City Council - Regular Meeting

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Our first speaker is Michelle Rosemond. Welcome.

Good afternoon. My name is Michelle Roseman. I am the daughter of freedom writer Betty Daniels Roseman. And I'm here to thank you all for considering the honorary street naming in her honor at the corner of Belmont and Hamilton Avenue. My mother believed at an early age that everyone was created equal and everyone should have the same opportunities as everybody in America. She protested, she was arrested. She had a case that went all the way to the Supreme court. So the freedom riders changed the world. And I just want to thank you for everything that you're doing. I know you don't get thanked enough, but the work that you're doing does not go unnoticed. And you all are here trying to make a change as well. My mother passed away January, um, 2026 this year. And even though her journey has ended, her story and her legacy will continue. So I just want to say thank you again.

That's beautiful. Thank you. Susan Lakes, welcome.

Hi, everybody. Hope you're having a good day. I'm here to talk about a speedway, Liberty Street. I live in over the Rhine, south of Liberty, but I spend a lot of time north of Liberty going to Findlay Market. Both places are great. First of all, There's a lot of construction. I hope all of you know. I think somebody told me they're repairing a gas line or something at Vine and Liberty. Has everybody seen what's going on there? It's been going on a couple weeks. I'd encourage you to drive there. I'm a pedestrian, okay? Somebody's gonna get killed. They've got it down to, there's an arrow pointing for the people turning north off the Liberty to go to Vine, which is really, really crowded. When they make the turn, they can't see when the walkers have the right of way. I had two friends who came this close to getting clobbered yesterday. It was real personal for me today. And I'm not faulting the drivers. It's impossible for the drivers to see when we have the right of way. Please check that out. Please, please, please. The other thing is, and I've gone on and on about this, there's the Crooked Crosswalk. There where Biscuit Love is, do you know where I mean? You push a button, okay, you push a button, all traffic's supposed to stop, and you can cross Liberty. Then you have to make a little jag, you push another button, and you may, it's good and it's well-intended.

Thank you very much. Dr. Dhrushala. Welcome.

I'm just going to do a continuation because I was cut off on my two minutes last week, so I'm going to pick up where I left off. I'm asking again for your help. I don't care if it's big or small. to get this cannabis store open up before the winter kicks in. I'm getting rumors that you've already voted on this. That hurts my feeling because I come here sincerely. I come in the name of I am that I am, the power that I serve today, because I know that power can get things done even . So I'm asking you to please, Assist me. I'm right there on that corner of California and Redding Road. These young people are actually ready for this. And it's cold out there. I've seen them last winter shaking like a leaf. I've given them all the job information I could get from the job fair at the library. I've given them all of the expungement information. And I have to be doing something at the store, want to take care of this. This was a personal thing in the beginning. Now I want to do it for their children. It's not for the grown people now. This is for those little babies I see that these people are having on that corner. And they are not, all of those people are not disrespectful out there. you'll find one or two of them will get on your nerve and then eventually they come back with a calm spirit. When they get a job, the people who they work for, they know they have these bad records, so they, you know, they kind of tick them off. They need to be more lenient with these people with these backgrounds because they need to clear up their record. I'm not saying we should feel sorry for the older people, but it takes a whole village to raise those other babies coming up in the next generation. So if anybody could help me, I'll take any help you can give me. That's all I have to say. Thank you for your time.

Thanks very much. Jeremy Hudson, welcome.

Good afternoon, Mayor Perval, members of City Council. My name is Jeremy Hudson. I'm proudly employed by and here today representing O'Rourke Wrecking Company. O'Rourke is a local woman-owned demolition environmental remediation company. We have been located within Cincinnati and performing work for its residents and businesses throughout our 65-year corporate history. I'm here today to speak specifically against Council's adoption of agenda item number 47, which modifies the city's current commercial waste hauler franchise program. The updates to this program were just introduced before the Budget and Finance Committee on Monday of this week. This ordinance represents massive regulatory changes, yet it was never vetted with industry partners. In fact, I received a copy of the updates for the very first time this morning at 11 a.m., less than three hours ago, without any prior knowledge or outreach from the city. As written, these updates place an unmanageable administrative burden on both the city and local franchisees, including requiring an estimate prepared by a registered engineer or registered architect that has to be submitted at the time of permit application for a wide variety of permits, not just demolition. Filing forms out prescribed by the city manager which have not been seen nor vetted. Filing annual reports examined by an independent certified public accountant. Maintaining atypical daily records subject at all times to review by the city. Voting to amend or modify the waste hauler franchise program needs to be paused. It must be held until these changes can be fully vetted by all impacted parties, allowing due process for public, contractor, and end user comment. Please do not pass this ordinance today. Give local businesses a seat at the table first. Thank you.

Thank you. Lincoln Ware. Is Lincoln Ware here?

Mr. Ware was called to his veterans meeting, and he came to speak about Betty Oldham Way. She was his second grade teacher, and so he said to please let you know that he apologizes.

No problem. Thank you. Our next speaker is Howard Vaughn. Welcome.

Good afternoon, all of you dignitarians. All of y'all know me. I used to work down here for 16 years. And if it wasn't for me working down here, I wouldn't be in the position I'm in right now. And the only one that tried to help me was Aptat. And I can't believe it. All of y'all know me. You know, he was the only one that stood up for me. Okay. The VA owed me money. Social Security owed me money. Over the Ram owed me money. I've been dealing with this in the military ever since I got out of Vietnam, you know, with the war and everything. And they telling me I didn't work down here, and y'all know I work down here, because y'all try to help me. But what I'm telling you is, what's coming, put your arms around me and everything, and I appreciate that. You came down, talked to me here. You seen where your pants was at over your knees. Next time, it's going to be over your head. I'm telling you, y'all don't realize at any time, this is, I want all y'all to see, this is where I was at, on the bridge. And how could I survive from that? Lord, tell me how can I survive from that? But please, please, y'all will see what's getting ready to happen. Y'all see, y'all listen, y'all love, y'all belong, y'all belong. Only one percent. Forgive them. Forgive them, God. Give them Jesus for what they're doing. They don't know what they're doing. Forgive them. Oh, Lord God, let your knees lay down.

Oh, Lord, let your knees lay down. I want to go right now.

Please, Jesus, I need you right now. I know they're going to kill you. My car, they're vandalizing everything. They're opening up the front doors. Thank you, sir. Sir, the young woman at the door could potentially support you.

Could you wave your hand, miss? Do you see her, Mr. Vaughn?

If you could chat with her.

I have to get to the next speaker, but I appreciate you coming in, Mr. Vaughn. Thank you. Stefan Pryor, please welcome.

Good afternoon council, good afternoon everyone in here. I'm looking at your agenda, agenda one, item one. His name is Reggie Harris, y'all got him here as Reginald Harris, as a planning commission. He's been here before, he left once, he don't need to come back, no shape or form. Him and his husband own a development company, I knew that years ago before he got elected, so that's a bad move, Mr. Mary Abtab, letting him be the planning commission. I wouldn't even do that. I'm glad I just think that on this agenda right here. He was here already. He shouldn't have left. His ass would have still been here, but he left early because something happened inside this building. I know about it, but I ain't going to talk about it, but Don't bring him back. Hail to the nah, hail to the nah. Then he's trying to be for CDC so he can endorse candidates that don't go together. But I'm not just here for that. I'm here for Mr. Eugene Brown. He came here last week. He's right behind me. He came here last week to speak about his property. In the blue boundary, he have a property at 1734. His property is in the Blue Boundaries right here, and it's a gate that they came and put in half of his property. I got a paper here for y'all if y'all like to see this. He's coming down here asking for help to find out why do they do that. If I own property in the Blue Boundary, how's another project manager or project company coming along and actually putting a gate in his property boundary. That's not cool, not at all. And I hope you're feeling good, Mr. Johnson, over there. You have been having your head down lately when I've come up. I don't know why. I thought me and you was cool, my brother. Your head always down when I'm speaking. I don't know why. I love you, brother. Nothing you can do about it, but you... I thought we was cool, man. I was advocating for you when you got elected. All of a sudden, your head is down. Thank you, Mr. Pryor.

Thank you, sir. Mr. Jonathan Norman, welcome.

The attention and outrage we have seen around Flock camera systems is not only just, it is just the beginning. Flock has taken the brunt of this because it is the most prominent and easily identifiable intrusive surveillance system being propped up in our communities. But they are just one of several brands, some of which, like Axon, used in this city, aims to be worse. These are surveillance systems that can be added to existing street poles, cameras added to cop cars, cameras being attached to school buses. What we're told are just license plate scans is not true. The fusus network Axon builds can bring in security cam footage, can access ring doorbells, uses footage from the drones being deployed. This network that officials and ICE have searched merely with descriptions of people. This is an issue because it's not just about trusting police to be responsible, It's also about trusting the devices themselves and the AI that governs them to be responsibly and accurately deliver the information they leech in an unbiased manner. The truth is you can't trust them to do that. As I have said over and over in here, Axon and our drones made by Skydio is all tech that has been built, used, and tested in an ongoing genocide and apartheid. We already know general AI can be more prone to misidentify and has a negative bias against minorities, especially black individuals. How should we expect AI recognizing faces of thousands of innocent people in Gaza being slaughtered to behave any better? I'm glad this council is looking into its use at a city level, but we are still underestimating what this is and who the true bad guys are. Right now, Border Patrol is running secret predictive policing teams. And they are using these cameras as part of the wide net they are throwing across all of us as they target the most vulnerable of us. AI that is breaking the boundaries that its makers put in place. We can say we want to limit sharing of data, but ICE and this administration aren't the sharing type. They are the skirting the law and the taking type. You can look to Nashville that ended this exact type of contract we're dealing with. They noted that regardless of the guardrails they put in place, they could not guarantee limiting ICE's access to this network. You have a chance to be proactive here before this becomes a crisis and a tragedy in this city. The only way forward is canceling these contracts and removing these instruments of harm.

Stanford Poole, welcome.

You know what, if they had a grading system for you guys, you would get an F. You got the ability to do something, but you're not. You are doing stuff for the rich guys or the poor authority or the rich guys that you had 37 people meeting for two years and gave them $2 million to come up with scheme to fill their pocket and put a dirty, muddy boots on the poor people. Make taxes for us that we working. and you continue to steal property from black neighborhoods. Do you understand all the black neighborhoods were redlined for 60 years? But every six months you took taxes out of it and then put a dime in, then take a weed out of that neighborhood, and you took it to High Park, Mount Adam, and downtown. And now you're still stealing. We got brown people on this council and letting it happen. The mayor should be a leader. People voted for him, thought he was going to be a leader, but he's not. Whoever pulled on the screen behind that wall is the leader. You guys don't own anything. You're tenants. That's what you are. Trump is a tenant, and you are a tenant. You're supposed to be here to help the people, but the only thing you're doing is filling up the port-a-sorty now. If a person with a house that stayed here and paid the taxes, you don't want to help them. But you give $4 million to DC3C, you give $4 million on the river, and you do $2 million for the rich people that started 2525, just like Trump got. You guys are no different than Trump. You're hiding behind a thing to say you're a Democrat. You let a Palestinian lady get spit on out there on your property. Mary, you didn't do nothing. You got a wife. Scotty, you got family.

Our next speaker is Todd Zinsser. Welcome.

Good afternoon. My name is Todd Zinsser from West Price Hill, and I wanted to follow up on the Westline Flats issue. Yesterday, Mr. Tidd failed to tell the committee that I get the opportunity to respond to his motion to dismiss my lawsuit and, if appropriate, go to the Court of Appeals. That's called due process. Second, if you read paragraph 48 on page 9 of my complaint, it basically says that if I prevail, the planning commission action on the plan development is invalidated. And if the city council goes forward, you could potentially be ratifying an illegal action which could have its own consequences. In fact, if the council went into executive session to discuss pending litigation, that would actually be a legitimate purpose of an executive session. Finally, Ms. Albee, just so you know, My mother's family was poor and came to Cincinnati as far down in Kentucky as you can come from.

My father's family were poor German immigrant pig farmers from Indiana.

After she came to Cincinnati, my grandmother, who was a single mother, worked as a domestic, scrubbing the floors of rich people who lived along Harrison Avenue in Westwood. I vividly remember One of my father's uncles lived in a disgusting, impoverished German tenement in Over the Rhine when I was a very young boy. I am proud of my heritage. Ms. Albee, please don't try to tell me about poor people. So you are on notice. The next time you try to put words in my mouth and imply or suggest that I am some kind of bigot against poor people, I'm going to sue you for defamation. and your continued attempts to assassinate Mike. Thank you very much.

All right, Eugene Brown, welcome.

Yes, I'm Mr. Eugene Brown.

This is my third time.

This is my third time here. And basically I've brung down some paperwork to show you where the boundaries of my property is and where the fence It's going across my property at 1734 Republic Street. This is the fence that's going across. Here's the blue line that shows the boundary of my property. And they put a fence up. Nobody can tell me who fence it is or where it come from or anything. This my third time down here and basically could I get some kind of information on who fence it is or what it may be I'd be satisfied, you know what to do next You know, but anybody would like any question of the paper or anything So Yes, this is my third time down here. I haven't got no information whatsoever about it. They're saying somebody tried to get in touch with me, but I put down my number. They didn't try to get in touch with me, period, if you ask me. And they want me to call them, so basically they need to call me. Anybody tell me anything? Would anybody like any of these papers to see exactly where 37, I mean 1734 Republic is?

Mr. Brown, I'm sorry. Go ahead. Would you like to add anything else? So I just talked to my colleague about this. Apparently several different folks have tried to reach out to you over the last couple of weeks and you haven't answered your phone. Would it be possible for you to call them?

I don't think they tried to call me whatsoever. Regardless. I didn't try to call them. I mean, I haven't tried to call them, but I don't think they tried to call me. Fair enough. That's why I'm down here now.

I'm not in any ways.

I've asked them to call me.

Okay. Mr. Brown, I'm not in any way suggesting that that's not true, but I think it would be helpful if you could just call them. Would that be okay? It'd be helpful if they called me. What I'm trying to articulate is that they've tried to call you, according to them, not suggesting that you're lying. But to cut through it, can you just call them? Would that be easier? To me, I think they're lying. So, either or. Noah, in the back, can give you the number for you to call if you'd like to call them, or if you'd like to pick up the phone, we would like to help.

Yes, sir.

Okay, thank you. Jerry Coach, or Gerald Coach, potentially? Welcome.

Got a video here for us, Counsel. It's a video of officers Lisa Johnson and Denise Burns locking me in a police car and turning the heat on. This vehicle is not going to start, but they will assert that the ventilation is pumping. I ain't been coming down here begging y'all this because I'm a cop hater. This is the middle of July. I went to the CCA. They put my home address on a public record that my home address has nothing to do with. John Kennedy is a man. He ain't got nobody overseeing him. I went in here, y'all. We fought for about 50 minutes, maybe. John Kennedy was defending himself because I took him all the evidence that I got out of the public record search. The case been closed for over eight months and he just now presented it last month because I pressed him to do it. With this all being said, I knew he was having it. This here evidence right here though. I'm in the background pressing on my belt. Come on man, you'll hear me if you listen. Sam Burbanks ordered a motion to remit. He wanted them to take the case over with, but then on city cable, that part disappeared. They had a unanimous vote on the motion to remit. This evidence here is clear. No engine turns over. That's why, you know, think about the Owensby, Roger Owensby and stuff.

Our next speaker is Jamie Bryant. Welcome.

Good afternoon, members of Cincinnati City Council. My name is Jamie Bryant, and I stand before you today as an eyewitness and personal advocate for Gary Coach. Last July, Mr. Coach was subjected to an egregious police misconduct when officers locked him inside an unventilated police car, handcuffed, and in the sweltering middle of July heat. That is not standard procedure. That is excessive force under the Fourth Amendment, a violation of his civil rights and a life-threatening act of deliberate indifference. Right is right and wrong is wrong. The officer's misconduct was wrong, yet they were found exonerated. When we brought this before the Citizens Complaint Authority, the system broke down further. At the September 9th meeting, CCA Board Chair Samuel Burbanks introduced a motion to remit CCA case 25134 which passed unanimously. Multiple witnesses, including myself, Mr. Coach, Adoria Bryant, and a League of Women Voters rep watched this vote occur live in council chambers. Yet when we were called out on omission, excuse me, yet when we called out this omission via email, John Kennedy emailed me back claiming no footage was altered, CCA cannot alter the city cable, and the case is closed. That is unacceptable and factually inaccurate. The city cable broadcast posted online completely omitted that motion and unanimous vote. Passing the buck between city departments does not excuse wiping official proceedings from the public record. Tempering with public records violates ORC 121.22, 149.351, 29.13.42 in the city's records policy. Section 5.00 of the CPD manual alongside Brady and Giglio demand strict honesty and preservation of evidence from investigators.

Thank you. Bishop Sonny James, welcome.

Good afternoon, Bishop Sonny James. I came by today to encourage all of you on October the 17th, my 14 year old daughter, Sonny Renee, who some of you may be aware of through the CCP program. She started college in the eighth grade, her first semester in college, not online, but actually at the university, she received a 4.0 GPA. She's announced that she wants to be the first Congresswoman at age 25. She wants to run for mayor of Norwood at 18. But she asked me a question recently. She said, Daddy, she said, we see all that you're trying to do in this community, but Daddy, as a preacher, Why am I not seeing your peers out on the block with you going to rescue the most vulnerable of my peers? And she challenged me and she said, I expect more out of you, Daddy. And she said on October 17th, it won't be your come together event. It's going to be mine and the youth. And I've made a commitment. to not just stand behind the pulpit, but to actually get into the lives. I thought I was doing the work. I thought I'd been doing pretty good. But my 14-year-old daughter is now saying, we've got to come together, and we've got to bring together the most vulnerable of our youth. Their lives might not be perfect, and yes, they might be making some mistakes, but I'm encouraging all of you on October the 17th to please prioritize that. It's going to be free food, and at the end we're going to have a free concert, a tribute to Motown.

Thank you. Noah Diagaraga? Please be patient. Welcome, Noah.

All right.

Could we tilt the mic down? There we go.

My bad. Good afternoon, Mayor, people, and council members. My name is Noah. I'm here with BDSOP's Sonny James to ask all of you to please help with the young and youth adults struggling with crime and gun violence in our city to young adults. I need help in so many of the youth, so come support us on October 17th in Norway. Thank you.

Thank you. Great job. Jason Winbush, welcome.

Good afternoon, everybody.

My name is Jason Wimbush with the Young CEO Program, also a board member for the Mount Airy Town Council. I think about May we had your sanitation department come and we talked about the delay and yard waste that was being picked up maybe two weeks to 30 days later than normal. As we see that there is I guess a continued issue with staffing roughly four or five, six months later. And so I come with possible solution. I was on vacation in Florida, Palm Bay to be exact, and they have a sanitation where they have one person and they have a robotic arm that actually comes out and picks up the trash cans and dump it on its own so nobody has to get out of the vehicle and pick up trash, go to the curb, things of nature. So I'm just here today to offer a possible solution for our staffing shortages and maybe look into getting some different type of vehicles that can help this situation in the future. So it might be a heavy investment up front, but it might be best in the long run. So I'm just here to offer a possible solution if you guys would like to look into that. Thank you.

Have a great day. Thank you. Connie Brightbiel, welcome.

I am speaking in opposition to the subsidized housing in Westwood. I live in Westwood, and this housing development, 167 units, is supposed to be on a small street called Glen Hills Way. It's not on Ferguson, as it's announced. All there is is a road driveway to Ferguson. It's on Glen Hills Way. And this is what is on this small street, Glen Hills Way. There's Walgreens. There's the Ford dealership. There's St. Vincent de Paul. There's La Rosa's Call Center. And then there is another building on the east, that street. And it's several people of business, but one of them is a liquor store. So that's the small street. And across the street, immediately across the street, is Walmart and Kroger's. In front of Kroger's is a police department. All that is in one small area. It's just too small for that many housing development. I asked for a plan of the housing development. I got a reply as to how many units there were and how many parking spaces. But there was nothing said about where children play. Where are children supposed to play? In the street? So let's go on to the traffic. I called the traffic division. I asked them if there was a study being done. And yes, just on Glen Hills Way, but not on Boudinot. Boudinot is a block away. Boudinot is the corridor from Price Hill to the north, which ends in Westwood Northern Boulevard that goes to Green Township on one side and Clifton on the other. The traffic is horrendous there. I live near Work Road and Westbrook, and there is accident after accident after accident. And you want to put more traffic on there. And also on that street is a school, a Montessori school. If you ever go there in the morning, or you go there when they're closing, when they're...

Thank you very much. Kent Evans, welcome.

Thank you for being allowed to speak. Governance of this city should factor in the rules at the federal level, having been completely turned upside down. Bull rush acts daring Congress to match the exuberant illegal acts were not met with an equal challenge. I'm not even looking to blame anyone. It's unprecedented. We all know this, OK? And yet we have the power to do things at this level. And so I'm going to continue. The malevolent federal administration then plays that the normal process is made right by offering tip line phone numbers. That just recently happened. Can you imagine that? The same behavior is being patterned at the state level. Whoever asked for data centers? Did anyone know about data centers coming through? Anyone?

I don't think anyone back here did.

I know I didn't. I urge each of you with our city's administration to utilize the same energy and fix issues that need attention when everything was working normally. Let's start with the regressive flat municipal income tax. I know it's ruled by the state, but look at what the state is doing. They don't consider the citizenry. Also, have a discussion on tax abatement returns. The length of time is excessive. That's something you guys definitely participate in. Finally, start vetting the Futures Committee recommendations. I just read this morning's paper that we have one of the four billionaires supposedly THAT'S OPERATING IN A FAMILY ENTERPRISE. THEY OWN A FOOTBALL COMPANY THAT GETS MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF PUBLIC MONEY.

NEW SPEAKER THANK YOU. MOVING TO ZOOM, MIKE, WELCOME.

NEW SPEAKER YES, HELLO. THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK TODAY. CAN YOU HEAR ME?

NEW SPEAKER YES, GO AHEAD.

NEW SPEAKER SO I WAS COMING BACK HERE AGAIN TO Follow up on what's being done about the fraud that Greater Cincinnati Water Works commits against people when they charge a monthly base rate when they have the water turned off at the meter, claiming that it is only for them being ready to provide something and for people having access to it, not actually using it or having access because Greater Cincinnati Water Works has it turned off at the meter. I've been coming here dozens and dozens of times. I heard somebody earlier say that this is only their third time. And yet you are following up with him. Nobody's followed up with me. Not once. I've called dozens and dozens of times to all of your offices, but nobody has ever followed up with me about this issue. Now, of course, I pointed out that this is a violation of Ohio Revised Code 2913 fraud statute because the city is receiving money for providing nothing of value. I've also pointed out that this is not ethical. I don't think anybody here would agree that it's ethical for a company to charge people a monthly base rate just because they're ready to provide something and for people having access to it. Because if it was and it is legal, imagine if every company sent you a bill just for being ready to provide something and people having access to it's just not right but nobody's doing anything about it nobody's contacting me about it nothing is being done i've been coming here for over a year and a half by zoom and i don't see any results yet i would love to know what is being done i've even contacted the fraud waste and abuse hotline they don't return my calls either so

you sir our next speaker is also on zoom amber cassam welcome thanks can you hear me yes go ahead thank you appreciate that um yesterday i listened to the city council talk about westline development and what i heard was fundamentally dishonest and ignores housing equity The $38,000 a cop and teacher jobs are wrong, and they're lying. And now you guys are lying. CPD recruits during the academy make closer to $60,000 to $77,000, and teachers make $55,000 to $60,000 in CPS starting out. If you guys require your argument to have bad numbers, that says something about your integrity when you claim to care about working class people who can't compete with vouchers. You guys are liars. Evan, poverty doesn't disappear because your map was zoomed in on parking lots. Tract 109 and Block 1004 is around $29,000. Your neighborhood has a median income of almost $80,000. That's why poverty doesn't resonate with you at all, you cornball. Nika, your neighborhood includes a track that has $55,000 up to another track of $82,000 with a census block of around $100,000. Housing equity cannot mean putting the lowest income households wherever the land is cheapest and the farthest away from you and the east side. That's not equity. Anna, your neighborhood is essentially fully gentrified. You've supported adding residents while increasing property values. So let's be honest about how you view development in this city. Jeff, you're the only one making sense. Will you enforce 25% voucher maximum? Will you require a CPD officer? Will you require 75 percent of the people to be employed and not take vouchers? Because otherwise, west side just or absorbs another concentration of vouchers and the east side continues to gentrify. LBG is building a no income development, not a 60 percent AMI development.

Thank you, Amber. Our next speaker is in person, Antoinette Wells. Welcome.

Okay.

Hi. Okay. Good afternoon. I was coming in on behalf of my son that's incarcerated here in Hamilton County Justice Center unjustly. He's been in there 10 months. for drug abuse and just a minor resistant arrest with a $262,000 bond with a 24 hour 7 EMU. He was taken to UC Hospital during the time of the arrest, ventilated, clothes cut off. UC does not have a record, neither does the Justice Center. But I got transcripts from 801 Broadway, I mean 801 Lens stating that that was his secondary transport. location. We're thinking that they admitted him and adjusted in the hospital, but the police officers took him anyway. We don't have the record, but I do have that. He was taken there. Justice center said it's illegal for them to have him without a discharge paper. Secondly, he has had three different attorneys on this case. The attorneys overheard some information on a phone call about, I can, well, Something that happened, the person is dead now, so the information is null and void. They held my son in jail trying to make him give information up. He's like, the guy's dead, he's dead, so it's nothing to discuss. Attorney's been lying, getting continuances for the state, but he lied and said that the state been asked, and we busted him, pulled up the records. He withdrew from the case yesterday after he got busted and we confronted him on Thursday. He withdrew yesterday. We gotta go through this all over again. And this is Judge Katie Cash that's giving these outrageous bonds for these minor cases to people. It's insane and something needs to be looked at. And they're also at the Justice Center denying my son his materials to go to court pro se because we were.

Thank you, thank you. Mark, last name starts with a K. I apologize. It looks like K-U-T-Y Lowski.

Great.

Welcome, Mark.

First off, I just want to say thank you to everyone. I'm sure you guys get enough people coming with issues. So I wanted to talk about recycling in Cincinnati. I JUST WANT TO SAY YOU GUYS ARE DOING A WONDERFUL JOB. I KNOW THAT I'VE HEARD AT LEAST 300 RECYCLING BINS HAVE BEEN ADDED THROUGHOUT THE CINCINNATI. I LIVE IN LOVELAND AND I'VE TOLD THEM ABOUT THE HAMILTON COUNTY GRANT THERE AND THEY ADDED RECYCLING BINS UP THERE. I'VE GONE TO 36 OF THE 48 HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITIES TO ADVOCATE FOR ADDING RECYCLING BINS IN THEIR DOWNTOWN AREA. I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU GUYS HAVE DONE TO PUSH FOR RECYCLING BINS IN CINCINNATI. I KNOW THERE'S ABOUT 50 NEIGHBORHOODS IN CINCINNATI. I'D JUST LIKE TO ENCOURAGE TO KEEP GOING THERE AS WELL, TOO, WHETHER I KNOW I'VE SEEN THEM IN OAKLEY. I THINK I SAW THEM IN WESTWOOD THE OTHER DAY. Tide Park, downtown, obviously. I just want to encourage you guys to keep going with that. I've helped to recycle about 1.5 million items over the past four years through cleanups. Semi partnered with a nonprofit called the Onion Bag Litter Prevention Project that's helped to clean up more than 4 million items across the state actually, including here in Cincinnati as well too. And if anyone wants to follow up or have any questions, feel free to reach out. But again, I know you guys have enough people probably coming with things. Just wanted to say thank you guys and hope you guys all have a wonderful day.

Thank you. Gary Hodges, welcome.

Gary Hodge is the second, and I'm confusing you with my dad. Now, as many years as I've known Mark Blackman, Scotty, why have I not met you?

Sir, if you could speak into the mic.

As many years as I've known Mark Blackman, why have I not met you, Scotty? Especially when I'm connected to here. You know, I've got 35 years of my life out here on these streets. I've known Mark Blackman for 20 of them. He's basically married to your niece or related by marriage, okay? After my bus run, which moved every man in black, from Florida to Ohio, I'm out here bouncing my head off the walls, wondering why I can't get any help. with this national problem where the rapists and chumos are supposed to be put on these buses and brought to justice. To come to find out that you exposed my family, the SWAT team here, playing games, all right? So now we've got little girls being raped by adults, okay? And we got Ronisha Stinson sitting in the Justice Center for over four years now because she went through the due process, okay? Due gets two years. Cone's out looking for seconds. Well, Joe Dieter's got on national TV, I'm not stopping, saying that I'll never tell you you couldn't kill to protect. I'll never say that. So she kills a dude. Now she's got to fight a murder charge. Why? I can't get the help I need. They used a foster care system when I was 13 years old to move me from Hamilton County to Claremont County to drop me in enemy territory, right there where my dad, being an Iron Horseman, would be his enemy. You know, I've got all these issues sitting here. And the only way I can get any help is out here on the streets. And then when we commit the murders, like Christian Montgomery had to go over there to commit a double homicide, which was needed for the cause. Then we got to go in prison for the rest of our lives. You know, when are you going to do your due diligence? Because you're my dad's age. It's your mess regardless. To clean it up. Especially with your title sitting here. Get up off your ass and earn your keep, bro. 100. 100. And you will answer to all the women out there to be victimized because of you, because of what I'm doing here, and putting the guys on... Okay, thank you. Thank you very much.

Sir, there's a woman at the door. Sir? Sir? Hey, sir? Sir? Miss, if you could help him. Thank you. Okay, Paula Gasper, welcome.

It's Glasper. I have been here 60 years and suffer from a mental illness. Here lately, it's like the whole Cincinnati area knows that I have a mental illness and what I suffer from. I'm having problems with my adult daughter disrespectful. I don't know if he put something on the internet or what. Speaking to doctors and what have you, if they feel like you are a threat to the community, out to do something to someone, I guess they could put a bulletin out about it. I don't know. Like I said, 60 years and all of a sudden, I'm homeless. I'm walking the streets talking to myself looking totally ridiculous. I'm being harassed by police making comments. I'm being harassed by firemen when I'm trying to commit suicide. They can speak of things that I haven't told anybody. You know, HIPAA, I guess it's not alive. I have no privacy. No one to help me with housing, affordable housing. All I get is no, no, no. And just need some respect. And HIPAA should be alive. Because if it would have been alive, I wouldn't have got my check. It was a lawsuit. It took about two years. But I'm going to make this short and simple. I'm crazy, not stupid. So to the doctor, he know what he did when I was in there. Like, hey, I can go on. And he knew my condition. And I blathered it out.

Thank you, Miss. Thank you very much. We have one more speaker who's on Zoom. Derek Blazingame, welcome, sir. Derek Blazingame, welcome, sir.

I can tell you I'm not no heterosexual. I never had no girlfriend. I never had no relationship with no woman. So don't try to put me in that category. You don't put me in many categories. I want to clarify something to the people of the city of Cincinnati. For the record, I do not hate the city of Atlanta. The city of Atlanta is where I got my college education. The city of Atlanta is where I got my college degree. The city of Atlanta is where I went from 501 pounds to 214 pounds. The city of Atlanta is where I found a path that would work for me. The city of Atlanta is where I found love and people who treated me like a human being. So I do not hate the city of Atlanta. So stop trying to project those things in my mind and my thoughts. Now, For everybody on this council, you all want to spend $6 million on hiring police officers. Why don't you explore alternatives to hiring more police officers? Police officers are good for society, but $6 million more of taxpayers' money when we already put 60-plus percent investment in our public safety? Find alternatives. Find other avenues to reduce crime and to eliminate violence and to encourage people to find alternative dispute resolutions than to killing and hurting each other. The other thing, finally, I want to encourage the Good Samaritans of Cincinnati, get your trucks. Hire some youth, go clean up the shit and the garbage that's all around the city of Cincinnati because the city failed to get your garbage, collect your garbage. Derek Blassingame, the biggest and baddest to ever do it. Fuck Scotty Johnson, I holla.

All right. I WOULD REMIND EVERYONE TO PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL DURING PUBLIC COMMENT, TO REFRAIN FROM PROFANITY, BUT THAT IS THE END OF TODAY'S PUBLIC COMMENT. IT IS NOW 2.23, AND WE WILL BEGIN TODAY'S BUSINESS PORTION OF CINCINNATI CITY COUNCIL, AND THE CLERK WILL PLEASE CALL THE ROLL.

COUNCIL MEMBER ALBIE. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER CRAMERDING. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER JAMES.

HERE.

COUNCIL MEMBER JEFFRIES.

HERE.

COUNCIL MEMBER JOHNSON.

HERE.

Vice Mayor Kearney.

Here.

Council Member Nolan. Here. Council Member Owens.

Here.

Council Member Walsh.

Here. Please stand for a moment of silence. And now the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The minutes from the previous meeting will be approved and filed without objection. Hearing none, they'll be approved and filed. Moving to our agenda, we're going to start with item number 11, and we will now recognize Councilmember Jeffries for a resolution from Vice Mayor Kearney, Councilmember Jeffries, Councilmember Albee, Kramerding, James, Owens, recognizing Keep Cincinnati Beautiful's Don't Dump the Natty program and expressing the support of the Mayor and Council for Keep Cincinnati Beautiful's work to combat illegal dumping, promote environmental stewardship, and provide emergency cleanup support following catastrophic flash flooding in Cincinnati. Mr. Jeffries.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Well, I'm joined by folks from Keep Cincinnati Beautiful. We all know KCB. They've been around since 1978, so their work is not new to folks. But given recent events, we thought it would be important to highlight some of their recent work. especially around Dump the Natty. So, as many people know, we have a pretty significant, have had a pretty significant problem with illegal dumping throughout parts of the city. The Don't Dump the Natty program has reduced it by, I think, over 35%, which is substantial, because it also is, illegal dumping costs the city two, three million dollars a year, plus it's obviously blight on the neighborhood. But this past year, they held nine Don't Dump the Natty events, and I want to read off some of the stats from that as well as from the flood relief as well. So the nine events removed, I'm not going to read all the exact numbers, but over a million pounds of litter and debris, over 74,000 pounds of tires, diverting 247,000 pounds of recyclable material, and 1,350 participating vehicles being served. Also, I would say, given the flash flood events that encompassed a lot of neighborhoods in our city, it was very unexpected. On July 31st, they scaled their capacity and allowed a lot more debris to be collected. They engaged 270 local participants, diverting and removing 147,000 pounds of landfill waste, just this one event. 14,000 pounds of landfill debris, 4,250 pounds of scrap metal, 270 pounds of e-waste and 2000 pounds of cargo recycling and 300 tires. So that's a lot. The point being, a lot of work, a lot of diversion that otherwise would often go into our neighborhoods. because people don't want to drive over to Coleraine. And so thank you for that contribution. And this resolution just acknowledges the work that you've done. And thank you for continuing to serve the people of Cincinnati. So with that, I'll turn it over to the mayor and my colleagues for additional comments. Jonathan, do you want to make a comment first?

Of course.

Naturally. This is true. I just wanted to highlight the people who really have done the work. And also just to mention that this was one of those necessity being the mother of invention. We've always tried to catch bad guys doing illegal dumping. And it's kind of playing whack-a-mole. And during the portion of our strategy, we thought, why don't we incentivize people who want to act lawfully? We had surveyed some of the people that had been caught doing illegal dumping. And they were like, we want to act lawfully, but it's just totally inconvenient. So what else are we going to do? So Alistair and his team created Don't Dump the Natty. And how we started was we went out to all the illegal dump sites and put up signs saying you don't have to do this. Come to this centralized location and it has grown and it is something that I think that the city can be proud of. Diverting up to a million and a half pounds of otherwise dumped material and being a true waste diversion event into e-waste and scrap metal and furniture and tires and all those things is something that we can be really proud of. So I want to congratulate Alistair and Jada for doing this and also to congratulate our board, Courtney Reitman-Deinlein as our board chair, just for allowing us to be entrepreneurial and setting those boundaries, but relying on KCB to be true problem solvers. And we love doing that for the city.

Thank you, Jonathan. Thank you. Comments from Council? Vice Mayor?

Councilmember Jeffries, thank you so much for bringing Jonathan Ady here and the Keep Cincinnati Beautiful team. You know, as Councilmember Jeffery said, Keep Cincinnati Beautiful does a lot of work that the city would have to do. So you help us a lot with litter over a million pounds. That's a lot of litter in one year. I mean, that's amazing. But I wanted you to please say again about the end of the month is the last Friday of the month. Where do we come? What time? Because I think that's really important. I know for tires, there's a limit of 10 tires, but that's still a lot. And so it's just good for us to know about that. Tell us one more time.

Thank you for reminding me of that. So the next Don't Dump the Natty event is next Friday, which is September the 25th. Last Friday of the month, 9 to noon, at 841 West 6th Street, the old Hutipol place, and there will be many Packer trucks there. We'll have folks there to accept your e-waste, your concrete, landscape debris, plenty of tires. The litter study from Keep America Beautiful just came out. And there's an increase in over 40% in the amount of littered and illegally dumped tires over the last five years. So that's another important element of this. But it's next Friday, 9 to noon.

And that includes furniture, mattresses, all of that, right? Yes, okay.

Yeah, I also want to thank you, Council. Thank you for all the support for this program.

It's just grown year after year. This is our fourth year doing it.

So we really appreciate Everybody coming out, I know some folks have come out and just seen the production that it takes to hold these events. But this month we're starting a partnership with Hamilton County Resource and Office of Environment and Sustainability through the City of Cincinnati to start taking hazardous waste, household hazardous waste. So we're really excited to start taking that waste for our residents. Stay tuned for that. Check our website for all information. You do have to preregister for that. And so the event is 9 to 1, and we will be going through November.

I say that because I leave at noon.

And may I just, just to close up, because I don't want to steal Councilmember Scotty Johnson's thunder. I see he's out of his seat, but I know he's the one who advocated. for the jobs, for funding for the jobs van that you're doing with the City Gospel Mission where you drive around and you get folks who need employment. And so thank you for that as well.

Thank you. Any comments on this side? Mr. Nolan? Oh, I'm sorry.

I didn't see. Okay. Council Member Johnson was sitting back from his seat. I didn't see him. I'm sorry. I thought you had gone. I'm sorry about that.

Mr. Johnson, did you want to make a comment? I just want to thank them, Mayor. Thanks for the amazing work you continue to do. I'm sorry, I couldn't see. A clean city is a good city, and you're making sure that we do that.

So keep up the amazing work, and thank you very much for what you do. Thank you, President Johnson. Okay, we'll go Mr. Nolan, then Ms. Albee, then Ms. Helens.

Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Councilmember Jeffries, for bringing this forward. I also want to offer my congratulations on the recognition of this program. This is one of the many things that you do to help us out here in Cincinnati. Jonathan, you're a regular here in City Hall, so it's always good to see you. And also want to just call out the block party that's happening on Friday to celebrate the new location as a part of the growing work that you're doing. So congratulations.

Thank you for the resolution. Team, this is great work. You know, we in Cincinnati all love our city, and we want to see a clean, healthy Cincinnati, and this work's just so critical, so thank you for it. You know, I wish more individuals took it upon themselves to do this proactively, and we didn't have to do so much cleanup, but I am grateful for all your volunteers. I mean, there are hundreds, maybe thousands of people who aren't in the room right now who equally deserve recognition and thanks, so please pass that along from us. to them, so thank you for all that work.

So thank you, thank you, thank you. You are doing work that we couldn't do without you, and so we appreciate that. And what I also want to recognize is that you do this work because you care. And so we thank you for bringing yourself into this. I've been to your operation, and it is a well-run, well-oiled machine, even on these hot, hot days. And Jonathan, you bring pizza and make everybody happy, including myself. So thank you. And I also want to thank our DPS workers who are on site as well, helping to add to the efficiency of this operation. Thank you for the collaboration and partnership.

Thank you. Any final comments?

Mr. James. Hello, KCB. Thank you so much for coming in today. I'm excited to be a part of a city council that in the last year has been taking our relationship so seriously and hopefully deepening this marriage here, realizing that keeping Cincinnati beautiful is not just your organization name, but a responsibility that we share together and excited to walk arm in arm with you in this work. I will say that coming from the nonprofit sector, a lot of organizations of your influence, of your size, of your recognition in the community, are not fighters like you all, I've realized over the last few months. Alistair, I feel like we're bros now. I've seen you at so many community impact bros at events and I see you constantly, so I feel like we have a kinship there. Jonathan, it's been fantastic to deepen a relationship with you here in the last few weeks. Not many executive directors are on the ground fighting tooth or nail for the survival and success of their organization like you are. You are not behind a monitor in an office somewhere. You are with the people. So it's exciting to work with you and I'm so excited to deepen our relationship. So KCB, you do wonderful work and I'm excited to walk this walk with you. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll add my congratulations as well. Well earned and thank you so much for all your hard work. Roll call on passage of the resolution please.

Council Member Albee? Yes. Council Member Kramerding? Yes. Council Member James?

Yes.

Council Member Jeffries?

Yes.

Council Member Johnson? Yes. Vice Mayor Kearney? Yes. Council Member Nolan? Yes. Council Member Owens? Yes. Council Member Walsh?

Yes. It passes. Congratulations. Item 12, we will now recognize Council Member Albee for a resolution recognizing Christy Brown and expressing the appreciation of the Mayor and the Council of the City of Cincinnati for Ms. Brown's Diligent work for Greater Cincinnati's nonprofit agencies. Ms. Albee.

All right, all right. Well, come stand next to me and we'll face the crowd here.

Here is the resolution if you'd like to hold it.

We got a fancy frame for you. So I'm excited today to recognize Christy Brown for your work with One Source and beyond. Most of the resolution focuses on one source, but we know you've been an amazing partner and member of this community. So without further ado, I will read the resolution. So recognizing Christy Brown, expressing the appreciation of the mayor and the council of the city of Cincinnati for her diligent work for Greater Cincinnati's nonprofit agencies. Whereas for the last 11 years, Christy served as CEO of One Source Center for Nonprofit Excellence, and through this leadership has created more opportunity, strengthened the economy, and elevated lives across Greater Cincinnati. Whereas Christy led One Source Center through several organizational Changes such as a merger between resource and ESCC, moved a warehouse and offices from Sharonville to Queensgate, we love having you in the city, began remote distributions of donated product to better serve outlying areas, the expansion of the leadership programs and fostered a stronger sense of collaboration across the entire nonprofit sector. Whereas Christie most recently worked to merge OneSource and Leadership Council and Social Venture Partners. Whereas throughout her tenure, Christy has led the organization in consulting over 500 projects and individuals, and whereas Christy retired as CEO of one source for non-profit excellence on July 31st, 2026, after serving more than a decade leading the organization's expansion across Greater Cincinnati. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Council of City Cincinnati, the mayor in this council hereby recognize Christy Brown for her tireless work in the non-profit sector for non-profit organizations, in communities across Cincinnati. Congratulations, Christy. So, Christy, I'm so excited to recognize your work today. So, I first learned about OneSource and their amazing mission a handful years ago. My mom, who's been retired for a bit, came home and was like, I just signed up to be a coach with this great organization, OneSource. They are the nonprofit that serves nonprofits. As many of us know, oftentimes non-profit starts because an amazing person has an idea to give back to the community, and they just jump head in, head first. Sometimes it takes a little extra coaching and support behind the scenes to get the infrastructure up and running. The work you all do is empowering what was it, 500 projects and organizations to really do that boots on the ground work to serve our community. I know each one of my colleagues up here, we really value what our nonprofits do and the support you provide across the community has been extraordinary. Your leadership in this area has been invaluable and you have earned a well-deserved retirement and it is very exciting to honor you and recognize your work today. So congratulations.

Would you like to say a few words? Just thank you to the council for your support for all the nonprofits. I always say when I'm at a fundraiser, I remind people, I say, imagine what our city would be like without the nonprofits. So even here today, this was my first time sitting at a council meeting and listening to some of the challenges that you hear from residents. A lot of those are being addressed by the help of nonprofits that are helping in different areas. So I thank you for your support for the nonprofit community because it certainly helps our city thrive. Thank you.

So why am I here? I'm Rob Reif-Snyder. I have been serving with great honor as the board chair for One Source Center for Nonprofits and have prior to that was on the board and on the board of the Executive Service Corps, which was a predecessor organization that Christie helped merge with resource to become one source. I I really was honored to be the board chair when Christie was coming to a conclusion about her career and deciding to retire. We had a lot on our plate. The organization is doing great work. The 500 projects that you mentioned, Councilwoman, was just the tip of the iceberg. 750 nonprofit leaders have been trained by OneSource over the years, and I just want to say thank you to the council for recognizing Christy in this way. It's been an honor and a pleasure to work with you, and I know we'll continue to do so. and that's right so christie was very important in in starting uh discussions with two or three other non-profits to see if we could come together and merge one source center the leadership council for non-profits and svp associate venture partner cincinnati all provide great services to nonprofits to help them build their capacity, strengthen their services, strengthen their boards, and so on. In the idea that there may be too many nonprofits sometimes and we can be strengthened by consolidating and merging, Christie provided great leadership to that effort. We worked for close to a year to bring these nonprofits together and We just recently announced the Beam Center for Nonprofits, which is the merger of these three organizations. I'm going to be serving as the inaugural board chair, and we are very excited about that work and hope you'll continue to support that work as we go forward.

Wonderful. Congratulations. Comments from council? I see Mr. Jeffries and then the vice mayor.

Yeah, thank you, Councilman Baraboli, for this acknowledgement. So I just wanted to give an anecdotal story of the value of OneSource. So if people remember, it was a little more than two years ago, Red Bike, their board, basically decided to shut it down. And there were a small group of folks, myself included, who said, no, we think this needs to remain, but clearly it's a nonprofit that needs help. And through Interact for Health, they funded a consultant through OneSource, and this gentleman basically went out and benchmarked all other systems in the country, looked at the financials, what's the right board structure, and the result is a really awesome board now. The head of Metro is on the board, Citi has a representative among others, but more importantly, also Red Bike just had a record year record ridership right now beat 2023, and they're on a lot better footing. So all the work, both structural and strategic, that your consultant helped with just was hugely valuable. And so seeing it firsthand, and I think it's really important and valuable, the work that OneSource does. And so thank you for that, and all the best on your next chapter, whatever that is.

Thank you. Congratulations, Councilmember Albee. Thank you for bringing Christy Brown here. So excited about you being here in City Hall today and getting honored. You know, your work with helping nonprofits work together really means a lot. You know, often everybody's working in silos and, you know, we are stronger together. So congratulations. I want to say to Rob Reif-Snyder, thank you for your 17 years of being president and CEO of our United Way. I think you finished in like 2018, and you've kept going. So thank you so much for your work in the past and now. Thank you, both of you.

Mr. Nolan. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Councilmember Albee, for bringing this forward. Christy, I want to say congratulations. I know you've had the opportunity to work very closely with my spouse, Lisa, to bring this merger to reality. It really is a testament to your legacy to see these organizations come together to build on the work that you've done and really accelerate and enhance the work going forward through BEAM. So congratulations. Thank you. Thank you.

And finally, Ms. Owens.

Thank you. Lisa is great. No, I just want to say, yes, absolutely, thank you. We live in such a giving city where, yes, we have an ecosystem where there's a lot of nonprofits. And so to be able to pause and ask, how can we work more effectively together? How can we collaborate? Not many people will do that, but it's what we must do when we think about how we serve our residents at the end of the day, how effective that is. And so it's important that we remain innovative and we continue to think about impact and going upstream. So I thank you for what you have represented in this ecosystem.

And I'll add my congratulations as well. Thank you so much for sharing your talent with so many vulnerable and needy communities. Congratulations. Roll call on passage of the resolution, please.

Councilmember Albee? Yes. Councilmember Kramerding?

Yes.

Councilmember James? Yes. Councilmember Jeffries?

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson?

Vice Mayor Kearney? Yes. Council Member Nolan? Yes. Council Member Owens?

Yes. Council Member Walsh?

Yes. It passes. Congratulations.

Okay, jumping back to our agenda, we will now go back to item one, which is the appointment of former Council Member Reginald Harris to the Cincinnati Planning Commission. Roll call on confirmation of the appointment, please.

Council Member Albee? Yes. Councilmember Kramerding?

Yes.

Councilmember James? Yes. Councilmember Jeffries? Yes. Councilmember Johnson?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Kearney? Yes. Councilmember Nolan? Yes. Councilmember Owens? Yes. Councilmember Walsh?

Yes. Item two is the appointment of Dr. Corinne Taylor to the Human Service Advisory Committee. Roll call on confirmation of the appointment, please.

Council Member Albee? Yes. Council Member Kramerding? Yes. Council Member James?

Yes.

Council Member Jeffries? Yes. Council Member Johnson?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Kearney? Yes. Council Member Nolan?

Yes.

Council Member Owens? Yes. Council Member Walsh?

Yes. Item three is the appointment of Haley Bar-King to the Human Service Advisory Committee. Roll call on confirmation of the appointment.

Council Member Albee? Council Member Kramerding?

Yes.

Council Member James?

Yes.

Council Member Jeffries? Yes. Council Member Johnson?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Kearney? Yes. Council Member Nolan?

Yes.

Council Member Owens? Yes. Council Member Walsh?

Yes. Item 4 is the appointment of Sandra Perry to the Human Service Advisory Committee. Roll call on confirmation of the appointment, please.

Council Member Albee? Yes. Council Member Kramerding? Yes. Council Member James? Yes. Council Member Jeffries? Yes. Council Member Johnson?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Kearney?

Yes.

Council Member Nolan?

Yes.

Council Member Owens? Yes. Council Member Walsh?

Yes. Items five through 10 are all appointments to the FC Cincinnati Community Coalition. They are the appointments of Mark Alexander, George Lee, Matthew Lysak, Gregory D. Johnson, John Walter, and Mika Owens. Without objection, we will take these appointments as a single vote. Hearing none, roll call on confirmation of the appointments, please.

Council Member Albee. Council Member Kramer, yes. Council Member James, yes. Council Member Jeffries, yes. Council Member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kearney, yes. Council Member Nolan, yes. Council Member Owens, yes. Council Member Walsh, yes.

Items 13 through 25 are as indicated. Item 26, first reading please.

An emergency ordinance authorizing the reallocation of $300,000 in existing fiscal year 2024 Human Services Impact Award funding for the priority of eviction prevention and housing stabilization in the City Manager's Office General Fund non-personnel operating budget.

Roll call on suspension.

Councilmember Albee? Yes. Councilmember Kramerding?

Yes.

Councilmember James?

Yes.

Councilmember Jeffries? Yes. Councilmember Johnson? Yes. Vice Mayor Kearney?

Yes.

Councilmember Nolan? Yes. Councilmember Owens?

Yes.

Councilmember Walsh?

No. Ms. Albee, would you like to be recorded as a yes vote for items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, through 10, 13, through 25? Yes. Thank you. We are in Budget, Finance, and Governance. Mr. Kramerding.

Mayor, I was excused from the Budget and Finance Committee, so I'm going to have the Vice Chair introduce all the budget and finance items today.

Mr. Nolan. Thank you. This is the ordinance that follows the motion to allocate the remaining leveraged support funds along with $300,000 that was reallocated from the impact award. We had much discussion about this in committee last week and at council last week, and this is the ordinance that brings that motion forward.

Thank you. Further comments?

Mayor?

Ms. Owens.

Yes. I disagree, as you all have heard, with the source of funding in terms of the impact award and its intended use. So, I will be voting no. I am unable to abstain, which is what my vote has been up until this point. But according to our charter, I cannot abstain in full council meeting. So, for items 26 and 27, I will be voting no.

Thank you. Further comments? Seeing none. Classic Billy Webber. Roll call on passage, please.

Councilmember Albee? Yes. Councilmember Kermiting?

Yes.

Councilmember James? Yes. Councilmember Jeffries? Yes. Councilmember Johnson? Yes. Vice Mayor Kearney? Yes. Councilmember Nolan?

Yes.

Councilmember Owens? No. Councilmember Walsh?

No. Roll call on emergency.

Councilmember Albee? Yes. Councilmember Kermiting?

YES.

COUNCILMEMBER JAMES? YES. COUNCILMEMBER JEFFRIES? YES. COUNCILMEMBER JOHNSON?

YES.

VICE MAYOR KEARNEY?

YES.

COUNCILMEMBER NOLAN?

YES.

COUNCILMEMBER OWENS? YES. COUNCILMEMBER WALSH?

NO. ITEM 27, FIRST READING, PLEASE.

AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE REALLOCATION OF $790,000 IN EXISTING FISCAL YEAR 2024 HUMAN SERVICES IMPACT AWARD FUNDING FOR THE PRIORITY OF EVICTION PREVENTION AND HOUSING STABILIZATION IN THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE GENERAL FUND NONPERSONAL OPERATING BUDGET ACCOUNT. Councilmember Albee?

Yes.

Councilmember Kramerding?

Yes.

Councilmember James? Yes. Councilmember Jeffries? Yes. Councilmember Johnson? Yes. Councilmember Kearney? Yes. Councilmember Nolan?

Yes.

Councilmember Owens? Yes. Councilmember Walsh?

No. Mr. Nolan. Similarly to item number 26, this is an ordinance that follows the motion that was passed last week that takes, I'm sorry, that reallocates the funding from the impact award AND DISTRIBUTES IT TO SOME OF OUR NONPROFIT PARTNERS. FURTHER COMMENTS? ROLL CALL IN PASSAGE.

COUNCILMEMBER ALBIE. COUNCILMEMBER CRAMERDY.

YES.

COUNCILMEMBER JAMES.

YES.

COUNCILMEMBER JEFFRIES.

YES.

COUNCILMEMBER JOHNSON. YES. COUNCILMEMBER KERNEY. YES. COUNCILMEMBER NOLAN.

YES.

COUNCILMEMBER OWENS. NO. COUNCILMEMBER WALSH.

NO. ROLL CALL IN EMERGENCY.

COUNCILMEMBER ALBIE.

YES.

COUNCILMEMBER CRAMERDY.

Yes.

Councilmember James?

Yes.

Councilmember Jeffries?

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson? Yes. Vice Mayor Kearney?

Yes.

Councilmember Nolan? Yes. Councilmember Owens?

Yes.

Councilmember Walsh?

No. For item 28, the Vice Mayor is recusing herself. Thank you. Item 28, first reading, please.

An emergency ordinance authorizing the reallocation of $50,000 in the existing fiscal year 2024 Human Services Impact Award funding for the priority of eviction prevention and housing stabilization in the City Manager's Office general fund to provide leveraged support resources for the Free Store Food Bank.

Roll call on suspension.

Councilmember Albee? Yes. Councilmember Kermiting?

Yes.

Councilmember James?

Yes.

Councilmember Jeffries? Yes. Councilmember Johnson?

Yes.

Councilmember Nolan? Yes. Councilmember Owens? Yes. Councilmember Walsh? No.

Mr. Nolan? This ordinance brings forward the motion from last week that is reallocating $50,000 from the Human Services Impact Award to the Free Store Food Bank.

Further comments? Roll call on passage.

Councilmember Albee? Yes. Councilmember Kermiting?

Yes.

Councilmember James?

Yes.

Councilmember Jeffries? Yes. Councilmember Johnson?

Yes.

Councilmember Nolan?

Yes.

Councilmember Owens? Yes. Councilmember Walsh?

No. Roll call on emergency.

Councilmember Albee?

Yes.

Councilmember Kramerding?

Yes.

Councilmember James? Yes. Councilmember Jeffries? Yes. Councilmember Johnson? Yes. Councilmember Nolan?

Yes.

Councilmember Owens? Yes. Councilmember Walsh?

No. Could someone please bring in the Vice Mayor? WELCOME BACK, VICE MAYOR. ITEM 29, FIRST READING, PLEASE.

AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ANY AND ALL AGREEMENTS AND DOCUMENTS AND TAKE SUCH OTHER STEPS AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO SELL APPROXIMATELY 1.5345 ACRES OF LAND AND CONVEY TWO PERMANENT EASEMENTS AND TWO TEMPORARY EASEMENTS.

ROLL CALL AND SUSPENSION.

COUNCIL MEMBER ALBIE.

YES.

COUNCIL MEMBER KRAMERING.

YES.

COUNCIL MEMBER JAMES.

YES.

COUNCIL MEMBER JEFFRIES.

YES.

COUNCIL MEMBER JOHNSON. YES. VICE MAYOR KEARNEY. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER NOLAN.

YES.

COUNCIL MEMBER OWENS. YES. COUNCIL MEM

THIS IS THE SALE OF PROPERTY FROM THE CINCINNATI RECREATION COMMISSION TO GREAT PARKS TO HELP CREATE A SHARED USE TRAIL CONNECTING GLENWOOD GARDENS AND THE WINTON WOODS TRAIL.

FURTHER COMMENTS? ROLL CALL AND PASSAGE.

COUNCIL MEMBER ALBIE. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER KRAMERDING. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER JAMES.

YES.

COUNCIL MEMBER JEFFRIES.

YES.

COUNCIL MEMBER JOHNSON.

YES.

VICE MAYOR KEARNEY. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER NOLAN.

YES.

COUNCIL MEMBER OWENS. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER WALSH.

YES. ITEM 30, FIRST READING, PLEASE.

An emergency ordinance authorizing the city manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant of up to $250,000 from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services Fiscal Year 26 Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act Grant Program.

Roll call on suspension.

Councilmember Albee? Yes. Councilmember Kermiting?

Yes.

Councilmember James? Yes. Councilmember Jeffries?

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson? Yes. Vice Mayor Kearney? Yes. Councilmember Nolan?

Yes.

Councilmember Owens? Yes. Councilmember Walsh?

Yes.

Mr. Nolan?

This is a grant application to support the police department's mental health and wellness efforts.

Further comments? Roll call on passage.

Councilmember Albee? Yes. Councilmember Krimmerding? Yes. Councilmember James? Yes. Councilmember Jeffries? Yes. Councilmember Johnson? Yes. Vice Mayor Kearney? Yes. Councilmember Nolan? Yes. Councilmember Owens? Yes. Councilmember Walsh?

Yes. Roll call on emergency.

Council Member Albee. Yes. Council Member Kermiting. Yes. Council Member James. Yes. Council Member Jeffries. Yes. Council Member Johnson. Yes. Vice Mayor Kearney. Yes. Council Member Nolan. Yes. Council Member Owens. Yes. Council Member Walsh.

Yes. Item 31, first reading, please.

An emergency ordinance authorizing the city manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant of up to $6,250,000 from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services fiscal year 2026 COPS hiring program.

Roll call on suspension.

Councilmember Albee? Yes. Councilmember Kramerding?

Yes.

Councilmember James?

Yes.

Councilmember Jeffries? Yes. Councilmember Johnson? Yes. Vice Mayor Kearney? Yes. Councilmember Nolan? Yes. Councilmember Owens? Yes. Councilmember Walsh?

Yes. Mr. Nolan, this is a grant application to help support our police department's hiring efforts.

Further comments? Roll call on passage.

Council Member Albee. Yes. Council Member Kermiting.

Yes.

Council Member James.

Yes.

Council Member Jeffries.

Yes.

Council Member Johnson.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Kearney. Yes. Council Member Nolan.

Yes.

Council Member Owens. Yes. Council Member Walsh.

Yes. Roll call on emergency.

Council Member Albee. Yes. Council Member Kermiting.

Yes.

Council Member James.

Yes.

Council Member Jeffries. Yes. Council Member Johnson.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Kearney. Yes. Council Member Nolan.

Yes.

Council Member Owens. Yes. Council Member Walsh.

Yes. Item 32, first reading.

An ordinance authorizing the city manager to apply for a grant of up to $2,500,000 from the Ohio Department of Transportation's Municipal Bridge Program.

Roll call on suspension.

Council Member Albee. Yes. Council Member Kermiting.

Yes.

Council Member James.

Yes.

Council Member Jeffries. Yes. Council Member Johnson.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Kearney. Yes. Council Member Nolan.

Yes.

Council Member Owens. Yes. Council Member Walsh.

Yes. Mr. Nolan. THIS IS A GRANT APPLICATION TO HELP WITH THE DESIGN AND REHABILITATION OF THE MONASTERY STREET BRIDGE.

OTHER COMMENTS? ROLL CALL AND PASSAGE.

COUNCIL MEMBER ALBIE. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER KERMEDEEN.

YES.

COUNCIL MEMBER JAMES.

YES.

COUNCIL MEMBER JEFFRIES.

YES.

COUNCIL MEMBER JOHNSON.

YES.

VICE MEMBER KEARNEY. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER NOLAN.

YES.

COUNCIL MEMBER OWENS. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER WALSH.

YES. ITEM 33, FIRST READING.

An ordinance authorizing the city manager to apply for a grant of up to $1,825,000 from the Federal Transit Administration Transit-Oriented Development Planning Pilot Program.

Roll call on suspension.

Councilmember Albee. Yes. Councilmember Kermiting. Yes. Councilmember James.

Yes.

Councilmember Jeffries. Yes. Councilmember Johnson. Yes. Vice Mayor Kearney.

Yes.

Councilmember Nolan.

Yes.

Councilmember Owens. Yes. Councilmember Walsh.

Yes. Mr. Nolan.

This is an exciting one. This is a grant application to help provide resources for study and recommendations for transit-oriented development around the Reading Road Bus Rapid Transit Corridor.

Further comments?

Ms. Albee.

Thank you, Mayor. I said this during committee, but it bears repeating. I got to catch Metro in action presenting about bus rapid transit at the North Avondale Community Council this month, including discussion around the Redding Road. So I'm excited about this work. I think really extra excited just to have BRT come to life and see that work progress. We are a city where roughly a third of our residents don't have a car, and so being able to improve our public transit is really vital to how our city continues to grow and be accessible and connect people to where they work, play, and work, live, and play. So I just wanted to give a shout out to all the hard work. I know that it's still a long literal road to get there, but I'm excited to have this forward momentum around BRT and connecting our communities.

Thank you. Further comments? Roll call and passage, please.

Councilmember Albee? Yes. Councilmember Kermiting?

Yes.

Councilmember James?

Yes.

Councilmember Jeffries? Yes. Councilmember Johnson? Yes. Vice Mayor Kearney? Yes. Councilmember Nolan?

Yes.

Councilmember Owens? Yes. Councilmember Walsh?

Yes. Item 34, first reading, please.

An ordinance authorizing the city manager to accept proceeds of $1,463,385.98 from the fiscal year 2027 sale of renewable energy certificates.

Roll call on suspension.

Council Member Albee. Yes. Council Member Kermiting.

Yes.

Council Member James.

Yes.

Council Member Jeffries. Yes. Council Member Johnson.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Kearney. Yes. Council Member Nolan.

Yes.

Council Member Owens. Yes. Council Member Walsh.

Yes.

Mr. Nolan.

This is an ordinance to accept the proceeds of the sale of renewable energy credits and put those dollars back into the revolving energy loan fund.

Further comments? Seeing none, roll call on passage. I'll be right back. Excuse me.

Councilmember Albee? Yes. Councilmember Kermit?

Yes.

Councilmember James? Yes. Councilmember Jeffries? Yes. Councilmember Johnson? Yes. Vice Mayor Kearney? Yes. Councilmember Nolan?

Yes.

Councilmember Owens? Yes. Councilmember Walsh?

Yes.

Okay, item number 35, first reading please.

An emergency ordinance authorizing the payment of $26,552.81 from the General Fund Enterprise Software and Licenses Non-Departmental Non-Personnel Operating Budget Account as a Moral Obligation Payment to Central Square Technologies LLC. Okay, and roll call on suspension. Councilmember Albee? Yes. Councilmember Kramer-Ding?

Yes. Oh, I'm sorry, Kramer-Ding, okay. Sounds like Kearney when I'm sitting next to you, I'm sorry.

Councilmember James?

Yes.

Councilmember Jeffries? Yes. Councilmember Johnson? Yes. Vice Mayor Kearney?

Yes.

Councilmember Nolan? Yes. Councilmember Owens?

Yes. Excuse me.

Councilmember Walsh? Yes.

Okay. Any comments? Okay.

All right.

Roll call on passage.

Councilmember Albee?

Yes.

Councilmember Kermiting?

Yes.

Councilmember James?

Yes.

Councilmember Jeffries? Yes. Councilmember Johnson? Yes. Councilmember Kearney? Yes. Councilmember Nolan?

Yes.

Councilmember Owens? Yes. Councilmember Walsh?

Yes.

And emergency? Councilmember Albee?

Yes.

Councilmember Kermiting?

Yes.

Councilmember James?

Yes.

Councilmember Jeffries?

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Kearney?

Yes.

Councilmember Nolan?

Yes.

Councilmember Owens? Yes. Councilmember Walsh?

Yes. Item number 36, first reading please.

An emergency ordinance authorizing the payment of $8,996.54 from the General Fund Enterprise Technology Solutions non-personnel operating budget account to Buckeye Power Sales Co. Inc. as a moral obligation. Roll call on suspension. Councilmember Albee? Yes. Councilmember Kramerding?

Yes.

Councilmember James?

Yes.

Councilmember Jeffries?

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Kearney? Yes. Councilmember Nolan?

Yes.

Councilmember Owens? Yes. Councilmember Walsh?

Yes.

Any comments on item 36? No? Okay.

I'm sorry, Vice Mayor, did you want me to add any additional introduction or?

That would be wonderful.

Okay. This is a more obligation payment for emergency generator repair services.

Cool. Any further comments? Okay, roll call on passage.

Council Member Albee.

Yes.

Council Member Kermiting. Yes. Council Member James. Yes. Council Member Jeffries. Yes. Council Member Johnson. Yes. Vice Mayor Kearney. Yes. Council Member Nolan.

Yes.

Council Member Owens. Yes. Council Member Walsh. Yes.

And emergency.

Council Member Albee. Yes. Council Member Kermiting. Yes. Council Member James.

Yes.

Council Member Jeffries. Yes. Council Member Johnson.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Kearney. Yes. Council Member Nolan.

Yes.

Council Member Owens.

Yes.

Council Member Walsh.

Yes. Item number 37, first reading, please.

An emergency ordinance authorizing the payment of $7,151.51 from the General Fund Enterprise Software and Licenses Non-Departmental Non-Personnel Operating Budget Account to Kronos for maintenance and support services.

Roll call on suspension.

Councilmember Albee?

Yes.

Councilmember Kermiting?

Yes.

Councilmember James?

Yes.

Councilmember Jeffries?

Yes.

Councilmember Johnson? Yes. Vice Mayor Kearney?

Yes.

Councilmember Nolan?