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Council adopts ordinances expanding enforcement powers, updates budget and approves several routine measures
Summary
The Forest Park City Council suspended rules and adopted ordinances to reduce certain special assessments, empower property-code officers to enforce parking, and amend appropriations to include the Clean Ohio grant; it also approved resolutions on a new phone system, fire-code assessments, and other routine items in a series of largely unanimous votes.
At its meeting, the Forest Park City Council adopted multiple ordinances and resolutions after suspending the reading rules, taking a series of largely unanimous votes on routine and administrative measures.
Ordinances adopted: - Ordinance 24-22-24: A routine adjustment to reduce and recertify special assessments related to certain improvements (passed by roll call/voice vote). - Ordinance 25-22-24: Grants property Code Enforcement Officers authority to enforce specified parking restrictions that occur on private property (such as parking on grass or blocking sidewalks); traffic/highway parking enforcement remains with the police department. Law Director John Woff explained the change is intended to increase enforcement options for property violations while preserving police authority over highway parking. - Ordinance 26-22-24: Amends appropriations for fiscal year 2024 to include new items, including the Clean Ohio grant funds accepted by resolution.
Resolutions and other measures adopted: - Resolution 40-22-24: Accepts proposed vendor for a citywide cloud-based phone system after an RFP process; staff recommended VAS Technologies (NEC with Intermedia) and council approved the recommendation. - Resolution 41-2024: Accepts a $590,000 Clean Ohio grant to purchase ~21 acres for green space (see separate coverage). - Resolution 42-22-24: Requests Hamilton County Auditor place special assessments against a property at 1047 Cincinnati Mills Drive for fire code violations through May 31, 2024. - The council also directed the clerk to notify the Ohio Department of Liquor Control it does not request a hearing on a liquor-license ownership transfer to Bimo Mart LLC (an existing Pony operation) and accepted the departmental journal fund summary.
Most measures were approved by roll call or voice vote with no recorded opposition. Where the council debated an item at length (for example, ordinance 20-22-24 rezoning of part of Forest Fair Mall), the council tabled that ordinance to a future meeting pending a development agreement.
Votes summarized at the meeting were nominally 6–0 on the recorded roll calls for items that were read and adopted during the session; the record lists all present council members voting in favor on the items taken up that evening.
