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Cincinnati City Council approved just shy of $30 million in stimulus spending on Wednesday, divvying up the last of the city’s first-year allocation from the American Rescue Plan.
Wednesday’s spending comes after council approved $134.2 million in stimulus spending on May 5. Cincinnati will get another round of money to spend in 2022, for a total between the two years of about $300 million.
Here are key takeaways from the latest round of spending:
Passion or ‘political speeches’?
Councilmembers were debating between two plans for spending the money, one put forth by councilmembers Steve Goodin and David Mann and the other by councilmembers Greg Landsman and Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney.