Hamilton County Council commits $5.5 million to domestic violence project, adopts reserves and liquidity resolution

The Hamilton County Council on Wednesday voted to commit the county to provide $5,500,000 in additional funding for a planned domestic violence project and adopted a formal reserves and liquidity policy, council leaders said. Final appropriation of the $5.5 million will be on the council’s March agenda for a formal vote.

The actions add policy and financial direction to the county’s budget work. Councilors approved a resolution adopting a reserves and liquidity policy intended to codify financial best practices; councilors also approved multiple appropriation and transfer requests across county funds during the same meeting.

During the meeting the council took a preliminary vote to “move forward with additional funding, $5,500,000” for the domestic violence project and recorded a roll-call approval that resulted in all present voting yes. The council made clear the commitment is a body-level pledge and that the actual appropriation and disbursement will be finalized at the March…