The weight of the pandemic hung over critical decisions about how to spend money Wednesday.Both Cincinnati and Hamilton County leaders dealt with the big money matters separately and in starkly different ways.At City Hall, lawmakers split in a 5-4 vote in favor of a $29 million spending plan that left some Council Democrats lamenting a missed opportunity. They wanted more spent on youth jobs, child care and getting people in the restaurant industry and other businesses back to work. I do believe that this is a historic, you know, once in a generation opportunity, said Councilman Greg Landsman before the vote.He told his council colleagues the lack of affordable child care is the number one reason people are not back on the job. He and Jan Michele Kearney wanted to utilize $5 million of the American Recovery Plan dollars for child care.Republican Steve Goodin was on the winning side, looking to hold the line for that at $1 million. Traditionally, funding child care isn t the