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Votes at a Glance: Key Council Actions Oct. 27, 2025
Summary
Council approved a slate of ordinances and contract modifications on Oct. 27, 2025, covering finance, transportation, neighborhood grants, utilities, and personnel, including appointment of a permanent city treasurer.
At its Oct. 27 meeting Columbus City Council approved the following key items (summary of council-recorded actions):
- Appointment: Talia Brown — Council confirmed Talia Brown as permanent city treasurer; the sponsor moved to appoint effective Oct. 27, and the roll call recorded the measure as passed.
- Ordinance 2664-2025 (Finance, emergency): Authorized the auditor to advance up to $5,000,000 per grant or project from the income-tax set-aside fund to cover time-sensitive grant needs and to reimburse those advances when bond-sale proceeds are received. Council passed the emergency ordinance.
- Ordinance 2762-2025 (Public Service): Authorized revocable encroachment easements to allow portions of buildings to remain within city right-of-way and cleared the way for Mount Vernon Avenue permanent safety upgrades (separated bike lanes, medians, bus islands). Council approved; funding includes $500,000 Safe Routes to School and $3,000,000 ODOT safety funds.
- Ordinance 2578-2025 (Neighborhoods): Authorized a grant agreement with Catholic Social Services / Mercadito Raíces (Spanish-language small-business training) and appropriated neighborhood initiative funds; council amended and passed the ordinance.
- Veterans Day grant (Neighborhoods): Authorized an appropriation of $10,000 to the National Veterans Memorial and Museum for the Veterans Day national ceremony and community flag planting; passed.
- Emergency grant to Mid-Ohio Food Collective: $25,000 to support families and federal workers affected by a federal shutdown; passed as emergency legislation (see separate article).
- Contract/Procurement approvals: • Office of Violence Prevention: Contract with Bonterra Tech LLC for a case-management system, $87,273.20 (waiver of bidding provisions); passed. • Public Utilities: DLZ Ohio contract modification for Lower Olentangy Tunnel Phase 1 (up to $1,888,917) contingent on Ohio Water Development Authority loan approval; passed. • Public Utilities: RCC Global LLC contract modification to add $3,141,040.60 to the customer information system upgrade (split across utility operating funds) to sync meter data with Oracle cloud services; passed.
- Rules & Policy: Ordinance 2221-2025 to repeal and replace Columbus City Code Chapters 168 and 169 and create a Columbus Occupational Safety and Health Administration division within the Department of Human Resources; passed.
- Zoning and land-use votes: Council amended and passed a rezoning for an assisted-living/housing site to increase the maximum units and height on a property at 341 Obetz Road, and granted a council variance to permit an automotive repair use at 1058 Parsons Avenue (see separate zoning article).
For each vote council called the roll and recorded the measure as "passed" in the meeting minutes; individual roll calls listed voting members as Banks; Timberosa de Padilla; Beatty de Acar; Dorrance Green; and Vice President Harden (the transcript records 'Pass' following each roll call). Where committee reports described funding, grant amounts and contingency requirements are included in the city staff record and in committee exhibits.
