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Cincinnati council members outline budget priorities; chair to aggregate motions for Wednesday session
Summary
Members of the Cincinnati City Council’s Finance and Budget Committee presented competing budget policy motions emphasizing public safety, affordable housing, neighborhood investment and workforce programs and asked the chair to combine them into a single policy document for possible action at a special session Wednesday.
At a meeting of the Cincinnati City Council Finance and Budget Committee, council members presented individual policy motions outlining their priorities for the upcoming budget and asked the chair to aggregate those motions into a unified policy document for discussion at a special session on Wednesday.
The policy motions are intended as strategic direction to the city manager as she drafts the manager’s proposed budget; they are not the final budget. Chair (unnamed) said the motions “are our chance as a council to direct the manager” and that he would try to “aggregate yours into something that all or most of us will agree on.”
Why it matters: council members described competing needs at a time the city faces budget pressure, including a projected $10,000,000 shortfall and the first budget without ARPA funds. Members emphasized maintaining public safety and pensions, expanding affordable housing and neighborhood economic development, and investing in workforce and youth programs while seeking targeted revenue or cost-recovery measures.
The presentations…
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