moral obligation to Degree Lawn & Landscape for payment of  
outstanding charges for services received by Greater Cincinnati Water  
Works for grass cutting at multiple GCWW facilities in May and June of  
2021.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City  
Manager, on 8/2/2021, APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING the City Manager  
to execute a Community Reinvestment Area Tax Exemption Agreement  
with Bleh Property Holdings LLC, thereby authorizing a 10-year tax  
exemption for 100% of the value of improvements made to real property  
located at 33, 35, and 37 E. Court Street in the Central Business District of  
Cincinnati, in connection with the remodeling of the existing buildings into  
approximately 3,438 square feet of commercial space, at a total  
construction cost of approximately $248,800.  
22.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething,  
City Manager, on 8/2/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to  
execute any and all agreements and take such other steps as may  
be necessary in order to sell City-owned real property at 1712 Logan  
Street in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati to  
Southwest Ohio Housing Development, Inc. (an affiliate of Cincinnati  
Metropolitan Housing Authority), or other affiliated organization  
acceptable to the City Manager, to facilitate an affordable housing  
development by the company in partnership with Urban Sites Capital  
Advisors, LLC.  
23.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething,  
City Manager, on 8/2/2021, AMENDING Ordinance No. 228-2012  
passed by City Council on June 20, 2012, as previously amended by  
Ordinance No. 246-2013, Ordinance No. 179-2014, Ordinance No.  
272-2015, Ordinance No. 268-2016, Ordinance No. 213-2017,  
Ordinance No. 244-2018, Ordinance No. 321-2019, and Ordinance  
No. 270-2020, for the purpose of reducing those special  
assessments levied and to be collected in 2022 (with tax year 2021  
property taxes) based upon a report of the administrator for bonds  
issued by the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority  
related to the Oakley Station development project.  
24.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City  
Manager, on 8/2/2021, APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING the execution  
of a Job Creation Tax Credit Agreement with CTI - Clinical Trial  
Services, Inc., pursuant to which the company agrees to create 70 new  
jobs at the Baldwin 500 building located at 2090 Florence Avenue in the  
Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati and, for a period of 8 years, the  
City agrees to provide an income tax credit equal to 45% of City income  
tax revenue from such new jobs.  
25.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething,  
City Manager, on 8/2/2021, APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING the  
City Manager to execute a Community Reinvestment Area Tax  
Exemption Agreement with 254 Mohawk LLC, thereby authorizing a  
12-year tax exemption for 100% of the value of improvements made  
to real property located at 254 Mohawk Street in the Over-the-Rhine  
neighborhood of Cincinnati, in connection with the remodeling of two  
existing buildings to create approximately 3,655 square feet of  
residential space consisting of 9 residential units, at a total  
construction cost of approximately $725,847.  
26.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething,  
City Manager, on 8/2/2021, APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING the  
City Manager to execute a Community Reinvestment Area Tax  
Exemption Agreement with CH KeyMark LLC, thereby authorizing a  
15-year tax exemption for 100% of the value of improvements made  
to real property located at 5906-5910 and 6060 Hamilton Avenue in  
the College Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, in connection with the  
remodeling of 3 existing buildings to create 15,100 square feet of  
residential space consisting of 26 apartments, 3,395 square feet of  
commercial office space, and 1,487 square feet of commercial retail  
space, at a total construction cost of approximately $3,632,132.  
27.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething,  
City Manager, on 8/2/2021, AUTHORIZING the establishment of  
new capital improvement program project account no.  
980x164x221647, “West Price Hill Glenway Properties  
Development,” for the purpose of providing resources for  
permanent public improvements in the right of way as well as the  
renovation or new construction of residential or commercial  
structures all in the West Price Hill business district, including  
planning, design, acquisition, demolition, and construction of  
these improvements and structures; AUTHORIZING the transfer  
and return to source of the sum of $1,900,000 from capital  
improvement program project account no. 980x162x171640,  
“West Price Hill Mixed-Use Development,” to the unappropriated  
surplus of Urban Development Bond Fund 862; AUTHORIZING  
the transfer and appropriation of the sum of $1,900,000 from the  
unappropriated surplus of Urban Development Bond Fund 862 to  
newly established capital improvement program project account  
no. 980x164x221647, “West Price Hill Glenway Properties  
Development,” for the purpose of providing resources for  
permanent public improvements in the right of way as well as the  
renovation or new construction of residential or commercial  
structures all in the West Price Hill business district, including  
planning, design, acquisition, demolition, and construction; and  
further DECLARING expenditures from capital improvement  
program project account no. 980x164x221647, “West Price Hill  
Glenway Properties Development,” to be for a public purpose.  
28.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething,  
City Manager, on 8/2/2021, APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING the  
City Manager to execute a Community Reinvestment Area Tax  
Exemption Agreement (LEED or Living Building Challenge) with  
6121-23 Madison Rd. Opportunity Fund, LLC, thereby authorizing a  
15-year tax exemption for 100% of the value of improvements made  
to real property located at 6007 and 6011 Madison Road in the  
Madisonville neighborhood of Cincinnati, in connection with the  
remodeling and expansion of an existing building into approximately  
7,707 square feet of residential space consisting of 7-8 apartments,  
and approximately 3,793 square feet of commercial space, which  
remodeling shall be completed in compliance with Leadership in  
Energy and Environmental Design Silver, Gold or Platinum  
standards or Living Building Challenge standards, at a total  
remodeling cost of approximately $1,234,650.  
29.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething, City  
Manager, on 8/2/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to execute a  
Property Sale and Development Agreement with 6121-23 Madison Rd.  
Opportunity Fund, LLC, for the sale of City-owned real property located at  
6007 Madison Road in the Madisonville neighborhood of Cincinnati, to be  
consolidated with the purchaser’s own property and redeveloped as a  
mixed-use development; ESTABLISHING new capital improvement  
program project account no. 980x162x221641, “DCED Property  
Improvements,” for the purpose of providing resources for permanent  
improvements to vacant buildings and properties controlled or previously  
controlled by the Department of Community and Economic Development;  
and further, DECLARING expenditures from capital improvement program  
project account no. 980x162x221641, “DCED Property Improvements,” to  
be for a public purpose.  
30.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething,  
City Manager, on 8/2/2021, AUTHORIZING the City Manager to  
execute a Grant of Encroachment Easements in favor of Fort Wash  
Hills, LLC, pursuant to which the City of Cincinnati will grant  
easements over and across property known as Hammond Street in  
the Central Business District to allow access and temporary  
construction rights.  
31.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
32.  
202102554 ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs  
Muething, City Manager, on 8/2/2021, AUTHORIZING a payment  
of $66,347.30 from the Human Resources Department General  
Fund  
non-personnel  
operating  
budget  
moral  
account  
obligation  
no.  
to  
050x121x1000x7289 as  
a
Industrial/Organizational Solutions (“I/OS”) for payment of  
outstanding charges for legally and contractually required testing  
services for Police and Fire promotional exams for sworn  
personnel provided by I/OS prior to the execution of a  
professional services contract.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
ORDINANCE (EMERGENCY) submitted by Paula Boggs Muething,  
City Manager, on 8/2/2021, APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING the  
City Manager to execute a Community Reinvestment Area Tax  
Exemption Agreement with SLD Enterprises, LLC and Brothers  
Express, LLC, thereby authorizing a 12-year tax exemption for  
100% of the value of improvements made to real property located  
at 5790 Center Hill Avenue in the Winton Hills neighborhood of  
Cincinnati, in connection with the construction of approximately  
11,200 square feet of industrial space and approximately 2,800  
square feet of office space, at a total construction cost of  
approximately $1,780,000  
33.  
Sponsors:  
City Manager  
Attachments:  
ADJOURNMENT