City Council - Regular Meeting

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Nat. Good afternoon everyone. Welcome. Oh, I'm sorry. Good afternoon. I didn't see you there, council member. I'm sorry. Good afternoon. Welcome to today's citizens forum. As I call your name, you'll have the privilege of the floor for two minutes. Um, our first speaker is Ryan Sah. Welcome. I'm sorry. It's uh Ryan. Could you help me pronounce your name? Is it Ryan?

Uh Ryan is fine. Ryan, thank you, sir. [clears throat]

Um, today I'm here to speak about the trees on uh East Mcmickin Avenue. Um, I was employed at the coffee shop I now own on 123 East McMicken. And the trees on that street I've been trying to get cut uh for close to a year now. Um, 37 days ago, I made a request to 311 about getting these trees cut. And 22 hours ago, I received uh two sentences. Trees will be pruned as part of forestry's preventative maintenance contract or otr. Trees shall be pruned by the end of June. Uh, speaking with all of my neighbors, I don't think these trees have been cut in the last 20 years. And uh, currently they are owned by POA. So, I'm left with uh two decisions right now, and I would love to be advised uh because I was drinking uh tequila at Somerset last week, and while I was doing so, the branches fell and almost hit my neighbor. Uh the trees are currently about 2 feet off the ground at this point. Uh half of the limbs are dead. I called out Duke. It is a serious, you know, um health risk at this point. Um probably fatality. So, uh, POA is in charge of these buildings. I've talked to Duke. I've talked to urban forestry. I've talked to 311. Um, we have 5 million 5.9 million to give to 3CDC, uh, less than quarter mile away, but we can't get these trees cut. So, I would like to be advised of how to file a nuisance abatement towards POA to get these trees cut, or I can walk down to Woods Hardware and for $30, I can buy rubber gloves and a pair of shears and cut these trees myself. All right, so those are my two options. Um, and if if I this is going to get the cops involved for me trying to cut the trees to, you know, protect my neighbors. My my neighbors make the joke because one side of the street is good and the other isn't. And they say, "Brother, let me tell you, this is the black side of the street. That's the

white side of the street." So, I'll have a pair of shears and I'll see you all down there.

Thank you, sir. Uh, if you could uh share your information with uh Chaka who just walked in, uh would appreciate it. Thank you. Uh, Stanford Pool, welcome. Well, if we look at what Donald Trump, the Supreme Court doing to this country is racist and savage. But we got to look at what Cincinnati doing. Are you doing anything different? All of you from the mayor that away and that away. People that came down here and asked for help just like they asked Trump for help and they turned on them and did the opposite. Well, they asked you for help. You did the same same thing. Went the other way. We're tired of that. Now, mayor, we were hoping that you do the right thing after Cranley and then you didn't. You're just a little bit taller. You're doing the same policy. There's other city council people doing the same policy. People come here to ask for help. You don't let you let the building department come in here and tell you that you're targeting black property owners and using racism to make get money from them and you did nothing. You let a woman get here get spit on on property of city and you did nothing. And all of y'all got women and children. You got Palestinian people came in here asked for a letter, a letter from all of y'all to send to Biden to stop the killing. You say you care about kids, but you don't. You're letting them die. You wouldn't even write a letter. They asked for financial. You didn't do that. And you sit up there like little squirrels.

Squirrels. be better off sitting up there in them seats than what y'all doing. We're tired of that. You got a real estate people came up and told you building department was targeting them. Six of them and you did nothing. Scotty brought the the building department in here and said they should be going to jail. Miss Kernney said, "Don't say that. You ain't did nothing after that. You're shameful." Nate, [clears throat]

our next speaker is Nate Tubs. Welcome. Could you um hang the mic towards your face? Thank you, sir.

How y'all doing today? Um I come down here again this week. I'm looking for some type of sense of direction to do a few things in the city that I've been doing over 30 years. Uh I spoke about last week about Ezat over there on Ez. I made a suggestion about a year ago about getting you got 42 world champions in the state of Ohio alone. I'm one of them and my brother one of them. You know, I was suggested that we put uh pictures and information around the statue and down the walkway, make it more of a uh a destination type spot because like I say, I was champ 30 some years ago as a child's champ 70 some years ago and we got to keep this thing relevant and then moving on to something else. I started a boxing hall of fame last year. It was a success last year. We doing it again next week, Friday and Saturday. Me being a champion, I got a lot of relationships just about all the champions in in the world really. I've been in the business for a long time. Been a promoter for over 30 years. You know what I'm trying to do is find some kind of way how I can get y'all on board with this. This something huge. I'm doing it every year from this from now on. Every year. And I got some superstars coming here, you know, without no support. I just need some financial help because I'm looking to get a building because we need a museum here, a boxing museum. We got so many. We got 14 champions at Ohio alone. Out of Cincinnati. Like I said, we got 43 world champions in the state of Ohio, period. And just trying to find some support. I'm so used to doing things for my own money. All that championship money gone now. So now I got to learn how to get on board with the city and get y'all on board with me because um my program are actually going to open up a gym for some kids and where you going to see some real results. I think y'all need to start holding these gyms accountable. I spoke at 2020 about two months ago. Had half the kids couldn't even read

and it's through the Golden Gloves program. You know, not knocking the program. Everybody do things a little bit different.

Thank you, Todd Zinder. Welcome. [applause] Uh, good afternoon. My name is Todd Zinder. I'm from West Price Hill and I wanted to stay on this Farmer Music Center issue. Um, you know, even if you want to approve the Farmer Music Center, $8 million. I think you're still obligated to do your due diligence and make sure that that is a wise use of money. And I asked to see the documents or the information that the city council had to rely on when they decided to support this $8 million. And you've approved it twice now. Once to put in the budget and then once to put it in the budget priorities. So you haven't appropriated that money yet. But uh there's a lot of questions about this project. But when I asked for the information, I got an eightpage PowerPoint presentation back. Eight pages. One page had any numbers about the project. The presentation's not dated, so you don't know how current those numbers are, but you're relying on this new tax revenue of $15 million. But there's no analysis of whether or how that pie is going to grow. You've got entertainment money and the presentation suggesting that that's going to grow by $15 million. It's not that the entertainment slices are going to get thinner. It's that the pie is going to get bigger. But you don't have any analysis to say that that is

actually what's going to happen. And I just think you need to do that in order to carry out your due diligence. That's all. Thank you. Thank you, Al Dalton. Uh I think it's Dalton. D A L T. Oh, I'm sorry. Welcome.

So, your officers just took my cane. Um, this has been happening to me a lot lately. My name is Big Al. Um, I've seen some of you before. AFTAB, it's good to see you again. Glad you're back from vacation. Um, I have been So, on February, no, January 8th, I was arrested for a pedestrian violation at the protest on Fountain Square. I was hit with a arrestable violation is not pedestrian offense is not an arrestable violation. It's a ticketed offense. But since then I have been targeted by CPD and arrested five times. Um the last arrest was for failure to identify at my dance studio on my private property. I had my shoulder popped out of socket by officers Conrad and Schultz. They then proceeded to sexually assault me on their own in front of their dash camera. We just got the body cam footage back. I'm shaking as I tell you this. I am scared of what the police will do to me in this city. They are the biggest gang. Officers Conrad and Schultz, when I asked for a female officer, because they had their hands down my pants on my breast, you know what the officers said to me? They said, "We don't do that here." And then they put me in the back of their car, whispered in my ear, and said, "How do you know that I do not identify as female? I believed your officers were going to rape me or kill me. They do that to people like me." So, I got medical attention, and I'm coming for them. Get your officers on a leash. They are killing more people in this city than anybody else. [ __ ] CPD.

Our next speaker is on Zoom, Vanessa Sparks.

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Okay. My name is Vanessa Sparks and I am a resident of Cincinnati. I come before you to speak about justice not as an abstract ideal, but as an urgent, unfinished obligation right here in our city. In March of this year, the United Nations General Assembly voted 123 to3 to declare the trafficking of enslaved Africans the greatest gravest crime against humanity and called on nations to pursue reparatory justice, including formal apologies, restitution, and compensation. The UN was unambiguous. The um abolition of slavery did not end the harm. It gave way to

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Hey, hey, hey. Welcome back. I'm uh very sorry for the disturbance and for the recess. Uh I have more information although as you can imagine this incident is being investigated as we speak. Um what we know now right now is that um a allegedly a weapon was snuck into uh city hall. Um once CPD became aware of the alleged weapon, they acted immediately. Um, obviously the incident will continue to be investigated and as we know more, uh, we will inform the public and of course the press. Moving forward with our public comment, uh, our next speaker is Stefan Prior.

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Okay. So in March of this year, the United Nations General Assembly voted 123 to3 to declare the trafficking of enslaved Africans the greatest crime against humanity and called on nations to pursue reparatory justice, including formal apologies, restitution, and compensation. The UN was unambiguous. The abolition of slavery did not end the harm. It gave way to new systems of discrimination that stripped black communities of housing, wealth, and dignity for generations and still continues to do so. Cincinnati knows this history personally. Under the 1948 master plan, this city raised the Kenyan Bar neighborhood, a thriving black community, and displaced 26,000 residents. 97% of them were black. It was the largest forced urban migration of black people by percentage in American history. Homes, churches, businesses, and generational wealth just gone. And the city broke its promises to rehouse those entities. This practice of forced displacement still continues today. In 2023, Mayor Pral, Vice Mayor Kernney, Council Member Johnson stood in this very building and apologized. That took courage and it mattered. But as the mayor himself said that day, "An apology alone is not enough. The world is watching the city of Cincinnati. The UN the UN has spoken. History has been acknowledged. Now it's time for the council to act to move beyond apology into real measurable reparative investments for black residents of city of Cincinnati.

Thank you, Vanessa. Our next speaker is Stefan Prior. Welcome, sir.

Good afternoon. All right, lighten up. She's gone to jail now. Uh, lightening up. But uh the Everston building Everston residence in uh Everston that uh rent thief uh Dion Crockett, property manager working working for Tusone. He need to get arrested ASAP. Uh he's still on the run being a rent thief and the residents got them eviction notice. Y'all should make that go away somehow someway. at least y'all appoint uh the board of directors for CHA, but uh Dion Crockett, he need to get arrested. The young man was here last week and he spoke about that. The same case happened up in Cleveland. Her name is D uh Dominique Clayton. She was stealing residents rent money also doing up there and they actually pressed charges against her for for uh telecommunication forgery and fraud. So the same thing that happened to her up in in Cleveland, it also should happen to Dion Crockett ASAP. Mayor Abtail, City of Cincinnati is the home of potholes. These potholes need to get fixed. I mean, I drove over a pothole. I almost fell out my car. That's how deep these potholes is. Y'all need to get these potholes fixed. Y'all use the wrong uh uh salt or something because it tear up the road so fast and quick. So, y'all need to do a pothole blitz. Throw that in there. Y'all need that bad because it's sad. And guess what, y'all? I uh actually got elected for uh county central committee. Now I can uh endorse I don't know. I can maybe endorse myself. [laughter] I don't know about endorsing some some people, but now I can. So, uh anyway, I need to do a blitz on these potholes. Sher Long, what's up, girl? I ain't seen you in a while. Put a smile on your face. It's going to be all right. It's going to be all right. I

love you guys and nothing you can do about it. Peace. Congratulations, Stefan. All right. Uh Paul Bean.

Well, it it shows, don't it? We need eyes everywhere. Boy, do we. That's I need that new life program. I I I really do. You you said you you weren't going to use it. It cost that much money. You know, you got eyes around here, but look like we the eyes behind the scene now. So, you don't even need no cameras. We We see what's going on. But you say it cost too much. You said you don't want to use it. That's such a beautiful thing. I wish you knew who I was. I I really do. I come down here for this accident and look like all hell just breaking out all around you. You know, I gave each and every one of y'all when I first came down here a police report. I show you how good you do your job. You You never looked at it. You never question me about any or nothing. But you put a $8 million bridge over there where my accident happened. Lord knows it's going to be all right. Cuz see, when it come down to it, everything in the dark, it does come to light. All I want is this program back. Okay? You said you're not going to use it while you hold it. And that's why I want that's what I want to ask you. And you you smile to him and you talk to the other people. I can't even get a conversation out of you. What's wrong with this picture? I I mean, I'm that invisible. We can't fix this. We can't talk together. I come down here to get help and I can't even get a conversation. What's wrong? You can't answer that. It's it's it's

too many of you here to answer that. You You told me, Miss Long, all y'all seen this project. Thank you, Mrs. Carol Cunningham. Welcome. Good luck, baby. You sleeping in a new house.

I'm blessed. I don't need luck. Mayor Aab Purval, uh, you spoke out about elder abuse and elder assault, which I have suffered from Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health. I am due monies, which have not been released. I need an attorney, which I have not received. Uh, Mika Owens is ready to serve. has spent her career making sure every Hamilton County resident has a home. Well, I'm homeless sleeping in a U-Haul van. The last time I was before you and my eviction wasn't start stopped. I did what I had to do. upon my rings, uh, took my furniture and, um, left what I didn't have and didn't want and didn't care cuz my life means more than that. So, ma, it says right here, affordable, stable housing for residents across 40 jurisdictions. I need one today. I'm 79 years old of age. I've done many things. I've worked with presidents and mayors, communicated with taught school for a stipen, which is nothing, but the children meant something. It was my way of being back. Yeah. They don't know from zero. And neither does city hall because when you call for the zip code 45202, it's ridiculous. What happened here today is atrocious. And I will not stop. I'm not going to continue to sleep in that van in that U-Haul truck forever.

It's cold off street parking. Me homeless today. Na. Um, I'll be with Curtis Fer since he talks. I'll tell you.

Thank you. Jason Windbush, welcome. [clears throat] Good afternoon everyone. Uh my name is Jason Wimbush and I am on the Mount Area Community Council. I would like to thank Miss Albby for coming in March to our community council and I would also like to thank Vice Mayor coming last week uh to our community council. Um but I want to talk today a little recap from the press conference. Great press conference. uh press conference, youth and summer activities. I believe we have 23 to 24 swimming locations, four wreck at night locations, which is Wind Hills, Evston, West End, and Aendale, and a roller skating opportunity downtown. With that being said, the community in Mount Ary is a activities desert. There's no recreation center. There is no swimming activities. There is no library. So, it's kind of a void for our youth to do anything. Um, I own a transportation company and just last week we went to the rest game courtesy of the sheriff for the fire and police. I've taken kids down to from Whiten Terrace to the Whiz. I've taken kids from Wana Hills to do therapy downtown. But I can't do that with NSP money because I'm on the board and that's a conflict of interest. So what I would want to know is basically if I can't do it because I'm on the board, then who? If not now, then when? So we

have activity deserts. We have board members who want to do stuff, but we can't do it because we're on the board, but then we can't find nobody else to do it. So therefore, our kids suffer, our community suffers, and our kids are going around breaking windows in in Mount Erie. So, please help me out. Thank you. Thank you, Jason. Uh, moving back to Zoom. Uh, Mike Uhhorn, can you hear me? Yes, I can. Can you hear me?

Yes. Go ahead, sir. Well, good afternoon. I got so excited when I saw you but take a brief recess and I'll leave and all those police officers come in. I thought maybe they were actually arresting and charging each one of you with the conspiracy to commit fraud in violation of Ohio Revised Code 2913 by charging people and collecting money through the waterworks when they're providing absolutely nothing when they have the water turned off at the meter. Not providing water. The only thing they're providing is just being ready to provide something and people having access to it by contacting them, which I mean, just think about it. If every company charged like that, they're the only one that charges like that. Now, you guys, I thought you were supposed to be public servants. So, my question is is how is it serving the public by charging the public for providing absolutely nothing? I know that this law and these rules were passed long before you guys were in there, but maybe you could actually stand up and be the city council that does something to stop this fraud. I saw that where you're supposed to be meeting with the police today about violent crimes in the city. Well, you know, when you got criminal activity from the top, the whole city's going to have crime. Lead by example. Uphold the laws. Don't steal from people. Do the right thing. Change the law and the rules for Greater Cincinnati Waterworks to be charging people for providing nothing. I mean, how would you feel if Elon Musk sent you a bill every month because he's ready to provide you a satellite internet from his Star satellite or Starlink program that he sent tens of thou or well thousands and thousands of satellites up

there is beaming internet into all of us everywhere all the time. That would be the same thing. Greater C.

Thank you. Our next speaker is Helena Allen, but potentially Helena Jones. Uh, next speaker is Daniel Buridge. Welcome, sir. Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor, council members. Uh, my name is Daniel Buridge, and I'm the executive director of MARK, the Metropolitan Area Religious Coalition of Cincinnati. Uh Mark is an interfaith coalition that represents 10 different faith groups who operate all across the greater Cincinnati area. Uh and across our diversity, we talk, listen, discuss, and ultimately arrive at consensus in order to advocate and educate for the common good in our communities. So when I speak, it is as a result of that consensus and of many, many discussions. And so what I've t come today to say is that we as people of faith want to voice our wholehearted support for the city of Cincinnati's collaborative agreement on this in this year its 25th anniversary. The collaborative agreement is a binding legal document that resulted from our city civil unrest in 2001 which itself resulted from police killings of unarmed black men in the late 1990s and early 2000s particularly the killing of Timothy Thomas on April 7th 2001. And so when that civil unrest occurred, when it seemed that conflict was taking over our city, when it seemed that even the city's law enforcement operations were on the verge of being taken over by the Department of Justice, our city came together. Elected officials, policy makers, police sat down with our black community-led organizations, especially the Black United Front and also with faith communities, with the business community. Mark had representatives there and faith leaders from Mark are still committed to the spirit and to the agreement itself which again is now a national best practice police accountability system in the form of the collaborative agreement. And so now we have the citizen complaint authority where citizens can have their uh

complaints reviewed if they felt that they were wrongly treated by police. When there are persistent issues of crime or violence in our communities, we have a community-based problem-solving framework to bring police together with community members uh to develop solutions that will prevent crime in the future. And we also have Iris Rolley who has been working tirelessly for these 25 years to ensure the sustainability of the collaborative agreement. And I just also want to say that Mark very much stands with her and we stand with all of you and let us all take on the collaborative agreement as our own on this anniversary.

Thank you. Our next speaker is Sam B. Welcome. Yeah, last week I uh learned that 3CDC was a response to that 2001 thing, which is crazy to think that that's I mean, yeah, sure there was some rioting. They had to rebuild some stores, but it's no longer living up to the spirit of that. Um, okay. Well, uh, anyways, uh, someone mentioned the water thing. I mean, he was going on a different angle with that, but um, yeah. So, what does the storm water utility do? They are an administrative and bureaucratic institution. They have no technical expertise. They issue permits so that we can pay to sweep the streets and not use the general fund to do that. That's all we've been doing with it. And then that satisfies our M uh S4 requirement with the storm water um which is what keeps us in compliance with the Clean Water Act. And for the past 20 years, we've been in a bubble policy because our E.coli is so bad they've been willing to forego our storm water. And uh as of April 1st or April 20th, however you want to look at it, uh developers now have to do uh the grace period's over. They can none of that money goes to deal with the storm water problem. and the solution that it does no longer satisfies uh MS4, which means at some point if you keep rubber stamping these development projects, a judge at some point will uh

order an independent expert peer review of the uh water utility and it will force us back into the conservation district which we should never have defunded because they have the experts. So every time there's a developer, they have to hire outside consulting to get the same information that we already pay for in the county and and god it's like burden beyond me to tell you how this works. We will um now begin today's business portion of Cincinnati City Council and the clerk will please call the role. Council member Albi here. Council member Kramering here. Council member James here. Council member Jeff here. Council member Johnson

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 aliance 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. Uh the vice mayor is excused from today's meeting. Moving to our agenda, items 1 through 21 are as indicated. Item 22 is a motion from council members Jeffre and Albi that the administration produce a report in the next 60 days on the following. A list of all crashes in school zones, public, private, parochial charter in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Ask the Department of Transportation and Engineering to measure current speeding of cars and school zones before the end of the 2025 2026 school year. President Johnson, this is in your committee. May I have Mr. Jeff and Miss Albby introduce this item? Thank you,

Mr. Jeff. Miss Albby. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, yes. So, as as you just alluded, um, this is related to crashes in school zones. This still remains an issue. DOT has done a great job of putting in speed humps, and that has addressed some of the challenge, but there continued to be a fair amount of crashes, and one of our first uh jobs has to be protect citizens, especially kids. And so this is asking for some of the data on crashes, but also asking them to measure current speeds of cars in school zones uh and do an audit of current traffic calming measures in place so that we can understand what further measures we need to take going forward to make sure that our children are protected going to school. Thank you, Miss Albby.

Thank you. Uh I'm grateful to to have this before us and to get the information back. We were sitting in this chambers uh last year when students from West High came in and talked about, you know, getting having their backpack hit by a car while they're on the way to class to losing a classmate who was uh hit and killed by a vehicle. So, this is uh really an urgent need and to make sure that our kids are safe getting to school uh is one of the most important things we do. So, uh, really looking forward to the results of this and how we can work with, uh, CPS, uh, as well once we have these results to make sure that we are creating safe routes to school. Further comments from council, Miss President Johnson.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, thank you, Mr. Jeff. Mr. Alby, uh, I think you heard today, uh, Chief Henny made it crystal clear that traffic enforcement is on the highest priority going into this summer and all the time when traffic is being prioritized, we have a much safer city. Um, so it was good to hear that CPD is already in front of this. It will be interesting to see what the results of this uh deep dive into uh what's happening in our school zones, but I just commend Chief Henny and his staff and all CPD for getting ahead of this before this even uh comes to fruition. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. Further comments? Roll call and adoption of the motion, please. Council member Albi, yes. Council member Kramering, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Council member Nolan, yes. Council member Owens, yes. Council member Walsh, yes.

Thank you. Item 23 is an amended motion from Council Members Albi, Jeff, Craning, Nolan, and Owens, that the city administration provide an update to the Department of Buildings and Inspections Code Report 20243, specifically providing an update on the statistical information on complaints, cases, and chronic offenders. Miss Albby, this is in your committee, but my understanding is that Mr. Nolan would like to introduce the amended language. I will start with the original and then I'll pass it to Vice Chair Nolan. That's wonderful, Miss Albby. Go ahead.

Fantastic. Uh thank you. So, uh in 2024, uh this council asked for a report from building inspections going through the process of, you know, what happens when a BNI um complaint is called in, what that looks like. But also part of that report was a list of kind of uh top 10 addresses with the most orders, uh individuals with most open orders, uh the most addresses, and the longest average days to compliance. Um some really helpful data to see kind of where uh the outstanding offenses were. So this uh request here is to update that data so we can see how things have shifted. And then council member Nolan uh h has an additional ask, so I'll pass it to him to do the second part of this.

Mr. Thank you, mayor, and thank you, Council Member Albi. Um, this is important information to have and it's also important to understand what we do with that information once we have it. And so, with respect to the report from 2024, uh, we have communicated with the administration about giving us an update on how they enforced those orders and the status of those orders today in addition to providing an updated list of currently outstanding orders. Further comments? Roll call and adoption of the motion, please. Council member Albby, yes. Council member Kramering, yes. Council member James, yes. Council member Jeff, yes. Council member Johnson, yes. Council member Nolan, yes. Council member Owens, yes.

Council member Walsh, yes.

That concludes the business portion of our agenda. I just have a few brief comments. Um, Summer and Cincy uh roll out happened earlier this morning. I want to thank our officers, partners, city employees, and every department helping make sure it's a great, safe summer for all of our residents. Um, also want to remind folks the police memorial parade is tomorrow, beginning at Fountain Square at 11:00. It'll be preceded by a flag raising at city hall at 10:00 a.m. This is a very important event um that's a sobering reminder of the extraordinary sacrifices that our public safety professionals uh specifically with within CPD risk every day. Um that their families risk uh and that we rely on in order to preserve the the safety and order in our community. So, I'd encourage all of us and all people um watching uh this meeting to please um show up and attend and offer your support um for the memories of so many of our uh public safety professionals uh who have sadly passed away. Um I also have um a congratulations to uh Council Member Mika Owens who uh won Dancing with the Stars. That's wonderful. Great job. and also congratulations on your election last night. We're all so proud of you. City Manager Long, any further announcements?

I do, Mayor. Thank you for mentioning Summer and Cincy. I just want to let people know that if they want to get further information, they can go to cincinnati-oh.gov backsandsy. All the information and resources are on our website. Thank you. Further announcements from council. Mayor. Yes, Miss Owens.

First of all, thank you so much. I had an amazing time with Dancing with the Stars. Um, it's always great when you're teaching yourself new skills. I never thought I'd be flicked in the air and uh, you know, dancing in a a pink sparkly dress, but hey, I had a great time and it was for a good cause, the Cincinnati Arts Association. Um, I also thank you for the recognition of yesterday. You know, I am certainly enjoying my role as a public uh, official uh, a public servant, and I'm just looking forward to continuing to serve this community. Um, I think it's very befitting when we think about uh our responsibilities as elected officials and what it means to uh not only invest in communities but keep them safe. And so uh there's certainly been a theme today around uh remembering what it means to invest in public safety, to invest in uh our men and women who show up every single day uh to to do this job and to do it with great sacrifice. And so, not only is the safety plan, I believe something that we should all be proud of and getting behind, uh, but it's also memor remembering, uh, those that are serving in this way. And even today, uh, for those of you that have been in this building or witnessed some of this online, I am so grateful uh, for the men and women of CPD who have showed up today to make us feel safe in a moment of uh, maybe feeling a little insecure. And so, uh, again, I want to recognize Captain Scoffield, uh, for showing up, uh, for all of the men and women on on their post, uh, today. Uh, but again, safety never has a price tag. And so grateful to be a part of a council who continues to prioritize safety for all.

Thank you, Miss Owens. Final comments, seeing none, meetings adjourned. Thank you.