Cincinnati Council voted Wednesday to approve $60,000 to hire a search firm that will facilitate the hiring of the next city manager. Some council members say the process for hiring the position needs to be more transparent moving forward.
"What you have seen, even when we disagreed . is that we can disagree without being disagreeable," Pureval said of what he calls a "culture change" at City Hall.
Cincinnati's Affordable Housing Trust Fund could be used to subsidize development for the first time ever within the next few months. Some of that is contingent on council approval, including the first proposed annual revenue source for the fund.
Council Member Reggie Harris says his ordinance would streamline the application process for federal low-income housing tax credits and incentivize development.