City Council - Regular Meeting

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Good afternoon everyone. We're going to start uh the citizens forum. You'll have the privilege of the floor for two minutes. Um let just just a reminder it's not Q&A. So our job here on council is to listen. We don't respond. We don't ask questions. We don't comment. Not because we don't care, but just because it's it makes it unfair if we give one person more time than someone else. So, just understand we are listening and there's staff people all around the room. So, if you have a concern that needs followup, just turn around our staff people will wave and and grab you. Okay. All right. So, oh, we have a lot of people to speak today. All right. Well, this is your house, so we're we're glad you're here. Okay. So, the first person, and if I get your name wrong, please correct me. Angela Noble, please come on up. And um Doris Tinker, it might be Jinker. Is it Tinker?

Okay, come on up. And Barbara Smith, please come on up. And you all may you you may stand or sit. Feel free to take a seat. You'll see the yellow light will come on first. That lets you know you have one minute left. And then of course the red light will be um cut off. Okay, we'll start with Miss Noble. You have the privilege of the floor for two minutes.

Yeah, the lights on. So you're you're on Miss Noble.

Good afternoon. Um, we are here on behalf of 201610 Park Avenue in Wana Hills. On April 25th on in April of year 2025, the tenants at 2016 Park Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, experienced a power outage that affected all residents. We were placed in hotels because the power went out and we were not able to return back to our homes. We were told to clean out our refrigerators and that our food will be dispersed back to us and that we had to throw everything away. Some of the residents of 2610 Park Avenue were placed in hotels in Erlanger, Kentucky and Coington, Kentucky at various times of the morning causing people to lose their jobs because of destination they had us at. On May 5th 20 26 at 10 a.m. there was a resident meeting. None of the issues from the previous year were addressed. We we are here from um to discuss safety reasons. Drug issues been going on in the building. We've been asking for security. They're stealing from us. So, we need some resolutions. Okay. You still have a little time left, but if are you finished? Okay. All right. So, our staff members um we'll we'll grab you. Uh Venita Turner right there by the door. We'll talk to you. Okay. The next person is is it Tinker?

Yes. My name is Doris Tinker. Hi. I'm from 26 Park Avenue. Um my concern is that the rent situation I was not I never received an eviction. I never received a letter lately that that was put up under our doors. So I said everyone was getting upset about these letters that they was given. So, the trick was anyone that took a ledger and went and got your ledger, they was giving them 30-day lease, 30-day termination leases. So, I said, "Let me get this lease and see what they talking about." I got the ledger and read it. When I found out what was on there, I was not in agreeance with it. I dealt with St. Vincent Depal since since 22 26. I helped they helped me sackly six times on that ledger. They only showed two times. St. Defense and Depal paid over a thousand something dollars and only two ledgers on my ledger showed up. That's automatically proof that they were stealing. Now I have to go and get a a lawyer to get a subpoena for them to let my records go to um get my my receipts to let them know they stealing. Now I got a 30-day u termination lease because I stood up for these people who scared to come in here and stand up and fight for theirel. I don't care about that termination lease. I'm gonna stand up and fight for it because I told you I wasn't gonna let St. Faul pay it. They turned turned around and gave me a termination release the same day I told them no. Then they turned around and made rent it up to 1400. When my letter says 1300, these people, this been going on since Evston. Why haven't it been stopped then? This should have been stopped when it got done with Everston. Now they doing Riverview the same way. They doing everyone the same way with lowincome housing. When do it stop? Y'all know what's going on. So, when do it stop? When do this stop? I'm tired. I shouldn't have to be down here fighting for a 30-day termination lease that I did not do. And they as soon as I tell

them I'm not going to pay it, and I'm not going to let Stain Fist Paul to pay it, then y'all y'all terminated me for 30 days the same day I told you no. Miss Tinker, we're going to follow up. We will follow up. Thank you. Thank you. Uh Barbara Smith, Yes. Oh, and I'm sorry, Miss Oh, would you hold her time for a minute, please? Okay. I was going to say followed by uh Mahogany Conjurs, you may come up and have a seat. And uh Quinton Landram, come on up and have a seat. Okay, we're going to start your time over. Okay, Miss Smith. Yes,

I'm Barbara Smith. I'm at 2016 Park Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45206. I have a problem with um Touchstone Metropolitan saying that you owe them money from four and five years. Uh these legends that they have um that they give us, they're so hard to read. You don't know

what you're reading for all these numbers on here. But what you do know is what you paid. And I thought that uh the rent went by your income. So if I per if I get him a paper from social security cola, and that's the only income I have, then how hard is that to deduct 30% from it instead of you coming back three and four years later saying, "I owe you money." and I'm showing you all of my receipts. I think it needs to be something really needs to be done with Cincinnati Metropolitan SL Touchstone. You know, the letters needs to be changed to the point where everybody can read them and understand them because right now we don't know if you taking money from us or not. The way that they have the ledgers set up It's stressful. We've been through murders. We went through prostitution in the building. We've been in drug selling in the building. It's overwhelming. Our management left in February. So, we have a new management. And the only thing they concerned about right now is some money. when you have a bed bug infestation going on in the building and you don't and you tell me well we

Miss Smith I don't mean to cut you off but but your time is up we appreciate you though thank you we will follow up okay Miss Conurs Mahogany Conurs

yes my name is Mahogany Conjurs um I'm not familiar if y'all know I was on the news for touch CHA/Touchdown Properties I encountered a unsafe. I'm here for unsafe living for these elders myself and I have a son that has seizures that's he's having them back to back. Um I made the news and once I made the news and talked about this building because my son was attacked by another residence that they knew that was dangerous to the whole entire building. He had attacked the rent office. He attacked a lot of the elders in there. But when he came across my son with no record, 32 years old, I'm proud. I'm a proud mother of a black man with no record, you know, and he's spiritual. He don't believe in harm, but he had to literally came home from the hospital after having eight seizures. We get in the building, he was attacked. So, I'm having to help my son fight this attacker that we don't know. You know, now we're facing eviction for criminal activity because my son had to use force, which was his gun, to get this man off of him. I don't think that's right. When they cleared him with self-defense, so if he had self-defense, why are we standing in this courtroom? So now it don't went from the court to like they saying, we owing money. No, y'all y'all done robbed us. Y'all need to find this man that y'all dealing with with Evston. He was working for us, too. He was in there. They done ran off with gift cards. They done endangered us. We don't have no security. And they are elders is who I'm fighting for. I'm standing for them. They don't have nobody to speak for them. And I'm speaking. And with me getting on the news doing that, I'm f I'm facing eviction. My son facing eviction. This

is all wrong. Made up just to clear them. That's all I got to say. Thank you. We will follow up with you as well. Thank you so much. Quinton Landram.

Uh it's Qua Landram. I'm sorry. How y'all doing? I'm here on a different um agenda. So, I got a um a youth organization program here in Cincinnati. Um RAW Academy. RAW stands for real advocates working. So, right now we specialize on flag football and I probably got over 160 kids that come out every Sunday here on Bank Street Dire Park and we just run games all day from like 10 to 2. Now, what's going on? We having little hiccups with funding. So support will always do us a grateful. We ain't had no troubles down here. Great vibes. All parents come. We got like 20 different organizations from Cincinnati plus. And we growing more. We provide their uniforms, their mouthpieces, they they flag belts. We even feed them after each game. So when the kids come off, we got hot dogs and and donuts waiting on each team as they come off. So, um, I just think collectively we can get the neighborhood back, the kids back, and we can create a safe haven for them to come out and parents come out and enjoy what's going on. Uh, Mr. Prior himself, he been here, he seen it. Um, he loved it, and that's what got us down here today. And, uh, we here to help ask for y'all help and support to, uh, make this grow.

Okay. All right. Thank you. Please talk to Alex right in the back about uh, safe and clean fund right there. Madam Chair. Yes. Yes. Council member Owens. Thank you. I just want to uh recognize the tenants who are here advocating uh on behalf of their issues with CHA. I do know that there are some movement in our courts right now uh in relation to um related issues. And so I would say anyone here um you might want to get in touch with Deanna White who's standing right here, our director of human services. She can put you in touch with the attorneys who are working on these issues. Thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Owens. Okay. Uh, next we have Stanford Pool followed by Miranda Herd followed by Clarence Johnson. All three of you please come up and take a seat. Mr. P, you have the privilege of the floor for two minutes. Well, we're back again. We got a lot of corruption here of the housing and plus what the city council doing. We need a full audit of the money and investigation. who you gave the money to and how they using it and you don't check nothing. But Donald Trump do not like black and brown people and women.

Last week we showed that this city of Cincinnati don't care about women either. Women, that lady came in here, asked for help. She was harassed. She said she were filled up in the chest in the bottom. And not one woman on here had passion for her. Not now men did did any passion. We got the Epstein thing going on and nobody said, "Let me get your name, find out if it's true." Then you say she had a sword. She didn't assault anybody. She wasn't a woman uh assaulter or a hit lady. And you guys act like she was charging you just like Trump thought somebody charging him. I'mma shoot him in the ear. And ears don't grow back with Grizz. So your your leadership was bad. You didn't have to do that here. Could have waited till she left the building and confront her. You have 50 cops here wasting time, wasting money because you don't have to pay for nothing. You get a paycheck and your title every day you hear and it's a shame to see this kind of stuff. Same thing ICE is doing. This city did the same thing right here in city council chamber. You should be ashamed of yourself. This was a woman. She rights wasn't told. She asked why I'm getting arrested. Nobody told. Now, if you think that's professional and the history of Cincinnati, you need to go and get a leadership book. I'm ashamed of you and you should be ashamed.

Okay. Our next speaker, uh, Miranda Herd.

I'm Miranda Herd. And how y'all doing today? I'm speaking on on uh the parking on Vine Street. I do have my handicap so I can park in front of my door. But here's the problem. I request that for me because I'm handicapped. I'm a senior, right? But they tell me anybody can park there with a handicap sign. I don't think it's right because the city didn't ask for that. I did for my health. So I would like to know where do I go from here to get that assigned just for me? Because my landlord said I can have it in front of my door. So they put it in front of my door and this another and the parking I have to pay to park to park in front of my door. I'm a I'm a senior. I'm a fixed income. I can't afford to uh pay for these tickets that I'm receiving. So I would like to know if somebody can tell me what to do and how to get this resolved. so I can be okay. Last time I said I ain't paying, but I ain't going to say that today. But I'm saying I need some help. So I I really do because I keep getting tickets. I've been down my car been parked in the same spot for six weeks. I didn't got four tickets already. Four. I I couldn't move my car cuz I'm in a

boot. Okay. So, can somebody guide me? Help me so we can get this off. Thanks, Miss Herd. I really think our office is checking on that. If you would check with uh Miss Turner in the back. I think she's already on top of that. Thank you, M. All right. Thank you. On Zoom. Okay. You all have a blessed and safe. Okay. Our next speaker is Clarence Johnson, followed by um Jonathan Nortman and Stefan Prior.

Mr. Yes, ma'am. Uh I'm here uh piggybacking on the gentleman who was with RAW Academy. Um yes, we do need help with this program that we got going. Uh we're just trying to create a safe haven like you said for our children to be able to play because the way things are going on right now uh you know a lot of our kids can't even play in the park anymore. So we're trying to get that back and uh I think we're doing some pretty good work right now because we're keeping drug-free environment and you know uh we went through the winter with the children and we just going to keep trying to keep it going year round so where we can keep them out of trouble, focus on education and you know it's a good program that he's got going there and uh we they really need some help financially with that program to make that program really be something special. You they got academic banquetss that they do uh twice a year uh once they they they have one in March then they're having another one again in June for all the children who pass you know to the next grade. So, um,

that's what they're doing, man. You know, we're all getting together trying to be advocates, be the voice of these children and make a difference, you know, because that's what we all need to do. Get together and make a difference in these children's lives, you know, because they're our future. And, uh, without them, this world won't keep going forward, you know. So, we trying to teach them how to be some good, productive people, you know, someone to be looked up to and let know that education is the most important thing in the world to them, you know. And, uh, I appreciate you guys allowing me the privilege to come here and speak my peace. All right, we appreciate you. Thank you so much. Thank you.

Okay, the next speaker, Jonathan Norton, come come on up. And Stefan is already here. So, there was a school shooting just weeks ago that I'm sure none of you were aware of. A shooting which left a 14-year-old child and a parent that ran to help dead. but you don't know about it or possibly even care because it happened in the West Bank of Palestine. In a town facing daily attacks where an Israeli army reser can open fire on a school and walk away freely. Where school buildings are bulldozed. Where illegal settlers deploy razor wire to block children from attending. In Cincinnati, where we're forced to be proud of safe sleep lots for our school children, where access to education is in question, where families struggle to make ends meet. It should disgust all of us to know our taxes are instead spent on denying access to education in Palestine. Spent on making every step of the way for students there unsafe. Spent on bombing and destroying every school in Gaza. Just yesterday, two paramedics were murdered. But you don't know or care because they were murdered in Lebanon. They were responding to an earlier bombing in an attempt to save lives when Israel used an illegal double tap strike to murder these two, adding to the more than 100 healthcare workers killed in Lebanon and to the more than 1,700 killed in Gaza. Our nation that can't fund our healthcare can pay to kill those providing health care elsewhere. Can pay to bomb every hospital in Gaza. For people that ostensibly care where weapons go and what rules they violate, you should care more that our continued support of this genocidal apartheid state violates the US Foreign Assistance Act and the Lehey laws. It's not just that our dollars are spent on war crimes and human rights violations. These are dollars denied to us, the taxpayers. As life becomes more and more difficult to afford, our officials send our money to destroy lives there instead of improving lives here. You imagine yourselves to be larger politicians of tomorrow. But the voters you'll depend on need to see a difference today. Instead, we have a council that believes companies that participated in these crimes are more

deserving of $40 million than the people of Cincinnati. A council that can't address its own Islamophobia. A council that only takes days to speak for Ukraine or Israel, but when the victims are Arab can watch for years without a shred of that same concern. This isn't the leadership of tomorrow. This is the shame of today. Thank you. Okay, next is Stfan Prior. And Son is followed by Lisha Howell, Jessica Short, and Cassandra Gryom. Okay, Mr. Prior,

start over. Just two seconds. I need those. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. I'm going to piggyback off this parking permit is racist. This parking permit for the res residents is racist. Why I say that? You got 52 neighborhoods. I see you over there looking Sherlock. You got 52 neighborhoods. Only two neighborhoods got this parking permit for residents. Pendleton and Over the Rine. It's wrong. It's super wrong. No guarantee uh parking spots. Even with a permit, you still may not find a space nearby your house because a a lot uh uh who first come first serve can frustrate visitors and customers. They can't even deliver, right? Not at all. Parking illegal. This This is wrong, y'all. Y'all need to get rid of that. Y'all need to scrap that. It It's sad. You call the parking parking permit people, they don't call you back. They don't even show up at uh citation uh court. It's sad. Y'all need to dismantle that, y'all. That's why the businesses are slow down over the rhyme. That's why people's not coming. That's why people moving. Y'all got to work together. Y'all put this apart for 3C. I know that for a fact. It's wrong. It's dirty. Dismantle that. Ma, Mark Jeffrey, Scotty Johnson. Y'all need to dismantle that, y'all. It's super wrong. Super wrong. guarantee wrong. Just say Fleet Lot, that's trash, too. They they got foundations backing them up. We talking about the Woodward Trust Foundation. They millionaires. They can buy a whole building to put them babies in, but sleeping in a car and school is almost out. Make it make sense. It's a money move. That need to get dismantled. Real talk. Y'all looking puzzled over there. Some of these decisions y'all taking and making is wrong. Go back to the drawing board. This parking permit trash is racist. Trying to push people out the neighborhood. That's what it is.

Gentifying the community with something attached to it. Guess what? I love you guys. Nothing you can do about it. Thank you. Next, Lakesha, followed by Jessica Short. Jessica Short, you can come on up, too. Thanks.

Um, I'm down here because, um, I need some urgent assistance with financially. I'm a victim of severe identity theft fraud. Um, and since 2020 up until now 2026, I have lost everything. Nursing career and a lot of things like where scammers have my identity. Um, it's as if I've been blacklisted here in Cincinnati, Ohio. I do not have any criminal record or anything like that. And um you know when it comes to the police and um I have taken every corrective measure to do police reports and everything and nothing has been resolved. My phones and stuff have been hacked. My um intellectual property has been stolen. It's like I've been forced into a poverish dangerous area and um and all type of things. And I have taken the corrective measures following the law in regards to the severe identity theft ride and coming down here. I've been trying to start businesses and everything and you know, no one has helped. Um, again, I need financial help urgently. Um, and you know, no one has reached out. I done gave sentone the mayor, you know, letters, came down here directly. Um, and nobody has reached out. So, I'm just trying to figure out, um, you know, uh, what other options are there because again, my identity has been affected. Okay, we will definitely reach out to you.

Huh? So, we will reach out to you. Thank you so much. Your number? Yeah, we've got your number. Thank you. I don't see my staff back there. They might have. Miss How? Miss How? If you go around to this office right here, because I think my staff is in there. They were back here, but they're probably helping someone. If you just go out that door, just go around to the first office. Thanks. Okay. Uh Jessica Short. Um we are together. We are here as a business. Okay. You've also Are you Jessica? Cassandra. That's You're Cassandra. Okay. I'm Cassandra. So you you each have the privilege of the floor for two minutes. Oh, okay. Okay.

Well, good afternoon and thank you for this time. Um we are Cassandra Gryom, Jessica Short, and we are Magnetizing Mirrors, which is a mo mobile photo booth company. Um we are here today because we are putting on a youth a free youth event in September. Um this youth event has been in the plans for a while. Um we basically are looking to provide a safe fun environment for our youth. You all at city council know all of the issues we have with youth crime. Um unanswered questions for our youth. So we have been putting together this event with partners with vendors. Um, we just met with Cincinnati State today to uh seal and secure a space. Um, and we are looking for funding to support our event. Any support, volunteer support, funding, support, donations, and that is why we are here today. Um, speaking of the crime, we are both parents, so this event is near and dear to our hearts. Um, we have youth of our own, grandchildren, nieces, and nephews, and it's challenging in the city to find a fun, safe environment. We are really looking to promote peer leadership. Um we'll have youth vendors there as entrepreneurs to show show peer success. We're going to have peer-led events, peer-led games at this event for interaction. And we're wanting to engage and connect with families and youth to understand the needs in our community. We know that there's a large disparity more so in the information of resources than the resources themselves. I think the city does a good job of providing resources for our communities. However, not everybody knows about them or how to reach out to them or connect to them. So, we're going to spend a lot of time at our event giving that information out, asking questions, doing audits to our youth so that we hear and get some fresh ideas.

Thank you. Okay, Miss Short.

Hi, I'm Jessica Short. As she said, I'm a co-founder of Magnetizing Mirrors, and we're going to put a free children's event on September the 19th between the time 2 and 5. At this event, we will have educational resources, CPR training, self-defense um training and tiffs as well. We have local companies um nonprofit companies who are vendors at this event so that we can solidify bouncy houses and trampolines, swag bags so the children can be able to have the uh the tools and tips that they need for starting school for that school year 2026 20 27 school year. And this will be a carnival themed game themed event. So it will be things as such as popcorn, cotton candy, um you know um the ball ball toss, balloon pop, things of that nature. And we want to see the children work with the other children so that they can see that there's more than just a TV, a cell phone, and things of that nature. You can get outside and have fun as well. But while we're at this event, we want the parents to be able to gain some knowledge as well as the children be able to gain knowledge because CPR in first aid is a very very big thing in the community as I work with elderly and disabled. It could truly save somebody's life at any given moment. So that's what we're asking for donations and funding today.

Well, that sounds wonderful. So, Alex can tell you about possible funding sources. I'm not sure if the deadline has passed for some of them, but Alex right in the back can tell you both about where to apply. Yes, ma'am. And we also put um packages in each of your mailboxes so that you could see exactly what we needed. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you. Have a great day. Thank you.

So, next we have Richard Pner, Katherine Harris, and I think the restaurant is this person. Oh, that's Sam. And Sam B. Sam is in the hall, but he'll be back in. Okay. Okay, Richard Hner.

Okay. Um, I uh submitted a letter uh with a couple photos to be distributed to all the members here uh regarding an incident the other night. It's just one example and a particularly dangerous example of use taking over the sidewalks in otr uh with red bikes particularly but all bikes um as well as scooters in a lesser extent. Um now, uh MUN code uh 506-4E, no person shall operate a bicycle, motorized bicycle, or escooter on a city sidewalk except for bicycles in certain areas ridden by minors 15 years or younger as per section 5065. Okay. 5065, minors less than equal to 15 years. Uh police are not always sure about this and are particularly hesitant to um enforce this. Where approaching a pedestrian shall give audible warnings by a bell or horn and shall yield to use of sidewalk to pedestrian dismounting I assume a bus for instance. Uh how are red bikes stations in the sidewalk um area? Captain uh Robert Van Horn of District 1 uh is feels that this leads uh residents and renters of these bikes to believe that they are properly ridden on a sidewalk. So that's a problem. They should like the skirters scooters be in um they're a stand that sits in the in the street where otherwise uh a park parking space would be which they do exist around town. I've seen them in

otr. Uh the bikes also need to be uh identified clearly that they're prohibited from uh being ridden on the Sorry, Mr. Hner, your time is up. Okay. But thank you for that. We'll we'll check into it. Yeah. Okay, Katherine Harris.

Hi. Hi. My name is Katherine Harris and that's Katherine with the C. I'm a senior and I live at in the OTR area community. My husband Jackie and I, we live at 211 Woodward Street and we're really concerned as well about the bike situation, you know, on the sidewalks because as a senior, you know, and my husband really, you know, does have a disability. It's it's concerning for us when he's walking and especially when the kids are riding the bikes, they don't give us leeway. You know, we have to get out of their way and that's a concern for us because like I said, my husband is is disabled and I just don't want to see him to get knocked down or get hurt. So, if you know, city council could please, you know, work with the city with the the police to try and get, you know, like some type of clarification or verification for us.

And thank you for your time. Keep going. Let me just say to both of you, thank you so much. Um, we'll we'll follow up and check, but also put that in 311. If you go to 311, you can give them a call. Okay? So, just put that in there. And I'm sorry we can't you can't respond back because your time is up, but we'll talk. The police say they need instructions from council. Oh, you still have a minute. I'm sorry. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Coington. Okay, Miss Katherine, you still you still have a minute if you wanted to respond. Well, he can take my Well, he can't respond for you. Instructions. They need instructions. Oh, that's the instructions that it's okay to enforce. Oh, thank you. It's okay. Okay. All right. We'll follow up. 311 also, but we will follow up and check on that. Thank you.

Okay. I'm sorry. This is my first time here, so Oh, no. We're so glad you're here. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it.

Okay. Um Sam B. Is Sam B in the room? He's coming down the stairs. Okay. And then we'll go to our Zoom callers. Sam B, you have the privilege of the floor for two minutes. The sooner I can state the problem, the sooner we can move on to solutions, which is the the more interesting part. Whether we like it or not, as a city, we have crossed an arbitrary deadline set by the federal government with respect to the consent decree, shifting us from phase one to phase two. And um you've had 10 years to prepare for this uh when you pulled out of the um conservation district and created your own utility that's in the water department. And they are largely a uh tax um billing and permitting department which worked under phase one but under phase two is no longer sufficient. which means water will be going up because you will have it's your only source of revenue for funding this um expansion. Uh and uh because what it means is you're no longer being penalized uh by the design of the system. That was always the case. But now you're going to be penalized by how you manage it. In phase one to phase two, how you manage your best management plans are different and what you're doing is no longer sufficient. That's the reason why. And I don't think you're appreciating uh the what that means, the liability of that. Um what it means is all these groups um that come here and talk about development project they don't like. And we're not talking about you know affordable housing or you know like you know protesting like you're helping the

good people of Aenddale with the with the CHMA. We're talking about, you know, projects that cause major disruptions and when people, you know, typically start starts out as people are like, "This is not going well. This is polluted, uh, XYZ." And up until now, you haven't had to work with us. But now, we can go to a federal judge and they can use that as cause to side with the county. So, the sooner you work with us, the sooner we can get to the solutions because that's what we want to do.

Thank you, Sam. Okay. All right. That concludes our speakers in person. We have two on Zoom. The first is Inz Deran. Miss Deran, can you hear us? I think you're muted. There you go. Okay. You have privilege of the floor for two minutes. Thank you. Can you hear me?

Yes, we can. Being that I'm living in Silver Springs, Maryland, because I was forced out of Cincinnati due to now retired firefighter Steven Dirtton, Senior and two police officers, Ned Ward and Linder Sers retaliating against me because I reported domestic violence. I am here to ask urgent help from the city of Cincinnati. I've tried to stay away from Cincinnati because you all was not assisting me, but I have no choice at this time. As you see behind me, retired firefighter Durton has an active protection order implemented by Maryland in December. He has threatened to harm me. He has threatened to harm others. He had threatened to harm law enforcement. He file well I filed for a legal separation. An attorney I had um persuade me that I could get a legal separation. But being that I'm out of the jurisdiction, he was granted a divorce. Through this divorce, I went through a lot of bias from Bessie Summerman, Amy Wright. It was just absolutely ridiculous. At the present, I've been paid nearly $15,000. This divorce was supposed to been wrapped up as of March the 23rd of 2026. It is still dragging out because there are five attorneys that he is paying to keep this case dragged out while I am in the process of possibly being killed by him. He was ordered by Maryland courts to turn in his guns. On February the 5th, Hamilton County Sheriff summoned him, told him he had 24 hours to turn in his firearms. And to this day, there is no record at your uh property department that he has turned those guns in. I need you all to please find out if he have turned them guns in because my life is at risk. And not only my life, I know that he will go after my daughter in an attempt to come after me. How much should I have to take? A wife of a now

uh ret ex-wife, now a retired firefighter who came to the city begging and asking for help instead of y'all helping me. Y'all help. Miss Sterden, thank you so much. Your time is up. Um, our last speaker on and he's on Zoom is Mike Horn. Uhhorn. Mr. Horn, you can hear us. Yes.

Thank you. It's uh horn by the way, like u tide. But um I guess last I I would love for somebody to reach back out to me. I hear you say to most of these speakers, somebody will reach back out to them. And I've been speaking on Zoom at these meetings now for almost a year and nobody has ever reached back out to me. But I'm not there in person, but somebody could call me at any time at 5138337057. And as you know, what I'm here to talk about is the fraud that Greater Cincinnati Waterworks commits when they charge people a monthly fee for not providing anything. When they have the water turned off at the meter and they're providing nothing, nothing other than just being ready to provide something and people having access to it, which every business that is in close proximity has that. So they could all charge the exact same way, but nobody's doing anything about it. I know last week we had a bunch of craziness when I guess Alexandra who said she identified as a female and apparently was identifying as a threat to y'all and was charged with four different crimes for getting a sword confiscated or cane had a sword inside of it and it was charged with four crimes. But I mean I I don't know what you can expect when the city council that runs the city is committing crimes. coming fraud with Greater Cincinnati Waterworks, conspiracy to commit fraud, abuse of office, committing crimes in office, um male fraud, just to name a few. I'm sure there's many more, but I mean, lead by example, don't commit crimes. I thought you were here to serve the public. How are you serving the public by taking money from people with Greater Cincinnati Waterworks when you're providing nothing at all in exchange for

the money that you're taking? Ohio Revised Code 29. Thank you, Mr. Yohhorn. Okay, that concludes public comment and that concludes the citizens forum. It's after 2 o'clock, so um we will go straight into the business portion of council. We'll begin today's business portion of Cincinnati City Council and the clerk will please call the role. Council member Walsh here. Council member Albi here. Council member Kramering here. Council member James here. Council member Jeff here. Council member Johnson here. Vice Mayor Kernney here. Council member Owens

here. Okay, we will stand for a moment of silence followed by 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. Okay. And the mayor will be back tomorrow. So the the minutes from the previous meeting will be approved and filed without objection. Hearing none, they will be approved and filed. Council member Evan Nolan is excused from today's meeting. Moving to our agenda item number one, roll call on confirmation of appointment. Oh, I'm sorry. It's the appointment. I should have said who it is. the appointment of Christy Samad to the Bsentennial Commons Board of Adviserss. Now, roll call on confirmation of the appointment.

Council member Walsh, yes. Council member Albby, yes. Council member Karing, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. Items two through four, appointment of Karen Jackson, Kelsey Goens, and Glattis Pope to the Human Services Advisory Committee. Without objection, we will have one roll call vote on items 2 through 4. Hearing none, roll call confirmation on items 2 through 4. Council member Walsh, yes. Council member Albby, yes. Council member Kering, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney.

Yes. Council member Owens, yes. Items 5 through 33 as indicated. Item number 34, first reading, please. An ordinance modifying article two of the administrative code of the city of Cincinnati by amending section 26 tenant information webpage, city website to increase the amount of quality information available to renters on the city website. Roll call on suspension. Council member Walsh, yes. Council member Albi, yes. Council member Kramerine, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. Council member Kmerding, this is budget, finance, and governance. Would you like to comment?

Uh, I'll defer to my colleague, Council Member Owens. Council member Owens. Thank you. Yes, we are updating the MUN code to uh really highlight the work around tenant uh protection and resources. And so this would be a place where uh people could find things like our tenants guide and other information and data as it relates to the work that we've done around eviction prevention. Uh and so uh thinking of things like the stout report. So really excited that this will be u more accessible uh to the tenants in Cincinnati. Okay. All right. Any comments? Okay. Roll call on passage. Council member Walsh? Yes. Council member Albby. Yes. Council member King? Yes. Council member James. Yes.

Council member Jeff. Yes. Council member Johnson. Yes. Vice Mayor Kernney. Yes. Council member Owens. Yes. Item number 35. First reading, please. An emergency legislative resolution authorizing tax levies for the calendar year beginning January 1, 2027, certifying them to to the Hamilton County Auditor pursuant to Ohio Revised Code section 5705.34. Roll call on suspension. Council member Walsh. Yes. Council member Albby. Yes. Council member Kering. Yes. Yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. Council member Kramer Day, would you like to comment?

Yeah, this legis This is a legislative resolution. We do it annually. Just authorizes the uh tax levies for 2027. Okay. Any comments? All right. Roll call on passage. Council member Walsh? Yes. Council member Albby? Yes. Council member Kering, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. And roll call on emergency. Council member Walsh, yes. Council member Albby, yes. Council member Kering, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes.

Item number 36, first reading, please. an emergency ordinance authorizing the city manager to accept and appropriate a US Environmental Protection Agency solid waste infrastructure for recycling grant of 4,999,557 to fund the replacement of the city's recycling cart fleet. Okay. Roll call on suspension. Council member Walsh, yes. Council member Albby, yes. Council member Kering, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes.

Council member Kramering, any comments? Yeah, this is uh important news and great news. Director Croner from the Office of Environment and Sustainability has been talking to us about a recycling bins for some time. You know, they're getting uh older and older and and they were wearing out and was definitely of a concern for the city. So, this grant from the Ohio EPA of just under $5 million will allow us to replace those with new carts. Okay, thank you. Any comments? Okay, roll call on passage. Council member Walsh, yes. Council member Albi, yes. Council member Crane, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. And emergency. Council member Walsh, yes. Council member Albby, yes. Council member Kering, yes. Council member James,

yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. Item number 37, first reading, please. an emergency ordinance authorizing the city manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant of up to $50,000 from the Bloomberg Philanthropy's Youth Climate Action Fund to continue supporting the Cincinnati Youth Climate Action Fund. Roll call on suspension. Council member Walsh, yes. Council member Albby, yes. Council member Kering, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. Council member Kramering, any comments, please? Yeah, I'll kick this one to my colleague, Council Member Owens. Again, Council Member Owens.

Well, thank you. I think the last refresh uh it was so important to really underscore young people's voices and the work that we're doing around climate and so it's just really wonderful to see this work continue uh by way of the the youth climate action committee or uh the youth committee here. So, thank you uh to the administration for pursuing these grants. Any comments? Okay, roll call on passage. Council member Walsh, yes. Council member Albi, yes. Council member Kering, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. Emergency, Council Member Walsh, yes. Council member Albby, yes. Council member Kramering, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff,

yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. Item number 38, first reading, please. An ordinance authorizing the city manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant of up to $200,910 from the Ohio Department of Children and Youth Cribs for Kids Program. Roll call on suspension. Council member Walsh, yes. Council member Albby, yes. Council member Kering, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. Council member Kramering, any comments, please? Could I have council member Albby introduce this item? Council member Albby.

Thank you. This is a really important initiative. Uh I me mentioned during committee I toured the North Side Health Center earlier this year where they told me a really sad stat that um sleeping deaths for for babies have gone up in the past year. And just this week uh Vice Mayor and I were at an event uh where Cradle released a report where uh they've seen a sharp increase for uh black infants who die before their first birthday. in 2023 uh per 10,00 that was only nine uh deaths but last year in 2025 that number jumped to 21. Uh so this has been a really startling trend. Uh so excited that we are applying and getting support for this because it's clearly a need. So thank you to our health department. Thank you to partners like Cradle and others who are working hard on this issue.

Thank you, Council Member Ali. Really important. It was um it was just horrible to hear the stats. Hamilton County used to be way way down in terms of black infant mortality and now the rates are black are back up for black infant mortality and uh as you said sleepreated deaths not SIDS but suffocation from babies sleeping with their with their parents is really a big cause of that. Uh and not because um cribs are not available but we but I know some people do need cribs and so this is very important. Um, okay. Any other comments? Madam Chair, Council Member Johnson and then Council Member Jeff.

Thank Thank you, Madam Chair. Those that stat is 18 times higher for uh black babies, black and brown babies. And this is something that prayerfully the cribs, that's fantastic. They're going to be ordered. But then also, we have to make sure an education level goes along with that. We have to make sure we're educating people as to why I think Mr. Jeff is going to get into it. So, I'll leave it leave it to him. But why this is happening? The the crab the cribs absolutely necessary. Thank you. But we got to make sure there's an education component to this. So, we're not looking at these type of statistics ever again. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Council member Jeff. Yeah, I mentioned this on Monday, but I this is such a serious topic, so I do think it bears repeating. Uh cradle Cincinnati is a very easy uh moniker to remember this ABC alone back crib to your point about rolling over and you know that's because a lot of parents sleep with their baby in the same bed the baby needs to be alone needs to be on his back and needs to be in its crib if that saves one life. So please share that message uh because we do need the education as um president uh prom Johnson mentioned.

So remember that you said alone back sleeping on their back cri and in the crib and you know what one way that we can help um some of the parents is to offer uh to let the moms get a nap during the day or you know in the evening. I mean, that's a big thing that a lot of it is just exhaustion that, you know, parents will put the baby in the bed because they're they're tired and, you know, the mom has to get up during the night to to feed them. So, if we could help um with the exhaustion factor, I think that would help a lot. Um, okay. Any other comments? We'll go on to roll call vote on passage. Council member Walsh, yes. Council member Albby, yes. Council member Kramering, yes. Council member James, yes.

Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. Okay. Item number 39, first reading, please. An ordinance authorizing the city manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant of up to $18,940 from the Cincinnati Police Department asset forfeiture funds. A roll call on suspension. Council member Walsh? Yes. Council member Albi? Yes. Council member Kitting? Yes. Council member James? Yes. Council member Jeff? Yes. Council member Johnson. Yes. Vice Mayor Kernney. Yes. Council member Owens. Yes. Council member Kramering. Any comments?

Yeah. This uh there's money that's coming from the Cincinnati Police Forfeiture Fund. The money is going to CRC's flag football program and that stands for it's not only flag football, but it's future leaders achieving greatness. So an important program. Great. Thank you. Any comments? Okay. Roll call on passage. Council member Walsh. Yes. Council member Albby. Yes. Council member Kermiting, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. Item number 40, first reading, please.

An ordinance amending ordinance number 87-2022 to increase from $3,762,000 to $4,138,200 the amount of grant funding the city manager is authorized to accept and appropriate from the surface transportation block grant program. Roll call on suspension. Council member Walsh, yes. Council member Albby, yes. Council member Kering, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. Council member Kramering, still your committee. Any comments? I'll defer to my colleague, Council Member Jeff. Council member Jeff.

Thank you. This is an exciting uh grant. It actually just increases it a couple hundred,000 for what's called phase 7 of the Wasan way. So this connects Blair and Aenddale to Reading Road and MLK. Uh why that's so important is there are about 61,000 jobs in Uptown and so a lot of folks can be connected to those jobs but also uh to recreation. So it's an exciting project. Very exciting. Any other comments? Okay, roll call on passage. Council member Walsh. Yes. Council member Albby, yes. Council member Kering, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes.

Item number 41, first reading, please. An emergency ordinance authorizing the city manager and employees of the Cincinnati Park Board to accept donations of money from the Cincinnati Business Community, individual benefactors, and other appropriate sources valued individually at up to $5,000. Roll call on suspension. Council member Walsh. Yes. Council member Albby. Yes. Council member Kermiting. Yes. Council member James. Yes. Council member Jeff. Yes. Council member Johnson. Yes. Vice Mayor Kernney. Oh, I'm sorry. I spoke earlier. Yes. Council member Owens. Yes. I jumped again on that one. Sorry. Okay. Council member Kramerine.

Thank you, Vice Mayor. With this ordinance, the park board or the city manager can accept donations of up to $5,000 without council approval. This is an administrative change that brings the park board in line with the sustain recreation commission. Council will receive a quarterly report about donations under $5,000. Okay. Any comments? Okay. Roll call on passage. Council member Walsh? Yes. Council member Albby? Yes. Council member Kermining? Yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. And emergency. Council member Walsh, yes. Council member Albby, yes. Council member Kering, yes. Council member James, yes.

Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. Item number 42, first reading, please. An emergency ordinance authorizing the city manager and employees of the city manager's office to solicit and accept monetary and inkind donations from the Cincinnati business community, individual benefactors, and other appropriate sources for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for monument unveiling ceremony. Roll call on suspension. Council member Walsh, yes. Council member Albby, yes. Council member Kering, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. Council member Kramering, any comments?

We as a city are very excited about the King Monument uh on Reading Road. There will be an unveiling ceremony. This uh ordinance enables the manager to collect donations for the unveiling ceremony. Any other comments, Madam Chair? Council member Albby.

Yeah, I just wanted to add uh so for this monument uh the the designers of it did a session where they uh had a call out to people in Cincinnati that bring um any type of pieces of history they had honoring MLK. And I I went to the event and people brought in like news article from the time like the the the church um pamphlets from like when MLK spoke here p home pictures they had. It was really incredible and just such an amazing reminder of how important Cincinnati is to the history of our our country and how very much involved our our community was uh in the civil rights movement. So it was really cool. I'm really excited to see this and to have uh Cincinnati history kind of baked into the design of this monument is really exciting. Cincinnati was huge. We um the um progressive um Baptist Convention um was started here by Reverend LV Booth and so Dr. King came here a lot. So that was wonderful. A lot of people uh had a chance to meet him. Okay. Any uh any other comments? Roll call on passage.

Council member Walsh? Yes. Council member Albby? Yes. Council member Kitting? Yes. Council member James? Yes. Council member Jeff? Yes. Council member Johnson? Yes. Vice Mayor Kernney? Yes. Council member Owens. Yes. And emergency. Council member Walsh. Yes. Council member Albby. Yes. Council member Kering. Yes. Council member James. Yes. Council member Jeff. Yes. Council member Johnson. Yes. Vice Mayor Kernney. Yes. Council member Owens. Yes. Item number 43. First reading, please. An emergency ordinance establishing new permanent improvement program account aquatics furniture and equipment. Okay. Roll call on suspension. Council member Walsh. Yes. Council member Albby. Yes. Council member Kering, yes. Council member James, Council Member James,

yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. Council member Kramering, any comments? This ordinance creates a new account for the Recreation Commission to uh pay for pool furniture, fixtures, and other pool equipment. Okay. Any other comments? Okay. Roll call on passage. Council member Walsh. Yes. Council member Albby. Yes. Council member Kermiting. Yes. Council member James. Yes. Council member Jeff. Yes. Council member Johnson. Yes. Vice Mayor Kernney. Yes. Council member Owens. Yes. And emergency. Council member Walsh. Yes. Council member Albby. Yes. Council member Kering. Yes. Oh, what do I keep doing? Sorry.

Council member James. Keep sound. It sounds like you're saying I'm like, "Oh, no. No. Sorry." Yes. Council member Jeff. Yes. Council member Johnson. Yes. Vice Mayor Kernney. Yes. Council member Owens. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Uh item number 44, first reading, please. An emergency ordinance authorizing the transfer of 14,66,828 exist existing within the certain restricted funds and the unappropriate surplus of certain restricted funds according to the attack schedules of transfer to realign and provide resources for the ongoing needs of city departments. Okay. Roll call on suspension. Council member Walsh. Yes. Council member Albby. Yes. Council member Kramering.

Yes. Council member James. Yes. Council member Jeff. Yes. Council member Johnson. Yes. Vice Mayor Kernney. Yes. Council member Owens. Yes. Okay. Council member Kramer still your committee. Thank you, Vice Mayor. As we get close to the end of the fiscal year, the city does realignment ordinances where we take uh uh excessive funds and transfer them to needs to basically balance the books. This is the realignment ordinance for our restricted funds such as water and the other restricted funds. Any other comments? Okay. Roll call on passage. Council member Walsh? Yes. Council member Albi? Yes. Council member Kramering? Yes. Council member James? Yes. Council member Jeff? Yes. Council member Johnson? Yes. Vice Mayor Kernney?

Yes. Council member Owens. Yes. And emergency. Council member Walsh. Yes. Council member Albby. Yes. Council member Kering, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. Item number 45, first reading, please. An emergency ordinance authorizing the transfer of 12,69,949 from the general fund balance sheet reserve account reserved for weather events, other emergency, and one-time needs to the unappropriated surplus of general fund. Roll call on suspension. Council member Walsh, yes. Council member Albby, yes. Council member Kramering, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes.

Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. Council member Kramer, your last item. Vice Mayor, this is the same as previous, but these are general fund dollars. And for those watching at home or in the audience, you can find all the specifics on the city's website on the council agenda if you want to see actually where the money is being transferred. Okay. Any other comments? Roll call on passage. Council member Walsh. Yes. Council member Albby. Council member King. Yes. Council member James. Yes. Council member Jeff. Yes. Council member Johnson. Yes. Vice Mayor Kernney. Yes. Council member Owens. Yes. And emergency. Council member Walsh. Yes. Council member Albi. Yes. Council member Kering. Yes. Council member James. Yes. Council member Jeff.

Yes. Council member Johnson. Yes. Vice Mayor Kernney. Yes. Council member Owens. Yes. Item number 46 is a motion by council members Owen and James that the city administration be and hereby is authorized and directed to pursue the certified welcoming designation from Welcoming America on behalf of the city of Cincinnati. Would the sponsors like to speak on this? Council member Owens.

Thank you. Um yeah, it's always important to be an inclusive and welcoming city to uh immigrant families, but specifically as we think about climate migration, which which be is becoming more and more a reality. And so this is asking the city administration to pursue this special designation, which really helps to measure progress amongst five key areas. So, uh again, just further underscoring the importance of the green Cincinnati plan calling this out as well.

Thank you, Council Member James. I think this is an awesome opportunity to deepen our commitment to being a welcoming city here in Cincinnati. I will also say that um the popularity of the certification has exploded in the last few years. I think prior um or about 44 cities have received the certification and two years ago I think that we've we've uh we've gained over 20 cities actually including Dayton. Um so this is a national trend. It's exciting to be a part of it and I think we're well poised here to be a more welcoming city um here at the city of Cincinnati. All right. Would any others like to comment? Okay. Roll call on on adoption of the motion. Council member Walsh? Yes. Council member Albby? Yes. Council member Kering? Yes. Council member James? Yes.

Council member Jeff? Yes. Council member Johnson? Yes. Vice Mayor Kernney? Yes. Council member Owens? Yes. Item number 47, first reading, please. An emergency ordinance approving and authorizing the city manager to execute a community reinvestment area tax exemption agreement with 23 West Court Holdings LLC. Roll call on suspension. Council member Walsh. Yes. Council Council Member Albby. Yes. Council member Kermiting. Yes. Council member James. Yes. Council member Jeff. Yes. Council member Johnson. Yes. Vice Mayor Kernney. Yes. Council member Owens. Yes. Hey, Council Member Jeff. This is your committee. Housing and Growth.

Yeah. This is a CRA on a vacant building right now on Court Street, converting it into 12 residential units and commercial office on the first floor. It's a great project. Okay, any other comments? Roll call on passage. Council member Walsh, yes. Council member Albby, yes. Council member Kering, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney. Yes. Council member Owens. Yes. And emergency. Council member Walsh. Yes. Council member Albby. Yes. Council member Kering. Yes. Council member James. Yes. Council member Jeff. Yes. Council member Johnson. Yes. Vice Mayor Kernney. Yes.

Council member Owens. Yes. Item number 48. First reading, please. An emergency ordinance approving and authorizing the city manager to execute a community reinvestment area tax exemption agreement with Harrison Avenue Town Homes LLC. Roll call on suspension. Council member Walsh, yes. Council member Albi, yes. Council member Kering, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney? Yes. Council member Owens? Yes. Council member Jeff, would you like to comment?

Yeah, this is another It's a 12-year CRA. Uh, this one's exciting. It's over in Harrison in Westwood. It is new construction. Uh, 10 units, all 80% AMI. uh restricted uh and it is module. Uh so we had the pleasure of talking to the developer who's a African-American developer has plans in Aenddale, plans I think in uh Evston for additional or additional one in Westwood uh going forward. Um so it's exciting. We had the big one module there in Evston uh which Tammy Sullivan was behind, but this is just another uh use case of adding more housing more quickly and again restricted at 80% AMI. And so it's exciting.

Very good. Okay. Thank you. Any other comments? Okay. Roll call on passage. Council member Walsh? Yes. Council member Albi? Yes. Council member Kering? Yes. Council member James? Yes. Council member Jeff? Yes. Council member Johnson? Yes. Vice Mayor Kerney? Yes. Council member Owens. Yes. And emergency. Council member Walsh. Yes. Council member Albby. Yes. Council member Kering. Yes. Council member James. Yes. Council member Jeff. Yes. Yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. Item number 49, first reading, please.

An emergency ordinance declaring that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive West at Bernett Woods Drive and the Coryville neighborhood shall hereby receive the honorary secondary name of Deputy Larry Henderson Jr. Way. Okay. Uh, roll call on suspension. Council member Walsh, yes. Council member Albi, yes. Council member Kramering, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. Council member Jeff, would you like to comment?

Yeah, thank you. Uh, first, so this is a street uh secondary street uh naming. I don't do a lot of these, but the uh family and the sheriff's office reached out and asked if we could uh do this. It seemed more than appropriate. Uh the family is in DC. Uh he is being honored in DC, so they're not physically here. Uh the dedication will be in the next couple of weeks. We'll announce it um and notify our colleagues of course. Um so everyone knows the story of Deputy um Henderson, of course. Uh but just a few things to note. 38 years of service uh in the Marine Corps and then the sheriff. He joined the sheriff's department in 1991. Uh and on May 2nd, 2025, uh truly tragically, he was uh uh at the intersection of MLK and Bernett Woods. uh and was intentionally struck and killed uh by a driver. And so horrible situation. Um and so uh the intent here is to dedicate this uh secondary street name uh at Bernett Woods Drive and MLK.

Thank you. Thank you for that. Any comments? Well, please let us know the the date and time and we'll make sure we're there in honor. Thank you so much. Okay. Roll call on passage. Council member Walsh. Yes. Council member Albby. Yes. Council member Kering, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. And emergency. Council member Walsh, yes. Council member Albby, yes. Council member Kering, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes.

Okay, last item. Item number 50, first reading, please. An emergency ordinance approving and authorizing the city manager to execute a community reinvestment area tax exemption agreement with AAA Club Alliance, Inc. Okay. Roll call on suspension. Council member Walsh, yes. Council member Albby, yes. Council member Kering, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes. Council member Jeff, any comments?

Uh, yes. So I think many of us are very familiar with AAA. If you uh break down your car, you call them, they are always there. Uh their business model is they have a bunch of different networks throughout the country and uh a big center for them is here in Cincinnati on Central Parkway. Uh they are consolidating a lot of jobs here. So this is actually really exciting. There's 30 jobs that were remote that will now be there. there's an additional 135 full-time jobs average salary of 75,000 um that will be relocated here or new jobs. Uh and so that is 10.1 million in uh in earnings into our city. So if you quickly do the math on the earnings tax, you know, that's 181,000 per year. So over 10 years is 1.8 million in earnings tax. So this is what we need more of. Obviously, more jobs mean more earnings tax for us to make sure that we can do everything that, you know, we need to do to keep the public safe and build more affordable housing and all of the priorities that we have as a city. So, this is an exciting one. Appreciate the city and ready uh and AAA uh for all of their work to make sure that they retain these jobs and bring additional jobs into the city.

Fantastic. Okay. Any other comments? All right. Roll call on passage. Council member Walsh. Yes. Council member Albby. Yes. Council member Kering. Yes. Council member James. Yes. Council member Jeff. Yes. Council member Johnson. Yes. Vice Mayor Kernney. Yes. Council member Owens. Yes. Okay. An emergency. Council member Walsh. Yes. Council member Albby. Yes. Council member Kering. Yes. Council member James. Yes. Council member Jeff. Yes. Council member Johnson. Yes. Vice Mayor Kernney. Yes. Council member Owens. Yes.

Okay. Okay, that concludes the business portion of our agenda. Um, let's hear. City manager, do do you have any comments to make, please? I do not have any comments. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Okay. Um, are there any announcements of committees? No announcements. Well, we're quiet today. Are there any general announcements?

Vice Mayor, I do have a a brief committee update. Just to remind the public where we're at in the budget process. As this council has submitted its budget priorities to the manager, the manager and her team are composing their budget. Council will receive that. The mayor will make his additions. And then on June 1st at 5:30 here at council chambers, we'll have our next uh public hearing. Of course, the manager's budget will be in front of us in the public. So, it'll be a a important public hearing.

Okay. Good times coming. All right. Okay. So, um, if there are no other announcements, then, uh, we are going to go into executive session. I should say it correctly. I move that council adjourn into executive session pursuant to Ohio Revised Code 121.22, 22 section G3 for the purpose of conferencing with attorneys for the city concerning disputes involving the city that are the subject of pending and imminent court action. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you. Roll call vote on adoption of the motion. Council member Walsh.

Yes. Council member Albi? Yes. Council member Kramer? Yes. Council member James? Yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Owens, yes.

Okay, we will adjourn into executive session immediately and then we will return to close the meeting. Thank you. Heat. Heat.

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