[Music] again. [Music] Hey Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Texas. [Music] Wow. Wow. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Are you [Music] happy? [Music] [Music] Good afternoon. Welcome to today's citizens forum for our summer meeting. You'll have two minutes to address council as I call your name. Our first speaker is Bishop Sunny James. Welcome, sir. >> Good afternoon to all of our distinguished guests, especially to our young folks and our youth in the room. We are all accountable for our future. And that means that we have to do things differently. We have to think outside of the box. We've got to come together to make sure we understand, mayor, that there are going to be differences amongst all of us. >> Amen. But the last time I checked, the Bible said, "Let him without sin be the first cast the first stone." >> Amen. >> As we navigate through these difficult times, I'm going to challenge each and every one of us. Recently, we hosted a community meeting where some of you who are here with us now raised your right hand and said, "If it's going to be, it's up to me. >> And I want to encourage all of us today to take on that same posture. It's not always going to be pretty, but we only can count on one another. In this recent incident that happened, my encouragement is let us find out more details about each other as people >> that when we do speak out, we know the true essence of who and what we're talking about. When I was a young man growing up, the saying was, "Well, I better not say all them sayings. I'm the bishop now." But don't start none and won't be none. >> And we are a community, folks. We have to set the precedent. >> I came to say something different. >> Thank you, Bill Breer. Welcome. Uh we have um quite a few speakers today. So I'm going to call you up three at a time. Uh Bill, please come to the dis. Uh Howard Vaughn, I believe, please come up. And Eddie Hawkins, please come up. >> Mr. Breer, you have the >> ready. >> You have the uh um podium. >> Yes. Thank you. Yes. My name is Bill Breer. I'm the CEO of the Boys and Girls Clubs. Um, and I'm just here to say, you know, the gun violence issue is complex, as you know, with many different causes and potential remedies. I know the city's trying to remedy the problem, recognizing all the contributing factors, and you're approaching solutions to the issue in various ways, and one of those solutions is supporting Boys and Girls Clubs. Boys and Girls Clubs, of course, prevent kids from ever entering these situations where they involved in gun violence. There are no statistics on that, but we know it works. We are uniquely suited to address this issue because we're open Monday through Friday, every night after school. We're open all summer to bridge the gap between school years. We serve 2500 boys and girls annually ages 5 to 18. It's a youth development program. So, we offer homework help, mentoring, service learning, gaming, sports, daily meals, and we're building a youth workforce development program across all of our sites. Youth workforce programming will find teens their first jobs, introduced in the trades, the military, universities, all the options for life after high school. And everything we do is free of charge, partially because of your support. I don't know of any other youth service agency that does that. The best way to curb gun violence is to prevent kids from ever entering these situations. And supporting agencies who have the capacity to serve so many youth and who open their doors every night after school and all summer. What the city helped us do at Roll Hill saves lives. What you're helping us do with your human services funding will save lives. So, I just wanted to say we're proud at Boys and Girls Clubs to partner with the city. I thank you very much. We want to expand that partnership. Um, and thank you for providing places for kids to grow and thrive every night. >> Thank you. >> Uh, Elise Bowen, please come to the dis. Eddie Hawkins, if you're here, please come to the DAS. Um, Howard, you're next. >> As I stand here in front of all of you dignitarians, it's an honor to be here with y'all. But I'm part of YA. I worked in the purse department for 16 years and if it wasn't for city hall I wouldn't have been able to do what I was able to do. In other words, I come from the ghetto, didn't have anything. I started working down city hall. I was 18 years old right out of high school. First thing they asked me, they said, "You have a record?" I said, "No, sir." And I got a job down there. Grandmaster Scott in our karate organization. Everybody know me. All of y'all know me. Now, I'd like to thank uh M uh Councilman Jeffrey and his aid. He trying been here trying to help me to get my my uh social security. I'm not getting my social security. I'm not even getting um uh even my money from down here at city hall. I worked down here 16 years. They told me I never worked here. What? Kim Blackwell, you look at all them pictures there. I had buildings and everything. the community action agent building I had and I want to thank the boys club here because I got a grant there and Kim Blackwell here and it's just that uh we got serious problem when a when a six-year-old shoot the school teacher in the head I never heard anything like that you know and I know you help my cousin Mayor uh Abtop and also me want she and karate with me we talk and she know what karate did for her and we got all this money and Everybody running off with all the money. I mean, come on. You're not giving the money to the right people. But we got to come with solutions. Everybody's saying the mayor's bad, the counselor bad, the police chief bad. Well, who come with solutions? I had solutions. Which one would you give a money to? I got that building right there and they selling up for two on Liberty. All of y'all know I had Tim Blackwell trying to fun and they didn't. >> As you finish speaking, if you could exit the dis room for the next speakers. Um, who should be at the dis right now is Eddie Hawkins, Elise Bowen, and I'm now calling Latoya Turner to please come to the dis. Mr. Hawkins, welcome. >> Hello there. My name is Latoya Turner. >> I'm sorry, Latoya. One second. I apologize. Um, we go one at a time. Um, and so Eddie Hawkins was signed up first and then Latoya, uh, your third. Sorry about that, Mr. Hawkins. >> So, we're all together. So, we're here with uh, Brown Ly. Could you speak into the mic? >> Hear me? >> Okay. Can you hear me now? >> Yes. >> So, we're all here together. We're here on behalf of uh to show appreciation for receiving the boots on the ground grant. Uh we're doing a project in South Aenddale uh ele South Aenddale Middle School. Now, we have the opportunity to work with the seventh and eighth grade students in South Aendale. We're going to be turning the playground space behind the school into a uh H.B.CU literacy lab. We'll also be uh redra recreating a H.B.CU. >> You can't hear me. We're also going to be creating an H.B.CU literacy walk literacy walkway in front of the South Aenddale School, but we'll have an opportunity to work with the young people on literacy. As you know, literacy is something that you can't take away from a young person. So, it's our goal to continue to work with the young people in Aenddale to build a foundation. If everyone in here knows, there's only two things I love more than my family, and that's Aenddale and Woodward High School. So, it's my opportunity to give back. So, I'm g turn over to my partner in crime, uh, Latoya. >> Thank you, M. Mr. >> Yes, my name is >> Latoya. One second. I'm sorry, guys. It's hard for us to do a group presentation, so we we to be fair to everyone, everyone gets two minutes. Uh, so when M Mr. Hawkins is finished, is that correct? Okay. So, clerk, if we could start the time, uh, Madame Clerk. >> Sorry, if we could start the time over. Uh, now Latoya, you may you may begin. I just want to make sure you get your full two minutes. Go ahead. >> Hello there. My name is Latoya Turner and I am the founder of Brown Hands Literacy, um, which is an organization to educate kids about H.B.CU at a young age. Uh, we partner with No Excuse College Tour, which have the same mission to expose more students in Cincinnati to historically black colleges and universities. We know that there are two here um in the state of Ohio which is Central State University um and Wibble Forest University which I'm a proud graduate of Central State University. Um we received the Keep Cincinnati Beautiful um grant which we received the the largest grant from the city of Cincinnati and Keep Cincinnati Beautiful. So we are very grateful for the project that we'll be doing which is the H.B.CU literacy hub at South Aenddale Middle School. Um where we are exposing kids to HB.CU. We are transforming the outdoor space um almost like a H.B.CUR almost like a H.B.CU campus where students are able to take teachers are able to take the students um outdoors and it will expose them to literacy um HB.CU awareness and to give them an outlet and a place for them to one see themselves to grow and um close the literacy gap. So really this was appreciation for the grant that we received. And then we also would love to see more work being done exposing our students here um in Cincinnati around historically black colleges and universities because as we know they produce 50% of of black teachers and and lawyers and doctors and the percentage is really high. So this was a appreciation um for the work that's being done in the community with and then also with partner organizations. So it wasn't just a brown hands literacy. We decided to um come together and unite as one to uh get the the mission done which is exposing kids to HB.CU and literacy. So thank you. >> Thank you very much Elise. Welcome. >> Good afternoon everyone. My name is Elise Bone with No Excuses College Tours and Programs and I am the program manager. So as the other two have just said, we do want to extend our gratitude and appreciation for receiving the grant. This is a powerful collaboration and we're honored to receive the highest grant from Keep Cincinnati Beautiful. We're putting together this collaboration to bring unity, education, literacy, and college exposure to the students that will be entering those doors on August the 20th, 2025. We have a cleanup day scheduled for August the 14th, 2025 from 900 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. And we encourage city council members, city members to come and be a part of this groundbreaking experience. Thank you for allowing us to speak. >> Thank you very much. Our next three speakers, Michelle Tony, Justin Scott, Dr. Ross Turpo. And as a reminder, when you're finished speaking, if you could vacate to allow room for the next speaker. Michelle, welcome. >> Thank you. Sure. >> Hello. My name is Michelle Tony. I'm the executive director of Families Forward and vice president of school age services at Learning Grove, where we envision a world where all children and youth, regardless of their background, reach their full potential and their families can thrive. Learning Grove is the region's go-to partner for bridging education and workforce. We're grateful for the support from the city of Cincinnati, which is making a significant difference for the families we serve. With funding dedicated to youth gun violence prevention, we're enhancing our after-school programs by keeping students in a safe, fun, engaging environment during the critical afternoon hours, providing opportunities to explore their interest and excel in school and keep them off the streets. According to Mental Health America, 45% of youth are not hopeful about their future. And a Gallup poll shows that 66% of the youth do not know their career path to choose. NavGo at Witro University High School provides a comprehensive student- centered college and career readiness service designed to break down systemic barriers and connect youth to meaningful careers. This collaboration offers our students valuable opportunities for career exploration. With the city support, Learning Grove fosters hope and equips youth to future for their future. We're committed to the professional development of early childhood educators across Cincinnati. This investment in our education educ educators is vi vital for fostering and nurturing effective learning. On behalf of learning grows 300 staff serving 6,500 children, youth, and families, I extend my heartfelt thank you to the city of Cincinnati for your support through the human services fund. >> Thank you so much. Uh if Jimmy Lake could please come to the dis. Ma'am, you may exit. Thank you. Justin Scott, welcome. >> Hello. Uh I live at um Kirby Apartments, 5469 Kirby Avenue, and getting ready today. I actually fell out of the shower and my bathroom is now destroyed and there is no one to fix it because the court has assigned an absentine slum lord as a receiver and Prodigy Apartments who has refused to do any maintenance since April and they have kept that promise. We have holes in the walls in people's apartments in our laundry rooms. We have areas where our uh parking lot is literally caving in on itself. We also have sewage pumping into the first floor of uh the building that I live in that's so bad that it literally has standing urine and feces. The smell is nauseating and it even wafts up onto the fourth floor into my apartment with the door closed. As far as we know, black mold is forming. And if that gets into the HVAC system, we are in danger. And the problem is you guys have done nothing. You've okayed funds, but no one's actually fixing anything. And the problem is is that Democrats got creamed nationwide last year because people are sick and tired of Democrats putting procedure and process over people. We need people to fix our home. Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh Cam Lane, please come to the dis. Uh sir, if you could exit, please. Sir, do you have Justin Scott if you could exit please? Thank you. Uh Cam Lane, if you could please come to the DAS. Welcome, doctor. >> Good afternoon, everybody. My name is Dr. Ross Turpo and I am the vice president and chief impact officer at Cincinnati Works. On behalf of our team, I want to thank the city of Cincinnati for your investment in our young people and their futures through our next generation workforce development program. Over the past year, we've provided career awaren awareness sessions to over 376 students, enrolled 308 in our intensive next generation program. These young people, many from historically marginalized communities, are exploring pathways to high demand industries like construction, advanced manufacturing, healthc care, aviation, and supply chain where wages are starting on an average of about 1850. The next gen next generation program offers more than just career exploration. It provides wraparound supports that to help our youth, their families, their communities to thrive with our job readiness training, our one-on-one career and financial coaching, our connections to technical institutions, and our access to employer partners who believe in long-term support, career advancement, and second chances. Thank you for your support, for standing with us to give these young people exactly what they need, which is most of all opportunity, support, and hope. Thank you. >> Thank you, doctor. If we could have Deborah Williams please come to the DAS. Welcome, Jimmy Lake. >> Good afternoon. My name is Jimmy Lake. I'm the chief program officer for Cincinnati Youth Collaborative. Cincinnati Youth Collaborative mission is to empower young people to overcome barriers to excel in education, career, and life. CYC is grateful to be a long-standing partner with the city of Cincinnati to serve approximately 5,000 young people in the greater Cincinnati area each year through college access, career readiness, and mentorship programs. One of our key programs is Saturday Hoops, where we provide a safe place for hundreds of young people almost every Saturday in partnership with positive adult role models from groups all around the city like Brothers, Inc. Because we know collaboration is key. In our Hoops location in the West End, Winton Terrace, Aendale, and recently Roseline, Hoops focuses on teaching our young participants four powerful themes. cheerful givers, hard workers, overcomers, and good stewards. Our most recent partnership with the city includes funding for our mentoring pathways to success work, which includes hoops and our career exploration work. Because of our partners, we are making an impact in Cincinnati. Our most recent survey has shown the that 97.1% of program participants have more hope for the future. a statistic that research has proven gives these students a greater likelihood of a most successful future. And we thank the city for helping us to make this happen. >> Thank you, sir. >> Emily Dilio, if you could please come to the dis. Cam Lane, welcome. >> Uh Sarah Hoops, thanks for the support. We are under CYC, so we yield back our time. Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh if Kelly Gray could please come to the dis. Welcome Deborah Williams. >> My name is Dborah Williams and I'm here to express my extreme discontent with the city of Cincinnati leaders with the brawl that went on downtown. I'm ashamed of you all who are calling the black people that were in the brawl thugs. But you have a white man who started the racism, spewing racial slurs and slapping a black man, and he still has not been charged. >> I am ashamed of you all. I'm 69 years old. I've lived in this city all my life, and this is a racist city. And it is it's in every fabric of this city. residential, the um police department, and you, mayor, you were one of the ones who called them thugs. Shame on you. Shame on you. >> I did. I did not. That >> I raised in the city of Cincinnati 69 years. I attended Xavier University and graduated. I've ran a business in this city and I know there is much racism in this city and not a dime should be spent in this city by black people until you get it together. The last time I was here was in 2001 to protest the murder of Timothy Thomas. We stood on tables. We marched in the streets and we got the collaborative agreement and because we sued you and you need to be sued again. [Applause] Thank you, Dborah. There has been a lot of misinformation and untruths uh around the awful fight that occurred um two weekends ago. I want to make it very clear that no one on this dis and I specifically have never referred to any of the victims or perpetrators of violence during that brawl as thugs. That is just completely and totally untrue. This is absolutely a challenging time where there's a lot of political and racial challenges and it's a time where Cincinnati who has experience and lived history for these challenging times to come together to reach for our shared humanity and to show the world that Cincinnati is resilient that we lead with racial justice and that justice will be served. Our next speaker is Emily Dilio Lena Zerub. If you could please come to the dis. My name is Emily and I'm a member of the Cincinnati Tenants Union and I am also a union representative for the Kirby Avenue Apartments in the Prodigy Properties Receiverhip, formerly Vision and Beyond building. These properties were recently declared a public nuisance in the court case which has allowed city funds to be used at the property. We thank you for the temporary sewer pump solution. This has made it so there isn't raw sewage flowing into tenants apartments on the bottom floor any longer. However, there are still many issues that are a health and safety nightmare and we as a union are asking for more monetary support from the city. Prodigy refuses to cut the grass and children have nowhere else to play but within grass that is up to my knees. Air conditioning is not working in many units because of the sewage issues. There is rampant mold and fungus growing on the bottom floor which has caused children to become ill. And there is a stench that lingers up to other apartments. People who do not live at the Kirby the Kirby property are using it as a dumping ground for large garbage items. So the people who call Kirby their home are forced to live in what is starting to look like an abandoned and neglected property because no funding is going into the apartments. Prodigy refuses to use rents collected to even fix toilets. I assume Prodigy was selected as the receiver for the building because they are in good standing with the city as a respectable and trustworthy company. We have not seen this to be true. They do not treat the tenants with any kind of respect or dignity. If they have the ability to collect rents and evict people, then they have a duty to create a safe living condition for all tenants. The city needs to step in to provide funds since the courtappointed prodigy is not holding up their end of the deal even though they will sell all of these buildings within a year and turn a huge profit. We need your support and I look forward to discussing this. Thank you. >> Thank you. Jonathan Norton, please come to the dis. Welcome, Kelly. >> Good afternoon, city council members. Today I want to talk about local foster care failures. My name is Kelly Gray and I am not only a resident of Cincinnati and a proud H.B.C.U alum of Florida&M. I'm a mother, a former journalist, and I am currently a media relations professional with over 30 years experience working with editorial contacts to produce timely news stories. Today I am here as a parent to speak about the ongoing violations of my son's Grayson's rights while in Hamilton County Job and Family Services custody since November 15th, 2024 after we relocated from Buer, Georgia. In eight months, I have only had three supervised visits with my son. federal law, specifically Title 42, US Code 675, Section 5C, and Ohio Administrative Code 5101-4295 are laws that require agencies to ensure regular meaningful visitation between children in foster care and their parents. Yet, our visits are routin routinely missed or delayed due to negl negligence by staff at the Amazing Grace group home, which is an unlicensed placement where my son is currently housed. Even staff at the family nurturing center, the agency supervising these visits reports this pattern of missed and late visits from this specific group home. This is not an isolated issue. Grayson has been placed in multiple facilities, including the homeless shelter downtown, with no continuity of care, transportation to school, and visits are unreliable. There were multiple excused absences weekly during the previous school year. I have no confirmation of where he will attend school this far. And in just weeks, middle um his middle schools rem um remain unpaid, blocking transcripts. He has no access to extracurricular activities or normal experiences. Okay. So, today this is about the child and failures. Today, this is about one child, but these failures affect every child in our county's care. I ask for your oversight and urgent intervention. >> Thank you very much, ma'am. Thank you. Everyone gets two minutes. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Paul Beam, please come to the DAS. Welcome, Lena. >> You've had your break. Palestinians haven't. While you rested, we buried our children. What's happening in Gaza, in the West Bank, in all of Palestine is genocide. And you know it. You've seen the images. You've heard the numbers. You've watched children be massacred. And you've done nothing. I just ma made it back from Palestine. It took me over 15 hours with no food, no water to cross a border that should take three. We sat for 5 hours at a checkpoint in 110 degree heat while Israeli soldiers and settlers played games with our lives. You don't know what that's like. You never will. I watched settlers steal our land with my own eyes. All they need is a tent or a star of David and the IDF show shows up to protect them. Just like that, it becomes theirs and we we're told not to go near it. Not to look, not to breathe too loud. AFTAB, this is what you support. These are the people you stand with. Before I left, I said goodbye to loved ones here, not knowing if I'd make it back. I said goodbye to my family in Palestine, not knowing if I if it would be the last time. I left them in the hell Israel created. This is our reality. We fight to just to exist because if we die, we become a number. A headline if we're lucky, a statistic. Anna Albi Walsh, you voted to erase our truth. You changed the word occupation to plight because a Zionist told you to. Do you think that makes it less real? Mark Jeff, language cannot cover the war crimes. What must be recognized is the genocide committed by Israel. what must be named is ethnic cleansing, daily humiliation, starvation and apartheid. You should be ashamed to sit in those seats, ashamed to call yourselves leaders. You had a chance to ch to stand with justice. Instead, you chose the comfort of the colonizer. So be proud. Be proud that when history asked you where you stood, you answered with the oppressor. Be proud not just for watching a genocide, but for funding it. We demand divestment from every Israeli company, every weapons manufacturer, every corporation profiting of the killing of my people. >> Thank you. >> Palestine will be free from the river. >> Paul Bean is next. >> Brad Brad Horn, if you could please come to the das and Stefan. Oh, just Brad Horn. Uh, welcome Paul Bean. >> I don't know how many times I've been down here. Now, like I said, this program you got in the back that I gave you, see what what I mean. The world needs to be monitored. Now this new life program is back there. I I gave it to you three years ago. Remember or was it two and a half? But this program comes where everybody got to be monitored now and it will help save lives. Your cameras, your drones, that's dead. But every day camera, even if our power go out, we got solar. See, that's where new life come in. You say it cost too much money. How much do a life cry cost when people crying? Every night. Every night. You look this this program will bring life where your grandma could walk down the damn street 3:00 in the morning. Okay. Just been back there for a while and it will help. But but you know what? You stealing parts off of it. You put your drones up, that's where you got this from. You put your your your solar looking at license plates, that's where you got that from. So, you need help. And this program will help. Not just here. It can start here, but it's a tri. It goes all over the world. You You seen it. You said it cost too much money. How much do life cost? We hear cries every night, especially in our neighborhoods. You sleep peaceful at night. You don't hear them cries. So do your math. It's time to monitor the world starting with new life. Open your eyes and see where you sleep peaceful. Everybody else don't. >> Thank you. Stefan Prior, if you could please come to the dis. Mr. Nortman, I inadvertently skipped you. You're next. >> Are you happy to do nothing while we pay for this? We are watching what remains of a population trapped behind walls, bombed, shot, and starved every single day. We are seeing their murders live streamed to us moments removed from their final breaths. There has never been anything like this. Witnessing thousands of last words, pleading for the world to care enough to act. Thousands of parents pleading for their murdered children to come back to them. More than 90% of a population displaced, forced on death marches along their destroyed cities, neighborhoods, schools, homes, and hospitals. Hospitals obliterated, overrun, hospitals blown to pieces like the people inside them. They're being baited and murdered at our phony aid sites. These people need what we all need. What this genocide needs to continue is your silence. The only way this stops is if enough of us take action and demand it. The Trump administration has made it clear it cares more about funding this genocide than helping Americans in need. Is that the side you want to stand on? How can you think of yourselves as leaders and politicians of the future if you can't even meet the challenges of the present? This fight against fascism doesn't get easier while you sit back and watch. Watch while our tax dollars fund concentration camps in Palestine. While our people are sent to concentration camps in El Salvador, while we build new concentration camps here on our soil, if you want to help people in our community like Aean Solomon, you should speak out against the forces that took him, that targeted him. You could have listened to him while he was in this very room, sitting alongside us, demanding an end to this genocide. We should be devesting not only from Israel, but all companies complicit in their illegal actions, demanding an arms embargo, demanding all aid is left through. Our remaining humanity is entwined with the people of Palestine. How long will you watch them both be blown apart? You think you care about racial justice? How do you when you're compliant in genocide? >> Thank you. Thank you, Randy. Colin Pandans, Randy Plland, if you could please come to the Das. Welcome, Brad. >> Uh, hello, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and and council. Uh, my name is Brad Hearn. I'm with the Cincinnati Tenants Union, the organization for for the majority of Cincinnati's population who rents. Uh, I have the pleasure of serving as a union rep for many of the properties in the Prodigy Receiverhip, formerly Vision and Beyond, including Kirby. We have multiple tenants, union members here today uh to speak about the ongoing health and safety issues at the building. Look, we uh our union is requesting uh a plan negotiated with the union with the tenants directly to immediately resolve the health and safety issues per the public nuisance. Uh we know the city has allocated 400,000 already, but these tenants are working people, elders, kids who contribute on a daily basis to this city and they are union members and they deserve safe and habitable living conditions and to be treated with dignity and that hasn't been happening. So, as a union, we are urging the city to return to the table as we've been at before and and do everything in your power to ensure that these conditions are addressed urgently and promptly. Uh I was there at the property this morning and the representative of the receiver who speaking with some of the tenants uh said that the tenants are picking on them and I don't know how it came to be that the city thought this was a decent company but when tenants are asserting their rights for basic habitability and dignity that's not picking on a company that is failing to do their end of the bargain. So uh our union again requests a negotiated plan and I thank you for your time. >> Thank you. >> We could please have Martasha Calvin uh Natasha I'm sorry Natasha please come to the DAS. Welcome Stefan. >> Good afternoon everybody in here today. This curfew can lead to feeling distrust, anxiety in teens, potential damage in the parents and child relationship, discriminatory enforcement can also limit freedom and strange relationships with the police officers. So, this curfew is a scam. It's a pros and cons in that it won't make sense. Not at all. This curfew, you need to get rid of that. Y'all need to don't vote on that today cuz it's stupid. Y'all need to come in in the communities y yourself and see what's going on. Not just walk on Main Street, mirror, you need to walk in every community if you concerned about violence. Yeah. This blank $2 million check they going to give to the police. Y'all need to give it to these rewards to unsolve these murders that's been happening out here in this community. Y'all wasting taxpayer dollars. $2 million to do nothing. Ride bikes and walk around. That's a lie. Y'all been doing this for many years. I've been down here too long. This $275,000 to pay the offenders, this the the shooters to to to get paid. Make that make sense. Put that towards the reward of these crimes or these killings out here. $7,500 ain't enough. If you give them more award money, you will solve some of these uh killings out here. this fight in downtown. If the white guy slapped a guy, he need to get charged, too. Fair is fair. >> And we've been asking about two months ago, Mayor Abbout businesses. The Stevenson dump truck company. No call to check on that. All these contracts they getting out, these developers ain't hiring black company companies. That's why you getting all this nonsense out here. It's poverty in every community. You need to be more. How can I say y'all more transparent to the community? Y'all not. Y'all not. And it's wrong. >> Tena Edwards, please come to the DAS. Welcome Randy. >> Hello. How you doing? Um, United States Navy veteran right here. Proud of it. And the first thing before I get to this fight stuff downtown is um I lived in Boston many years ago and we have a they have a veteran shelter there that not only for homeless but uh you can get your CDL like I did and other training there. We need to have something like that here in Cincinnati. You know, being a we're only the 1% of this country serves this country. I'm proud of that. I'm a big veteran support. Anyway, we need to get something. There's many vacant buildings in town that we could uh create uh shelter for. Anyway, the next thing I don't know if she wants to address it later after I'm done. Uh Kernney, I don't know. I heard on the radio if this is true. It's an outrage that you want to give $1,000 a month to criminals to not commit crimes. That's ridiculous. You can you can answer that. I I don't know. I just heard that. And last week, you had this pastor Lynch on here standing there saying that uh where's the mug shots of the uh the victims? Victims don't have mug shots. All right. That's ridiculous. And I agree with the lady before. The guy who punched a one, that should have been a one-on-one fight as I'm a train of martial arts, the next boxer myself. Yeah, but not being attacked by 15 to 20 scumbag low lives, whatever. No, that part is wrong. And um and um the other one um it's Parks. She's not here today, I guess. What she said, if that's true, that they deserve the beat down. Are you crazy? What if it was the other way around? We we have a mob in this city. a city council member saying we we should have a beatd down >> and and the mayor you doing a propaganda walk with a Cincinnati police officer down Main Street. What a laugh that is. Let's see you just walk down without your armed police officer that a police officer should not be allowed to use this position as in an ad. Anyway, thank you for your time. >> Okay. Uh Kathy McCrae Peaks, welcome to the DAS. Natasha, you're next. >> You had it right. It's Martasha. >> Marta. >> Good afternoon, mayor, vice mayor, council members, and community leaders. My name is Martasha Kovven, assistant director of Sweet Sister Splash. I'm here on behalf of our youth, our partners, and our community to talk about a project that has turned pain into purpose, the keeping it cool antiviolence mural at Tav High School. This spring, we worked with 20 incredible TAB students who were tired of the violence in our city. Instead of staying silent, they took action with guidance from our partners at Soul Pallet. They created a mural that is more than just paint on a wall. It's a bold statement that their lives and voices matter. Yes, our city is hurting, but there's hope. Every day, young people, community leaders, and organizations like Sweet Sister Splash are on the ground doing the work. For over a decade, we've supported youth through programs like Cincinnati Young Entrepreneurs, helping them gain business skills, mentorship, and a sense of purpose. The Keeping It Cool mural is an extension of that mission. We know that when young people are seen, heard, and valued, violence decreases. Art becomes a tool for healing, leadership, and unity. Our goal is to bring murals like this to every Cincinnati public high school. But we can't do it alone. We need support through funding, partnerships, and amplification to keep these efforts going. On August 14th, we invite you to TAF High School from 1 to 3:00 p.m. for the official mural reveal. Come see what's possible when we invest in in youthled art and community healing. Thank you to the city of Cincinnati, the keep Cincinnati beautiful fund and human services fund. Thank you. >> Thank you. Joyce Allen, please come to the dis. Welcome Tena. >> Hello. I just want to say something to the community and before the city council have two videos that I want to play because I will no longer be ignored um in this situation concerning Cincinnati and our community and Kentucky um for that matter. And I'mma just um send a message from um offman and another video and I'mma just play it as long as I can play it. >> My worst fears are that we cause significant we the field, the technology, the industry cause significant harm to the world. Uh I think that could happen in a lot of different ways. It's why we started the company. Um it's big part of why I'm here today. Uh and why we've been here in the past and we've been able to spend some time with you. I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. uh and we want to be vocal about that. We want to work with the government to prevent that from happening. But we we try to be very cleareyed about what the downside cases and >> and I'm going just stop it right there. Um here's the second video I would like to start. >> Synthetic telepathy voice to school technology. Chances are you haven't heard of these terms, but after searching the internet, I found dozens of websites dedicated to the phenomenon and several valley residents who say they're victims. >> How much more can you invade me than to go into my brain? It sounds like somebody else is reading the book, only its thoughts. >> We're not having a group hallucination. This is actually something that's happening. These men all live in the area, didn't know each other before the voices started, and say someone is playing mind games with them. >> Mostly, it's a lot of derogatory uh comments about whatever you're thinking about. >> Only time I ever had a whole sentence, he said, "This is not about you," which just frosted me. If it's not about me, what the hell am I going through all this for? Kevin Bond says he used to have a normal area. >> Thank you. Susan Lakes, please come to the DIS. Welcome, Kathy. >> Hello, council members and Mr. Mayor. Um, I'm a I'm in a resident of Kirby Apartments and we have some photos to show you all of some of the things that Brad was mentioning that's going on at our complex. This seems to be someone's bathroom. This is a dumping situation that's going on in the back. Mhm. >> Um I've emailed the city, um the health department. I have gotten no response about somebody coming out. This is what the grass looks like. Um they've cut the grass once. One of the people from Prodigy was there today and I asked him what were they going to when were they going to do something about the grass and he told me that they weren't because there was no money at Kirby and he said that they weren't going to do anything at Kirby anyway because we were picking on them. And I guess he referring to us picking on them because I've been on the news on channel 12. I was just interviewed today by channel 9 and they've come and to see the things that we're dealing with and we would love to have some of you council members to please come out and see it for yourself because the pictures don't do it any justice. So that's all I have to say. Thank you. >> Thank you. Minister Adrian, please come to the dis. >> Welcome Joyce. I'm a resident of Curry and it's I've been there since 2016. >> Joyce, could you sit closer to the mic? I'm sorry. >> I am a resident of Curry Apartments. I've been there since 2016 and this has been Prodigy since they got it. They take our money and I the water's going to be cut off. We have to call somebody lights. They say we can't do nothing. We ain't got no money, but you study taking our rent every month. So they didn't and then look just what the grass look like in front. That's embarrassing. This embarrassing when somebody come to visit you. The halls are filthy. The smell. So that's all I really have to say. >> Thank you for coming in, Joyce. Uh Gwen Summers, if you could please come to the DAS. Welcome, Susan Links. >> Yeah. Hi. Thank you, council, for this opportunity. I have two little bitty things today. Uh, first of all, I live in Over the Rine. Um, I'm not paid by anybody to be here. I'm retired. Live in Over the Rine, gardening over the rind. I want to thank uh who who's ever responsible for putting the extra police presence. I can tell you they're doing their job because I almost got arrested. It's kind of a funny story. I was out doing what I do best, picking up uh trash along Elm Street and I had one of those long things about rifle length, you know, out there picking up trash and I was holding it and a police car went by and kind of looked and did a double take. So, I think they thought maybe I had a weapon of some sort. So, they are doing their job. Um, thank you for making added police presence. I feel safe there. The other thing is uh about the incident that happened um the weekend before last I believe it was in the downtown area. >> Yes. Oh my um oh my um I heard the police chief and correct me if I'm wrong say that out of all the people there just one person called 911. Is that correct? >> That's what they said. >> Can we turn that into a positive? >> I'm assuming that that person did the right thing. Let's not scold that person. Let's praise that person for trying to help. Let's um name a street after him. Um let's find him and praise him rather than um >> calling >> shame everybody else for not calling 911. Let's turn this into a positive. That's all I have to say. >> Good job. >> Thank you. Christian Hellman, please come. Hope Christian Hillsman is on Zoom. Uh so we'll be going to you um in two speakers. Minister Adrian, welcome. >> You Oh. Um good morning C I mean good afternoon council. So I sent everybody the email. Um I don't see the city manager, but um I would love for y'all. We're asking for a motion for reconsideration for the zoning for the 1813. I have sent to every single person's email of the trustee board meeting. Oh, I I don't that's the recording. I'm sorry. >> Oh, okay. Um I sent for 1813, but I sent you the recording for the OTR board meeting from J June the 9th of all the board members um basically disagreeing. Um I'm going to send you the second recording next. I would like for y'all to pause for that if you can because some of the residents don't agree with it. and this owners and outdoor merchants. And I just want y'all to reconsider it because none of you have called me since June the 2nd since I first talked about this. And so if you really want to help the people in OTR, I would greatly appreciate if you can reconsider that for us. Also, with that being said, I also sent a video of Kevin from the um OTR board, the president of Kelly basically um placing duplicity about the amount they were raising. And Kevin was like, "I thought you didn't know." And with that, that's in violation of federal funding accountability and Ohio revised code 2921.13 of false statements. So if you could please reconsider that, I would greatly appreciate. I understand that she recommendation of passing it, but nobody's agreeing with this. And then in in the record and Finley Market couldn't even answer how it was going to help the community. So CFFM is not trying to help the community. And these people did not know they were raising $20 million exploiting womenowned businesses and blackowned businesses. We h we haven't got any help. I've even told y'all about the violations of demand due process. None of y'all have looked in your mailbox because I've been there twice. So, >> thank you. James Walker, if you could please come to the DAS. Welcome, Gwen Summers. >> Good afternoon, mayor, council, and audience. My name is DJ Gwen Summers and I am the baddest DJ in all the land, bar none. And I noticed some of you all take me as a joke, but I'm no joke. I wanted to talk about several things. The main one being that brawl that happened downtown. Why is it that only blacks have been arrested and no whites? I'm not prejudice. I'm against violence. of any kind to anyone. So, the guy that slapped the black guy, he was a white guy. He should be in jail, too, or at least charged for assault. The other thing I wanted to say, mayor, is I'm still with you. You're doing an outstanding job. It's not your fault that people have run a muck here in the great city of Cincinnati, which is why I wanted to run for city council. I have over a thousand signatures, but I can't run now because I found out in March I'm having my third and probably final grandchild. She lives in Washington DC, and so I'll be spending a lot of time there for the next four years, I'm sure. The other thing I wanted to say is today is my mother's would have been my mother's 94th birthday, August the 6. She passed in ' 09. And in her honor, I'm having a cookout, a communitywide cookout, Eden Park this Saturday from 300 PM to dusk. Everyone is invited. I've invited you all to several different functions that I've had. No one's come, but that's okay because I'm going to keep having it. I'm going to keep doing it. And the peace, love, harmony, music concert for up andcoming artists is still on and I'm planning that for December. location is to be determined. I thank you all so very much for your time. Have a wonderful afternoon and I love you. >> Thank you. Kelly Roberts, if you could please come to the dis as well as Jania Roberts. We're now going to move to Zoom. Uh Chris Christian, can you hear us? >> Yes, I can hear you. >> Go ahead, Christian. >> All right, Mr. Mayor, uh members of council, thanks for the opportunity. My name is Christian Hulesman. Um I lead the nonprofit Spring in our steps. Um want to express um some dismay. Um recently the planning commission recommended the uh vacation of E Valley and um Bowman Street in the West End. These corridors uh will be used for trailer staging directly and adversely impacting residents across from Finley Street. That experience today is not favorable, but uh the proposed use is not a market improvement. Industrial storage continues to creep closer to Lind Street. If you look at other blocks north and south, the buffer from industry extends from Lind Street about a half a block. Long-term uh trailer storage will have a detrimental effect on quality of life, pedestrian circulation, and redevelopment at a neighborhood scale. Um I'm going to speak off script for uh the rest of my time. Um, I have alerted Councilman Jeff u um DOT uh real estate division about the growing number of gated alleys both uh leased as well as sold. And I'm alarmed by the um the sheer number of these public spaces that are being taken away from us without very much engagement at all. So, in this case of the West End, I would love for um council to oppose such a vacation for an industrial use, but I'd also like to see a more comprehensive look at what we're losing and what we will never get back. Um, this is something that really needs to be studied, the position that uh the property owner has to lease these alleys and then close them indefinitely or even the erasure and vacation of these uh public spaces. I'd really like to see them as assets. Thank you so much. >> Thank you, James Walker. Welcome. >> Uh, good afternoon. I am here to uh is that I'm too close to the mic or I'm here to speak about what is being called the brawl or the Cincinnati brawl. Um, so in my opinion, this is about or that incident is about violence and threats. Some violence is physical, but threats can also be violent. So, in my opinion, not all violence is physical. This is a case of that. The white suspects, pay attention to that word, suspects. The white suspects are the party that use verbal violence and furthered it with physical violence. America has always sought to teach black people a lesson or their place. Air quotes. In this instance, the white suspects need to be taught a lesson. more so everyone involved needs to be equally taught a lesson, charged equally or no one should be taught a lesson specifically because this is a stand your ground state. So the black victims definitely had no duty to retreat. None of the white suspects have been charged except for I think one with the misdemeanor one, the guy who threw the slap. So maybe he has been charged, but we don't know. They won't release his name. Um, and none of them none of their identities have been released to the public as have the black victims. This is purpose purposefully steered media. There's a malicious reason for this media manipulation. Police officers answer to the police chief who is assigned by you, Mr. Perval. So, the mayor and this council is willfully letting the investigating detectives and the police chief run a one-sided investigation and a process of charging those involved. Victoria Parks. I agree with her remarks. Why? Because I identify with her as a black person from a purely black American experience. That is different from a white experience. You can truly fully understand her remarks from a purely black experience only. Um America. >> Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. appreciate your comments. Simone Bess, uh, please come to the dis. Um, sir, if you could exit, please. Thank you. Uh, Kelly, you are next. >> Okay. Good afternoon. My name is Kelly Roberts. I want to say Mayor App, you do a wonderful job. I've seen you. I've seen Victoria. I I think that's her name. She's done a wonderful job for our city. Um, I'm here. I advocate for my daughter. Her name is Shania. She's eight months pregnant. She lives in Row Hills that used to be called the Fay. She's been here for 5 years. Mark uh witnessing children being shot and killed on the corner of President Noddingham. This governmentf funded HUD program helps this apartment complex. We have here multiple gunshots in her house. She has three babies under the f age five. She's feared of her children getting shot and killed. So, she's with me. I'm homeless. I'm in a hotel. So, there's seven of us in this hotel room. We stick together. It is very hard. I you know I do my best. It's very it's a it's a struggle. Um we have all these pictures of gunshots. We would like to show the news all these gunshots. We talked to Marquita the uh what's her who is the um >> Miss Perez. M uh Marquita is over department. We've called Wall Properties. We went to CHA and that man named Nicole does not care. He's happy to give us bad news. He wants us to go get a shelter uh homeless certificate when we've done all that. We've been to shelters. Shelters is full. So, I'm just hoping that she gets help. She's due to have a baby. Thank you, Janiah. >> Um, yes, my name is Janiah Roberts. This is my mother. Um, I just want to say I even reported the issue many, many times. Um, I've reported it to the villages of Roill with two requests. I even reported the people that causes the gun violence right across the street from me and nothing was done about it. Um, they use the side of my house as like a shield and shoot at each other. Um, I have to literally come up with like a routine with my three babies. I have a 5-year-old, I have a 2-year-old, and I have a four-year-old. I have to come up with a routine for them to run to the steps just so they don't get shot through the walls. I've seen babies right on the side of the window that got shot and I really don't want that to be my my kids at all. It's been multiple over the past two years. It's been about five kids that got shot. >> You're only halfway. You can keep going, please. >> Um I've also reported water damage. Um they've done nothing about the water damage. Every time I make a request for something to be done, nothing is never done. um which is a safety hazard as well because that can cause mold growing in my house. The ceilings the ceilings are practically caving in. Um I've called shelters in Kentucky. I've called shelters in Baltimore. Um Butler County, I'm sorry. And Butler County says that um you have to be a resident to even get into a shelter. So it's like I'm out I'm all out of luck. And that's all I want to say and thank you. >> Thank you, Janiah. Uh, no Nixon is here from my office. We haven't um worked on this issue before, so we'd be glad to share information and uh be an advocate for you. Thank you so much for sharing your story. Simone, you're our final speaker. >> Good afternoon, council. My name is Simone Bess. I've been a resident of the city since 1989. Um, I've a degree I'm a degreed engineer and educator. I have raised three children in this city and I continue to be an active community uh member. Um, for the last nine summers I've created and run a STEM camp for kindergarten through 8th grade students. This past year it was supported by the boots on the ground grant and I want to thank the city and all of the members of council for that support. Um this is my passion. This I can do. Our camp creates space for our children to learn and understand STEM, to think creatively, to solve problems, and to be uh more freely be themselves, and to understand their full potential. This summer, they learned about and created products about their melanated skin, their carbon footprints, 3D printing, and artificial intelligence, eating healthy, and being physically active. Our city needs to invest more in our children and our youth. >> This is what we need more of. Programs can't fix disrespectful people who don't know how to keep their hands to themselves. Programs don't fix that. But programs that you've heard about today can. Cities across this nation have begun to find solutions to decreasing violence and improving the lives of children. They're doing and figuring out strategically how to combine their dollars to make more sense of that. They're strategically looking at the data and using programming for our children to decrease violence and ultimately make the life of our ch. >> Thank you, Simone. It's now 2:35. That concludes this portion of the citizens forum and we will immediately begin the business portion of Cincinnati City Council. Clerk, will you please call the role? >> Council member Kramering >> here. >> Council member Jeff >> here. >> Council member Johnson >> here. >> Vice Mayor Carney >> here. >> Council member Nolan >> here. >> Council member Owens >> here. >> Council member Walsh >> here. >> Council member Albi >> here. Actually, uh, we're going to take a twominut, uh, recess and we'll be right back for the rest of the business portion of council. Thank you. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Please take your seats. If we could please take our seats, that would be great. Students, thank you all so much for spending time with us. Thank you so much, Christian. Appreciate it. We're back in session. Having called the role, we will now please stand for a moment of silence. And now, the pledge of allegiance, please. >> 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. Council member Parks will be excused from today's session. I really appreciate uh council members coming back for our summer meeting and also coming back for our special public safety focused meeting. It has been uh no doubt a challenging time uh in the city. Um, but I want to reiterate that the city every summer has a safety plan and every summer we monitor that plan week to week. We take public safety very seriously. It is our top priority, not just in our values, but also in our city's budget, spending overwhelmingly and increasing that funding for public safety all four years that this council has been impanled. Our summer safety program started on May 14th when we announced our summer safety at our summer safety press conference, which is what we do every year to discuss our plans to combat the trend of rising crime during the summer months. CD CDRT and SWAT investments in police overtime for visibility throughout our entire city, but particularly in our urban core. On June 24th, we proactively convened our city manager, our police chief, and myself for a public discussion of concerning crime trends that began as the summer started. We surged police presence in hotspots. We we impanled a lateral police class and rolled out our drone program. On July 9th, we once again walk through updates in our crime trends as part of our commitment to bi-weekly public updates to answer any and all questions. And at that announcement, we rolled out our street crimes task force because our residents and our community members are concerned about the drug use and the drug dealing. They're concerned about the car break-ins, and we acted quickly and effectively. On July 22nd, we held yet another safety press conference announcing new directed walking patrols in our urban core to provide on the ground connections between officers and residents. We also early in their summer made the difficult decision to limit our red bike and scooter usage uh because they were used uh by teens to go into parking garages and break into several cars very quickly and then exit very quickly. On July 23rd, I convened a special session of city council during recess to call for council votes on formal guidance to the administration on number one, enforcing a curfew, supporting number two, supporting our on-ramping of the lateral class, which will increase our compliment by approximately 50 experienced law enforcement professionals and city council prioritizing and calling for increased visibility of our law enforcement in our urban core. Since that time, we have expanded our CDRT and SWAT footprint into the central business section on weekend nights. We've expanded on the ground visibility strategy on Court Street in the Fountain District in partnership with the sheriff and bicycle patrols uh from CPD in in the Fountain area. And we've also coordinated with the governor using highway patrol to support uh our uh monitoring our highways to relieve our CPD resources to be reinvested into our urban core and also receiving highway patrol support for air assistance and traffic. And now today we are voting to update and change our curfew policy. Throughout this entire summer, this administration, this council has been very clear and intentional about the challenges that we face. We have acted quickly and proactively, and we will continue to do so. It is our mission and objective to not just have Cincinnati be safe today, but constantly, continually through struggle and progress to make Cincinnati safer. not just in the data but importantly more importantly to make sure that every Cincinnatian feels safe everywhere in the city but particularly in our urban core. And I want to thank our police officers who are now walking a beat who are now increased increasing their visibility on bicycles and segways who we already ask an extraordinary amount for particularly during the summer. They have doubled down on their hours, on their commitment to this city, and we are doubling down on our commitment to having their back. Moving to our agenda, item one is an appointment of Raquel Howard Smith to the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority Board of Trustees. Roll call on confirmation of the appointment, please. >> Council member Kramering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Item number two is indicated. Item number three will be referred to the equitable growth and housing committee. Items 4 through 64 are as indicated. Item 65 is a motion from council member Owens that the administration prepare a report by October 2025 that outlines the average time that it takes for permitting and development process of zone change applications. This is in the budget and finance committee. Mr. Kramerding, may I have Miss Owens introduce this item? >> Yes. Thank you, Mayor. >> Miss Owens. >> Thank you. Um, yeah, this is just uh to understand in a visual kind of format uh what our permitting and development process looks like um and really understanding the timeline uh just to create uh more intentionality around where we can be most efficient and responsive. >> Further comments? Roll call and adoption of the motion. >> Council member Kramering. >> Yes. Yes. Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Carney. Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albi. >> Yes. >> Item 66 is a motion, excuse me, is a motion from Vice Mayor Kernney that city council pay to the Merkantile Library the sum of $10,000 from the city manager general fund as a moral obligation for the city of Cincinnati's poet laurate pro program. Mr. Kmerding, may I have the vice mayor introduce this item? >> Yes. Thank you, mayor. Vice Mayor, >> thank you. So, Cincinnati has had a poet laurate program for quite a few years and we uh back in 2021 partnered with the Merkantel Library to administer that program. The agreement was that we would each put in $5,000. So, the Merkantel puts in $5,000. The city puts in 5,000. However inadvertently we have not paid for the past two years. So, we now owe the Merkantil Library our share $10,000. >> Thank you. Further comments. Roll call on adoption of the motion, please. >> Council member Crimeing, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Mayor Carney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Items 67 through 70 are as indicated. Item 71, first reading, please. Emergency ordinance authorizing the payment of $13,000513 from the Emergency Communication Center ECC general fund nonpersonnel as a moral obligation to medical priority consultants incorporated for training and certificates for ECC personal provided between July 2022 and May 2025. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Crimeing? >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Carney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens? >> Yes. Yes. Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albi. >> Yes. >> Today's meeting begins in budget and finance. Per usual. Mr. Kramering, would you like to introduce this item? >> Yes, Mayor. Item number 71 is a moral obligation. A moral obligation is where the city has a debt for a service provided or equipment. Uh that was not uh pre-authorized. So often in the summer session, we have many of these moral obligations and we will we will uh have them today. This one was from our for ECC personnel. >> Thank you. Any further comments? Roll call and passage. >> Council member Crimeing? >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff? >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson? >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Carney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens? >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh? >> Yes. >> Council member Albi? >> Yes. >> Roll call emergency. >> Council member Kramering. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson? >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Carney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens? >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh? >> Yes. >> Council member Albi? >> Yes. >> Item 72. 72. First reading, please. >> Emergency ordinance authorizing the payment of $243,68123 from the Cincinnati Recreations Commission Municipal Golf Fund as a moral obligation to Antaras Golf LLC for outstanding charges related to management services for Cincinnati Recreations Commission golf courses. >> Roll call and suspension, please. >> Council member Kramering. Yes. Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Carney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Parks, I'm sorry. Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kramering. >> Mayor, this is a moral obligation from the Cincinnati Recreations for the Cincinnati Recreation Center was the result of higher thanex expected play at our municipal golf courses. >> Hey, that's good news. Further comments? Roll call on passage. >> Council member uh Kmerding. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Karnney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Roll call in emergency. >> Council member Kramering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Carney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albby, >> yes. >> Item 73, first reading, please. Emergency ordinance authorizing the payment of $4,370 from the Cincinnati Recreations Commission Recreation Special Activities Fund as a moral obligation to Jason Barney for services rendered in connection with the boat ramp operations at the Schmidt complex. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Kramering. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Karnney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens? >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. >> Mr. King. Moral obligation from the Cincinnati Recreation Commission for the operation of the boat ramp. >> Other comments. >> Roll call and passage. >> Council member Crimeing. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson? >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens? >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh? >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. >> Yes. >> Roll call emergency. >> Council member Crimeing? >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff? >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson? >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Carney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens? Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albi. >> Yes. >> Item 74, first reading, please. >> Emergency ordinance authorizing a payment of $76,3374 from the storm water management utility storm water management program as a moral obligation to Duke Energy, Ohio for outstanding charges related to a storm water electric service provided to the city from March 18, 2025 to June 19th 2025. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Kramering. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Carney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Mr. Kramering, >> this is a moral obligation from the Stormwater Management Fund for electrical services. >> Further comments. >> Roll call and passage. >> Council member Karing, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Carney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. Yes. Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. >> Yes. >> Roll call on emergency. >> Council member Crimeing. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson? >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Carney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens? >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh? >> Yes. >> Council member Albi? >> Yes. >> Item 75, first reading, please. >> Emergency ordinance authorizing the payment of $92,000 from Emergency Communication Center 911. Cell phone fees fund to medical priority consultants for software maintenance and support services for the period of January 1, 2025 to December 31st, 2025. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Kramering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Ali, >> yes. Okay, I'm going to take over for just a second. The mayor has to take care of some business. Okay, number 7. Okay. All right. Number 75. Uh, council member Kramering, would you like to discuss? >> Uh, thank you, Vice Mayor. Yes, citizens play pay your cell phones. When you pay your cell phone bill, you you pay a small fee. Uh, that fee goes to support the emergency communication center. Uh, this is a moral obligation from the emergency communication center uh for software maintenance. >> Okay, thank you. Any comments? Okay, vote on passage. >> Council member Kmerding, >> yes. Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Karnney, >> yes. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> A roll call emergency. >> Council member Kramering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Karnney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Ali, >> yes. >> Item number 76, first reading, please. Emergency ordinance authorizing the payment of $154,000,798.16 from general fund enterprise software and licenses non departmental nonpersonnel to G CGI technologies and solutions for maintenance services for the Cincinnati Financial System for the period of March 1st, 2025 to May 31st, 2025. >> Okay. Roll call on suspension. >> Council member Kramering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. >> Yes. >> Comments from Council Member Kramering. >> Yeah. This is a moral obligation for the Cincinnati Financial System. >> Okay. Any comments? Roll call on passage. >> Council member Crimeing. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Karnney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. >> Yes. >> An emergency. Council member Kermiting. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Vice Mayor Karnney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member >> Ali. Yes. >> Item number 79. First reading, please. >> 77. >> Did I skip one? >> Yes. >> I'm sorry. Oh, I skipped two. Wow. I'm I'm pushing it. Okay. Item number 77, first reading, please. Emergency ordinance authorizing the city manager to appropriate $1,ion57,2989 of the 2024 community development block program income from the inappropriate surplus of CDBG fund 304 to CDBG fund program housing repair services 24 to fund the continuation of the housing repair program. >> Okay. Roll call on suspension. >> Council member Kramering. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney. Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. >> Yes. >> Council member Kramer. Any comments? >> Yes. So, now we are ending the moral obligation se section and we're moving on to grants which is perhaps uh more exciting. Uh this is then this is exciting. This is a a million dollar appropriation for a community development block grant for housing repair. Part of our commitment uh to making housing a priority. >> Okay. Roll call on passage. Council member Crimeing, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Roll call on emergency, please. >> Council member Kramering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Vice Mayor Kney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Item 78, first reading, please. Emergency ordinance authorizing the city manager to accept and appropriate $69,60 and home investment partnerships program income from the unappropriate surplus of home investment trust fund 411 to home investment trust fund strategic housing initiatives program 25 to to fund the continuation of the strategic home the housing initiative program. >> Roll call on suspension. >> Council member Kring. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Vice Mayor Kernney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Aldi. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kramering. >> Uh, Mayor, this is another appropriation in support of housing. This one is for the strategic housing initiatives. The strategic housing initiatives program. I think sometimes the acronym SHIP is used. >> Other comments? Roll call and passage, please. >> Council member Kitting. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Vice Mayor Carney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens? Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Aldi. >> Yes. >> Roll call on emergency. >> Council member Crimeing. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Alvi. >> Yes. >> Item 79. First reading. Emergency ordinance authorizing the city manager to accept and appropriate a donation of $1,000 from the Rotary Club Cincinnati to be used for operations of the Cincinnati Police Department public safety cadet program and the cops for a cure program. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Kramering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albby, >> yes. >> Mr. Mr. Kramer >> mayor, this is an acceptance of a grant from the Rotary Club for the public safety cadet program. So, thank you to the Rotarians. >> Further comments. >> Roll call on passage, please. >> Council member Kramering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Karnney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Roll call on emergency. >> Council member Kering, >> yes. Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Item 80, first reading, please. >> Emergency ordinance establishing new fund 748, qualified employee benefit arrangement, QEBA, to pay excessive excess retirement benefits that are not permitted to be paid from the qualified pension trust due to internal revenue code limitations. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Crime Reading. Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Mr. Kramering, >> uh, Mayor, this is a relatively small change to our retirement benefits. Thanks to Council Member Johnson for his thoughtful questions in committee. This is going to affect a very small number uh of city employees and retirees, and they will be held harmless with this change. Further comments? >> Roll call and passage, please. >> Council member Kermining, yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Karnney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Roll call on emergency. >> Council member Crimeing, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Item 81, first reading, please. Emergency ordinance authorizing the city manager to execute a property sale and development agreement with American Craft Brewery, better known as Samuel Adams Cincinnati Brewery, pursuant to which the city will vacate and convey portions of the public rightway known as Eve Alley and Snyder Alley and all the public rightway known as Bowman Street to facilitate the company's construction of a truck staging area. >> Roll call on suspension. >> Council member Kramering. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Mr. Kramering, >> Mayor, we also had a thoughtful conversation on this in committee. The uh in this development agreement, several alleys are going to be vacated. It will allow for the expansion of the Sam the Sam Adams Brewery and will allow them to create a number of new jobs. >> Further comments, >> Mr. Chair? >> Yes, Vice Mayor. >> Th this was a hard one. And I know it was difficult because um we envisioned something other than than this area um for uh storage for for trailers. Um but we were you know I I was convinced I'll just speak for myself that you know the fact that Sam Adams um makes such a a great contribution to the Weston with more than 200 jobs. Uh the fact that the Weston Community Council sent in two letters of support uh and really want us to pass this. Um, I spoke with uh the business uh that's going to be next door, the West End Sports Bar and Grill. Uh, and they said that Sam Adams is helping them a lot and u plans to help other businesses as well. And so they asked for support as well. So for that reason, I am supporting this. I'm also comforted by the fact that the city uh has the first right of refusal. So if ever uh the Sam Adams company decides they don't want this land, the city can um take it back. >> Thank you, Mr. Nolan. >> Thank you, Chair. Um like the vice mayor, I also struggled with this one. Um I had a lot of the same conversations that the vice mayor had and and I'll just add to that that I appreciate Sam Adams willingness to come to the table and have a conversation. Um while this is only a slight improvement to what is there today, um I think many of us would like to see something different for the neighborhood in the long term and I do believe with the right of first refusal this puts the city in a position uh to control the destiny a little bit more and for that reason I am in favor. >> Further comments mayor >> Mr. Jeff >> uh I echo the sentiment. Uh I I think a lot of us have concern about the a portion of a neighborhood turning into a parking lot for trucks uh other neighborhoods that has not been a positive. The reality is though that Sam Adams can do that today uh in the lots that they own. Uh and so this is CDing the alleyway. And just one other add on the right of first refusal. It not only allows the city to buy the alleyway back right of first refusal but also the property adjacent to it as well. So, I think that was um no doubt the best of um best of um best outcome. So, thank you. >> Thank you. Further comments? >> Seeing none, roll call on passage of item 81, please. >> Council member Kering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albby, >> yes. >> Roll call on emergency. >> Council member Kitting, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Ali. >> Item 82, first reading, please. >> Ordinance establishing new capital improvement project EV charging rec centers P122816 grant to install electric vehicle charging stations at the Price Hill, Heartwell, and Madisonville recreation centers. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Crimeing. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. Yes. >> Council member Johnson. Vice Mayor Kernney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Ali. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kermiting. >> Mayor, I'll defer to Council Member Jeff as the city's OKI representative. >> Mr. Jeff. >> Yeah. So, this uh issue came up at OKI. It's it is a grant from OKI for uh installing EV charging systems. It's intentionally in neighborhoods where folks often don't have garages. So, if you own an EV, uh it's easy. If you have a garage, you can just drive it right into your garage and charge it. Uh if you don't, it's more challenging. So for folks uh for example in Price Hill, Hartwell, ports of Madisonville, it's more challenging. So these are very strategically placed in uh near rec centers um that enable the public who may not have a driveway to charge their EV. Um and um so that that that was the very intentional. >> Further comments, Miss Alvie. >> Yeah, I really excited about this and and thank you Council Member Jeff for highlighting. I live in Madisonville and it's true. my neighbor who has an EV drags her charger cord across her front lawn because she doesn't have um a garage and a place to charge it. So, making chargers more readily accessible in the in our neighborhoods is great. It gives people options. Uh I also wanted to follow up. I asked uh Dr. Dudis uh more about kind of the if these chargers would be free or not, and he did follow up to say that the grant covers the full cost of installation and construction. Uh but once these uh locations are up and running, there'll be a fee uh for the for the chargers like you see in other places. But wanted to share that with my colleagues. >> Thank you. Further comments, >> Mr. Chair, >> Miss Owens. >> Yeah. No, echo all the same sentiments and again this is, you know, the green Cincinnati plan moving forward and uh equity being at the center of that. And so this is a clear demonstration that build it and they will come. So obviously the more accessible the infrastructure is, the more people can adopt. >> Thank you. Any other comments? Roll call on passage of item 82, please. >> Council member Kering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Item 83, first reading, please. Emergency ordinance authorizing the city manager to apply for a grant of up to $100,000 from the urban forestry grant program awarded by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to provide resources to develop and implement an urban forestry management plan. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Kiming, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Karnney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, yes. >> Council member Owens, yes. >> Council member Walsh, yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Mr. Mr. Crmiting, >> this is a grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for an urban forestry management plan. >> Other comments. A roll call on passage. >> Council member Albi or Council Member Kramering, I'm sorry. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Carney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Ali, >> yes. >> Roll call in emergency. >> Council member Kring, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Carney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albi. >> Yes. >> Item 84, first reading, please. >> Ordinance authorizing the city manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant of up to 97,430 from the US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance. Fiscal year 2023. Edward Burn Memorial Justice Act Assistance Grant Program administered by the Office of Criminal Justice Services to aid in reducing violent juvenile crime in Cincinnati. >> Roll call on suspension. >> Council member Karding. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney. Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albi. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kramer. This is a Department of Justice grant for just under $100,000 that the city will use to reduce uh juvenile crime. >> Other comments, >> Miss Albby, thank you. Uh this was another one I had a question about and the administration followed up. Uh the funding specifically goes to support staffing costs like overtime and civilian um costs as well as cameras including uh fuchsis which is our real-time camera uh technology. So that's where the money is going specifically. Further comments? >> Roll call and passage. >> Council member Kering. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Karnney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens? >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh? >> Yes. >> Council member Albi? >> Yes. >> Item, excuse me, item 85, first reading, please. Ordinance authorizing the city manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant of up to $6,250,000 from the US Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policy Services, COPS. Fiscal year 2025, cops hiring program to hire up to 50 entry-level police officers. >> Roll call suspension. >> Council member Kramering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. Council member Albi. >> Yes. >> Mr. Karding. >> Mayor, this is another US uh Department of Justice grant. This one's for up to $6 million. Hire 50 new police officers. This would be for future classes, so it does not affect affect our current budget. >> Further comments, >> Mr. Mayor. >> Mr. Jeff. >> Mr. Jeff, I'm sorry. Your your mic is blocked by that. Go ahead. >> Sorry. Oh, good. No, I just I think uh just it's important to note this council has invested in new recruit classes every single year and I think what we've learned is how critical it is to do it every single year. Um and because there were some time prior to us where it was not done and it's caught up and so I think this makes sure that going forward we continue to leverage federal dollars in order to continue to invest and recruit classes every year. >> Thank you Mr. Johnson. >> Thank you Mr. Jeff for that. Uh but actually we probably need to do two a year to get catch up with the attrition rate and we have been almost maintaining that. I think as you alluded to we are seeing the result of what didn't happen years ago and unfortunately we are the cleanup crew and making sure that the future councils and mayors and citizens are not left short. So, congratulations to my colleagues, the mayor and this administration. >> Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Further comments. >> Roll call on passage, please. >> Council member Kering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albby, >> yes. Item 86, first reading, >> emergency ordinance authorizing the city manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant of up to $83,000. $83,000 in fiscal year 2023 Project Safe Neighborhoods Fund from the US Department of Justice and administered by the Office of a Criminal Justice Services for the purchase and implementation of a deterrence and prevention-based curriculum to complement efforts to address juvenile violence crime. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Kramering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Karnney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Alvi, >> yes. >> Mr. Craring. >> Mayor, this is another Department of Justice grant. Uh, this one for $83,000 to reduce violent crime. And along the lines of of my colleagues, you know, there's a lot of conversations about what's going on in Washington. Council member Alby just mentioned this an aside just uh to everyone out there keep in mind that changes and cuts in Washington are going to affect local government and the city of Cincinnati at some point in the future. >> Thank you. Further comments, Miss Albby. >> Yeah, thank you. I I wanted to add there and what I was sharing with um Council Member Kramering is uh in conversations with the budget department, I did ask about these grants. Uh in the most re recent budget bill, Congress made uh over a billion dollars of cut to local law enforcement that does affect various grants. Ours are okay, which is great for now. Um, but you know, that is something to keep an eye on uh going forward. But grateful to have these resources now so we can continue to keep our community safe and uh support all these various programs we have going. >> Further comments. >> Roll call on passage of item 86, please. >> Council member Kering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. Yes. Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. >> Yes. >> Roll call on emergency. >> Council member Kering. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney. Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. >> Yes. >> Item 87. First reading, please. Emergency ordinance authorizing the city manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant above $260,000 from the Ohio Department of Public Safety, Office of Criminal Justice Services Violence Against Women Act Grant Program to support the Domestic Violence Law Enforcement Advocate Project in collaboration with Women Helping Women. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Kramering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, yes. >> Council member Walsh, yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Mr. Kramering. >> Uh, mayor, I'll defer to my colleague, Council Member Albby. >> Miss Albby. >> Great. Yeah, this is a uh grant that supports work we do with women helping women, which is an awesome organization that supports survivors of domestic violence. And this as well as, you know, other partnerships with this group. So, grateful to have this collaboration to be able to serve our survivors and provide the assistance and support they need right away. >> Further comments? Roll call on passage, please. >> Council member Kermiting. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, yes. >> Council member Owens, yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Ali, >> yes. >> Roll call on emergency. >> Council member Kering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Item 88, first reading, please. Ordinance authorizing the city manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant of up to $42,000 from the state of Ohio Office of Attorney General, State Victims Assistance Act, and the Federal Victims of Crime Act grant programs to provide funds for the Cincinnati Police Department homicide units victim advocate. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Karding, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, yes. >> Council member Johnson, yes. >> Vice Mayor Carney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, yes. >> Council member Walsh, yes. >> Council member Ali, >> yes. >> Mr. Kramering. >> I'll defer to my colleague, Council Member Albby. >> Miss Albby, >> thanks. I I offered to help split the load here for Council Member Kramering. This is a grant that supports Karen Ramsey's team, the victim assistance leazison team. They are awesome social workers within Cincinnati Police that respond to crisis night or day. Uh specifically supporting those who are uh survivors of gun violence. That means working with them as they work with the detectives as the case unfolds. going to court, supporting them if they're witnesses and having to go through that court process as well as hosting regular survivor support uh meetings and doing all of that work. So, it's just really remarkable. Karen Ramsey and her team, Monica, and everyone are just awesome human beings and do so much to support our survivors. I'm eternally grateful. >> Further comments? >> Roll call on passage. >> Council member Crating. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. Vice Mayor Kernney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. >> Yes. >> Item 89, first reading, please. >> Emergency ordinance authorizing the city manager to apply for, accept, and appropriate a grant of up to $175,000 in fiscal year 2025. Community policy policing development micro grant funds from the US Department of Justice, which works to recruit and retain police officer candidates between the ages of 18 and 21 until they are eligible age to enter the police academy. Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Kering. Yes. >> Council member Jeff. Yes. >> Council member Johnson. Yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens? Yes. >> Council member Walsh? Yes. >> Council member Albi? >> Yes. >> Mr. Kramering. >> Mayor, this is a Department of Justice grant that will go to our police study program. Specifically, this grant will help with our pipeline of police uh recruits targeting the period between 18 and 21 where there's interest in becom becoming a recruit. Uh, but you're not eligible until the age of 21. >> Thank you. Further comments. Roll call on passage, please. >> Council member Crating. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Karnney? Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Ali. >> Yes. >> Roll call on emergency. >> Council member Kramering. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney? Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. Council member Albi. >> Yes. >> Item 90, first reading, please. >> Ordinance establishing new capital improvement program writing and Ashman sidewalk grant to provide resources for constructing a sidewalk from midblock Ashman Avenue to Reading Road and along a segment of Reading Road as well as reducing the intersection width of Reading Road and Aspen Avenue as to promote pedestrian safety and connectivity. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Kering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, yes. >> Council member Johnson, yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kramerding. >> I'll defer to Council Member Jeff. >> Mr. Jeff. >> Yeah. This one and the next one. New sidewalks. That's a good thing. And new shared use path. Good thing. Uh just making sure people are safe when they're in their neighborhoods. >> Further comments. Miss Alby. >> Thank you to OKI. >> Anything else? Roll call on passage. Council member Kiming, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Item 91, first reading, please. Emergency ordinance authorizing the establishment of new capital improvement program, Little Miami Scenic Trail Grant, to provide resources for the extension of the existing shared use path along Beachmont Avenue from the intersection of Austin Road to the intersection of Ranchfield Drive in the Mount Washington neighborhood. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Kramering, yes. >> Council member Jeff, yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Ali, >> yes. >> Mr. Kramering. >> Uh, I think Council Member Jeff sufficiently explained uh this issue with his uh introduction. >> Further comments. Roll call on passage. >> Council member Kramering. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. Vice Mayor Kernney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albi. >> Yes. >> Roll call on emergency. >> Council member Kering. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Karnney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albi. >> Yes. >> Item 92, first reading, please. >> Emergency ordinance modifying chapter 321, procurement and disposal of supplies, services, and construction of the Cincinnati Municipal Code by amending sections 321-11, procurement $5,000 or less. and 321-13 procurement supplies services and construction in excess of $5,000, but no greater than $50,000 to increase the threshold of small dollar procurements and improvement and improve the efficiency of the procurement process. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Crimeing, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> Council Member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Mr. Mayor, this is a small but important change that will provide for a more efficient city government. This uh this uh increases the cost cap where a department head can buy something or procure an item without going through the uh full procurement process. It has not been updated since I believe 1992 and increases the threshold to $50,000. >> Further comments, >> Miss Ali, I I misspoke. Mayor, it was increase to $15,000. Excuse me. And thank you. >> That was my comment. There's a typo in the agenda. It is 1515,000. >> Thank you. Further comments. Roll call and passage, please. >> Council member Kermiting. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. Vice Mayor Kernney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens? >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh? >> Yes. >> Council member Albby? >> Yes. >> Roll call on emergency. >> Council member Kramering. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. Yes. Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Ali. >> Yes. >> Item 93. First reading, please. >> Emergency ordinance amending ordinance number 228-20 passed by city council on June 20th, 2012 for the purpose of reducing those special assessments levied and to be collected in 2026 related to the Oakley Station development project. >> Roll call and suspension. Council member Kramering. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. Yes. >> Council member Johnson. Yes. >> Vice Mayor Carney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? Yes. >> Council member Owens? >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh? >> Yes. >> Council member Albi? >> Yes. >> Mr. King. >> This is a change in the special assessment relates to bonds issued by the port for the Oakley Station development. >> Further comments? >> Roll call on passage, please. >> Council member Kramering. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. Vice Mayor Kernney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens? >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh? >> Yes. >> Council member Aldi? >> Yes. >> Mr. Kramering. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Roll call on emergency. >> Council member Crimeing? >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff? >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson? >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Karnney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens? >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh? >> Yes. >> Council member Albi? >> Yes. >> Item 94, first reading, please. Emergency ordinance approving and authorizing the city manager to enter enter a first amendment to tax incentive agreement with the board of education of the city the Cincinnati city school district near thereby authorizing the city of Cincinnati to approve certain real and personal property tax exemptions and credits for the maximum periods and amounts permitted under state law. >> Mr. Kramer. >> Yeah. When the uh tiff the uh the tiff districts obviously are important economic development tool for the city per state law. When we uh enter into a tiff, we need an agreement with Cincinnati public schools to the extent which will reimburse them. This is an amendment to the original agreement. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member King. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. Vice Mayor Carney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. Yes. >> Council member Owens. Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albi. >> Yes. Further comments on item 94? >> Yeah, Mr. Jeff. >> Uh just just some perspective on this. In a lot of cities, literally every development that happens, they have to negotiate between the school board and what kind of abatement. And so having an agreement where it's predictable. We know exactly what it is for years is super helpful for both sides. So I think it's um very important for the city and and for CPS as well. >> Further comments? Yeah, I um I want to add my um congratulations to the administration uh for all of their hard work on this specific item. Uh it this has been a multi-year process. Um and so thank you um to the assistant city managers and the law department for all of your hard work on this item. Uh I agree. I believe this is good for the schools and it's good for the city's economic development strategies and this is a very big deal. Uh so the fact that we have broad alignment on both council uh and um the school board I think bodess well for the future of that partnership. Thank you all all to thank you to all the parties involved in this. Any final comments? >> Roll call on passage please. >> Council member King. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Vice Mayor Kernney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albi? >> Yes. >> Roll call an emergency. Council member Kering. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Vice Mayor Carney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. >> Yes. >> Item 95. First reading, please. Emergency ordinance authorizing the city manager to execute and implement the labor management agreement between the city of Cincinnati and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Locals 190, 223, 240, 250, 1543, and 33119. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Crime, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Vice Mayor Carney, yes. >> Council member Nolan, yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. Mr. Kermiting. >> Mayor, this is a collective bargaining agreement. It's a contract the city uh enters into with our unionized employees. These collective bargaining agreements are far and away the biggest expense of our city. So, they are critically important. Police, fire. This one is with what we call what the acronym is ask the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees. Uh for those that don't know, these are uh everything from crossing guards, the people that drive our snow trucks to the people that that remove the garbage. So they are critical uh to our functioning as a city government. As always, thanks to ask me the representatives that were at the bargaining table. It's a lot of work. And as well, thank you to all of our city representatives that were also at the bargaining table advocating for us. So job well done. >> You further comments? Uh back toback. This is another very big deal. Uh and I want to thank uh the city administration again, the assistant city managers, the legal department uh for the hard work. And I want to thank the leadership of ASME. Um, our ASME employees here in the city are extraordinarily important to us, providing basic services 24/7, 365. And so, thank you to the APSME representation uh for your partnership and making sure that uh we are prioritizing your members and our employees both their pay, their salary, and also how much we value them. Roll call on passage, please. >> Council member Crimeing. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. Yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Aldi. >> Yes. >> Roll call on emergency. >> Council member King. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Carney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Ali. >> Yes. >> Item 96 is a motion from Council Member Jeff that a subcommittee of the budget and finance committee be formed to evaluate candidates for the clerk of council. Mr. Cranbering. This is in budget and finance. But may I have Mr. Jeff introduce this item, >> please. Thank you, Mayor. >> Mr. Jeff. >> Yes. We had a great discussion on Monday. As folks know, we are hiring a new clerk of council, and it's the responsibility of council to do the hiring. Um, and so this is forming a subcommittee of budget and finance in order to evaluate the applicants. >> Further comments? >> Roll call on adoption of the motion, please. Council member Kry, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Carney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Item 97 is a an amended motion from Council Member Albi that the city administration leverage funding available through Pivot and Act for Cincy to pursue violence reduction strategies. We are now in the public safety and governance committee. Mr. Johnson, may I have Miss Albby introduce this item? >> Sir. >> Miss Albby. >> Awesome. Thank you so much. So, as we look to provide, you know, holistic uh safety plan for the summer and beyond, a couple pieces to make sure we continue uh funding and supporting that the administration already has underway. The first one is deploying community violence intervention specialists. Uh this is akin to what we've been doing at uh the transit stops. Uh in fact uh we've had really great success deploying the collaborative agreement community care initiative team to our transit stop stops over the last uh year and a half two years and they reduced you know crime and violence at the transit stops by 50%. So take that same lesson learned and be able to deploy those in the hotspot areas we're seeing this summer uh leaving it to the administration on whether or not to uh work in-house or through community partners. So that's part one of this. Uh part two is looking at where there are hot spots specifically around property crime because that's been a real issue this summer and leveraging the tenants of crime prevention through environmental design to really design uh placebased solutions. So more lightings, camera, whatever those kind of environmental um preventions are to to help make the place safer. And the last piece is uh really collaborating with our parking lot operators to help prevent guns being stolen out of cars. This is kind of a working in two parallel paths currently. Uh the first one is updating our licensing requirements for parking lot operators. The other one is Cincinnati Police is working on a grading system to be able to grade the uh safety of every parking lot uh garage uh in the downtown area. So people coming in would be able to see, you know, if this is a good and safe space to park. So those are all underway. The administration is working on it. So the ask here was to be able to provide a report back within 10 business days of those initiatives um understanding uh how it's actually getting deployed and whether or not additional funding is needed. So that's what this motion is. >> Thank you, Miss Albby. Further comments, Mr. Jeff? Yeah, just to add on the the parking lots. I think the lighting and cameras so important. What are we trying to solve for? People are breaking into cars. So, if we can increase the lighting, cameras, less likely for folks to uh to do bad things. The other thing that I would point out on the grading system, if you go to a lot of other cities, like in New York, they have a health grading system. It's like AB. Nobody wants to go into a restaurant that's a B. Uh similarly, the idea is that we grade parking lots. If you know that it's not an A or it's not topnotch, you may go elsewhere, encouraging the parking lot owner to increase security in their lot. >> Thank you, >> Mr. here. >> Vice Mayor, please. >> So, I just want to clarify. So, what were the amendment for this motion was uh not to act on it, but to get a report first. Is that correct, >> Miss Albby? >> Yes. So, it was always part of the amendment or the motion to ask for the report within 10 days. Um so, within 10 days, we'll have that information back and then that will outline the additional funding needed. Vice Mayor. >> So, does that mean that this will go forward once that report is made or we will have another chance to actually vote on this motion? >> Go ahead, please. >> I would assume it would come back um after we have that information. >> Um Vice, it sounds like Vice Mayor has um a specific question, Solicitor Warner, um about whether or not when the report comes back before the funds are distributed, whether council will have another opportunity to to take a vote. Do you know um the answer to that question as you sit here today? >> Uh Mr. Chair, the answer to the question is yes. >> Thank you, Vice Mayor. >> Okay, I'm satisfied with that. Um so we're voting on having a report, not on actually going forward with this motion. So that's fine. >> If I could restate that just for clarity, we are going forward with this vote. We'll move forward with a report. The report will make recommendations on how to distribute the funds before those funds can be distributed. It would require another vote from council. >> Right. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. >> Further comment, Mr. Johnson. >> Thank you. Uh just a quick question. I know 10 days just for the administration and just uh being compassionate about what you've been swamped with. Is 10 days enough time for you to adequately respond to this or do you need more time? >> Mr. Mayor, if I may. >> Uh, if if I could just have an answer first, Miss Albby, if you don't mind, Miss Long. >> To the chairs of the council, I believe 10 days will be enough. If we can do it in bullet point bullet point fashion, that would be easy for us to turn over. >> Miss Mr. Johnson, did you have a followup? >> Excuse me. I just want to make sure as as we are there's a lot going on. There's a lot going on and I just want to make sure that they've been the administration's been given the proper amount of time to do what's necessary. Uh we we we all are working diligently, but I just want to make sure they have enough time to do that. Thank you, Miss Albby. >> I just wanted to clarify. So, I spoke with ACM Brazina about this a couple weeks ago. We talked through the report and the timing of it. So I did get his uh we on the same page about it before putting this in writing and putting it forward. >> Thank you. Further comments or questions? >> So just to clarify, this report will cut back, but we will not be in session. And so in 10 days, uh we we won't be back in session until after Labor Day. So we won't act on this report until that time. >> That is correct. Uh okay. Further questions, comments for item 97? Seeing none, roll call on adoption of the motion, please. >> Council member Kering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Carney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. Item 98 is an amended motion from council member Kramering that the city immediately utilize $2 million from the general fund contingency account to be used to expedite and expand the lateral recruit class and to fund police overtime, walking and bike patrols, tech upgrades, lighting and security cameras in the central business district and other crime hotspots. Mr. Johnson, this is your committee. May we have Mr. Craring introduce the item? Thank you, Mr. Kramering. >> Uh, thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Chair Johnson. Uh, as I said yesterday, what what happened at Forth and Elm has been racialized and polarized and it's been uh unfortunate uh to say the least. But we have to acknowledge that at least a segment of our citizens feel less safe today than they did uh 11 days ago. So, this is a this is a first step to start addressing that. Uh and specifically what this does is it's moving money $2 million from our reserves uh into a public safety line item so that we know that it is there. Uh I have talked about police visibility uh which I think is critical and will be part of the conversation as we move forward. You know, I acknowledge when you say police visibility, that that causes concern among a segment of the community, specifically the black community. So, I want to acknowledge that. That has always been a part of the conversation, that concern and will be part of the conversation moving forward. I've talked to the manager and chair Johnson about the need for flexibility. uh this is not designed to be a uh something that just makes us feel good but to support the solutions and whatever that will look like and if that's police visibility that's great but if there's a better solution this motion provides that flexibility so I I think it is just a critical step to moving forward and then to close I want to end on what we all agree that this council and mayor knows that the answer is always and uh the police will be we part of this but this council will continue to address the systemic causes of violence, crime and racism. >> Thank you. Further comments, Mr. Johnson. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh Mr. Kramerine, I salute you on the thorough in the thorough manner you went about researching what would be best. I salute the administration and madame manager for uh listening to uh that. Also, I'm going to say it again when I said as I said yesterday, I salute you all on this de and the mayor, the manager, ACMS, and all the city employees that every day work diligently to make Cincinnati safe. Um the illusion or just the flatout lie that we don't live in a safe city is that's what it is. It's a flat it's a flatout lie. This council, this mayor, and this administration have we're not finished. We're going to keep turning over every rock. As Mr. Kraming talked about, it's an and that's what we do. That's what we've done and that's what we'll that's what we'll continue to do. So, Cadians, you are safe. This council, all of us on this day are working diligently to make sure you feel like you're safe. But whatever we need to do to make sure everybody feels safe, that's what we'll do. We've done it and we'll continue to do it. So, Mr. Creity, thank you for your collaboration on this issue. >> Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Mr. Jeff. >> Yeah. Two things. One, just to elaborate on what we've done and what we're doing here. For perspective, we've had four budgets since this council's been here. We've authorized over 400 officers, which is twice the previous four years. Twice the previous four years. We continue to invest in this. What we're doing here is seeing if we can increase the lateral class. We've already authorized 50. Can we get more? There's some challenges. Is that possible? That's what the manager is going to go evaluate. also exploring things like downtown. Downtown downtown ambassadors, downtown ambassadors is a great program at a time when people are feeling not safe coming downtown. The visibility of having police officers, but also downtown ambassadors to greet them, maybe escort them to their car, make them feel safe, um is an important element, too. So, kudos to the administration for all their work on this and all of our officers uh for uh continuing to focus. >> Thank you. Further comments, >> Mr. Johnson? >> Yeah, just very quickly, as as the mayor knows, we were out with the vice mayor this weekend and we saw numerous families, I mean families, not just single people hanging out, numerous families birth Friday and Saturday all over this city. So I think when we the perception perception is reality depending on who's doing the perceiving but my own eyes witnessed and I did it on purpose to go out just to see. We're not talking about just singles. We're talking about families were out. There were so many people out at when the uh Bengals practice let out. I thought it was a preseason game. That's how many people were out. So, I think Cincinnati understands what we need to do to be v vigilant and remain safe. But I think the message is crystal clear. People appreciate what we're doing. People appreciate our police and people do feel safe. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Further comments for item 98? Seeing none, roll call and adoption of the motion, please. >> Council member Kering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. Vice Mayor Kernney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Member Albi. >> Yes. >> Item 99, first reading, please. >> Emergency ordinance to submit to the electors of the city of Cincinnati an amendment to section three of article 5, civil service of the charter of the city of Cincinnati that will create an incentive for individuals who have completed a public safety internship to pursue public safety careers with the city. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Kering. Council member Jeff. Yes. >> Council member Johnson. Yes. Vice Mayor Kernney. Yes. >> Council member Nolan. Yes. >> Council member Owens. Yes. Council member Walsh. Yes. >> Council member Albi. >> Yes. >> Mr. Johnson. >> Thank you, Mayor. As I think the the clerk nailed it is this will assist in our pipeline that we've talked about in making sure that those that are interesting with interested in careers with the Cincinnati Police Department get an incentive points by going through safetymies. >> Thank you. Further comments. Roll call and passage, please. >> Council member Kering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kerney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> roll call in emergency. >> Council member Kering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Item 100, first reading, please. Emergency ordinance to submit to the electors of the city of Cincinnati an amendment to section 1, two, and four of article 13 campaign finance of the charter of the city of Cincinnati to align the city's campaign finance reporting requirements with those of the state of Ohio. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Karding, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, yes. >> Council member Walsh, yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Mr. Johnson, >> I'll ask Mr. Nolan to turn over Mr. Nolan. Thank you, >> Mr. Nolan. Please. >> Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Council Member Johnson. Um, I acknowledge the the quick pivot from public safety to something that is not necessarily public safety related, but I think it's important that we as a council address the urgent issues that face us today, but continue the work to address the inequities that exist in in our system. Um, and that is what this charter amendment attempts to do. Uh the charter currently requires a system of campaign finance reporting that is separate and distinct from the state system that requires two separate uh sets of reports to be filed. And what I have seen from past practice uh of other candidates, these requirements can be challenging for for all candidates to meet. It is those candidates who who are most wellunded or have the best network that are better positioned to address them and other candidates who who may be new to running for office struggle to address those. So this charter amendment is uh has been drafted to align the city and state uh campaign finance reporting deadlines and periods so that they match up. it does not increase the number of filings that is due. Um I also believe that it enhances the transparency uh of these reports. Previously the city reports and state reports with different reporting periods would be reported on alternatively and would confuse the public as to which candidates were receiving which contributions. This will make it clearer for the public uh to to understand who is receiving which what money from which contributors. So, I I want to thank the law department for their hard work on this, in particular, solicitor Ian Doug. I also want to thank David Whitehead with the NAACP and TVA Reed with the Urban League for collaborating with us from the early stages and appreciate my colleagues for being open to this deep dive into the city charter. >> Thank you. Further comments, Mr. Kney? >> Yeah, I just wanted to thank Council Member Nolan. This is one of those things that um you know, it does require deep dive, but is important. you know, campaign finance regulations start uh always with the best of intentions, but certainly in this case and I think others that those requirements do lead to confusion and make the process uh very difficult for candidates and create uh issues of equity and fairness. >> Mr. Chair, >> Vice Mayor, >> I, you know, I just also want to add something we talked about yesterday that simplifying this process helps candidates who might not have the structure, the infrastructure in their office or, you know, in their lives to do all these finance reports. I mean, it gets really difficult and sometimes expensive to actually hire people to do those reports. And so, some people, I think, might be stopped from running for office because they just I mean, this is just a lot. And so, I I thank Council Member Nolan for doing this. It also helps more people get into the process of running for office and that's something we love. >> Thank you. Further comments? >> Seeing none, roll call on passage of item 100. >> Council member Kering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Vice Mayor Kernney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens? >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh? >> Yes. >> Council member Albi? >> Yes. >> Roll call on emergency. >> Council member Kring. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. Vice Mayor Kernney. Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albi. >> The next two items are ordinances to update and enforce a curfew policy for unaccompanied minors. This is something that earlier this summer we and this council directed the administration to review and deliver. It is another tool for our law enforcement and partners as we work to make sure our public spaces are safe and enjoyable for all. As we discussed along the way during this process, curfews are very difficult public policy challenges. It's not just about the laws on the books, there's been there's long been a curfew for our youth on Cincinnati's books. When it comes to enforcing those laws, it is crucial that the system we have in place is solving problems rather than creating new ones. And so I want to thank our police, our law department, and all of our administration employees under city manager Long's leadership, as well as the partners who came to the table so quickly because in short order, you have worked to establish a robust process to help us address our challenges around youth violence and teens congregating late at night in our busiest areas without supervision from parents. I'll ask Council Member Johnson to formally introduce each of the next two items, but the city's presentation and discussion from yesterday is also available on city cable for those interested. Item 101, first reading, please. >> Emergency ordinance modifying the provisions of chapter 911, Municip Mun Meliss Oh my gosh. misdemeanor of the Cincinnati Municipal Code by amending section 911-27 curfew for minors to create a uniform city-wide curfew time for all minors to better address juvenile crime and support juvenile safety in Cincinnati. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Crime Reading, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Mr. Johnson, >> Mr. Mayor, that was a great introduction. I think you summed it up, but I think 101 addresses the fact that all minors under the age of 18 have to be in by 11:00. This clears up the uh previous curfew uh ordinance that had a division 10, I think 16 and under, and then 17 it was it was midnight. But this makes it crystal clear that you if you're under the age of 18, you need to be in by 11:00. Uh, as you alluded to, this is a plus because it helps us keep young people safe and young people are a priority to this council in this city and we want to make sure young people are being safe. So, I salute the mayor, this council, and the administration, especially law, with making this crystal clear in how we're going in this city. Thank you, mayor. >> Thank you. Further comments? Seeing none, roll call on passage of item 101. >> Council member Kering, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Carney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albby, >> yes. >> Roll call in emergency. >> Council member Karding, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. Yes. Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albi. >> Yes. >> Item 102, first reading, please. >> Let's see if we can do this. Emergency ordinance modifying the provisions of chapter 911, miscellaneous misdemeanors of the Cincinnati Municipal Code by ordaining new section 911-28, special extended curfew district for minors to address increased juvenile crime and support juvenile safety in the downtown area of Cincinnati. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Kering. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. Vice Mayor Carney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albi. >> Yes. >> Mr. Johnson. >> Thank you, Mayor. Uh, the special extended curfew district must be free of juveniles by 900 p.m. If you're under 18, you have to be out of that area by 900 p.m. Once again, this is a plus, another tool in the tool belt to help us keep people safe in the city, especially young people. And I think this is a this also helps to make sure that our business district uh people feel safe and comfortable going out to dinner as they did this weekend and as they'll continuously do. But this is a 9:00. You have to be out of the special extended curfew district by 9:00 if you're under 18. Thank you, Mayor. >> Thank you. Further comments? I saw Miss Albby first, then Mr. Nolan, then Miss Owens. Thank you. Um, both this and the previous item is really about kids safety. Both helping prevent them from being part of any type of disorder, but also preventing them from being victims of crime themselves. And I really am grateful for this council, the administration, the mayor's fullhearted commitment to keeping kids safe and making sure that we do this in the most responsible way. I and I know many others had very uh direct pointed difficult questions about how we could implement a curfew while making sure that we are respecting kids civil's rights making sure that those interactions are as positive as possible and I'm really grateful for the hard work that this administration the law department in conjunction and coordination with our community partners at 7 Hills and Lighthouse and the juvenile courts all the work everyone put in to make sure that we were thoughtful about every part of this process, including even before the uh curfew begins at 9:00, you know, going around and giving kids that heads up, whether that's leveraging our community responders or the collaborative agreement initiative team that's out there now working hard, whatever that looks like. I think that is an important part of the process to give kids that friendly warning before Cincinnati be uh police begin their ask, tell demand process. But I think overall, you know, I came in with some reservations making sure we could enact this in the best way, best and most compassionate way possible. And I'm uh proud of where we landed and proud of how thoroughly the administration thought through every piece of this, answered each one of my questions uh and made sure we did this in the most responsible way possible. So, I'm look looking forward to this being implemented and hopefully seeing the results we want. And at the end of the day, those results are making sure kids are safe and home and in a safe place each night. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Nolan. >> Thank you, Chair. Uh I I am supporting this uh motion. I I am not a fan of the 900 p.m. curfew, though. I I'm concerned that it it it may be too early. Uh I have concerns about the challenges with equitable enforcement. Um it I I think there's a chance it could deter our youth from visiting and enjoying our urban core. As as I mentioned yesterday, um similar to uh my high school dance that was moved outside of the city because of curfews, I'm worried that schools may prefer just to avoid the risk um even even if they um otherwise would be permitted and and end up moving their events outside of otr and downtown. Um I I put a lot of faith in our city's leadership um with city manager uh Chief Theiji and and our solicitor and the work they've done to come up with these proposals. Um so I I I acknowledge that we need a reset. We need to see a change in habits and behavior downtown. And in the short term, if this is what we need to do, uh I am supportive. Um I am supportive of the 11 p.m. curfew that we just voted on. I I I agree that teens don't need to be out later than that. And and I just want to echo the comments that Council Member Johnson made yesterday. Uh as a parent with kids, what he said really really spoke to me. Um the the plea to parents, the these are our babies. These are God's gifts that have been given to us. And parents and guardians need to pay attention to where their kids are at 11:00 p.m. and afterwards. And if you don't know where they are, somebody should be go be going to look for them. And my my hope is that we as a city, as a greater Cincinnati area, it's not just folks that live in the city, but from outside the city that are coming in too, need to pay attention and we can all uh improve on this situation together. >> Thank you, >> Mr. Chair. Miss uh Miss Owens, and then the vice mayor. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes. Um I am also supportive of both of these ordinances. um one as you mentioned uh mayor that this is a tool and we are being responsive to addressing safety but also prioritizing young people in this process. And so certainly a lot of our our conversation was around one of the critical elements as we all take responsibility in this is really having a robust communication strategy, leveraging nonprofit uh organizations that are helping to support young people um so that uh the the community at large knows proactively uh what the expectation is. We even mentioned you know the the if the media is able to do the ticker tape at the bottom of the the screen. Um it's also very important uh that the chief highlighted that police are trained to interact with young people because yes those interactions uh should be positive uh certainly and it's also a reminder of us to continue to leverage uh spaces and activate spaces for young people along the way. And so as this curfew center is also being operationalized, um it's the opportunity to provide wraparound support uh for young people rather than things being a punitive approach. And so I can appreciate all of the work that has been done uh the thoughtfulness um and certainly how we might monitor this uh along the way. >> Thank you, Vice Mayor. Just to add to to all of that, you know, what I um what what is good about this curfew as well is that it's not criminalizing our young people. You know, they're not going to be criminalized and charged just because um they're out after curfew time, which is really important. We don't we don't want them in the criminal justice system uh just for being just for breaking curfew. And so I really like that aspect of it. The second thing is is to have um the social workers uh interact with our young people and their families to see, you know, what do you need? How about an afterchool job? You know, how's your family doing? Do you need tutoring? Let's see, you know, do you need mentors? I mean, what do they need that we can help make their lives better if needed? And so, um I think this is an opportunity. I'd like to see our youth to work program expand year round, uh so that more of our young people can actually be employed. Youth to work uh run by our Cincinnati Rec Center is a really good program. You know, my son was in it several years ago. Um it's an opportunity to, you know, not just to have a job, but to also meet the leadership of the company so that they can imagine themselves there. Uh it's it's an opportunity to talk about future goals, financial literacy. Uh it's it's really excellent. And so I'd like to see that program expand and I think this is an opportunity for it. And also, you know, several council members have mentioned to actually reach the parents because the parents or guardians have to come and pick up their children. So, it's a good chance to talk to them to see how are things going at home. You know, is there a reason your children are out this late? So, I think I think there's some good things that can come from this and the bottom line being our children are not being criminalized. >> Thank you. Further comments, Mr. Kramer? Yeah, thanks to the uh administration for coming up with this solution relatively quickly. Uh I do think it is the right solution and I applaud them uh for getting us there. You know, they had to make some tough decisions. Uh and I support that. You know, we do have two two different zones, two different areas. That's going to cause me, you know, it's something that this council and this administration is going to have to monitor. Uh I I do think there could be issues of of equity and fairness having two different uh restrictions depending on where you are and and I said yesterday that I think there could be the perception that we're shifting a potential problem from the business the central business district into the neighborhood business districts. I did hear from some neighbored businesses uh in the last 24 hours and just want them to know they're heard and we we will continue to monitor that. I don't think that's going to be a problem but but if it is we will act accordingly. Further comments? Seeing none, roll call on passage of item 102. >> Council member Kering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albby, >> yes. >> Roll call emergency. >> Council member Kering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. Council member Albi. >> Yes. >> Item 103, first reading, please. >> Emergency ordinance modifying the provisions of chapter 307 classified compensation schedule of the Cincinnati Municipal Code by ordaining new section 693 of division 1 to establish a class classification title and salary range schedule for the new employment classification of private parking lot inspector. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Kering. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albi. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kramer. Uh, excuse me, Mr. Johnson. >> I believe the clerk mailed it. Mayor, >> thank you. Further comments. >> Roll call and passage. >> Council member Kramering. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Kney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albby. >> Yes. >> Roll call in emergency. >> Council member Kering. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Kney. >> Yes. Council member Nolan. Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. Council member >> Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albi. >> Yes. >> Item 104, first reading, please. >> Emergency ordinance declaring that Goulson Avenue at Reading Road in the Aenddale neighborhood sher shall hereby receive the honorary secondary name of Patricia Milton Way in honor of Patricia Milton and in recognition of her countless hours of diligent volunteer service in the Aendale neighborhood. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Kramering. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney. >> Yes. Yes. Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albi. >> Yes. >> We are now in the Healthy Neighborhoods Committee. Vice Mayor. >> Thank you. So, uh, the Aenddale Community Council, uh, is really thankful to the work that their former president, Patricia Milton, did in terms of bringing economic development to the neighborhood. Uh, they would like to have the honorary street naming of Goulen Avenue, which is right next to the Aendale uh, business building. uh they would like to have that named after her. Uh um the president of the Aenddale Community Council, Sandra Jones Mitchell, spoke about it yesterday in healthy neighborhoods. And so this is to uh this is an ordinance to have that street naming done. We'll make sure, you know, if this is approved uh today that all council members are aware of the date and time of the honorary street naming. >> Further comments? Roll call and passage, please. >> Council member Crimeing, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Vice Mayor Kernney? >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. >> Roll call on emergency. >> Council member Kramering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, >> yes. >> Council member Johnson, >> Vice Mayor Carney, >> yes. >> Council member Nolan, >> yes. >> Council member Owens, >> yes. >> Council member Walsh, >> yes. >> Council member Albi, >> yes. Item 105 is a motion from the vice mayor that the $250,000 in capital account is reallocated to the Grow Aenddale Businesses Initiative, a public private partnership. Vice Mayor, >> thank you. Um, well, you know, over the years, the Aenddale Town Center has struggled. We now have some businesses there. Uh, however, some of them are having some difficulty as well. And so first of all, let me thank the Aendale Development Corporation, Lisk, the Urban League, and Council Member Johnson for meeting uh to discuss this issue and to see what can be done. And so what came of that meeting is that um Lisk and the Urban League uh interviewed all of the business owners in the Aenddale Town Center to see what they needed. And then uh Taran Kibbru from Lisk um devised a plan that I think is a really good one. uh and it's to have uh three different funds. The business expansion and growth, the new business readiness accelerator and wraparound technical assistance. And this will be for businesses currently in the town center as well as businesses businesses interested in coming to the town center. Uh it also can help some businesses in the surrounding Aendale area. And so um you know the support I think would be great. uh these businesses need it. We want to see them thrive. The private part of this is that there are other institutions that are interested in investing because they have an interest in these businesses doing well. And so um we asked the city for the $250,000 uh for this fund that will help all of the businesses in the town center as well as surrounding businesses and just to help uh Aenddale continue to grow and thrive. Further comments, Mr. Kmerding. >> Yeah, thanks, Vice Mayor. I I think this is great. I think this is great that the money stays in the stays with the project. I had the opportunity to talk to to Lisk and the Urban League, and I I think this is going to be a great use of the money. >> Further comments. >> Roll call on adoption of the motion, please. >> Council member Kering, >> yes. >> Council member Jeff, yes. >> Council member Johnson, yes. >> Vice Mayor Kernney, yes. Council member Nolan yes. >> Council member Owens, yes. >> Council member Walsh, yes. Council member Albi. >> Yes. >> Item 106 is a motion from council members Jeffre and Nolan that a subcommittee of equitable growth and housing referred to as the community investment subcommittee be formed with the purpose of prioritizing and coordinating council strategic investment in underserved neighborhoods chaired by council member Nolan. Mr. Jeff, we are now in equitable growth and housing. >> Yeah, I'll uh set it up and then give it to my colleague, Mr. Nolan. So, uh, this this subcommittee, the intention of it is, uh, to help guide a lot of the investments this council has made. Uh, for example, in Bond Hill, we just invested $7 million. Um, and we've made significant investment in in the West End. And so, the purpose of this subcommittee is to pull together all the stakeholders and get input and guide um, those investments. So, I will turn it over to my colleague um, Mr. Nolan, who will be chairing the subcommittee. >> Mr. No one. >> Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Council Member Jeff, for your support on this. Um, we on council talk a lot about prioritizing our economic development investment dollars in uh neighborhoods and parts of our community that haven't traditionally seen the same level of investment. And we have backed that up with allocations of resources to to do just that. And the hope is that with this subcommittee uh we can convene all of the stakeholders in a particular area and bring everyone to the table for an opportunity to discuss and share ideas. Give it uh be proactive about engaging the community in the conversations and really give everybody an idea of what a path forward for development looks like. Uh we talked about this yesterday at length, so I'll I'll save us the rest, but happy to answer any questions. Further comments, >> Mr. Vice Mayor President. >> Uh, yes. So, I just want to thank uh Council Member Nolan for this idea. I just, you know, yesterday he gave us a whole list of all the folks from Bon Hill, for example, that he's met with and talked to. Just bringing a lot of different entities together so that this is uh something that that the community and all stakeholders can actually uh work on together. Bonhill is just just the first step. um their plans to do this all across the city. And so, you know, thank you for your leadership in this, >> Mr. Kramering. >> Yeah, this this is great. Thanks to Council Member Nolan, Council Member Jeff. This is another step forward and this is great community engagement. We've got connected communities, which was zoning reform, we as a council can continue to keep in mind that in a lot of neighborhoods where there's not a tiff districts, we just do not have the funding necessary to make development happen. So that is a missing piece of the puzzle that we need to keep in mind and identify resources in the short term. I mean in the next year so we can meet our housing units and get development going in these neighborhoods. And I keep reminding everybody about you know Cincinnati futures. There was a lot in that report but a a big part to me the headline was the money necessary for economic development and we just need to keep returning to that because that is necessary to make the development happen and the housing necessary that we need as a city. Further comments, Miss Owens. >> Yeah, thank you to both uh Mr. Jeffres and Mr. Nolan. This is very intentional, granular work that uh I think ultimately means that that front-end conversation and communication and convening people I think will lead to more productive results uh as we think about neighborhood uh development. So very appreciative of this work. >> Further comments? Roll call on adoption of the motion. Item 106. >> Council member Kering. Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. Vice Mayor Kernney. Yes. >> Council member Nolan. >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. Yes. >> Council member Albi. >> Yes. >> Item 107. Uh, first reading. >> Ordinance. >> Yes. First reading, please. Ordinance amending the official zoning map of the city of Cincinnati to reszone certain real property located at 1813 Ray Street and over the Ry neighborhood for the PR public and recreation park and recreation zone district commercial community pedestrian transportation corridor zoning district to facilitate the construction of an office building. >> Roll call and suspension. >> Council member Kering. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. >> Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Vice Mayor Karnney. >> Yes. >> Council member Nolan? >> Yes. >> Council member Owens. Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albi? >> Yes. Mr. Jeff. >> Yes. This is a zoning change. Uh it uh is at Finley Market 1813 Race Street uh to allow the Finley Market Corporation to build out an office building. I think we all had great discussion, good engagement, um and recognition of the unique role that Finley Market really plays in our city and making sure that it continues to thrive. >> Thank you. Further comments? Roll call and passage. >> Council member Kering. >> Yes. >> Council member Jeff. Yes. >> Council member Johnson. >> Vice Mayor Kernney? Yes. >> Council member Nolan. Yes. >> Council member Owens. >> Yes. >> Council member Walsh. >> Yes. >> Council member Albi. >> Yes. >> That concludes the business portion of our agenda. Uh after a very successful last weekend where as Council Member Johnson uh mentioned, we had the Bengals practice in front of a large crowd. Uh we are jam-packed with events again this weekend. On Saturday, we have the Queen City Slam at the Banks from 9 to 5:00 p.m. Uh we have Red Bull Fluke Togg coming back to the city. Classic Billy. Uh beginning at noon at Sawyer Point. Um and uh for those of you unfamiliar, Fluke Togg is a free event where Red Bull builds a massive uh platform several stories in the air. Uh people from all around the country um participate by building their own homemade gliders. Uh, and then these crazy people jump off of the platform um to see who can go furthest on the river. Uh, sneaker ball put on by Bigger Than Sneakers will be at TQL Stadium Saturday evening. I will be attending all three events and I encourage everyone in Cincinnati uh to come to our urban core and celebrate uh this weekend uh and celebrate our beautiful city. City Manager Long, do you have any announcements? >> I have no announcements, Mayor. Thank you, >> Mr. Johnson. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, as you can see, I'm wearing a beautiful hat. I don't know if you think it's beautiful. I think it's beautiful. But this hat is an a is being sold by our amazing Cincinnati firefighters with a new charitable initiative that addresses um financial concerns for firefighters that may have been injured in the line of duty. and it also assists their families while firefighters may be recovering. So, see your local firefighters if you want to buy one of these hats. I think it looks pretty good. I don't know about on me, but it's a good-look hat. It fits well, but this is amazing um charitable contribution to our amazing firefighters. I think I may be the first in chambers to purchase one. So, follow my lead. get to a firehouse and help our amazing fire department. Thank you, mayor. >> Thank you. I think it is a beautiful hat. It's a beautiful uh initiative for our well-deserving firefighters. Thank you. Further comments or announcements. I see Miss Albby. >> Yeah. Thank you. I wanted to take a moment to address something that happened this past weekend um in my uh neighborhood of Madisonville, College Hill, and others KKK flyers that were uh littered around our community. Uh it's awful. Um, you know, the KKK has is not welcome here in Cincinnati. The language on the flyers, though it's protected by the First Amendment right, does not reflect our values here in the city of Cincinnati. The same thing happened last year in 2024. Uh, the man was eventually caught. His name was William Bader, um, for for the offense, and I hope we're able to track down whoever's responsible this time as well. When when this happened last year, my office reached out to law to see what we could do around addressing hate in our community and eventually with the support of this council, we were able to work the administration around what we could do as a city to implement a uh platform that would allow us to uh have citizens self-report hate incidents in the community. Um so we were doing some of that work along with a group strong cities. It was called a prevention academy. We were one of six cities participating across the nation. Unfortunately, earlier this month on July 24th, uh DHS cut the grant funding that work that specifically was to help provide us resources to address address hate and extremism at the local level. Um, despite that program ending abruptly, uh, I am glad that Tiffany Brown, our director of the Office of Opportunity, is in Pittsburgh right now representing our great city, uh, in a conference all about hate and extremism, what local cities can do. She's joined by a representative from the United Way because we are looking as a next step to partner with the United Way and the 211 Center to do that self-reporting platform when it comes to hate incidents. So, I just want everyone in the community to know that the city uh remains committed to our work to address hate and extremism at the local level. Uh even as federal government cuts funding available to support those initiatives, we're going to continue to do work here. I'm so glad to have Director Brown in the role with the Office of Opportunity to help lead this work as we continue on. >> Thank you. >> Any other announcements, any Excuse me, sir. Any other announcements? >> Yes. I just want >> Go ahead, Vice Mayor. >> Yeah. I'd like to remind everybody that Healthy Neighborhoods and CPS are having their uh quarterly joint committee meeting right here in chambers in about an hour and 15 minutes, 5:30 tonight. So, please join us. >> Thanks so much. With no further business to come before >> here, >> Miss Owens, excuse me. Excuse me, y'all. Excuse me. We're Excuse me. We have This is not a public forum. We have uh we are doing city business right now and I appreciate your concern. Thank you, Vice. >> Thank you very much. >> Miss Owens, do you have an announcement? >> Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, you know, it has been great to be back in the building and continuing to work on uh good policies and legislation uh helping to improve people's lives. Uh but certainly what is consuming right now is um what people are thinking about 10 days ago in the incident uh at Forthound that has certainly been overpoliticized and overracialized. um is left a stain on our city. That is completely unacceptable. And uh these are the places where we collectively as government and with our constituents. Um we have more work to do together to ensure that we are all living in a safe uh feeling safe uh and being committed to being active bystanders and and working to diffuse situations. And so one I want to say I'm grateful for the work of CPD and all of our law enforcement partners uh for working on this investigation. And certainly over the past 10 days, they have been working quickly and efficiently. And so asking the public uh and the media and to allow our investigators to do their job uh certainly effectively. I also um called the incident, as I said 10 days ago, uh certainly a stain on the city, but I've also learned that in order to address these things, we have to come up with the right solutions together. And so I call on every resident of our city regardless of your race, age, gender, religion, and creed to stand for the city of Cincinnati. And certainly right now, there are people outside of this city who don't understand the resilience and strength that this city naturally has in our DNA. And so I want to ask uh that we continue to support local businesses owned by Cincinnatians in the urban core and in our surrounding neighborhoods. We need to stand in lock arms with every person who calls Cincinnati home right now and walk united certainly going forward. Um the only people aiming to divide us don't know our city or our stories. And as you can imagine here in city hall, we have been flooded with tons of emails and phone calls that have certainly left heinous messages. Uh the overwhelming majority of them are from outside of Cincinnati and and Ohio. Uh and just so the people of the city know uh and this state, these calls have included racial slurs and direct references to lynching and dehumanization of many of our citizens and so much more. And so it's a time for all of us to stand together and to be united as one city and to fight for the city that we want to see in the future. And as I've said many times, those of you that want to be co-creators of uh creating a more stronger and united city, I'm certainly committed and I know this council uh and this administration is committed to being there every step of the way. And at the end of the day, no one can define who we are or what we stand for except for us. >> Thank you. With no further business to come before us, this meeting is adjourned.