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Cincinnati council approves a package of ordinances and payments, ranging from parking rules to recreation funds
Summary
Council passed multiple first-readings, emergency ordinances and payments, including updates to the parking-meter code, transfer of $79,345.81 to a CIP account, an increase in an award subamount, and several moral-obligation payments and donations.
After public comment and a brief recess, Cincinnati City Council moved through its business agenda, approving a series of ordinances, emergency appropriations and payments.
Major actions included passage of: an ordinance to increase Environmental Advisory Board membership (Chapter 10.41); an emergency transfer and appropriation of $79,345.81 to an existing capital improvement project account; establishment of a capital improvement project account for golf facilities improvements funded from enterprise funds; an increase in the city manager's authority to accept a grant subaward from $36,000 to $42,515 for police-related services; acceptance of an in-kind donation of six electric mountain bikes and a towable stretcher valued at $33,700 from the Cincinnati Fire Foundation; and an update to Chapter 509 (parking meters) to reflect current practices and technology. The council also approved a series of small payments and moral-obligation payments, including $14,750 to the STAR Chapter Foundation for a youth bowling program and $4,742.50 for annual software maintenance for the Emergency Communications Center.
Most items passed by roll call suspension with recorded "yes" responses from the council members present. Council members noted, where relevant, that certain funds (for example, the golf facilities improvements) are enterprise funds and not derived from tax revenue. For the agenda item labeled 45 (the A version of a subaward increase), the mayor moved and another member seconded a motion to indefinitely postpone that specific item; the postponement passed by roll call.
The meeting concluded with brief community announcements and adjournment. No substantive controversy arose during the business portion; votes on the listed ordinances and appropriations were recorded as passed.
