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City Council vote on spending American Rescue Plan funds on hold City Council vote on spending American Rescue Plan funds on hold By Mike Schell | May 11, 2021 at 6:28 PM EDT - Updated May 11 at 6:28 PM CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Cincinnati City Council’s Budget and Finance Committee was supposed to start the process of approving $35 million in federal funds, but that is now on hold. It now appears City Council is not exactly sure yet what it can spend the American Rescue Plan money on. “At the very end [of Tuesday’s meeting] we heard from the administration, their take on the final guidance from the Treasury Department on what we can spend this money on, and it really did cause us to pause and have a bit of a reality check,” said Interim Council Member Steve Goodin. ....
Warren LeMay / Wikimedia Commons Cincinnati s administration is recommending a new housing advisory board to facilitate funding and public input on affordable housing, but doesn t want to mandate affordable units in future development projects, as advocates have asked. Council members requested a comprehensive report last month, as part of several ongoing efforts to address the estimated 28,000-unit gap. The new board is one of several recommendations presented to the affordable housing subcommittee Tuesday. The city administration will work with this board to establish comprehensive priorities for the development and maintenance of affordable housing and also for funding deployment in this area, said Billy Weber, chief of staff in the city manager s office. ....