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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.
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There are no provisions in the Cincinnati Charter that address what should happen if an elected official is charged with a crime. But under state rules. either the state attorney general or prosecutor – in this case Hanley – can move to suspend an elected official who has been charged with a crime.
Cincinnati voters approved a Charter Amendment last week that would allow Cincinnati City Council, with a vote of seven members, to suspend a council member. But that does not go into affect until May 18, when the Hamilton County Board of Elections certifies the official vote. Republican councilwoman Betsy Sundermann has put forward a motion to suspend Young, a Democrat, but that motion has not yet been brought to the floor of council.
Special prosecutor asks Ohio Supreme Court to suspend Cincinnati City Councilman Wendell Young
A special prosecutor asked the Ohio Supreme Court earlier this week to initiate suspension proceedings against Cincinnati City Councilman Wendell Young following his felony indictment. By Jennifer Edwards Baker | May 12, 2021 at 2:22 PM EDT - Updated May 12 at 5:15 PM
CINCINNATI (FOX19) - A special prosecutor tells FOX19 NOW he has asked the Ohio Supreme Court to initiate suspension proceedings against Cincinnati City Councilman Wendell Young following his felony indictment.
âYou have an elected official who committed a felony. Itâs just appropriate he be suspended,â Patrick Hanley told FOX19 NOW last month when he first told us he planned to seek the suspension.