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Council authorizes street-program bids, hears multiple first readings and approves highway dedication resolution
Summary
The Fort Thomas City Council authorized bidding the 2025 street program, heard first readings of several ordinances including a five-year MCI franchise, and adopted a resolution to designate a portion of US 27 the Patrick J. Crowley Memorial Parkway; staff also reported on bids and flood monitoring.
The Fort Thomas City Council voted to authorize bidding the 2025 street program and advanced a number of administrative items at its meeting.
Council approved a motion to put the street program out to bid with a not-to-exceed authorization of approximately $550,000 to allow advertising; councilors listed streets included in the program and staff said the final spending will be subject to returned bid prices and council approval. The council conducted a roll-call-style approval during the meeting; the transcript records the motion, a second and multiple "aye" responses but does not list a numeric vote tally in the record.
City staff also reported that bids were issued recently for the Midway Streetscape and for improvements around the municipal tennis courts (including an alternate bid for a staircase to the lower court). Staff said the Midway Streetscape solicitation will remain open for four weeks and that the tennis-courts package includes alternates so council can consider additional work if bid results permit.
Several ordinances received first readings and did not require action at this meeting: an amendment to the board of design review ordinance to align with the Unified Development Ordinance (Ordinance 0012025), updates to code sections (Ordinance 0022025) reflecting UDO changes, and Ordinance 0032025 accepting a five‑year nonexclusive franchise with MCI Metro for use of public rights-of-way (renewable for two additional five-year periods). The MCI franchise language was described as a standard permitting agreement to allow placement of communications facilities in city rights-of-way and to require compliance with local rules.
Staff updates included flood monitoring on Rodey (state cleared a slide but the area needs additional work), a dispatch-center business contact registry available on the consolidated-dispatch website (listed in the meeting as cccdcky.org under Resources), and budget work beginning for fiscal 2025–26.
Votes at a glance: - Approval of January 2 regular minutes (motion recorded; outcome: approved; vote tally not specified in transcript). - Approval of January 15 finance-committee minutes (motion recorded; outcome: approved; vote tally not specified). - Approval of the police report (motion recorded; outcome: approved; vote tally not specified). - Authorization to bid the 2025 street program (motion: "approve the street program for 550,000"; outcome: approved; vote tally not specified). - Adoption of a resolution designating a portion of US 27 as the Patrick J. Crowley Memorial Parkway (resolution moved and seconded; outcome: adopted; vote recorded as multiple "aye" responses; numeric tally not specified).
Ending: Staff told council it will return recommended bid awards and that several first-reading ordinances will come back for action at subsequent meetings; council asked staff to continue monitoring vulnerable slopes and to circulate bid results when available.
