Cincinnati City Council’s Mega (not MAGA) August 6, 2025 summer meeting agenda
The agenda for the city council’s August 6, 2025 agenda contains 107 items. It is 20 pages long. There is a lot in there. Some very routine, some not very routine. This is a high level breakdown. In the coming days/weeks, we will be taking a closer look at some of these items.
Liquor Licenses: 10
Special Event Permits: 13
Lobbyists registrations: 31
Budget & Finance items: 31
Public Safety & Governance: 7
Healthy Neighborhoods: 2
Equitable Growth & Housing: 2
Other/Misc.: 11
Agenda – 2025-08-06T151928.960
Tax Incentive Review Council (TIRC) Annual Report June 2025
Cincinnati City Council held its summer meeting on August 6 and will not meet again until the first week of September. It was a very long agenda – 107 items. I am still going through it. But this item is interesting.
The City manager submitted the annual report of the “Tax Incentive Review Council” (TIRC) today. It was referred to the Budget and Finance Committee where it is likely to recommend that the report be accepted – no querstions asked.
The TIRC keeps track of the property tax exemptions approved by the city. Namely Tax Increment Financing exemptions (TIF) and Community Reinvestment Act agreements (CRA). The TIRC decides whether the city’s TIF exemtions and CRA agreements should continue. For example, is the recipient of the tax break keeping up their part of the bargain.
Anyway, the attendance roster for the TIRC’s annual meeting shows that both “Citizen Member” positions on the council are vacant.
If you are surprised, don’t be. That is how this mayor, council and city manager roll.
(I nominate Steve Deiters of Oakley, btw.)
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Nonprofit Explorer – ProPublica
This is a link to Propublica’s “NonProfit Explorer” website. Seems to be a good site to obtain the IRS Form 990s that non-profits are required to file, i.e., their “non-tax returns.”
Cincinnati is granting money to over 100 non-profits with, as far as I can see, little to no oversight.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/
If you are curious about a particular non-profit organization, check out this site and see if their information is there.