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Council passes consent and committee items: contracts, grants, resolutions and appointments
Summary
Council moved and adopted a consent agenda and a set of committee measures including contract extensions for facility management and Centrix phone service, a capital grant for the Poindexter Museum, summer youth grants, education contracts, CityWorks license additions, and multiple ceremonial resolutions and appointments.
Columbus City Council approved a large consent agenda and several committee items Tuesday, adopting 38 pieces of legislation by voice or roll call and approving several resolutions and appointments.
Items noted on the record included: - Resolution 0123x‑2025 honoring the 150th anniversary of Broad Street United Methodist Church (adopted). - Resolution 0122x‑2025 declaring May 18–24, 2025 as National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week (adopted). - Resolution 0124x‑2025 honoring Chair Institute for youth athletics (adopted). - Resolution 0125x‑2025 honoring City Council Clerk Angie Blevins on her retirement (adopted). - Ordinance 10‑25‑2025: Authorize modification/extension with CBRE Government Services LLC for facility management services at the Franklin County Municipal Court Building; expenditure authorization up to $1,025,764 (finance committee; passed). - Ordinance 13‑16‑2025: Modify and extend universal term contract with AT&T for Centrix phone services for 12 months (passed). - Ordinance 11‑96‑2025: Capital improvements grant of up to $1,266,571.25 to the Ohio History Connection for Poindexter History Museum work (economic development committee; passed). - Ordinance 11‑31‑2025: Advance‑pay grants to 15 nonprofit organizations to support summer youth programming, part of the city’s $8 million+ summer youth grant program (neighborhoods committee; passed). - Ordinance 11‑30‑2024 and related education items: Contract with HMD Learning Circle Software LLC for the SEHive data platform; $250,595 (referred/approved as noted in committee action). - Ordinance 08‑74‑2025: Additional 150 CityWorks AMS licenses for public utilities; cost $61,406.30 split among operating funds (public utilities; passed).
The clerk read lists of ordinances and committees into the record and the council approved the consent agenda with one abstention noted on an individual ordinance. Two mayoral appointments (A0095 and A0096‑2025) were included in the consent docket and passed. Several pieces of legislation were moved for passage out of committee and adopted after roll calls.
Most consent items were noncontroversial and advanced with minimal floor debate; items requiring more detailed debate were handled separately in committee (see other articles in this package).
