Remarks by Tiara N. Ross
51 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“Thank you. I just want to say I went to the Hilltop v. Franklinton game and realized that I just need to join Team Franklinton. So congratulations. Watch out. Just a couple announcements today. Last week I had the opportunity to participate in the third annual City Hall Illumination in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. I certainly want to thank City Attorneys Zach Klein and our partners at the Office of Violence Prevention and also City... Franklin County Prosecutor Shayla Favor for hosting the event and inviting me there. With that, we are excited to have our next hearing for the…”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“I think I have the date wrong. It is in October, though. We'll get the date to you. So please make sure it is open to the entire public. So if you are interested in coming, the last zone and gallery that I hosted was specific for District 7 residents. This one will be open to the general public. And if you want to come out, hang out with me, learn about Phase 2, provide public comment, then we will have the date and time later for you. That is it.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“I just want to echo Council President's sentiments. I've known both of you. Maybe you've known me longer than I've known you. I believe I've known you my entire life. There hasn't been a day in my life in which you all have not been significant presents. You came out of Tridestone, which is my home church, and you have been such, such... an integral part of this community. I'm honored to be able to serve the district in which Corinthian sits in today, which is such a serendipitous moment for me. I remember hearing you in the mornings on the radio station, really literally lending your hand to…”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“NOW YOU KNOW YOU'VE BEEN CRYING ALL MY LIFE.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“I just want to say, of course, thank you for all the work that you're doing. I had an opportunity to come out with you, Robin, and to to visit the center, and also to attend the latest community meeting that you hosted. And it was clear that what you are doing is helping to build community in the downtown area. And before that meeting was over, one of your homeless advocates was already out on the street talking, engaging, and conversing with our neighbors. And they know folks by name, they understand what the issues are, and they take really good care in trying to make sure that we are…”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. The sole ordinance coming out of Housing Homelessness and Building is Ordinance Number 2757-2026 to authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a non- not-for-profit service agreement with the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission to administer an energy-efficient home repair program to authorize the expenditure within the development taxable bond fund, to authorize the appropriation and expenditure within the neighborhood initiative sub-fund, to authorize the advancement of funding on a predetermined schedule, and to declare an…”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate you, Council Member Weish, for recognizing the acute needs of our community. If there are no additional questions or comments from my colleagues, I'll move for passes.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. That's it for me.”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Council, can I ask you a few follow-up questions with regard to that? You said the city is seeking receivership and seeking demolition. Has there been an adjudication as to that yet?”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“But there has been no determination that the building must be demolished?”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Can you also confirm, I know that the building, the Department of Building and Zoning issued a notice, and in the language of that notice it said you either got to rehabilitate or demolish. Is that your understanding of what the notice said?”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Has your client made a determination that it is not economically feasible to rehabilitate versus demolish?”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Sure, I read that. Has there been a determination that it is economically unfeasible to rehabilitate?”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“I just have one question. There was some discussion, I think, in the transcript and also discussion by the Appellant's Council about health and safety of the community. Are there... Let's say the the building is demolished. There's a vacant lot There's just grass and they're maintaining or they're committing to cut the grass Are there other considerations?”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Before you move on, really quickly, unsafe for occupation?”
City Council · Oct 5, 2026
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“Nothing for me, Council President. Thank you. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. If I may move to page 21 of the agenda. Nothing out of the Housing Homelessness and Building Committee, but we do have on second read ordinance number 2326-2026 to amend section 215.04 of Columbus City Codes to reflect the updated Division of Housing Opportunity within the Department of Development to repeal existing Section 215.04 of the Columbus City Codes and to declare an emergency. In order to better align the structure of the Department of Development with the City of Columbus's housing strategy and improve program delivery, the work of the Division of…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. That's it for me.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Council member Tierra Ross and I am calling the council affordable housing bond hearing to order. Thank you all for being here, particularly to Director Stevens and team from our city's Department of Development. Thank you to all of you who showed up this evening for our hearing. To those of you who are tuning in live on our YouTube channel, thank you for tuning in and thank you to Council President Hardin for being here with me today. In November, Columbus voters overwhelmingly approved a historic $500 million in affordable housing bonds, the largest local housing investment in our city's…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you. With that, I will turn it over to the Department of Development. Presumed Director Stevens is going to kick us off here.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Thank you, Director Stephens, Deputy Director Prosser, Deputy Director Jones. I'm going to kick it to President Hardin to start our question and answer period. And then once we do that, we will get our community speakers up.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“thank you thank you earlier on just really quickly a point of clarification auditor Lewis when you say there's a certain amount of bond sales that the city city is prepared to sell at the end of the year that is not just affordable housing bond sales can you just clarify what what that means comprehensively absolutely thank you thank you councilmember Ross so”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“So once we understand what the city's capacity is from a bond sale perspective, it would be somewhere within that capacity that we could potentially include bond sales to go specifically toward affordable housing. That's correct.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“You were reading my mind, so my next question was going to be, what dollars are we spending right now? And these, according to your statement, are dollars that were legislated and approved in 2024 from which sale?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“You talked a little bit about kind of the engagement that you go through before determining what your investment strategies are going to be or where you determine the need is from an affordable housing perspective. Can you give me some insight on that engagement? I will tell you just as a layperson before I got up here, I would see various community meetings that were being held by the Department of Finance or just not necessarily... super intuitive for someone in our community to be able to understand how to tap into some of these conversations around housing. So can you talk a little bit…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026