New ordinance would apply Cincinnati’s anti-discrimination laws to more businesses

 

Cincinnati City Council is expected to approve legislation later this week that would expand the city’s anti-discrimination laws to more small businesses.

 

Today, the ordinance, which bans discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or presentation, age, color, religion, disability status, military status, marital or familial status and natural hair types and styles, applies only to businesses with 10 or more people.

 

Under the new ordinance sponsored by council members Victoria Parks and Reggie Harris, the ordinance would apply to any business with four or more employees.

 

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It appears that the next attempt at zoning reform by city council is going to be the legalization of ADUs in single family zones. I assume sticking points will be allowing them to be rented out, allowing them to be short-term rentals, parking minimums and size of detached ADUs.

So who's on the short list to fill Greg Landsman's seat?

I'm going to go out on a limb and say it won't be Michelle Dillingham.

City Hall has been a bit too drama-free lately. Perhaps they should offer it to Smitherman.

The rules are the still the same where the person leaving has other council members designated as choosing their replacement, right? I can't remember if that changed or not with all of the corruption scandals and charter amendments

 

if so, I guess we need to ask Landsman's designee.

WXVU has written an article on the succession process.

 

"At the beginning of each new term, council members must complete a "successor designation certificate," listing which council members should select a replacement should their council seat become vacant.

Landsman's certificate lists all seven fellow Democrats on Council (and each other Democrats’ certificate does the same)."

https://www.wvxu.org/politics/2022-11-07/who-will-replace-greg-landsman-cincinnati-council-congress

 

31 minutes ago, ryanlammi said:

I can't remember if that changed or not with all of the corruption scandals and charter amendments

 

When we briefly had 4-year terms, there was a provision that if someone left before the 2 year mark, it would go back to the voters to elect a replacement. When we went back to 2-year terms, that's no longer relevant so we're back to the old process.

 

With no insider knowledge, I think Beridon and Castle are the most likely out of those names listed

Cincinnati's pension woes worsen

 

Cincinnati’s pension system continues to stumble, with its funding ratio remaining mostly stagnant for the past four years – and with 2022 market losses – it may take another 50 years to be fully funded, nearly three decades longer than what was promised to employees in 2015.

 

As a result, the board that oversees the system recommends city government increase the amount of money it gives to the Cincinnati Retirement System each year.

 

As of the end of 2021, the system’s funded ratio sat at 71.6%, an improvement from the 70.5% funded ratio at the end of 2020. Its investments gained about 18.1%, but that was offset by other factors.

 

“Benefit payments and expenses have significantly exceeded employer and employee contributions for over a decade placing CRS in the bottom quartile among other public pension funds with negative cashflows,” according to the system’s latest report. “This means that CRS continues to liquidate a relatively large amount of assets to pay for benefits and expenses. This also means that CRS is much more dependent on investment returns than most public pension plans."

 

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Greg Landsman's Cincinnati City Council replacement to be picked by Reggie Harris

 

Cincinnati Councilman Reggie Harris will be in charge of replacing Greg Landsman, the council member who won election to Congress on Nov. 8, city officials announced Tuesday.

 

Landsman is changing the person designated to pick his replacement from all seven council Democrats to Harris alone, but they plan an application process where anyone in the city can apply for the job. The applicants will be announced ahead of time before a public discussion among the members, followed by Harris making the pick.

 

City Council members are required to file successor designation forms on the first day of their job and can change them at any time.

 

The city charter provides for successor designees to pick council members’ replacement if they resign, die or are removed from office. In most cases, members pick other members of the political party that endorsed them.

 

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Dozens apply to replace Greg Landsman on Cincinnati City Council

 

From former council and mayoral candidates to community activists to a close friend of Mayor Aftab Pureval, 38 people filled out complete applications to replace Greg Landsman on Cincinnati City Council after he was elected to Congress earlier this month.

 

Overall, 47 people applied for the job, but 11 did not turn in complete applications, which also included a cover letter and resume. And just a few minutes after the list was made public, labor leader Bill Froehle, a Democrat who is president of the Cincinnati AFL-CIO Labor Council and business manager for the Plumbers, Pipefitters and Mechanical Equipment Service Local No. 392 union, withdrew his application.

...

Who applied for Greg Landsman’s seat:

• Bill Froehle
• Caleb Price
• Antonio M. Sanders Jr.
• Adam Koehler
• Ryan Mahoney
• Dadrien Washington
• Quinten Taylor
• Dean Kaplan
• Scott Hand
• Victor Phillips
• Gavi Begtrup
• Galen Gordon
• Gerald Checco
• Jaime Castle
• Dale Mallory
• William Fleaher
• Jenelle M. Sampson
• Andrew Kennedy
• Logan Simmering
• Tonya Dumas
• Rick Pescovitz
• Angelica Hardee
• Cameron Hardy
• William Hammond
• LaKeisha Cook
• Catherine "Kate" Botos
• Evan Nolan
• Michelle Dillingham
• Thomas Fallon
• Alyson Beridon
• Seth Walsh
• Jackie Frondorf
• Mark Mussman
• Michael Binder
• Te'Airea Powell
• Raffel Prophett
• Bree Moss
• Tamie Sullivan

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Greg Landsman replacement: Michelle Dillingham supporters push for her to replace outgoing councilman

 

Backers of Michelle Dillingham, who has come up short in three runs for Cincinnati City Council, asked for the 10th-place finisher in the 2021 election to be appointed to a soon-to-be open seat and sought to dispel the notion that she does not work well with others.

 

Council members briefly discussed with Councilman Reggie Harris, who will select the replacement for U.S. Rep.-elect Greg Landsman, what they want in his successor but mostly spoke in generalities. Harris told them he plans to come up with an internal short list before announcing the choice next week.

 

Harris released the names of 38 people who had turned in a complete application on Monday, with one, Bill Froehle, the president of the local AFL-CIO, withdrawing almost immediately.

 

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Please do not pick Dillingham

Yeah Dillingham seems to be the type of person that would be opposed to anything being built if the people involved made any profit from the project. 

It's okay, there's zero chance they will pick her. I might be too cynical but I think it's pretty clear they already know who they want or at least already had a really good idea. Either way, it's not going to be her, that's obvious.

Harris stated that this is about building out the bench, so not only are they looking at next year's election, but they are preparing for more future elections. The Dems have to have a crop of candidates ready as options with these short election cycles. I have to assume that the 11 applicants who said they support right-to-work legislation are immediately going to be removed from consideration. I am curious to see how they view Mallory, Begtrup, Castle, Frondorf, Prophett, Hardy, Powell, Cook and Gordon, since they we are all recently on ballots. I do have a hunch it will be Nolan, Beridon or Walsh though there's no real reason why I feel that way.

It's definitely disappointing that this is all we will get. Harris is going to trim down the list, but it sounds like it won't be released. We will just find out one day who it is going to be.
 

 

I don't think he'll give it to a political insider like Mallory. Reggie Harris will likely pick someone who he agrees with politically on most issues, is a strong potential candidate, and could use the extra help in the 2023 council race as an incumbent. I also don't expect him to pick Dillingham, though. I think he would anticipate too much butting of heads with her to make it worth selecting her.

Top 12 are:

• Gavi Begtrup
• Galen Gordon
• Jaime Castle
• Evan Nolan
• Bree Moss
• Jackie Frondorf
• Seth Walsh
• Alyson Beridon
• Michelle Dillingham
• Cam Hardy
• Angelica Hardee
• Te'Airea Powell

2 hours ago, Dev said:

Top 12 are:

• Gavi Begtrup
• Galen Gordon
• Jaime Castle
• Evan Nolan
• Bree Moss
• Jackie Frondorf
• Seth Walsh
• Alyson Beridon
• Michelle Dillingham
• Cam Hardy
• Angelica Hardee
• Te'Airea Powell

 

I think you were spot on that it's actually a three person race.

Reggie is one of the best on Council.  He supported the increase in density ordinance that didn't pass, and I am sure he will want someone who understands the importance of density and that building more housing IN THE CITY is super important.  I know Gavi and Galen, and they would both be awesome.  The others might be great, but I just don't know them.

Seth Walsh to Replace Greg Landsman on Cincinnati City Council - Cincinnati Business Courier

 

 

Councilman Reggie Harris unveiled his pick to replace Greg Landsman on Cincinnati City Council as Landsman prepares to join the U.S. House of Representatives.

 

On Friday, Harris announced Seth Walsh, director of the College Hill Community Redevelopment Corp., as his pick to replace Landsman, who successfully defeated incumbent Steve Chabot this November in the race for the Ohio's 1st Congressional District. In his role, Walsh has played a key role in the revitalization of College Hill.

Thank God it was not Dillingham

Cincinnati City Council votes to kill property tax rollback

 

With the backing of Mayor Aftab Pureval, City Council is poised to end a 24-year policy of cutting the city’s property tax rate.

 

Council plans to spend the additional revenue from ending the property tax rollback on housing programs and enforcing code violations, particularly those by Wall Street investment firms that have purchased scores of single-family homes in the city.

 

The property tax millage will rise from 4.84 mills in 2023 to 6.1 mills in 2024, both on a calendar year basis. It will cost city homeowners roughly an additional $39 per $100,000 of property value each year, according to city estimates. Council is not expected to raise the property tax for debt service, which the administration proposed leaving at 7.5 mills.

 

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Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval, City Council kill property tax rollback

 

Mayor Aftab Pureval and Cincinnati City Council voted Wednesday to kill a 24-year-old tax cut in the face of staunch opposition by the region’s three major business groups.

 

Council voted 7-2 to end the city’s property tax rollback, with council members Liz Keating, a Republican, and Greg Landsman, a Democrat, voting to continue the rollback. The vote followed a letter of opposition Wednesday morning by the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, the Cincinnati Business Committee and the Cincinnati Regional Business Committee.

 

When confronted by Keating with the business community’s complaints it had not been engaged on the issue, Pureval acknowledged he had not sought much community input in pushing for the end of the rollback. But the mayor said it was the right thing to do in order to start to stabilize the city’s budget over the long term.

 

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Finally. I didn't think it would ever be killed because "killing the property tax rollback" is not something that sounds good to the average voter who doesn't understand what that actually means. But it was a terrible policy that needed to end.

Business community says they must raise prices to cover their budgets. Same business community tells city how dare they raise prices to cover their budgets.

 

New Councilman Seth Walsh looks to duplicate College Hill’s success elsewhere

 

New Cincinnati Councilman Seth Walsh wants neighborhoods across the city that hope for a business district as successful as the one he led to have it.

 

Walsh is finishing the Cincinnati City Council term of U.S. Rep. Greg Landsman, D-Mount Washington. Before that he was chief executive of the College Hill Community Urban Redevelopment Corp.

 

College Hill’s main street has been revitalized as a mix of new businesses have been brought in, complementing the mixed income and mixed-use apartment buildings that now line Hamilton Avenue.

 

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Cincinnati council members alter overhaul of residential tax abatements

 

Cincinnati City Council members have made several notable changes to Mayor Aftab Pureval’s plan to make major modifications to the city’s residential tax abatement program, including new incentives for people who build duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes.

 

Under the changes, the city administration would add to the maximum property value a developer could have abated if they built a small, multi-family building. The administration itself will create a tiered system, with the most abated value for those who build a fourplex. The values are not yet known.

 

“This is going to be very supportive of those mom-and-pop home providers that are really mission-driven,” said Councilwoman Meeka Owens, who proposed the amendment. “It is all about increasing supply.”

 

The city, like many across the country, faces a housing affordability crisis because it has not built enough supply at the same time the city is growing for the first time in more than half a century.

 

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Cincinnati residential tax breaks: Council adds incentives along transit routes

 

Cincinnati City Council plans to beef up incentives for developers who construct duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes along bus lines, the latest change members have made to Mayor Aftab Pureval’s plan to overhaul the residential tax abatement program.

 

Council added the change to the legislation on Tuesday in its housing committee but will not take a final vote on the package this week, the original timetable, as it continues to collect public input. Councilwoman Liz Keating, a Republican, and council members Reggie Harris, Seth Walsh and Meeka Owens, all Democrats, proposed the alteration.

 

The residential tax abatement program allows homeowners to avoid paying property taxes for a certain amount of time on improvements they make, whether a new home on a vacant lot or rehabilitation of an existing one.

 

Under the newest proposal, those who build duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes on a bus line anywhere in the city will be eligible to have property taxes abated on more of the improvement value, as follows:

• A bus-line duplex could have an additional $75,000 of improvement value abated
• A triplex could have an additional $150,000
• A fourplex could have an additional $225,000

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Vote on Cincinnati's big residential tax abatement overhaul delayed

 

A vote finalizing Cincinnati’s revamp of its residential tax abatement program will not come until next week to give the public more time to weigh in, including at a Thursday town hall hosted by Mayor Aftab Pureval.

 

Cincinnati's mayor will take questions submitted by the public and from the moderator, podcaster Nathan Ivey.

 

The residential tax abatement program allows property owners to avoid paying property taxes for a certain amount of time on investments and improvements they make, whether a new home on a vacant lot or rehabilitation of an existing one.

 

The mayor’s overall plan would reduce the value and length of property tax abatements in stable, wealthier neighborhoods and create a tiered system for the tax breaks where the lengthiest, most-generous abatements only are available in neighborhoods where redevelopment has lagged. The city has tinkered with the program in recent years, but creating a tiered system is a major overhaul not seen since the program was created.

 

There has been some pushback to the changes, particularly from the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers, which wants a freeze on all abatements. Some single-family developers have privately griped about it as well, saying it could influence their customers to build in the suburbs instead.

 

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Cincinnati residential tax break program changes headed for approval

 

After months of debate, Cincinnati City Council is poised to approve major changes to the city’s residential property tax abatement program that will slash abatements in wealthier, East Side neighborhoods.

 

Council's housing committee approved Mayor Aftab Pureval’s legislation on an 8-1 vote Tuesday. Since all nine council members serve on the committee, and eight expressed support for the ordinance, final passage at Wednesday’s City Council meeting is a near certainty.

 

Councilwoman Liz Keating, the body’s sole Republican and Charterite, was the lone dissenting vote, arguing council should wait until a larger, planned overhaul of zoning in the city is completed before changing the abatement program.

 

By waiting, council can “incentivize what we need to build,” Keating said.

 

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Cincinnati’s $1.8 billion pension fund rocked by bad investment returns

 

The city of Cincinnati’s pension fund lost nearly 9% on its investments last year, a setback that nevertheless beat the S&P 500 but added to the system’s woes and has led to the board governing the fund asking City Council to drastically increase its contributions in the coming decades.

 

As a result, the Cincinnati Retirement System’s funded ratio dropped from 71.6% at the end of 2021 to 69% at the end of 2022, actuarial values that carry forward annual gains and losses over a period of five years. In terms of market value, the system went from 78% funded to 65% funded.

 

“Under some investment scenarios, the system is projected to go insolvent,” according a report from the system’s financial adviser, Cheiron.

 

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Not to take this too far off topic, but it makes you really question the railroad sale more. It's exactly the fear people rightly have.

Cincinnati Democrats narrowly back City Council slate despite Councilman Seth Walsh's woes

 

Over the opposition of nearly half the precinct executives present, Cincinnati Democrats endorsed eight incumbent City Council members and one challenger, hours after the city’s good government watchdog referred a matter involving Councilman Seth Walsh’s office to the Ohio Ethics Commission.

 

The Cincinnati Democratic Committee, the city branch of the Hamilton County party, voted 30-26, with four abstentions, to endorse the slate recommended by its nominating committee, including Walsh, who was appointed to fill the unexpired term of U.S. Rep. Greg Landsman, D-Mount Washington. The party changed its rules this year to require an up or down vote on the entire ticket. If it had failed, candidates would have needed two-thirds of the vote to land an endorsement.

 

Walsh, who was the subject of an ethics investigation by the city’s ethics and good government counsel over the forced resignation of aide Tristina Allen, was at the center of Democrats’ debate over endorsing the slate.

 

The city settled with Allen for $30,000 in May. She told Christopher Liu, who leads the city's ethics and good government office, that Walsh’s government office was too political; was made to report to his since-dismissed campaign manager, Bri Ledsome, who wasn’t a city employee; and that Walsh retaliated against Allen by forcing her out after finding a memo she wrote seeking to guide her in a conversation about changing how the office operated. Allen also said she lived with Ledsome for several nights a week at her invitation when Allen first started working for Walsh.

 

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Housing groups say they meet requirement to put income tax hike on Cincinnati's ballot

 

Groups who want the city to dramatically increase the amount of money it spends on affordable housing say they have enough signatures to put on the Nov. 7 ballot an amendment to the Cincinnati charter aimed at increasing the income tax for that purpose.

 

The amendment would direct City Council to put another amendment on the ballot in 2024 increasing the earnings tax from 1.8% to 2.1%. That’s a 16.7% increase.

 

Advocacy group Cincinnati Action for Housing Now blamed a state law for the odd procedure requiring two separate votes – one this year and another in 2024 to actually raise the tax. City Hall sources said the groups made a drafting error resulting in the requirement for two separate votes. Supporters flooded City Council chambers on Wednesday, Aug. 2 to urge City Council to simply put the tax increase on the ballot this fall, which it has the power to do with a supermajority of six of the nine members.

 

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Amendment altering how Cincinnati changes its charter likely to go forward

 

A plan to change how citizen-led initiatives modifying Cincinnati’s charter make it to the ballot is advancing, with a vote to put it on the Nov. 7 ballot expected when Cincinnati City Council returns from its summer recess in September.

 

City Council voted unanimously earlier this month to ask the administration to draft an amendment that would require citizens who initiate a charter amendment to publicly file ballot language before collecting any signatures. That’s the case with state-level constitutional amendments today.

 

It also would allow City Council members to cast votes on ordinances, motions and other items electronically, as is the case with members of Congress and state lawmakers. Under the current charter, members must orally state their vote, sometimes as many as three times for each item. That can happen when council is suspending a rule that ordinances must be read on three separate days or to attach emergency clauses allowing ordinances to go into effect immediately.

 

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Mark Jeffreys, Liz Keating, Reggie Harris lead Cincinnati City Council fundraising race

 

In campaigns, money doesn’t always equal votes, but Cincinnati council members Liz Keating, Mark Jeffreys and Reggie Harris are running away from the rest of the field when it comes to fundraising for the Nov. 7 election.

 

Keating has $100,000, while Jeffreys has $90,000 on hand after the first half of the year. Reports were due July 31.

 

Councilman Reggie Harris raised more than both in the first half of the year, collecting almost $95,000 from donors – more than Keating's $62,510 raised or Jeffreys' $78,346 – but Jeffreys and Keating burned through cash as a lesser rate. Harris said fairly compensating his team and professional development is important to him and is reflected in the lower amount.

 

This year’s City Council election is expected to be a relatively sleepy affair two years after a massive field made the 2021 race in the wake of the 2020 public corruption arrests of three members. Voters sent eight Democrats and Keating to council, a record modern number for the Democrats.

 

For political observers, one major question is whether Keating, endorsed by Republicans and the Charter Committee in 2021, will retain her seat after finishing ninth as Cincinnati continues to move to the left politically. She has been endorsed by the Republicans this year and expects to get the Charter Committee nod as well.

 

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Only 12 candidates turned in petitions to run for Cincinnati City Council. Of those, 11 have qualified and 1 is still pending a review of signatures. No other Republicans filed to run unless Richardo Hayward is seeking that nomination. I haven't seen much about him.

 

When all 9 incumbents can run, it's not going to draw a lot of new candidates. If I had to guess, I would say we'll see all members of council who were elected in 2021 get reelected in 2023. I think the only incumbent that will lose is Seth Walsh, and he'll be replaced by the final Democrat who was endorsed, Anna Albi.

 

All 9 incumbents are running

Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney (D)

Victoria Parks (D)

Reggie Harris (D)

Mark Jeffreys (D)

Meeka Owens (D)

Jeff Cramerding (D)

Scotty Johnson (D)

Seth Walsh (D), appointed

Liz Keating (R,C)

 

Democrats endorsed all 8 Democratic incumbents, and have also endorsed Anna Albi of Madisonville. She's a member of Moms Demand Action and a communication consultant.

 

Another Democrat, Audricia Brooks, of North Avondale is also running, but did not receive the endorsement. She is a retired VA provider and is currently a nurse.

 

Richardo Hayward of Westwood is the final candidate whose signatures have not been validated yet. He is a US Navy Veteran.

This feels like a 2-hour race between Walsh and Albi

https://www.wvxu.org/politics/2023-09-18/analysis-reasons-why-cincinnati-10-council-candidates-this-year

 

 

 

A boring council an the mayor is a cup of soft-serve.

This has been the most competent, least complacent city council since I've lived in Cincinnati. That's why there's few candidates. They're at least trying to address priorities of the voters, rather than towing the Cranley line.

 

There's only one vulnerable person on council and it's the guy who wasn't elected to it in the first place.

28 minutes ago, 10albersa said:

This has been the most competent, least complacent city council since I've lived in Cincinnati. That's why there's few candidates. They're at least trying to address priorities of the voters, rather than towing the Cranley line.

 

There's only one vulnerable person on council and it's the guy who wasn't elected to it in the first place.

 

I think Liz Keating could potentially be in danger of finishing last. Especially with recreational marijuana and abortion on the November ballot. It could bring out more straight ticket Democratic voters. 

 

I think having no term limited incumbents naturally suppressed the number of candidates. I am surprised the Republicans didn't try to get one or two more candidates to actually have a "slate"

1 hour ago, ryanlammi said:

 

I think Liz Keating could potentially be in danger of finishing last. Especially with recreational marijuana and abortion on the November ballot. It could bring out more straight ticket Democratic voters. 

 

I think having no term limited incumbents naturally suppressed the number of candidates. I am surprised the Republicans didn't try to get one or two more candidates to actually have a "slate"

There are typically enough republicans to get one seat on council if they concentrate together though. Especially if the more Republican voters only vote for less than 9 candidates, it would only serve to help Keating. 

This is also due to the stupidity of elections every two years...

Cincinnati affordable housing tax opponents say there could be a legal quagmire if it passes

 

Opponents of Issue 24, which could eventually lead to an income tax increase in the city of Cincinnati, argue that its unusual structure could lead to major litigation.

 

The measure seeks to increase the city income tax from 1.8% to 2.3% and spend the resulting $50 million per year on affordable housing, with about two-thirds going to help the city’s lowest income citizens.

 

But Cincinnatians will have to vote twice on the idea – once on Issue 24 this year and again on an actual tax levy in 2024 because the city’s charter does not allow citizens to initiate an income tax increase on their own. Issue 24 is a charter amendment. It directs the city to put the income tax increase on the November 2024 ballot. Theoretically, voters could approve Issue 24, then reject the actual income tax levy increase a year later.

 

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Unrelated, but I hate the photo the business courier uses of city hall

What do you mean ant's-eye-view and tons of work in post is inappropriate for journalism?