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Welcome. >> Welcome everybody. Uh to God be all the glory. I want to just reiterate, we all know this is a trying and troubling time for all of us. And what I'm petitioning all of us to do is to just simply come together. And you all have heard me and some of you, many of you have come and supported me at my initiatives, the call into action. But we are officially now rolling it out. And part of the initiative is to address the things that are most difficult for us to face. For instance, the crime and the gun violence in our city. It is real. But one of the things that's most real than the issues, the fact that we oftent times don't come together. It's no longer about red or blue. I recently met with Pastor Corey Bowman and Dr. Rottney Howard Brown and it was a wonderful encounter and I believe that a healing came upon me for those of you who know what I've been dealing with and I'm going to be challenging each and every one of you to come together, come to the table and let's work out some of these issues together. I'm no longer uh advocating uh for any party. In fact, I publicly stand to denounce an affiliation with trying to promote any party. I now want to go on record that I'm going to mobilize people for God. That may sound strange coming from the bishop, but I'm going to rally and I believe we can show the country a big difference. So, hear the people today and don't vote until you check your heart. >> Thank you, Bishop. Let's come together. >> Sarah Stler, if you could please come to the dis. Nick Tolbert, you're next. Welcome. >> It's been a while since I've been down here. And you know why I'm here? The city has done something that no city in the city in the country has done. They passed a resolution to recognize the indigenous people that was here on this planet. And guess what we going to do? We going to have a yearly celebration every year combined with a holistic festival. They had a holistic festival out there on the north side. It was lines to get into this place because people are getting tired of being sick. And the indigenous people, they knew what to do to heal themselves. And that's why we're going to bring this festival together. It's going to be nice. Nobody in the country going to be doing this. You know how much money the city is going to make behind us? A ton. A ton. They was doing it out there north. People was lining up for blocks just to get in here. So, I'm saying I enjoy I'm hoping that you people will come aboard and it's going to be nice because some of the things they did, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the indigenous people. I'm talking about I had over five heart attacks in a stroke. You know how many pills I'm taking now? None. Because I looked and find out what they did. And that's why it's very important. We're the only ones. And the city going to make money off of this, a lot of money, because it's been done before. And I talked, you know, I talked to the mayor about it, and I'm glad he likes it. It's time that people start doing ideas that's going to make money for the city, not continue to take money from the city every year. So, I'm looking for everybody's support. Just like y'all passed that resolution, y'all can help me. >> Thank you, Nick. >> Bust a hole in this. >> Thanks very much. Stanford Pool, please come to the Das. Welcome, Natasha Lowry. >> Hi, my name is Natasha. Um, I'm here due to the fact that I need some understanding and clarity. I was I moved into a a house up on Guily Avenue. I don't know if this house had anything to do with it, but uh I kept feeling sick. Um I don't know what happened. I took some Tylenol. I was in there with my 5-year-old son. When I woke up, I was in the ICU unit. August the 5th. I didn't have no child, no nothing. When I came to I found out that the state had custody of my child while I was unconscious. They took my child. They took me out the household first. I guess I was in the hospital under Jane Dove. The system right now has custody of my son. Interm custody. I have to do supervised visits over a medical situation. I caught menitis, which is a deadly disease. If you don't have the antibiotic, they said it can kill you. Um, when I woke up, I was strapped to the bed. Didn't know where I was at. didn't know what was going on. They told me I was unresponsive in my home, that I was unresponsive in the ER and that I was unresponsive when I got to the ICU. I was for 6 hours. What I'm trying to figure out is how did it come from me having a medical condition to the state getting custody of my child? How come they didn't reach out for a significant other or family member or anything? My son is 5 years old. I have not been without my son except seven days. This is not right. I mean, I don't know what the police did, what the fire department did, but I need my baby. I need my son. I can't take it. I don't know what's going on. How did I get in trouble for me going medically? I don't understand, but I need some help, some clarity or something. Somebody needs to tell me something. When I go visit my son and supervised, he's telling me I hurt his soul that I hurt his feelings. That's putting a burden on me. when I know I did nothing wrong. I'm doing urine screens now and visit supervised visits. I just need clarity on what happened. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Uh if you could hold on, ma'am. I'm sorry. >> Excuse me, mayor. >> Yes, please. >> Um so the county has um programs that would help her and so she may want to >> I'm so sorry. Um one second, President Parks. Noah Nixon in the back. Do you see him? >> Yeah. refer her to the office of family values. >> Family values. Yeah. No, did you hear that? The county office for family values. Thank you. Uh Grace uh Wool Schllegel, please come to the DAS. Uh welcome Sarah Stler. >> Good afternoon, council. My name is Sarah Stler and I am the academic dean at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. You may recall that I came before you in June to request support for the art academyy's infrastructure, particularly as it pertains to safety. Since then, our concerns have only grown more urgent. On Monday, a violent altercation involving guns broke out in front of our school during the middle of the day, while students were gathered in our lobby and common area. Our dorms, home to more than 80 students, most living away from home for the first time or just steps away from where this occurred. We responded quickly in coordination with CPD, contained the situation and provided immediate counseling support. We continue to offer resources and are implementing additional safety measures, but our campus remains at risk and we cannot do this alone. Today, I am asking for your support in acceleration in accelerating critical safety enhancements, including camera and lighting upgrades, access control improvements, more contracted security guards, student ambassador safety programs, and our proposed pedestrianonly street closure plan. Safety also requires protecting the entire building inside and out. That means addressing critical capital needs throughout the facility. The Art Academy was one of the first institutions to commit to OTR after the riots of 2001. Our commitment to the creative community runs deep and our economic impact on the neighborhood is substantial. Every student who decides to depart Cincinnati jeopardizes the cultural progress we have made. By extending to the art academy the same support afforded to other arts and cultural institutions, council can help us protect our students and safeguard our role as a creative anchor in OTR. I know our previous asks have not always been clear and we are working to give you the appropriate language and respectfully follow the system. I have personally walked many of you around our campus. You have seen our facilities and you know what is possible at the art academy and the lives that we have changed both for our students and the residents of otr. Again I humbly ask for your support and thank you so much council for your time today. >> Thank you. Uh Sophia Fritz please come to the dis. Welcome Stanford Pool. >> This council when a lot of you came in you said going to stop the corruption. uh John Cranley and the other crew with the five uh councils and uh PG Pastor Bernard and they said Cranley were taking cash to with the schemes of taking property from the the poor neighborhoods and the contractors. We had a football player every time they would play the game to take extra money. The FBI had to come into the city of Cincinnati and get this straight. Apparently a lot of people knew what was going on and did nothing with the scheme on the poor people in the uh neighborhood. You know about that. I'd have been here five years telling you what they've been doing and nobody doing nothing. I'd have met with the mayor and other people about clearing this up and they don't want it in court. A couple news people want to come in here and and expose this and we're going to try to talk to y'all and you don't want to do that. The city of Cincinnati sat here, the building department and the law department sat here and said, "We go to the poor neighborhoods. We write them up and then we tell them to give us the title to their property." That's extortion, racketeering, and RICO. That's a criminal RICO. And we got lawyers up there and nobody did nothing. Now, we got the tape that this happened. We got witness that this happened. Now a lady, a Palestinian lady given that book bag, they cussed her out and spit on her. One of your employee on your property and you did nothing. That's assault. You should arrest him immediately with your officers here and you did nothing. How much do we have to do? You you take care of the port authority, get them money, read in the report now, you're going to give them a whole bunch of money and and DC3C. When do you start doing something for the people that voted for you? You got a bunch of rich people that won't vote and the poor people >> Joe Girandola, please come to the dis. Welcome Grace. >> Hello. I am the director of student affairs at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. I am reading on behalf of Sylvia Pinto, the counselor and wellness resource specialist at the Art Academy. She cannot be here today because she is on campus supporting our students. On September 8th, 2025, an incident of community violence occurred in front of our school. Witnessed by multiple students, I became aware of the incident when a student ran into my office visibly shaken and told me they feared for their safety. They explained what was happening outside. I quickly went to the lunch area to ensure the safety of the students. I encountered a student on the floor who appeared to be in shock, displaying acute physical and emotional distress. I assisted them immediately and relocated them to a more private and secure setting where they could begin to recover. The event caused significant emotional distress for many. Several students experienced heightened emotional responses, including fear that their lives were in danger, severe panic and anxiety. I worked closely with them in the moment to deescalate their distress, offer a calm and safe environment, and provide reassurance. My priority was to create safety, stability, and empathy to help students regain a sense of calm during a deeply unsettling time. Students openly expressed their fears during and after the incident. Some shared they felt their lives were in danger, voicing concerns that the bullets could easily penetrate the windows. A disabled student present present at the scene expressed fear that if the perpetrators had entered the school, they would have been unable to run to safety quickly enough due to their physical limitations. One student was watching from their dorm window when the violence unfolded. They called the police right away because they feared nobody else would since they noticed people standing nearby idally on the street. Several students raised concerns after about school safety overall, questioning whether having a single security guard was sufficient to protect them in such situations given the dangers associated with our neighborhood and over the rine. They do not currently feel a strong sense of safety within the school. In light of this, I request immediate and ongoing monetary support for the art academy for improvement of safety on campus and over the rine. Thank you. >> Thank you, Brian. Uh Charles Charleston. Um looks like C H R I S L O. Oh, welcome Brian. Sorry about that. Uh go ahead, Sophia. >> Good afternoon, council members. My name is Sophia Fritz and I am a I represent the voices of the students of the art academy. I am a resident adviser and I take care of any issues that students have such as physical health issues or mental health issues. If I am unable to help them immediately in that moment, I will find someone who can. In an emergency situation, I am unable I am available to help students, but my only option is to call 911. With the assistance of the council, we would be able to upgrade our equipment for the safety of the residents in the dorms. Being an RA, I'm responsible for the lives of my residents and their safety at the art academy. While being an RA, I'm also a student and I am afraid for my own safety because of that incident on Monday. I feel like I would have put my life on the line to protect my fellow students and residents. The incident on Monday was very scary. Gang violence should not be something that students need to be worried about happening in front of their school building and in front of their homes. That violence happened in the middle of the day during our lunch break, possibly one of the highest times of foot traffic throughout the entire day. Students leave the school to get lunch throughout over the rine and support local businesses. But now students will be too scared to leave. I should not be afraid to walk 30 seconds across the street to get to my dorm to eat lunch in my own home. The Art Academy of Cincinnati would majorly benefit from contracted security guards that can walk students across the street from the school to the dorms. I chose the Art Academy because it was the best place for me to get my education in art and they give me the skills I need to succeed in the art world. One of my favorite things at the art academy is the connection between students and faculty. It creates a sense of community because I get to know my professors and I can connect with them about my art as an individual. But this sense of community cannot be created throughout the art academy and over the rine when students fear for their own safety. Thank you for your time and consideration to make our campus a safer place. >> Thank you. Marcy Frasier, please come to the dice. Welcome Joe. >> Thank you all. Council. Since 2005, the Art Academy of Cincinnati has been proud to call Over the Rine its home. As the second oldest art school in the nation, founded in 1869, the art academy is not only a cornerstone of Cincinnati's creative legacy, but also a vital anchor of daily life and health of otr. When we moved our campus to overrine just over 20 years ago, we made a commitment to be more than a college. We committed to be a partner in safety, vibrancy, and stability of the neighborhood. Our students, faculty, and staff contribute every single day to the sense of security and community pride that helps otr thrive. We light up Jackson Street at night. We activate our block with public art. We bring thousands of visitors to our neighborhood each year for exhibitions, lectures, and performances. That presence matters. It makes streets safer. It builds trust. It shows young people that creativity has a place here and will always have a place here. The Art Academy is also an economic engine. Since 2005, we have functioned as a small business, an employer, an incubator for the creative workforce of Cincinnati. Our graduates are designers, teachers, entrepreneurs, and innovators who power industries across the city and far beyond. In short, the Art Academy is not just educating artists. We are helping to secure the neighborhood, strengthen small businesses, and grow the next generation of talent that makes Cincinnati competitive on the national stage. As you consider the needs and future of Over the Rine, I ask you to consider an emergency ordinance as soon as next week to allocate financial support from the unappropriated surplus of the general fund to immediately assist the Art Academy of Cincinnati as a force for safety, for creativity, and for the economic vitality of this remarkable, remarkable neighborhood and city. Thank you so much, council. >> Thank you. Latoya Goss, please come to the DAS. Welcome Brian. Good afternoon. My name is Brian Christensen and I'm a tenant in Over the Rine as well as a representative of the Cincinnati Tenants Union or CTU. We are the citywide union for the for many of the Cincinnati residents who rent their homes. I'm here today alongside other union members living in buildings that were formerly managed by Vision and Beyond to request that the mayor and the city council follow through on their commitments to allocate funds for two critical needs. Health and safety repairs at Recor managed buildings and time-sensitive repairs at Prodigy managed buildings that were inspected in July and August by city inspectors. Recor the receiver of several former vision beyond buildings has provided our union with quotes for some of the most expensive items that need to be completed at the buildings. Today we will distribute you probably already received a report from Recor's team showing these items and their estimated cost. And you'll hear from two union members living at Recor managed buildings. uh Recor manage building 947 Grand Avenue. Recor has proven thus far to be a good faith actor with our union. They have been transparent and respectful. We completed one round of collective bargaining to negotiate new leases for all 24 buildings. And as far as we know, that is the first in Cincinnati history. They have begun making some necessary repairs using a line of credit provided by investors. But that money will run out in about a month. And we have no reason to believe that the investors abroad in Israel will agree to more money into in to rental housing here in Cincinnati. In contrast to Recor, Progyny has been unwilling to negotiate new leases with tenants and has done very little to improve tenants living conditions in the former vision and beyond buildings they manage. In July and August, the city conducted inspections at several buildings. Our union hoped that these inspections would prompt Prodigy to act and address the code of violations, but that has not been the case. Since those inspections, Prodigy has done little to address the issue cited. appliances are in in disrepair, black mold persists and flooding occurs when it rains. Uh for those reasons, CTU is calling upon the mayor and council to allocate funds towards making critical repairs to these buildings before emergencies occur. Thank you. >> Thank you. Jonathan Norton, please come to the dis. Welcome, Marcy. >> Good afternoon. My name is Marcy Frasier and I am a tenant at 947 Grand Avenue and a member of the Cincinnati Tennis Union. Almost three months ago, I came before you on behalf of our union to ask that you work with us to address health and safety problems for Kirby Avenue. This council and mayor took action and vote to provide 400,000 to provide to improve the living conditions of our fellow union members at K Kirby Avenue. On June 16, our union met with the mayor and had a good discussion. We request additional funds for other former vision and beyond buildings, including my own at 947 Grand. We agreed to help get inspection done at four buildings. Those inspections are done now. The issues are clear. So now I am back with my neighbor and union sister, Miss Toya, to encourage disconel and mayor to follow through on its word. Here are a report from recor lee associations corn receivers of my building and 23 other buildings. You will see some of the health and safety problems that assist and the cost. We have seen a major different in how recor treat us as a union. We sat across each other as equals and negotiated new leases. Recor brought some money to the table, but we know that money would run out quick. The repairs are too big. I am a retired nurse from Detroit who was in a labor union. When the union and management know we need the same thing, we will push for it. Here, we need a city to follow through and put up funds for health and safety problems at these buildings. Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh Jonathan Norton and Susan Lakes, please come to the dis. Welcome Latoya. >> Hello. Hello, counselor and mayor. My name is Latoya Goss and I live at 947 Grand. I am a member of the city tenant unions. the following. You and your sister, Miss Marcy, I will highlight a few problems from a report. These are just some of the health and safety problems. 947 grant our roof is at risk of collapsing. This is where I live. We have elderly and children living in this building who work. This work needs to be done. This same is also true of 946 Burton, a complex with 30 apartment at 394 Clear Rose Tenants or serious treatment for a black mo at one Carolina. The water and he is done. Our union is asking Miss May mayor is council read the reports and find the fund for our living condition if you have any question we are available to meet >> thank you Paul Bean welcome to the dis Jonathan Norton go ahead >> tomorrow September 11th you will all say never forget the same way you say never again you don't mean it what made this country say never forget back in 2001 was our biggest city attack. The sight of towers falling. A nation of people for the first time feeling unsafe at home. We tell ourselves the lie of American exceptionalism in order to believe that we are exempt from all the world's horrors. The horrors that we enable, that we produce. This month, we have watched Gaza City being attacked. Tower after tower falling, brought down by the bombs we send. Those same bombs powerful enough to topple highrises being dropped on tents, sheltering innocent men, women, and children. beheaded by these blasts, ripped apart and scattered in the wreckage and rubble their home has become. The same scenes that made us say never forget are created every single day in Palestine to an infinitely worse degree with our taxes and your silence. In 1939, the ship the St. Louis carrying Jewish refugees was denied entry to the US. Public worry over unemployment stoked anti-immigrant and anti-semitic biases. People specifically citing their fear that Jewish refugees would be terrorists here in the US. 254 of these passengers went on to be murdered in the Holocaust. Our handling of refugees at that time was shameful. Our reluctance to take action and involvement against the atrocities we knew were being created was shameful. Our nation now is now refusing visas to Palestinians. Palestinians who only need to resort to hospitals outside their home because we've supplied the destruction of theirs. We say never again, but what we're doing now is worse than what we did then. We're not just denying ships, we're bombing them in Venezuela. We're funding the nation attacking ships of peace workers in international waters. We're not just waiting to take action. We're the reason it continues. When you asked yourselves what you would do if you were alive during the Holocaust, your answer would have been whatever you were capable of. You could be setting the standard for what every city council could do. You've refused to invest in gun manufacturers. That should be all weapons. Pass resolutions declaring you won't invest in any entity complicit or participatory in genocide and apartheid. Every day you wait is a day spent in what will be the biggest mistake of your life. Never forget and never again. Never is right now. >> Thank you. Jack Cunningham, please come to the dis. Welcome, Susan Lakes. >> Susan Lakes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much for giving me this this opportunity. I come in here or I used to come in here month after month and gripe about everything and spout off my opinions about how I could be safer. And I'm not going to do that today because I think I'm preaching to the choir. We all want to be safe. And I know how hard all of you have worked toward that goal. Thank you for doing that. It must be a really, really um sometimes thankless job, but I know your heart's in it, every one of you. I wanted to give some shoutouts. Um I was at a meeting, a pretty big meeting. It well wasn't all that big. and someone from the police department, all I know is her name was Karen and it was like a healing thing. It was in Over the Rine and it was beautiful. what was in an intimate setting. And she not only talked about violence and healing, but gave us all strategies on how to lower the temperature, you know, from the deep breathing exercises and and I had forgotten some of that. It was it was wonderful. The other shout out out I want to give is um I noticed a homeless man near where I live and I was really concerned about him. Not that he was going to harm me but that he wasn't safe on the streets at this particular time. I reached out to 3CDC a man named Famble. He got on his walkie-talkie said generosity. They assembled a team and I haven't seen the guy since then. I'm hoping he's housed. I think he is. Thank you. Amber Cassum, please come to the dis. Paul Bean, you're next. >> Yeah. Um I I've been down here several times and it seemed like I can't even get a phone call from none of y'all. You know, I I've been hurt in the accident. You say it's my fault. I showed you. I showed you a miracle. I went up there and did a little job up here just to show you. I'm a construction worker. I can't hit a bump on the curve cause accident. I I'm about to sue y'all. See, everybody suing y'all. I want piece of cheese, too. See? Okay. I've been coming down here down my social security. I have seizures and all this I ain't riding with that. You want me to lay on my back now? I've been working all my life and that one time. How you doing, Mr. Bean? You having a nice day? >> Then come down here. I give you a project. It's called New Life. It seemed like to me. Only way y'all making money is with crime. Crime go up, you make money. You ain't trying to save lives. I told you before, you don't hear these people crying at night. You you can go home, drink your m your martini and everything lay down. You don't get headaches. I've been going through this for a minute now. And not one of y'all, all y'all should be get the hell off the panel. Not one of you. See, I got a problem with this. You don't. I got to live with this. I'm I'm at I'm on medication from this accident. Ain't no way this can happen. And I'm a construction worker and I've been doing this for 20 something years. I got to pray every night just to wake up with this medication. Will you slice my cheese too? Okay. >> Deal with this >> Latina Ernst, please come to the dis. Welcome Jack Cunningham. Is the reality of the situation not palpable? The Supreme Court has just now legalized racial profiling for ICE and taking people. So many young people's futures feel crushed with the weight of the reality and now this recession that's about to hand down on us. So many people's dreams and the prospect of their future has been destroyed. This administration has caused untold harm to millions of people and now that harm is affecting my loved ones and myself quite deeply. You know, for seven years from 2017 to 2024, I was some of y'all's biggest fans. I've done so much advocacy for you. I cheered for you. >> I did so much to help because I genuinely thought that not only was the Democratic Party the party to actually help the working class, but that y'all really meaningfully stood on business when it comes to fighting against authoritarianism, >> right? >> I mean, hey, I joined the Democratic Socialist. I joined the Working Families Party. I joined 5051. I will join any group out there that wants to effectively help the working class. Quite honestly, it took the actions of some people in the Young Dems to really show me that people really are only in there for this for whatever clout this is. >> But something I want to profess to you is that people are still counting on you. If my husband and I are still here in Cincinnati, I'm I am voting for you because the reality of voting for JD Vance's brother is not that's not happening. But you all need to know that people are terrified right now and they need your help right now more than ever. >> Thank you. Ina Zerub, please come to the DAS. Welcome Amber. >> Um, my name is Amber Cassam. I'm the president of the East Price Hill Community Council, also known as Ethia. Um, I came down here after receiving an email from the Fretore Food Bank. Um, last month I um kind of trolled Anna, uh, Council Member Anna Alvi in public. I questioned whether she was committed to feeding children and committed to gun violence, and she showed me that she was. Um, I got an email today saying that the freetore food bank pantry that I reestablished two years ago that I've been um cutting the checks for going to pick up the food, getting the invoices paid, dropping the food off, putting the food order in, and then hoping that the school could pick that up. Um, and they have last year. Um but now finally um the free store food bank is um taking that over and that would not have happened without me trolling you and without you actually coming through on that. So um I wanted to make sure that I gave you thanks where it is due. Um Vice Mayor uh Kernney, I want to appreciate the attention that you've given to my community, particularly after um ICE has quite literally frozen Warsaw Avenue. Um, I feel like my um vulnerable populations, the elderly and um Hispanic population are being double targeted right now um from the administration and on the streets with um youth um you know just not having programmed organized constructive uh direction on what to do. So, I want to thank you for your attention. Um, and regarding the $5 million that you guys are spending today, I'm proud that you guys have finally figured out that neighborhoods matter. I can't wait to see it in Price Hill. >> Thank you. Stefan Prior, please come to the DAS. Betina Ernst, welcome. >> The monstrosities of genocide do not only affect the direct victims who are cordoned off into killing zones with no way of escape, but also their allies across the globe. When we permit fascism, violence and racism anywhere under any leadership, we encourage it everywhere. This is evident in the outbreak of authoritarian police violence against protesters speaking out in the US and abroad. And this is evident in the brutal drone attacks on the global Simud flotillaa off the coast of Tunisia. These activists are traveling to Gaza with the sole aim of providing aid to the besieged civilians. Their courage is met with violence and cruelty. The most human act, the desire to feed, shelter, and provide for the suffering, is found punishable by the inhumane Israeli regime and its allies. This regime is protected and supported by our tax dollars, our propaganda, and our elected officials who refuse to speak up. When America both arms the IDF and exports serial killers to its ranks, such as Daniel Rob, the sniper who recently spoke to the Guardian about mercilessly killing a Palestinian teenager trying to reach the corpse of his brother. We have a duty as Americans to resist. To only care about gun violence when it affects our children and to only care about hunger when it affects our families is to confirm the worst ideas about humanity. You have power from your seats to delegitimize a white supremacist regime that exerts its power through occupation and apartheid. You have models for divestment legislation from cities including Portland, Maine, and Richmond, California. We have power to vote with our dollar and our ballots to support the businesses and politicians that have our interests and values in mind. I call on everyone in this room to value life, freedom, and justice for everyone in Palestine. Uh, Rico, please come to the DAS. Welcome, Lena Zuru. I'm here again to speak to our community, to those in this room who still have humanity, who refuse to be complicit in genocide and ethnic cleansing. Let's start with the definition. A hypocrite is someone who pretends to have moral standards they do not live by. Greg Lansman is a hypocrite. Just days ago, he stood at an event called Gloves Up, Gun Guns Down, smiling for the cameras, pretending to care about nonviolence. Yet, he votes for every bill that sends bombs to Israel. Bombs that tear Palestinian children apart. The truth is, it should be gloves up, bombs down, but that would that would require valuing Palestinian lives. And here, our lives are disposable. Our stories are disposable. Our children's little bodies are disposable. Anna Albi was there posing for photos photos. I wonder how you feel about that. That is not about one politician or one party. The root disease is Zionism. Zionism is a settler colonial ideology built on our dispossession and murder. And while American politicians line up to fund genocide, the world is moving. Just in the last two days, Spain imposed sanctions on Israel. That is leadership. That is principle. That is what it looks like to stand for humanity no matter who it offends. Com compare that to to your like to this council's silence. So I turn to our community. If you still have a heart, if you still believe in humanity, stop legitimizing Zionism. Isolate it. Shame it. Boycott it. Boycott Israeli products. Divest from every company that profits from our blood. Cut ties with every institutions that launderers ethnic cleansing. Do not normalize with Zionists. Do not share space. Do not shake their hands because every tax dollar. Every silence, every act of business as usual is complicity. This government forces us to pay for genocide. And in the face of of oppression, Palestinians have the right to resist, the right to fight for life, the right to exist. >> Thank you very much. Josh Spring, please come to the dis. Stefan Prior, you're next. >> Put it right. >> Good afternoon, council. This is Stefan. I got to look over this way because the camera is over this way now. Uh, good afternoon. My name is Stefon Prior, running for city council. Vote for me, we won't have problems. Okay, let's start with Jeff. No, my fault. Mark Jeffrey, this $50 million uh task force, tax task force to help property tax. You terminate that. You told me you terminated that. I thought you suspended it. You told me you terminated. You didn't you using that 50 million towards something else. That's good. You told me that uh yesterday. Mark Jeffrey, I mean Mark Jeffrey, I keep mixing y'all up. Thank y'all brothers. Jeff Cradine, this this $5.4 $4 million you giving out in your budget. Y'all give money to 3CDC all the time. Y'all should take that money back. Y'all give it to outreach uh workers. They don't do their job on the streets. Uh curfew center lighthouse, you can cut them out. Seven Hills, I I I like them. We work with Seven Hills. License plate readers. That's a lie. Uh license uh CPD West End cameras. We need them down there. Finley market. They got about 2 million, $7 million they raised. They don't need no more money. Uh, what else? Mobile safety cameras, trailers. That sound like a lie. Y'all need to find out where all this money going and how it's going to get spent because y'all keep giving it to them to get rich. Y'all need to stop that. I'd like to special shouts out to Miss Cheryl Long and Billy Welber. They did a quick response on the live wires on on uh North Ben Road. Live wires. The the the wires was hanging low. They did a great job on that. Kudos to them. But Mark Jeffrey and Jeff Cramedine, y'all giving out free money and that's not cool. Give it to the taxpayers to help with their taxes. So help the people. That's your job. >> Thank you. Uh Daniela. Uh Daniel, if you come to the dis. Uh moving to Zoom. Mike Uhhghorn, you're next. Hello. Can you hear me? >> Yes, we can hear you. Go ahead, Mike. >> Hello. This is Mike again with Mike's Professional Home Inspections. As I've discussed before, Greater Cincinnati Waterworks and the City of Cincinnati has set a very dangerous precedent of allowing businesses Greater Cincinnati Waterworks to be charging people for providing absolutely nothing when they have water turned off at the meter. Now I have presented the case to the castle that this is a direct violation of the state of Ohio fraud law 2913 and nobody's done anything. I've reported it to the ethics and good government committee. Nobody ever contacts me back about anything that's being done about this. So the precedent has been set that any company can charge people merely for just being ready to provide something and people having access to it. That's what Greater Cincinnati Waterworks does. Have a business. I'm starting to charge the same way I've been charging to people at the Greater Cincinnati Waterworks and city council members since they all seem to believe that companies can charge people just for being ready to provide something and people having access to it. But nobody's paying their bills. Why are they not paying their bills? If they believe that people should be paying Greater Cincinnati Waterworks for providing absolutely nothing when they have the water turned off at the meter and are providing nothing, then why wouldn't they pay that kind of bill that I'm sending? I think that maybe everybody is so very guilty about participating in a conspiracy to commit fraud that they want me to sue them for not paying their bills so that a jury could rule that companies cannot be charging people like that because then everybody would be receiving thousands and thousands of invoices from all the companies that are invoicing just like Greater Cincinnati Waterworks does. It's a very dangerous precedent. Just imagine if Amazon and Google, Walmarts, all the satellite companies, the cell phone companies, everybody started charging just like Greater Cincinnati Waterworks because the precedent has been set that companies can charge like that. >> Thank you, Mike. Our next speaker is Rico. Welcome. >> Thank you and good afternoon, council, and to everybody in this room and on uh the internet. Um, I'm Rico with the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition and Black Power Initiative. Before I get started, I just want to say free Palestine, free Congo, free Sudan, free our brothers and sisters that's been locked up, and free our brother Amen Solomon, who should be out today. So, I had to start with that because it's very important to me. But I just want to say thank you, Council Member M, Councilwoman Mika, for involving us in the process with this ordinance that you are going to take a vote for today. Um, this will help tenants who have been dealing with a lot of issues feel more comfortable um, going up against their landlords and helping more organizations get created across the country. I do have concerns though. I hope that there is more to be done um more teeth more strength to make tenants feel even more comfortable because we know that there has to be more accountability on behalf of landlords and also I have more concerns. One concern I have is with public safety. There's money going to public safety today that I would like to go into housing, food, healthc care, education, transportation, and more helpful things for our community. We know that these things have been underfunded for years, especially in black communities, especially in communities where we've seen people get gentified out of their community and then have to find somewhere to live. We need more affordable housing, more accessible housing, more accessible and affordable food and healthcare and education, all these things alike. So, I encourage you all to think about how we can make the city better without going to the police first. Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Josh Spring. Welcome, >> Josh Spring, executive director of the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition. Uh we are here to support item 51 on your agenda today. Uh this is uh an amendment to um some existing protections for tenants. Uh and it expands the correctly. So the various definitions of what is tenant organizing so that when people are organizing themselves uh it is more difficult for a landlord to retaliate. And this is necessary because thousands and thousands of households in our community are living in absolutely deplorable conditions. Some conditions that would surprise some of you. Uh and the only way right now for the most part to get out of those conditions starts with organizing. And we all have a right to organize ourselves regardless of what the situation is. And I want to point out that when when us, the homeless coalition and the city and legal aid, when we have worked together on these issues, we have had great success. Uh we have collectively saved several thousand units of housing through organizing and legal action. Uh and we have thousands more to go. uh and that is in the midst of the fact that at least 46,000 of our households cannot afford the home that they live in now, which is why we're constantly talking about funding affordable housing. And I'd be remiss to not add that uh as we sit here and the council is discussing five and point4 million dollars for public safety. Uh the threat of the housing crisis is real and it's been real for a long time. 1.2 million to pay cops time and a half to walk around. >> Thank you. >> Is not where we need to be putting our time and money. Thanks. >> Next speaker is Daniel. Welcome. >> First off, my name is pronounced da. Sorry, just to mention that for the >> I genuinely apologize for that. Could we as this council contin's time over? Sorry about that. >> As this council continues to ignore the pleads for help and the screams of innocent Palestinians as they continue to lose all they've ever known from the weapons that we continue to fund with our tax dollars, it only goes to show that even witnessing the worst crimes against humanity is an immoral red line for you. How can we take any words of sympathy that you have towards marginalized communities in Cincinnati seriously when almost two years has passed of slaughter and ethnic cleansing and there hasn't even been a word from your mouth to address the communities that this continues to affect every day? I am watching videos of children carrying the limbs of their parents and parents carrying the bones of their children. Why should we ignore to stay silent and ignore the ongoing fact that our tax dollars, which can be used to improve the well-being of communities here in Cincinnati, is instead further perpetuating destruction in one of the most horrific genocides of our time. On top of bombing neighboring countries and facing absolutely zero consequences. If you want to bow down to the establishment, don't expect to not have any eyes on you. You are no different than the Republican counterparts you claim to be morally superior to. We see how many of you prioritize your political career and so-called reputation over your humanity. And it truly makes me think what the words would be coming out of your mouth if the country facing genocide was one in Europe instead of the Middle East. Our next speaker is on Zoom in Ezeran. >> Can you hear me? Yes. Go ahead, Enz. >> This is not a political pitch, nor is it about race because I'm frustrated with all parties. But it's about the truth that I'm continuing to live. I greet you from Silver Springs, Maryland. Because I was forced out of Cincinnati, Ohio, where I was born and raised. because of our reporting abuse by a now retired Cincinnati firefighter Dirtton whom Cincinnati police, fire, and two council administrations under Cranley and youthol aided and embedded him in his desire to abuse to kill me, never holding him accountable. The picture you see is a recent picture of my throat and tongue swelling, how it goes into spasms from me being strangled on many occasions. Recently, a strangulation by a police chief at Washington Park is unacceptable regardless to the distress of whatever that female was in. I hold each and every one of you responsible because I even told you about Duran while he was employed how he falsified a will set up probate judge Winkler in him writing in that will a clause to keep his siblings from coming to that probate hearing testifying. I got a call by his brother wife Teresa Dirtton yesterday telling me that him and his brother is now in litigation over the property on Wolfford Road that they are going through litigation outside of the courtroom. I told her, you know, he had guns. She said, I know, but he have big guns. I said, okay, what type of guns is it like AR-15? She said, yes. I'm telling y'all, y'all has set dirt up to do mass destruction. And the only persons that he's going to come out and kill specifically is me. Why? Because I have been chosen by God, not elected, not appointed, but chosen by God to stand up and tell the truth and be transparent. Y'all need to go and do something about Dirtton because y'all help him to get to where he is. You know, I filed for a legal separation. I'm now trying to get clarification whether or not >> Thank you, Anes. That concludes um this portion of the of the meeting. Uh we will now begin today's business portion of Cincinnati City Council and the clerk will please call the role. >> Council member Johnson >> here. >> Vice Mayor Kernney >> here. >> Council member Nolan >> here. >> Council member Owens >> here. >> Council member Parks >> here. >> Council member Walsh >> here. Council member Albby here. >> Council member Karing here. >> Council member Jeff >> here. Please stand for a moment of silence. And now the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The minutes from the previous meeting will be approved and filed without objection. Hearing none, they'll be approved and filed. We'll um jump to item 18 and now recognize Council Member Albi for the presentation of a resolution recognizing the Hamilton County Suicide Prevention Coalition. Miss Albby, >> thank you. And if our members from the coalition could come forward, would love to have you up with me. And as you walk up mentally prepared, I'm going to have you introduce yourselves in your organization. Come on up to the front. Hello. You want to be up here? You became a person. Okay. Okay. Well, one of you want to hold this and then I'm going to have you quickly just go down the line and introduce yourselves and your organizations. >> Hello everyone. and I'm Carrie Stuttomire, project coordinator of the Hamilton County Mental Health and Recovery Services Board. >> Hello, I'm Rebecca Jones. I'm an associate director for Tombbert House that oversees the coordinator for the coalition. >> Good afternoon. Linda Gallagher, vice president with the Hamilton County Mental Health and Recovery Services Board. Thank you, Council Member Albi. >> Fantastic. And we're going to turn and face this camera since she's already here. So, September 10th, today is World Suicide Prevention Day. So in honor of that, we're doing this resolution. So recognizing the Hamilton County Suicide Prevention Coalition, expressing the appreciation of the mayor and the council of the s city of Cincinnati for all their hard work in the community. Whereas mental health is part of overall health and one in five adults experience a mental health problem in any given year. Whereas approximately 1/ half of chronic mental illness begins at the age of 14 and three/4ers by the age of 24. and long delays often uh occur between the time symptoms first appear and when individuals get help. Whereas in 2023, suicide remained the second leading cause of death among Ohioans ages 10 to 14 and 20 to 34 and was the 12th leading cause of death overall. And on average, nearly five Ohioans died by suicide per day, including one individual aged 10 to 24 every 36 hours. Whereas the US gun suicide rate is nearly 12 times that of other highincome countries and nearly six out of every 10 gun gun deaths in the US are suicides. And I want to be uh add something here. In Ohio, firearms are used in over half of suicide deaths. Whereas 90% of people who die by suicide had shown symptoms of mental health mental health condition according to interviews with family, friends and med medical professionals. And whereas early identification and treatment can make a difference in successful management of mental illness and recovery. And it is important to maintain mental health and learn symptoms of mental illness in order to get help when it is needed. And whereas every citizen and community can make a difference in helping end the silence and stigma that far too long has surrounded mental illness and discourage people from getting help, public education and civic activities can encourage mental health and help improve the lives of individuals and families affected by mental illness. And whereas we shine a light on suicide prevention and mental illness and fight stigma, provide support, educate the public, and place our full support behind those who work in mental health field, including the Hamilton County Suicide Prevention Coalition. And now, therefore, be it resolved by the Council of Cincinnati of Cincinnati, the mayor and this council hereby recognize the Hamilton County Suicide Prevention Coalition for their tireless dedication to the safety and well-being of our community. So, thank you all for being here for suicide awareness day. Um, I had one more stat in here that I I think didn't make it, but suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in the US and second leading among our young adults. So, this is truly an issue here locally in Hamilton County, across the state and in the nation. So, one is to take today to recognize the importance of addressing suicide prevention, addressing the importance when we talk about firearm safety in uh limiting access to lethal means. Um, how important that is. So, I'll turn it if anyone of you want to say a few words. I told them to warn someone this was going to happen. Um, well, again, thank you so much for recognizing all the work that we're doing on the coalition to address um suicide. uh as we know uh post the COVID but even before then there were increasing rates of people being anxious and uh isolated and just nervous and needing help and we're doing our best to reach all communities uh to provide them the needed services. So we thank you for recognizing how critical issue this is in all of our efforts. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. Comments from council. >> Mr. Walsh. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, Council Member Albi, thanks for raising this up. And to all those who work in this field, thank you so much. Um, I cannot imagine the mental fortitude that it takes to be able to work in this field day in and day out, helping those at the um, darkest moments of their lives. Um, there's a council aid that actually works with us. I'm going to keep them nameless guy and uh get their approval before getting to this point who has worked at the suicide prevention hotline before. Um and and talking to them, I remember it's one of those things that stuck out. It just it takes a special person. It takes a special calm, a special patience, a special empathy. Uh and then you have to take care of yourself too as you're dealing with this. And and the opportunity to raise it up and remind people that uh a stigma that we don't talk about often. It's it's okay to seek help. it's okay to reach out and we have people and advocates like you out there fighting every day to help those uh in the darkest hours. Really, I'm grateful we get opportunity to thank you today. >> Thank you. Further comments, ladies. Thank you so much for your work uh truly saving lives and providing um just just care and empathy and well-being uh for folks that are in crisis. Um the work you do is important and we're really grateful for it. So, thank you. Roll call on confirmation of the appointment, please. Or excuse me, I apologize. Roll call on passage of the resolution. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Karnney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Parks, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albby, >> yes. >> Council member Karding, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> It passes. Congratulations. [Applause] >> Okay, moving to our agenda. Um, we have a number of appointments. We'll start with item one, which is an appointment of Lega West to the Cincinnati Elections Commission. Roll call on confirmation, please. >> Council Council Member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Parks, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albby, >> yes. >> Council member Karding, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. Items 2 through 7 are appointments to the Housing Advisory Board. Without objection, I'd like to have one roll call vote on items 2 through 7. Any objections to that? Hearing none. Items 2 through 7 are appointments of Katie Westbrook, Rita Scythe, Sister Sally Duffy, James Watkins, Greg Gregory Johnson, and Bobby Mey to the Housing Advisory Board. Roll call on confirmation of items 2 through 7, please. >> Council Johnson, >> yes. Vice Mayor Kernney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Parks. Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Alvi. Yes. >> Council member Crane. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Items 8 through 16 are appointments to the Community Development Advisory Board. Uh without objection, I'd like to have one roll call vote on items 8 through 16. Any objections? Seeing none, uh, items 8 through 16 are appointments to the community development advisory board. And those appointments are Marcus Parish, Tiara Turnage, Ebony Pratt, Yasmin Schilson, Stephanie Collins, Roy Hackworth, Gina Marsh, Marquia Carter, and Jennifer McEavy. Uh, roll call and confirmation of items 8 through 16, please. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. Yes. Council member Parks. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. >> Yes. >> Council member Karding. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Item 17 is an appointment of Dr. Sarah Gee to the Citizen Complaint Authority. Roll call on confirmation of the appointment please. >> Council member Johnson? >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens? >> Yes. >> Council member Parks. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. Yes. >> Council member Pading. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Item 18 has been dealt with. Item 19 is a resolution from Council Member Albi recognizing the Association of Film Cinema International. Miss Albby. >> Yeah, thank you. So, um, if we I'm not going to read this whole thing because we're going to hopefully, uh, vote on it today and then do a presentation on, uh, Monday. I will keep my colleagues and everyone updated. Monday morning, Memorial Hall is the beginning of this symposium. Um, really exciting international um, conference, film conference. And us winning this conference was actually one of the things that set us on the path to set us up for uh bidding on Sundance. And really exciting the work that Film Cincinnati has put into this. They have uh a lot of amazing people coming in. Uh I'm going to look really quickly here. I think it's um people from more than 31 countries, over 300 registrants, panelists, keynote speakers, filmmakers, and community members. And this is really just a celebration of our film industry here locally. Um and Mr. Mr. Mayor, I think you're speaking on the panel Monday morning. So, um the hope is to be able to present this formally to film Cincinnati to celebrate the beginning of that um amazing conference, the symposium. >> Thank you. Further comments? Roll call on confirmation. Excuse me. Roll call on passage of the resolution, please. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Kney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Parks, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albby, yes. >> Council member Kading, >> yes. Yes, Council Member Jeffrey. >> Yes. >> Item 20 as indicated. Item 21 will be referred to the public safety and governance committee. Item 22 through 23 are as indicated. Item 24 should be indicated at no objection from the city. Any objection from the city? Seeing none, that should be indicated, please. Item 25 is as indicated. Items 26 and 27 are the city manager's appointments to the sidewalk board of appeals. Without objection, I'd like to have one roll call vote on items 26 and 27. Any objections? Hearing none. The appointments are Amamira Beer uh and Carrie Rundle uh Macyver to the sidewalk board of appeals. Roll call on confirmation of items 26 and 27, please. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. Vice May Kernney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, yes. >> Council member Parks, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albby, yes. >> Council member Crane, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Item 28 through 41 are as indicated. Item 42 is uh a motion from Miss Albby that the city administration provide a report within 30 days to evaluate the potential for reviving the capital arts grant program. Miss Al Oh, excuse me. This is in budget and finance, but Mr. may I have Miss Albby introduce this item? >> Yes, please. >> Miss Albby, >> thank you. Uh, short and sweet. Um, before we were on council, there used to be a capital arts fund. It went away. Also, before we are all on council, but as we think about some of our community partners, a lot of our community partners have been coming and asking for capital dollars. A lot of them are in the art space, whether it's artworks, uh, Clifton Cultural Arts Center, uh, the art museum and and so on, um, Playhouse in the park. So really um the ask here is if the administration can go back look at how that capital arts fund used to work if if there is value to us bringing it back as a way to provide clarity and guidance to our uh arts partners who are looking for that type of financial support from us. So this is step one to just really understand how it worked before and how we could if we brought it back if we can improve the process. So this is just a request for a uh report back analyzing all that. Further comments? Roll call and adoption of the motion, please. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Parks, yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albby, >> yes. >> Council member Karding, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Item 43 is a motion that's amended from council members Kramerding, Owens, and Jeff. that the $2 million allocated to public safety in motion number 202501522 and an additional 3.42 million from the general fund contingency account be used for the following. Mr. Kramering, would you like to introduce this item? >> Yes. Thank you, mayor. uh as we all know what happened at at Fourth and Eln happened and it's I think our collective hope that that this puts a period on that uh unfortunate episode that has been polarized and racialized and as I and others have said uh the city uh will not give into that. Uh but having said that there is at least a segment of the population of our citizens that did feel safe downtown in the city that no longer feel safe. Uh, I feel safe downtown and I feel safe in my neighborhood, Price Hill. Uh, but we have to acknowledge reality of the change in perception. So, how we got here is is I and and some of my colleagues initially proposed a $2 million allocation from our reserves for public safety. Uh the manager and her team then did their work and this has spurred some good conversation and some good solutions. They came back with a 4.5 million dollar solution at various uh for various um public safety needs. Uh my colleagues and I in this motion added uh three things to it. Uh the item that has generated the most conversation uh which I'll address and let my colleagues address the other is the uh $1.2 million in police visibility overtime. Uh I believe this is critically important that we transfer the money now. Uh as the chief yesterday said or the chief on Monday said if I need more money, I will come ask for it. But I think it's important for our officers and the city to know that that money is available today. So I think it's important that we uh make this um movement uh today. Secondly, I want to point out that you know this perhaps started downtown but the problem is citywide and this these resources will be used in Bond Hill, Price Hill and throughout the city. Uh so that is is very important. And finally uh you know there has been concerns raised whether this money the police visibility over time will be used or not. Uh and I just want to point out that if it's not used that is fine. We will reallocate it to another public safety need. So this money in no way will be wasted at the end of the day. It will be put to a productive use. Uh so with that I will turn it over to my colleagues who may speak on other portions of the motion or offer their opinions on the motion. >> Thank you Mr. permitting. Uh, as is our usual course, we'll hear from the other co-sponsors and then open it up to council. I'll begin with Miss Owens. >> Thank you, Mayor. Um, safety remains, uh, the top priority of the city and this spending package is a reflection of this priority, but it is also not misguided. We are seeing results in the components we've invested in, putting dollars into the things that we know work. Police visibility and overtime available across the city. Cameras and lighting which helps to improve people's interactions and experience downtown as they patronize our establishments, particularly our small businesses who are experiencing a negative impact because of recent events, some of whom are experiencing business loss as much as 25%. increased support from 3CDC ambassadors which make our urban corpses safer and cleaner. License plate reading technology because there is a correlation between stolen vehicles and other incidents of crime including homicides. Cameras specifically in the West End and Northern Over the Rind and even greater investment in our place-based uh pivot strategies through more officer training. These are smart investments to reduce crime and we are clearly being responsive and I want to thank my colleagues for supporting almost $1 million more in these investments than where we started. Although we didn't pass this out of budget with unanimous support, my personal commitment is that I will never take my foot off the gas as it relates to the necessary investments around safety. And I hope that we as a council continue to be aggressive and I'm grateful for my colleagues who agree with making our city stronger and safer. So I am excited to support this motion. >> Thank you, Miss Owens. And now Mie Mr. Jeff. >> Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'm not going to repeat what my two colleagues said and we also had a good discussion three hours on Monday. Uh so but just a a few other comments. uh the ambassadors in particular. Part of safety is we know this if things are especially north of uh Liberty uh on Vine Street. We've added some of the ambassadors to clean uh clean up uh litter that is a part of u safety. They're also in and around Court Street. There's needles and other things. They clean that. This is a part of public safety. Uh make that point. Then the the second on the curfew, the manager rightfully the other day said um you know it's great that actually nobody's used the curfew center. My understanding is we're contractually obligated to pay that. You know because in principle you say okay if nobody's using it then maybe we don't move forward with it right now and reallocate that money. We are contractually obligated. That being said I think actually it is good news that none of the kids needed to be brought there. Uh and obviously that's learning for next year. you know, maybe we don't need that level of infrastructure. Maybe there's a different approach. Uh it's something after um the dust settles kind of on this year as we're thinking of next summer um to re-evaluate what infrastructure we need to make sure that we are implementing the curfew effectively uh and in the in the right way. Thank you. >> Thank you. Now that we've heard from the co-sponsors, comments from council. Miss Albby. >> Yeah, thank you. I I want to thank uh all my colleagues for for working on this. You know, we continue as a council, as a mayor's office, as the administration to have a yes and approach to public safety. What's included in this is not the end- all beall. It's not everything we're doing, right? It is another uh series of tools in the tool belt that allow us to make Cincinnati a safe, desirable place to live, work, and play. And I want to make sure that, you know, as folks read about this in the news, they understand that this is just, you know, I don't know, however many more pieces in the puzzle as we build a safer Cincinnati. Other pieces include funding we put forward for housing, whether that's rental assistance, access to counsel, uh, emergency shelter, it's the money we put forward when it comes to providing food for folks. It's the money we put forward when it comes to pedestrian safety. Right? All of these things matter when it comes to ensuring our city is as safe as it can be. And there's work to do. I want to be clear, there is work to do, but this is a step forward. And I personally really appreciate um the focus here on how we can make a safer physical environment through things like Council Member Owens mentioned with lighting and and cameras. Those are important pieces of not only preventing crime, but also people individuals sense of safety. And this is just a really um thorough addition that adds to what we're already doing. There is no magic wand solution. This is this motion. this what will be an ordinance is not claiming to be that, but it is a step in the right direction and I think reflects all of our commitment to doing what we can to provide a safe Cincinnati for everyone. So, thank you. >> Thank you. Further comments, >> Mr. Mr. Chair, >> Vice Mayor, and then Mr. Walsh. >> So, you know, there's some things in this motion that I think are fine. um giving money for um police uh disability overtime or visibility overtime, PVO, um is fine. The chief said that we need uh to allocate 500,000 to that. Um and that's the amount we should allocate. Um but we've allocated in this in this particular ordinance 1.2 million. So there's 700,000 more allocated that she said they do not need. And so that 700,000 can go to a different cause. We have lots of needs. Why put it where it's not needed? Uh I have a problem with the 880,000 to walk people to their cars. Again, that's a lot that we could allocate elsewhere. Um, this is supposed to be um a motion for an ordinance for things that are urgent. I don't think $360,000 for license plate readers that will not prevent car thefts. I don't think that's necessary. Uh, and the jury is out on whether or not we need to put all this money aside for the for the curfew centers, but I'll leave that alone for now. But with the things I just mentioned, um, that's almost $2 million. And what I suggested is why don't we take a million dollars, put it in our youth to work program that our Cincinnati recreation department does and get jobs for our young people. You know, a lot of times I feel like our young people are talked about as if they're enemies and they're not, but they do need something to do. They do need to see hope and a path forward. Uh lots of people have said, lots of adults have said that having a job as a young person and having mentors really help them make good choices and and move forward. This would be wonderful to take some of this money that's not needed in the in the areas I just mentioned and put it in jobs for youth. You know, I also talked about uh community violence intervention. you know, really dealing with the active shooters who are small group of people involved in retaliatory gun violence in the city in certain hotspots and really wreaking a large percentage of the gun violence that we are experiencing. We need to put money into that and that would really make us safe. And so I I really just cannot support some of the some of these funding um proposals. I think I think we're wasting money. I think we're not allocating the money where it goes. I also wonder about equity. You know, I like the fact that the cameras and lighting go across the city. That's good. But a lot of this money is focused on otr in the central business district and ignoring other needs in our in our neighborhoods. And so, um, I don't think the spending is equitable. Uh, I think much of it, u, at least that 1.9 million that I just mentioned, almost 2 million is misallocated. Uh, and I just cannot support that. >> Thank you, Mr. Walsh. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, I agree with the motion that we have in front of us today. Uh, crime is an everchanging, ever evolving, you know, pre crime prevention just requires us to constantly evolve and try to find new ways. Uh and it it reminds me of the time, you know, my experience in College Hill when I started, we had no pedestrians walking Hamilton Avenue and by the time I left, uh we had pedestrian safety groups forming because now people were walking Hamilton Avenue and so the needs evolve for the community over time. And that that's what we're doing here. And so what we have in front of us is good, I think, short-term measures and intermediate measures, but I want to implore this council not to forget, especially as we start to look to the next budget. Uh we talked on Monday about some of these long systemic issues that we need to solve. Police, fire, um the fact that we don't have enough officers on either side of that equation and I hope that we continue to move as a council as we think about our strategies to make sure that we're solving these long term. We're going to always have to adjust, but there are things we need to be doing as well as these to make sure our city's best positioned going forward. >> Thank you. Further comments, council, >> Mr. Johnson, please. >> Thank you, uh Mr. chair, you know, um we have had more than 40 homicides in this city and now all of a sudden because of a very ugly violent incident at Fourth and Elm where nobody died, people were injured. Nobody wants to see that in our city. 40 plus homicides. Let that sink in for a minute. This council did not move to come up with $4.5 million to address safety. A fight at Fourth and Moved this council to come up with $4 and a half million dollars to address safety. But 40 plus homicides, this council didn't move to safety. We keep talking about safety. We have our fire department that is part of public safety that has been since I've sat on this day been overlooked time and time again when it comes to their emergency issues. The term emergency was used up here. The police chief, who's the expert, said she only needs a half a million dollars. $700,000 that's hanging out there waiting to be spent could go to the fire department that is experiencing some emergencies. Their strength authorization has not been increased since 2006 in emergency. Although calls for service for fire have gone up 40%. I do not believe they have had a new ambulance since 2009. emergency. We have a climate assessment and a facility study that's being done. We have not a clue what that's going to reveal, but we're willing to take to all of a sudden find $4.5 million to talk about safety. And the fire department is in emergency situations. the overtime that we're asking and demanding of our police, they can't even work. They can't work it. They don't have the bodies to work it. Let's just, if we're going to be genuine and honest, let's quit being disingenuous on this deos. They can't even feel the details. They don't have the bodies. So, when we talk about $700,000 extra dollar, $700,000 extra dollars, and I agree with the vice mayor, we need to do a reassessment with $880,000 going to uh the ambassadors. We could cut that in half. That's over a million dollars that we can address an emergency in the fire department. As I said, we've got a climate assessment and a facility studies. We don't even know what's going to come out of that. We have cities like Akan that are running 15 ambulances. Cincinnati's I believe is running 12 and then they have to come up with overtime to run the other ambulances in emergency. So what are we doing here? What are we really doing here? We are moving as a result of a fight at 4th and M moving $4.5 million and we got a fire department that is actually under an emergency. The expert, the police chief told you she only needs half a million dollars. What are we doing? I agree. We do need cameras and lighting. There's a bond sentencing uh project here, $250,000. We don't have a clue how much that's going to really cost. What are we doing? We're being disingenuous. That's what we're doing. This is wrapped up. We took all of this and wrapped it up in the big beautiful bill for Cincinnati, just like our president did with that big beautiful bill. There are things in here we absolutely should be addressing. But to wrap it up to four for $4.5 million while we have an emergency with our first responders, the fire department is disingenuous. And there's no way because it's wrapped up in this. I can support this. I support a lot of these measures, but not why our fire department is suffering with real emergencies. Thank you, Mr. Chair. >> Thank you. Further comments, Mr. Nolan. >> Yes. Thank you, mayor. Um, I appreciate the comments from my colleagues and um, want to share my framing of this. You know, we were experiencing um, increase in trends of violence in our city early in the summer and in response to the homicides that council member Johnson described, uh, Chief along with our support helped implement a task force and many of us here recognize the short-term need for that. and a desire to re-evaluate that as as the summer went on. And I think what we've seen is some success, but not enough success. And here we are revisiting um how things have worked and many of us are listening to the voices in the community who are calling for help. They see uh issues with violence. Um, some folks are are scared to visit our urban core. And so in collaboration with the people that work for this great city, um, we have gone to them and said, "What else can we do to help?" On Monday, Chief Fiji was here and made clear that this council has provided the resources at every step of the way that she has asked for. She acknowledged that the resources provided in the bannual budget were sufficient. But things happen, things change, and we need to be nimble and adjust and address issues that come before us. I believe we did that at the beginning of the summer. I believe we have re-evaluated, and we are doing that again now. Um, and we have gone to the police department and said, "We feel like we need to do more. What else can we do? and we got a recommendation back and I appreciate that recommendation. For some of us, that wasn't enough. For me, the police visibility overtime was limited to the urban core. I agree with the vice mayor's comments about equity and a need to increase that visibility across the city so that everyone feels safe. So, I support this motion, but I also support the comments that the vice mayor has made regarding investments in programs that we know to work. I also support the comments from council member Johnson about a need to invest in fire. I see those separate and distinct from this and I hope we can continue to work on those together to bring those forward soon. Thank you. >> Thank you. Further comments, Miss Owens. >> Thank you. I just want to say and I appreciate your last point there, Council Member Nolan. To be clear, we are not making binary choices here today and public safety investments are never a waste. Mr. Mayor, >> thank you, Mr. Johnson. >> Uh, I I I appreciate everybody on this day, us, but when are we going to start talking to homicide victims, families, as as Mr. Nolan and the vice mayor pointing out, when are we going to make sure it this gets into our neighborhoods? safety, our first responders. Fire is there most of the time before anybody's there. We can't keep saying, "We'll get to you." And that's what the that's what we appear to do. We'll get to you, fire. Hang in there. We'll get to you. Hang in there, fire. We'll get to you. It's unacceptable. All of this extra money needs to be an emer I see an emergency with our fire department with over seven with at least at least a million dollars to address those emergency situations with our fire that I pointed out. As I said, safety has to be the number one issue in this city. But we're missing a a huge component of the safety that the fire department brings to this city. If we're dealing with safety, if we're not dealing with safety overall, then let's just make this the police $4.5 million for police safety and not covered up in safety overall. Thank you. Further comments, Mr. Kramer? Yeah, I just uh of course I always respect my my colleague and instant experience. I I want every to be clear that you know I think that there are very pressing needs in fire. You know, I've been a big advocate of our of our failing infrastructure and addressing that and I think we need to move faster on fire and I need we think we need to do more on fleet. But we are here today talking about you the shootings and again it's not just downtown. I mean, I said yesterday there was an incident of a community council president that the House Nexon was shot at and and what do we say? I mean, we can't say that the uh status quo is acceptable. Uh this is a solution. It's a short-term solution and it's not the end of the conversation, but I think we need to be clear that where we're at is not acceptable and we need to raise the bar. >> Thank you. Other other comments? Seeing none, we'll move to one second. I need to confer with the clerk for a moment. >> Thank you. Uh, as this is a motion, we'll go straight to the roll call uh for item 43. Roll call on adoption of the motion, please. >> Council member Johnson. >> No. Vice Mayor Kernney, >> no. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Parks, >> no. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albby, >> yes. >> Council member Karding, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> It passes. >> Thank you. Item 44, first reading, please. Emergency ordinance authorizing city manager to accept and appropriate an award of $14,845 in American Rescue Plan resources from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Johnson. >> Vice Mayor Kernney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Parks. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albi. >> Council member Karding. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kramering. >> Mayor, this is an ordinance an ordinance accepting 15,000 in ARP dollars for home investments. This is for building and rehabbing affordable housing. >> You further comments. >> Roll call and passage, please. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice May, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Parks, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Karding, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Roll call emergency. Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney. >> Yes. >> Council member Ben Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Parks. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Kane. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. Item 45, first reading, please. Emergency ordinance authorizing the transfer and return to source fund 411 home investment trust of $679,483.94 to close out or decrease certain existing project accounts according to section 8 of the attached schedule. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Karnney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Parks, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Kane, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Mr. Mr. Kramering. >> Mayor, these are internal transfers all within various uh housing funds to take money where it's not needed to put money where the need is. >> Other comments. Roll call on passage, please. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> Council Member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, yes. >> Council member Parks, yes. Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albby, passage on 45. Council member Karding, yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. Roll call in emergency. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens? >> Yes. >> Council member Parks? >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh? >> Yes. >> Council member Albby? >> Yes. >> Council member Kardine? >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff? >> Yes. >> Item 46, first reading, please. >> Mr. President, before we go to item 46, >> please. >> Council member Albby, would you like to also be recorded as a yes on suspension of 45? >> Yes. >> Item 46, first reading, please. Emergency ordinance authorizing city manager to accept and appropriate program income of 8,660 from the lead hazard reduction grant. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Parks. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. >> Yes. >> Council member Kramer. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kramer. Mayor, this ordinance accepts a uh grant for uh paint hazards in low-inccome housing. >> Further comments. >> Roll call on passage. >> Council member Johnson? >> Yes. >> Vice May? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens? Yes. >> Council member Parks? >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh? >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. >> Yes. >> Council member Kdone. >> Kane. Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Roll call in emergency. >> Council member Johnson. Vice Mayor Kernney. Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. Yes. >> Council member Parks. >> Yes. Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. >> Yes. >> Council member Kineing. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Item 47, first reading, please. >> Ordinance authorizing the transfer and the return the source of $75,000 from the office of the city manager non-personnel operating budget account to the unappropriated surplus of the general fund to provide resources to stabilize a landslide and inspect re inspect rehabilitate and replace the retaining wall. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Johnson. Vice Mayor Kernney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Parks. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. >> Yes. >> Council member Kering. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kramering. >> Uh Mayor, I'll defer to the vice mayor on this uh issue on this uh item. >> So this is um the third year for build cincy. Um, I think people remember when uh council member Reggie Harris and realtor um Dariq Dansby, who now is on our planning commission, started this conference um to increase opportunities uh and entry for people of color and women in the field of developing construction, construction management. Uh and so this is a third year for it. city has always co-sponsored it along with um Fifth Third Bank, the Port Authority, uh ULI, many others and so this is just asking for the city's contribution again and we appreciate the um city manager agreeing to this. Thank you so much. Also, we encourage everyone to please sign up. It's free. It's a great conference. It's uh September 18th and 19th and you just go to builds censyc.com. or.org builds censey.org or >> vice mayor. >> Vice Mayor, I think Go ahead, Mr. Griming. >> Yeah, that was that was very important information. So, I was glad that that you got that out there. But this is uh this item is on the retaining wall, which you also did very good work on a North Fair map. >> I'm sorry. This is what happens when your son texts you in the middle of council. Sorry about that. Okay, I had to respond. Family is always first. Okay. Retaining wall. Yes. So, the retaining wall uh in North Fairmont uh is near uh it's it's you know next to the uh to the rec center and next to uh a daycare. Uh it's also next to a basketball court. So, a lot of young people are around there and uh and it's dangerous and so the um community council asked us to please get it fixed and we are very excited to have the fund. So, thank you to the administration for that as well. You could have stopped me earlier about Bill Censey, so you won't let me go on and on. All right. Thank you. >> Other comments, >> Mr. Grey, >> I just wanted to commend the vice mayor because she's doing work on so many fronts that we understand. So, >> roll call on passage. >> Council member Johnson. >> Vice Mayor Karnney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens? >> Yes. >> Council member Parks? >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh? >> Yes. >> Council member Albby, yes. >> Council member Karding, >> yes. Council member Jeff. >> Yes. Roll call on emergency. >> Council member Johnson. Vice Mayor Kernney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Parks. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. >> Yes. >> Council member Kardine. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Item 48. First reading, please. Emergency ordinance authorizing the transfer and return the source of $150,000 from existing capital improvement program project account economic development initiatives GF for to provide resources for operating support for represent sensing to retain and attract small businesses. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Parks. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. >> Yes. >> Council member Kineing. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. Mr. Kramering. >> Yeah, mayor. This money was allocated to represent Cincy uh I think it was actually last term. This money just reallocates it, puts in different funds so they can better utilize the funds. The mission the mission remains the same to retain and attract small businesses and over the R. >> Further comments roll call and passage. >> Council member Johnson, Vice May, yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Parks, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. Council member Alvi, >> yes. >> Council member Karine, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Roll call on emergency. >> Council member Johnson. >> Vice Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Parks, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albby, yes. >> Council member Kardine, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Item 49, first reading, please. >> Emergency ordinance approving and authorizing the city measure to execute a community reinvestment area tax exemption agreement with OTR Historical Development. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Johnson. Yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Parks. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. Yes. >> Council member Kane. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kramering. >> Mayor, this is an exciting project. 16 residential units and over the Ryan on East Clifton. And as I said at in finance, a shout out to solicitor Faborg uh who started on this project and it was a you know a blight abatement project and now here we are. It's housing. Further comments? Roll call on passage. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Parks. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. >> Yes. >> Council member Kermading. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Roll call emergency. >> Council member Johnson. Vice May. >> Yes. Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Parks. Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. Yes. >> Council member Kering. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. Item 50, first reading, please. >> Emergency ordinance establishing the downtown Cincinnati Improvement District Assessment Equalization Board. >> Roll call on suspension. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens? >> Yes. >> Council member Parks? >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh? >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. Council member Kane? >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff? >> Yes. >> Mr. Kramer. Mayor, this is for the downtown Cincinnati Improvement District. This just sets the process and and appoints board members uh to oversee that process. >> Further comments. Roll call on passage, please. >> Council member Johnson. Vice Mayor Kernney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens? Yes. >> Council member Parks? >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh? >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. Yes. >> Council member Keringine. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Roll call on emergency. >> Council member Johnson? Yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? Yes. >> Council member Owens? Yes. >> Council member Parks. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. >> Yes. >> Council member Pering. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Item 51 first reading. >> Ordinance modifying chapter 871 landlord tenant relations of the system municipal code by amending section 871-3 definitions. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Johnson. Vice Mayor Kernney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. Yes. >> Council member Parks. >> Yes. Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albby, >> yes. >> Council member Kading, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Mr. Jeff, >> yeah, this is an ordinance that uh my colleague, Councilwoman Owens, uh has put forward, so I'll let her introduce it. >> Miss Owens, please. >> Thank you. So, first I want to say thank you to our quality of life division uh here at the in the solicitor's office to Mark Manning and Rebecca Sally for moving these uh very critical issues forward as it relates to housing and renters in the city of Cincinnati. So, I'm very excited to continue the progress uh that we are seeing. Everything from access to counsel, having passed that, helping people with rental assistance and uh an attorney to our tenants guide, which supports education and resources that back that up. Uh that's flying out of the out the door uh to illegal setouts. This ordinance is now about organizing. And so for tenants to be able to do that, to advocate for the safety and the quality uh for housing that they live in. And so right now currently our enforcement process goes through BNI, health, law, fire, and other city departments that are primarily complaint driven. And so this is very critical to give tenants an avenue uh to be able to advocate and form unions uh again and not be retaliated against uh in regards to their landlords. And so this is really cottifying in our Cincinnati Municipal Code that is very much in alignment with the Ohio Revised Code uh to help people do that, advocate and uh for the best living conditions uh that we all deserve. And so I'm really excited for this work uh to continue around our tenants bill of rights. >> Thank you. Further comments? >> Roll call on passage, please. >> Council member Johnson, >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Parks, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albby, >> yes. >> Council member Crane, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> That concludes the business portion of our agenda. City Manager Long, do you have any announcements? >> I do not have any announcements, mayor. Thank you. >> Further announcements. >> Mayor, >> seeing none. Oh, Miss Owens. >> Thank you. Busy day. Uh, Saturday is social services day. We are excited to be at uh community action agency. We are grateful for all of the partnerships. Again, it is a free first of all, Saturday, September the 13th, 11 to 3, Community Action Agency, free family uh environmentoriented, kids zone, bring your children, over 30 participating organizations from fire department focusing on safety to young people having access to jobs uh with our partners uh with the with the public library as well as our very own HR department. Um and so really honored to be able to uh put on this event again uh this Saturday. I also mayor wanted to say thank you uh for your leadership uh standing with uh Governor DeWine uh Mayor AFTAB, Chief Fiji, uh our city manager and so many other partners uh and our collaboration in this work around safety. And so I think it goes without saying that, you know, these are issues that are not red, they are not blue, uh black or white or anything else. This is about working together to keep our city safe and our community moving forward. So, you know, in a time where symbols of bipartisanship are are very few, I'm really grateful for the governor uh and his partnership uh and I look forward to this collaboration being successful. >> Thank you. Further announcements? Seeing none, meeting is adjourned.