Yeah. Hey. Hey. Wow. Wow. around the town. Heat. Heat. Hey. Hey, I'm Good afternoon everyone. We're going to get started with the citizens forum. Thank you so much for being here. I'm Vice Mayor Cernney. The mayor will be back next week. So, let me just um explain just real quickly for those of you who are new. So, this isn't Q&A. We don't do question and answer. You will have two minutes to speak. You'll be cut off after two minutes, respectfully. Um, and if you're asking us questions, we will not answer or respond here, but it's not because we're not listening. Okay? Some people think, "Oh, you're not saying anything. That's because we can't give anyone more than two minutes, so we can't start a whole conversation." But also know that our staff members are all around the room. So if you're asking for something and you need help and you need followup, our staff members are here to make sure they connect with you and and connect us with you. Okay? So this is your time to speak um about anything you would like and so uh we really appreciate you being here because this is the people's house. This is your house. So we are really glad you're here. Um, okay. So, our first speaker, and let me also say if I get your name wrong when you come up, please correct me. Your name is important and um we want we want to get it right. So, the first speaker is Antoine M. Evans. And Mr. Evans, you have the pleasure of the floor for two minutes. When you see the yellow light, that means you have one minute left. >> Okay. Thank you. Good morning. Thank y'all for being here. The last time I was here was January 22nd. I'm a resident at the Evston 1820 Rutland. Everybody know the issues that's going on over there. Anyway, I I asked Mayor Pvall last time I was here when he when he assigned uh Shauna Daniel as the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Commissioner. I said, "Well," he said, "You about to get new people." I said, "Well, how we know we could trust these people?" He said, "If you can't come back down here and see me, this new manager we got, Shante Baker, I saw her for the first time on the 6th of this month." I showed her a video on my phone of a person literally in my apartment. I got police reports. I've been doing everything correctly trying to get the building to address this. She deleted the video off my phone. So now I can't trust her. After she done that, she been constantly sending stuff, putting stuff in my door, trying to get my signature. Why? You got to reertify. I already did. It's something with your rent. I need you to sign these papers. What's wrong with you? I said, "Okay, you want my signature? I'll give it to you." I gave it to her. 30-day notice to move on the 16th of this month. She ain't processed it yet. She took 10 days off my move. I want to get out of this building. I want to get out. It's crooks and it's criminals. Touchstone is ridiculous. This lady come in with unauthorized entry. She ain't even creeping around with keys, talking about they checking doors for keys. No notice, no 24-hour notice. Her and this maintenance guy. And they got a shopping cart. What you pushing a shopping cart around for? I've had over $3,000 of my stuff stolen since I moved in here in June 2024. >> My first police report was September 2024. all these unauthorized entry dates. I got 30 unauthorized entry dates. You can't do a anything in the building. They ain't respond to nothing. So, can you send somebody to process my paperwork so I can leave? >> Well, okay. So, Mr. Evans, please talk to Alex Stanton. Alex, raise your hand and he will um he can get copies of that and and we'll follow up. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Our next speaker is Bobby Royal. Mr. Royal, you have the pleasure of the floor for two minutes. >> And I should ask, do you mind if Mr. Prior is filming you? >> No, I don't mind. >> Okay. >> My house. >> Okay. >> I have a Yes. My name is Bobby Royal and I'm a grandmother of 19 and I bought a house on a land contract. I've been living in the house for almost 12 years. Well, recently the city came and told me I needed to get a vacant building >> maintenance license. Uh the problem with the maintenance license is the the house has to be empty. Where am I going? I I'm a senior citizen. Where am I going? And they're not listening. I've talked to him. I've t I went down there. Uh now he finds me $750 on top of the $3,000 they wanted for the bacon building maintenance license. So that's kind of what's going on. Okay. So, um, Shaka >> Shaka. Okay. Miss Royal Seaka right here with the mayor's office. >> She can help you. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Our next speaker is Maroon Barnes. Did I Oh, is it Marvin Barnes? I'm sorry. Just I'm sorry about that. Okay. You have the privilege of the floor for two minutes. Can you hear me? >> Yes, I can. Thank you. >> Okay. My name is Marvin Barnes. Uh CHA and Touchstone hired a rogue agent who violated United States Code section 1346, 666, and 641, which are federal crimes also being investigated in Florence, Kentucky, and Columbus, Ohio, and should be treated as such in Cincinnati. Is Dominic Garassi II who works at the US Attorney General or the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio? Is he aware of this crime in Cincinnati? It's his specialty. Computer systems were manipulated from different locations, including the corporate office and at least one bank. Some tenants were processed correctly and then moved the following month as if they had moved out. Corporate didn't ask any questions about returning any deposits. Dion Crockett was allowed to look at everyone's banking information. Who did his who did his uh background check? Well, basically who did his background check and hired and hired this criminal Dion Crockett already had two felony charges from two different companies and domestic violent charges against women in 2021 and was hired in 2023. Duke Energy should fill a special violation because a loophole was used with their energy services to allow unprocessed people to occupy apartments illegally. That's housing discrimination in the biggest form against everyone who moved in correctly according to the law. St. Vincent Depal and 513 Relief were other entities caught up in this scheme as one single check meant for one person's rent was was divided between CHA and Dion's bank account. CHA was warned about this in early 2025 when it was unveiled in December 2024, but they chose to look the other way. The investigation was filed by the people. >> Mr. Lawrence, I'm sorry your time is up, but let me just say I think the mayor's office has addressed that. So, I'm we're going to get the information from his office and we will call you. >> Okay. >> Okay. I know when you when you mention um Mr. Crockett, I know that's been addressed, but we'll we'll get back with you. I appreciate it. Thank you so much, Stanford Pool. And if any Okay, so this is Stefan Prior up here with the with the video. If anyone doesn't want to be videotaped, please let us know if you don't mind. >> Okay. >> Yeah, I'm allowing him to do it because >> Okay. >> Y'all got cameras from the back. You won't only the rich people get the camera on the front. >> Okay. We're going to make you one of the rich people today then. Okay. Go ahead, Mr. P. >> Well, we talk about leadership with this city. You Donald Trump is somebody leader and I apparently some of y'all idol. But people came down here and asked for help. The young lady, your building department and doing that stuff. Your vacant building stuff. It ain't enough um enough killing in the city. So you could put two bacon building permits and all that which hide this. you you're letting uh people doing coming in here saying all that when you last week I told you that some white man came in here and said the f-word to um Iris fff all y'all did say can't say that then it went from there to white people got the right to call black people the n-word and all y'all said can't say that can't say that you got to start to get some leadership there books for you to learn how to be leaders and stop this. We get two minutes. Norwood get five minutes and then you say our time. I'm We tired of this. You stealing the property from black and brown people in the neighborhood. Like I said, some whites are losing. But just like you throw a net out there for tuna, you get the tuna, you'll get a squid, you get a turtle. But all of that need to stop. would have came to you and told you you need to stop this stealing the property from people in the poor neighborhood. Your same people redlined the the the same poor neighborhood. Now you want to go in and steal the houses and give it to your receiverhip and your uh contractors. Your building department is corrupt. Your law department is corrupt. They told you here we got the film. We done talked to people outside the city and they said that's a crime. You don't got lawyer. The mayor got lawyer. I guess you got some background. Nola got You took a oath and you're criminals. You ain't doing your oath. >> Thank you, Mr. P. Um, our next speaker is Dr. Eric P. Isacs. >> Thank you. And Dr. Isaacs, you have the privilege of the floor for two minutes. >> Thank you. Good evening, council members. My name is Dr. Eric Isaacs. I was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. I'm a Walner Hills graduate, and I'm a special educator at SCPA in the University of Cincinnati. My purpose here today and in life is to advocate. So, I'm here to ask the city to adopt a s simple preventative safety measure requiring fencing around open bodies of water in our public parks. Just as we already require for swimming pools across the tri-state area and the country, we continue to lose children, seniors, and individuals with disabilities to accidental drownings in ponds, retention basins, and other unfinenced water features. These aren't reckless incidents. Many are the result of mobility challenges, cognitive disabilities, wandering behaviors, or slow reaction times that make a fall into the water fatal within seconds. We already recognize that water is a h a hazard. That's why every every public every private swimming pool in Cincinnati must be fenced. But the same risk exists in our public spaces yet without the same protection. A child doesn't know the difference between a backyard pool and a park pond. A person with dementia doesn't know the difference. The danger is the same, but the policy isn't. This is a one-time infrastructure cost that prevents life lifelong trauma. offense is cheaper than a than a rescue operation, cheaper than litigation, and indefinitely cheaper than a funeral. More importantly, it's the kind of proactive safety measure that says Cincinnati values every life, espec especially our most vulnerable. I'm asking council to direct the appropriate departments to assess all w open water features in city parks, develop fencing or protective barrier standards, and implement a phase installation plan starting with the parks near schools, senior centers, and hightraic neighborhoods. This is not about limiting access to nature. It's about designing our public spaces with safety, dignity, and equity in mind. We have a chance to prevent tragedies before they happen. I'm asking you to act now so no more families have to experience the pain of losing a loved one. >> That's an excellent idea. Thank you very much. We will definitely follow up with you. Thank you. >> Okay, our next speaker is Susan Lakes. >> I appreciate you asking them though. Thank you. >> Do I look okay? >> Look good. >> You look gorgeous. >> Thank you. TV. >> Hi. I haven't been here for a while. So, congratulations on all your reelections and welcome, Mr. James. Right. Yeah. Um, I'm here because I'm just so joyful and so proud that I live in a city that is recognizing and putting money towards victims of crime. I was just cheering when I saw on TV um the latest unfortunate incident, the mass shooting. Um there was so much attention paid to come forward victims. There was so much recognition that hey, it's really traumatic to witness to be part of gun violence. We spend a lot of money housing offenders. You know, they get their three hots in a cot. They get their public defenders. We need to put equal emphasis on the victims of the crime. We need to help people move from being a victim to a survivor of this because it's awful. It's just simply terrible. Thank you, Cincinnati. Keep up the good work and reach out to victims of crime always. Thank you for for easing into this and I can't help but thinking that Gabriel Fletcher and I've been to several of his sessions had a big part of this with ACT Cincinnati. Thank you for listening. >> Thank you, Miss Lakes. We appreciate that. Our next speaker is Stefan Prior. >> Can I record myself? >> Yes, you may. >> Yes, I can. All right. All right. James, you can't get your name right. Your name blank. You need the name tag. But uh today, Nicole, I was reading Today, Nicole, a book. It was a middle-aged woman had a heart attack. And they rushed her to the ER room real fast and quick. They had to do open heart surgery on that woman. And all of a sudden, she had a present with God. Once she had a present with God, God told her, "Well, you're not going to die. You have 40 years to live, 8 months in two days." Next thing you know, she was in the hospital. She said, "Why? I might I might as well go all out." Then she got lipo suction, facelift, tummy tuck. She did all the things. On her last procedure, she called a hairdresser in to dye her hair. Next thing you know, she leave out, get hit by amilams, she died. Next thing you know, she was a president of God again. I thought you said I was GOING TO LIVE 40 YEARS. He said, "I didn't recognize you." That was a good article IN THE BOOK. SO, SO IMAGINE THE WORK THAT Y'ALL SUPPOSED to do for the people when it's time for y'all to SEE THE MAKER. IMAGINE THAT HE SAY THAT TO Y'ALL. I DON'T RECOGNIZE Y'ALL. I CALLED Y'ALL TO DO WORK FOR PEOPLE AND HELP PEOPLE, NOT PLAY PEOPLE. PEOPLE LOSING THEIR HOMES. I don't recognize y'all. PEOPLE PEOPLE GETTING KICKED OUT OF THEIR BUSINESSES AND CAN'T PAY THEIR RENTS. WELL, IF GOD SAY THAT, I CAN'T recognize y'all. Huh? SO DO THE WORK THAT GOD CALL Y'ALL TO DO. IT'S CUZ it's sad. It's real sad. You know, SOME OF Y'ALL GO TO church and hear the preacher preach TO Y'ALL, BUT Y'ALL AIN'T DOING THE WORK THAT THE PREACHER TELLING Y'ALL TO DO. So when I was reading that book, Nico, it brought that out of me today to to remind them God do recognize who y'all are. Trust me, y'all here for a reason. NOT FOR A SEASON, for a reason. SO DO THE WORK. NICOLE, you like that? All right. I love you. You can't do nothing about it. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Prior. Okay. The next speaker, Zechariah Zechariah Mazize. Okay. >> Good afternoon. >> Got our young speakers here today. >> My name is Zachariah Maze. My question I'm here today I'm here today with Peace Hope Lifestyle. My question is, how would y'all be able to stop the gun violence? And like, cuz nowadays kids, they they could get a gun from anywhere. Like, they could get it anywhere. Nowadays, mamas, they scared for their kids to go anywhere cuz they don't know what could happen. They don't know if they kid could come back safe or harm. Like nowadays, it's just like kids, they just don't have no respect at all. It's just like guns. It's too easy to like get a gun out here. and like kids harming each other and stuff that we shouldn't be able to like be able to hurt each other or put put oursel in that type of danger. >> That's all I got to say, >> Zachariah. And I'm just going to make an exception because um you're one of our our youth. Um how how old are you? >> 17. >> We really appreciate you coming here. We'd like to hear your ideas, too. So, let's talk about that. I I love u peace and hope lifestyle under the pastorage of um Rodney Christian. Thank you so much from East Westwood. We really appreciate that. So you coming here takes a lot of courage and we'd like to hear from you. We want to hear from the young people. Tell us your ideas. Okay. So um we want you to come back and we'd like to talk to you, too. >> Okay. Appreciate it. >> All right. We appreciate you. Thank you, Zachariah. >> You're welcome. >> Yeah. I would have never come to speak here when I was 17 years old. I would have been scared to death. So I I think that takes a lot of courage. Okay. And good job. Very good job. Okay. Our next speaker is Amber Cassm. >> Amber, welcome. You have the Miss Cassam, welcome. You have privilege of the floor for two minutes. >> Thank you. Hello. Um, council's job is oversight, budgeting, and accountability, not managing perceptions and optics. Yet here you're talking about peer cities comparison perception surveys and shape how residents want to see you rather than evaluating what's actually happening in performance. If you're going to compare cities, compare correctly. Compare your competitors, the pe the cities that we move to because we can't take it here anymore. The cities that we move to because finally we can get out. So, stop comparing about who you want to work for at a bigger city in your next job and compare correctly. I've been asking for efficacy for years. And I hear people down here that have no clue about data say, "I love data." Well, for free. I'll tell you guys this again. Garbage in, garbage out. for free. City manager, I will tell you what's wrong with your data so you don't have to control and put out messages of propaganda from Austin, but so you can actually have results and people can do better. So again, for free, you have experts in this city that can tell you what five things they want to see. And remember, look at the per capita. Who's going to be taking those surveys? Just because we're not your voters, we will be the ones that tell everyone what's going on here. If your operations were strong, you wouldn't need to manage the narrative. You could point to your results. Results that you guys can't actually point to yet after how many years? So, another thing, when you come to our community councils and you show up just to talk at us, like we're going to subscribe to what you say, it's not happening. >> Thank you, Miss Cassum. Okay, our next speaker is Helena Jones. And Miss Jones, you have the privilege of the floor for two minutes. Take your time. Take your time. The the running of the clock doesn't start until you start speaking. So take your time. >> My name Helina Jones. I'm a bigger of crime. what this city did to me back in 2021. I was put in a chokeholder by the police and I road said she took my CD and made like she were going to help me. She lied to me. So back in 2024, I asked her and answered to give me my CD back and I asked Ael Pall put it let everybody know let everybody know what they did to me. Alterel Pall, I asked you to talk to her, have a me with you, Al Pball and the city man and the um out of the road and the police she and you said, "No, I'm not having no meet with Miss Jones. She cussed me out. Miss Jones did not cut you out after Pos blow the whistle on you cuz you ain't doing your job. So y'all ain't do y'all job. City man, you cover my cave up. You lied and stuff. Tell no body camera pound. It was a body camera pound. So I went to the board meeting. You lying city man. You going to jail. I took all y'all down there to the civil court. I'm not taking no hush money. Y'all kind of give me some hush money. I'm not taking no hush money. Y'all crazy as hell. Who going to take your hood money? Crazy as hell. Y'all shouldn't let I took my seed in this car. Y'all is not right. All y'all need to go to hell and rock. I ain't vote for none of y'all. Y'all wrong. Sail pball need to go. They told him to step down. He not right. He is that crook. He need to stop taking bribe money for the police. I don't care for you. After peball, your day is coming cuz you're not right. All y'all some zero. Ain't none of y'all right, devil. >> Thank you, Miss Jones. Our next speaker is Tia Hollis. >> You can you can come up with Tia. Okay. >> Hi, my name is Tia Hollis and all I got to say is I don't like gun violence and I think this world should have more peace, hope, and love. >> That's beautiful. Tia, tell us how old you are. >> I'm 10 years old. Okay. Like Zachariah, I'm so proud of you for coming up here and speaking. I really appreciate that. You speak very well, both of you. Um, you know, we hear you loudly and clearly. And, um, we want to hear your ideas, too, because we don't like gun violence either. We want you to be in a safe place. Uh, we want your neighborhood to be safe, the city to be safe. We want you to to be happy and, uh, and have all the opportunities you deserve. So the sky's is the limit for you. So that's what we're working for. We're working for you to make sure you can have the best life possible and that means no gun violence. So we appreciate you and uh we'd love to to hear more about your ideas and we can share ours too. So thank you. I appreciate you coming. Takes a lot of courage. Thank you so much. >> You're welcome. Okay, our next speaker is Jason Wimbush. >> Mr. Wimbush, you have a hard act to follow. >> I know you're up for it, though. >> I don't think so. >> Jason does a lot of work with young people. >> Okay, you the pleasure of the floor for two minutes. >> Opening day is tomorrow. How many of y'all are excited? >> Okay. Well, I just want to say that the opening day game is really not for everybody. Opening day here in Cincinnati. The game is the highest in Major League Baseball far as pricing of tickets. The Reds has had 25 losing seasons in the last 36 seasons since they won a world championship. The Reds are not the first game of the season. That would be tonight with the New York Yankees. The Reds don't have the highest payroll in Major League Baseball. So, I'm going to give you a few stats. The Reds payroll is 95 to 125 million. The LA Dodgers is 400 to 413 million. The New York Yankees is 300 million to 315 million. Our prices are higher than those teams who have won World Championships, some backtoback in the last two years. The cost of living in these areas are way higher than here in Cincinnati. So, I'm saying all that to say that the opening day game and the prices out some of our youth and some other people in the city. So, I've had people ask, "Why are these tickets so high?" Well, everybody can't experience opening day game because the tickets are so high and they might get a game in August when they're losing and the games really don't matter. So, I don't know if this is price gouging. I don't know if there's anything that you guys can do, but people ask me questions, so I figured I would ask you. Why are the tickets so high? >> Thank you, Mr. Wimbush. I'm I'm sure the Reds will be happy to talk to you, too. So, thank you for that. All right, our next speaker, Miss Carol Cunningham. You have the pleasure of the floor for two minutes. Good afternoon, Vice Mayor Shan Michelle Leman Carney. I'm pleased to be here this afternoon. I was watching the media the other night and there is a lot of criticism in front of your council and uh I just want to say that you, Mayor Aapro, Scotty Johnson, you are the heads, we the people are the body. We have to work together. Now, we're talked about gun violence. I'm almost 80 years old and I've been assaulted almost four times, three times by strangers and I have submitted paperwork. All my ID is gone. I don't have a telephone and uh I was granted an attorney. However, I have not been able to meet with anyone or I need followup today. >> Okay. Thank you so much. Um I saw Alex here. Oh, Alex. So, Miss Cunningham, would you please talk to Alex and give him an update? >> Yes, I will. >> Okay. We appreciate you coming back >> and we appreciate all of you. And I just want to say I realize that procedure and policy takes time. Investigations have to happen. You have to have the right attorney handling the right motions and the right laws. But when we win, the city of Cincinnati will win also. >> All right. Thank you so much. And our last speaker. Oh, okay. There's another in person. Okay. Our our next speaker in person is Sam B. Welcome back. You've been a while. And you have the pleasure of the floor for two minutes. >> Hey everyone. Um, I came back just enough time to remind you that the air filter in the uh corner there needs to be uh replaced. And I know I went on about that um a lot. There was a balloon over the thing, which it's great to not see that there. Uh but yeah, you know, if you can't, it's a new term for you guys, so there should be a new air filter. Um because you know, these things have to be maintained. You can't do it in the room where we talk to you. you know, how are we expecting you to do the things that need to be maintained in the city? Um, I don't expect you to be able to see this in great detail. Uh, I don't know. I made this. This is probably one of the cooler things I've made um that people look at. Um, but it's a map of this uh Kesler Park plan uh 1907. It's our legacy uh during the beautiful city movement. This was the architect, this Kesler guy. Um, and he laid it out. And in 2007 the park plan a year a 100 years after this they more or less um adopted it. Uh but they changed it from trying to uh I don't know realize this vision which our city can't well I don't know anyways one way or another I going to leave this here if any of you want it's a magnet but um I'll talk about that more later. interested in the biochar project that you're doing in Walnut Hills, although I don't quite understand how you're going to get thousands of tons of biochar and wood chips between here and Winton Woods. Um, finally, you know, there's the Clipton Market thing, which, you know, is what it is. Uh, coined this map. It would have still been in the park, but um, we can talk about that another time. And then, um, yeah. Uh, I was hoping Evan Nolan would be here because he talked on um WVXU, but uh I guess I'll just wait till Anyways, see you guys. >> Sam, thank you. Sam, if you would take the map and give it to Mr. Barnes, perhaps we can make a copy and then um Sam, if if you're waiting um through the whole council meeting, which should be kind of short today, um you can you can have that back. If not, we'll save it for you until next week. Oh, okay. All right. We'll make sure all the council people get it. Thank you. >> Okay. Our last speaker is on Zoom, Mr. Mike Ulehorn. >> Hello. Can you hear me? >> Yes. >> Thank you. Yes. So, I've been coming here week after week. I'm not sure who you are if you're the vice mayor, but um what have been coming about is how Greater Cincinnati Waterworks, they invoice people a monthly base rate when the water's turned off at the meter and they're providing absolutely nothing. I purchased a property that uh the water had been turned off for several years. it was foreclosed property and um found out two months later when I went to have the water turned on that they had been billing me for the first two months when the water was off without my knowledge without any disclosure even though I had called them before I bought the property and asked if there was any balance on the account they could have had the opportunity to disclose that they would be billing me from the day I bought the property. And of course, the Ohio Revised Code 2913 states that that is fraud to charge someone without their knowledge, without disclosing they're going to be charged, without them agreeing to be charged and receive money from uh for providing nothing, nothing of value at all. They claim that it's just a fee for being ready to provide something and people having access to it. But if that's the case, every company can charge like that. every single company that's just ready to provide people with something could charge a monthly base rate. Now, I've been coming on Zoom week after week after week after week. I'd love to know who I can talk to to remedy this. Apparently, city council doesn't care because basically they're committing theft against people and they like doing that and they're not going to stop. So, I don't know where to turn to if it should be the police department over in Forest Park where my property is. I hear is the shortly uh mayor state. Mr. Yhorn, your time is up and we thank you so much. Uh that concludes uh the uh citizens forum part of the meeting. It is after 2:00. So, we're going to go straight to the business portion and that meeting is called to order. The clerk will call the role. Council member Owens >> here. >> Council member Walsh >> here. >> Council member Albby >> here. >> Council member James >> here. >> Council member Jeff >> here. >> Council member Johnson >> here. >> Vice Mayor Kernney >> here. Okay. We will stand for a moment of silence followed by the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> The minutes from the previous meeting will be approved and filed without objection. Council members Kramering and Nolan are excused from today's meeting. And I previously mentioned that the mayor will return next week. So I'd like to start with item number uh 16 and that's a recognition by council member Anna Albi. >> Thank you. And Becky, if you want to come up to the front, bring anyone with you'd like to stand with you. Do you want anyone? No. No. Okay, >> this is for you. So, we're doing a special uh recognition for Women's History Month. So, welcome. Recognizing Dr. Rebecca Bouier as a 2026 Women's History Month honore and expressing the appreciation of the mayor in the council of the city of Cincinnati for her professional accomplishments and contribution to the arts of Cincinnati. Whereas Rebecca PhD currently serves as Luis Taft Simple President CEO of the Taft Museum of Art. And whereas since her arrival, Dr. Bouier has positioned the Taft as a national leader in the museum field for innovations in workplace culture, strategic planning and community relations. Can I call you Becky for the rest of this? Okay, great. Whereas Becky is the author of multiple books and is recognized a recognized authority on the museum finance and administration. And in 2025, Becky chaired the annual meeting of the American Association for State and Local History, bringing over a thousand history museum professionals from across the country to Cincinnati. What an amazing resource. I didn't even know we had that. So, that's fantastic. And whereas Becky is on the board of the Cincinnati Observatory, Creative Ohio, and the American Alliance of Museums, the National Organization for Museums that represents over 35,000 museum member institutions where you were recently elected treasurer. And whereas in addition to your leadership on the Taft Museum of Art and your board service, you also regularly teach courses on museum studies and is has been a guest lecturer at George Washington University, Carnegie Melon University, and Harvard University. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the council of the city of Cincinnati that the mayor and this council hereby recognize Dr. Rebecca Bouier as a 2026 Women's History Month honore for her professional accomplishments and contributions to the arts in the city of Cincinnati. Congratulations. >> All right. >> So, I'm really excited about this. So, we got to sit down and chat uh not that long ago and to hear your expertise um around the arts in museums, it's just such a wonderful resource to have here in Cincinnati. Um, you know, oftentimes I like to brag about Cincinnati kind of punching above our weight, uh, when it comes to these things and I think having you here as a resource for the city and the fact that you're bringing all these people from across the country to to Cincinnati to be a part of what we have is just so special. So, thank you for being part of this community and help leading this work. I'm so so grateful and congratulations. >> Yeah. >> All right. You're welcome to say a few words. >> Well, I just want to say thank you to everyone here. Thank you to the city council, of course. Thank you to Council Member Albi. This is a wonderful honor. Um, I have only been in Cincinnati a relatively short time, but I absolutely love this city. It is a wonderful place to call home and to have my institutional home at the Taft Museum. So, I am just happy to be here and to partner with all of you in making sure that we spread the good word of Cincinnati throughout the country. So, thank you. >> All right. Thank you. Okay. Any comments from council members? Council member Seth Walsh. >> Hey, congratulations. Um, this is really really exciting. I mean, the Taft Museum is one of my favorite locations. We've met there before uh for obvious reasons. There's there's so much history there, but you're bringing such a fresh perspective and this is a well-deserved recognition. So, congratulations. >> Thank you. Wonderful. Any others? Well, I just want Yeah, Taff Museum is fantastic. It's it's a gem in the city. If anyone hasn't been there, it's right there by Lidle Park. It's beautiful. I mean, the art, the history, uh it's a great place to have events as well. Um lots of good things happening there. So, thank you for your leadership with the Taft Museum and also across the country and all these organizations. And thank you, Council Member Albi, for for for bringing is it Dr. Bolio? >> Bolio. >> Okay. Thank you so much. It's a beautiful French name. So, we appreciate that. Okay. Roll call on passage of the resolution. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albby, >> yes. >> Council member James, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> It passes. >> All right. Congratulations. Okay, I'll Yeah, I'll come down. I'd like for Dr. Monica Posey to please join me here in front. So now we're on item that Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Albi. So now we're on item number 17, uh, which will recogni, we're going to recognize Dr. Monica Posey as a 2026 Women's, uh, History Month honore. Okay. Okay. So, um, Alex gave me a list of people who should join you. Your husband, uh, Reverend Dr. Michael J. Posey, please come on up. Mark Walton, Cincinnati State Board of Trustees and retired banker Let's see who else. Amy Waldig, Cincinnati State vice president, and Elliot Ruther, who actually is going to speak, and he's Cincinnati State Chief of Institutional Advancement and Foundation, executive director, and Robin Hoops, Cincinnati State Provost. Did we leave anyone out? Okay, we're all here. Good. First of all, let me say that uh Dr. Monica Posey has served 34 years at Cincinnati State and the last 10 years as president. She is not retiring today. She is retiring and I keep fussing about her retiring and saying, you know, we're not going to allow it to happen. We're going to find some way of stopping you. We haven't figured that out yet. But she is retiring at the end of August.