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2026-09-28 - Columbus City Council

Summary

Built from the final minutes (regular meeting no. 41). No agenda or video is recorded for this meeting.

  • Called to order 5:03 PM; all nine members present: Bankston, Barroso De Padilla, Day-Achauer, Dorans, Green, Remy, Ross, Wyche and President Hardin. Adjourned 6:23 PM (Wyche / Remy, 9-0).
  • Journal dispensed with and approved 9-0 (Wyche / Ross).
  • Liquor permit communication C0037-2026 (two new and two transfer permits, including a Sheetz location near campus) read and filed. The October 5 meeting later corrected two typographical errors in it.
  • Ceremonial resolution 0216X-2026 recognizing September 28, 2026 as Good Neighbor Day adopted 9-0 (Day-Achauer / Wyche).
  • First reading of 34 items under the 30-day calendar (motion to dispense with reading, Green / Wyche, 9-0). Most returned for votes on October 5.
  • Consent agenda: 58 items approved 9-0 (Remy / Wyche), except CA-19, the Huntington building listing, which was voted separately 8-0 with Green abstaining. CA-53, the large-user power rate ordinance, was moved to the second-reading calendar.
  • Second-reading and emergency calendar: all items passed 9-0 except the five Enterprise Zone items, which passed 8-1 with Green opposed on final approval.
  • Two items referred to committee 9-0: the Capital Improvements Program 2026-2031 resolution and the 2026 Capital Improvements Budget ordinance.

Buckeye XO Enterprise Zone Amendments

  • 2467, 2468, 2469 and 2470-2026 (Buildings 1D, 1C, 1B, 1A): start date to August 2026, completion to December 2027, exemption window no later than 2037, minimum wage from $15.00 to $20.00 an hour, payroll from $904,000.00 to $1,206,400.00. Bankston moved each amendment and each final approval; amendments 9-0, approvals 8-1 (Green no).

OhioHealth Enterprise Zone Assignment

  • 2482-2026 replaces HQ Office I LLC with OhioHealth Corporation in an Enterprise Zone Agreement. Bankston / Day-Achauer; 8-1 (Green no).

Burns McDonnell Downtown Office Incentive

  • 2312-2026: up to five years; 45 net new jobs (about $3,600,000.00 payroll) and 120 retained or relocated jobs (about $18,500,000.00). Bankston / Barroso De Padilla; 9-0.

FIS Jobs Growth Incentive

  • 2323-2026: up to five years; 100 net new jobs (about $6,085,000.00 payroll) and 112 retained jobs (about $6,500,000.00). Bankston / Wyche; 9-0.

Economic Stabilization Fund Balance Goal

  • 0194X-2026 sets a $140,000,000.00 Rainy Day Fund goal (eleven percent of the Mayor's 2026 budget) by the end of 2032. Bankston / Day-Achauer; 9-0.

Capital Improvements Budget Adoption

  • 0201X-2026 (Capital Improvements Program 2026-2031) and 2535-2026 (Capital Improvements Budget for 2026, repealing Ordinance 1790-2025) both referred to committee 9-0.

Bond Anticipation Note Issuance

  • 2506-2026: notes up to $6,260,000.00 for the Starling Street Parking Garage; expenditure $9,385,956.00. Bankston / Ross; 9-0.

Large Industrial User Peak Rates

  • 2560-2026, sponsored by Wyche and Hardin, directs Columbus Water and Power to set peak rates and charges for large-load industrial and manufacturing users. Wyche / Day-Achauer; 9-0.

Vacant Building Water Disconnection

  • 2398-2026 lets the water director disconnect vacant buildings and expands the Lead Service Line Replacement Program. Wyche / Barroso De Padilla; 9-0.

Water Utility Contract Approvals

  • Ascension Construction Solutions increase (2324-2026, up to $1,000,000.00), Evans Mechwart Hambleton & Tilton (2409-2026, up to $1,400,533.56), Claypool Electric gas monitors (2436-2026, up to $2,395,600.00), all moved by Wyche, all 9-0; plus nine water and power items on consent.

Kia Hyundai Theft Settlement

  • 2532-2026 approves the settlement in the Kia Hyundai multidistrict litigation and accepts a deposit of $1,002,117.34. Remy / Ross; 9-0.

Immigrant Community Grants

  • 2549-2026, $30,000.00 advance payment to Ohio Haitian Community Network. Barroso De Padilla / Day-Achauer; 9-0. 2237-2026 ($213,000.00) read for the first time.

Huntington Bank Building Historic Listing

  • 2569-2026 lists the Huntington National Bank building at 17 S. High St. as CR #84 (Remy / Wyche; 8-0, Green abstaining). 2572-2026 lists the Pilgrim School, 440 Taylor Ave., as CR #83 on consent.

Norwich Township Annexation Application

  • 2413-2026 accepts annexation AN26-008, about 279.5 acres in Brown and Norwich Townships. Bankston / Barroso De Padilla; 9-0. Consent: AN26-003 (0.39 acres, Blendon Township) and the services statement for AN26-012 (5.9 acres, Franklin Township).

Downtown Development Corporation Grant and Downtown Winter Lighting Agreement

  • Both read for the first time (2538-2026 and 2459-2026); voted October 5.

Film Permit Rules, LGBTQ Affairs Commission Code Changes and Housing Division Contract Extensions

  • First readings of 2206-2026, 2622-2026, and 2562, 2563 and 2564-2026; voted October 5.

City Technology Software Contract Renewals

  • Consent: Veeam renewal with Brown Enterprise Solutions ($152,950.00, 2483-2026) and assignment of Winmill Software contracts to Virelli, LLC (2484-2026). The Microsoft true-up (2353-2026) was read for the first time.

Other second-reading items

  • 2360-2026 Fleet Management fuel purchase orders, $1,000,000.00 (Bankston / Day-Achauer, 9-0).
  • 2421-2026 contract with All-Star Talent Inc. for Public Safety recruitment and marketing, competitive bidding waived (Remy / Ross, 9-0).
  • 0199X-2026 withdrawal of the objection to the renewal of the liquor permit for Shell Car Wash on Broad Street, emergency (Remy / Ross, 9-0).
  • 2326-2026 updates Section 215.04 of the city code to reflect the Division of Housing Opportunity in the Department of Development, emergency (Ross / Wyche, 9-0).
  • Resolutions for Theodore "Teddy" Franklin Corey, Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, Dr. Lewis E. "Baba" Dodley Sr., the 190th anniversary of Second Baptist Church, the 30th anniversary of the Columbus Black Nurses Association, and Dr. George Miller and Black Art Plus.
  • Finance and operations: PRIME AE Group roof restoration, $26,300.00; Crown Welding and Fabricating increase from $50,000.00 to $125,000.00; Municipal Emergency Services name change; plumbing and vector control term contracts; COTA compressed natural gas, $150,000.00; Dorrian Green Parking Garage repair, $244,700.00; litter abatement with the Center for Employment Opportunities, $200,000.00; after-school programs, $312,000.00; Municipal Court Clerk FedEx extension to November 27, 2026, $65,000.00; Office of Violence Prevention software contract, $28,808.46; Building and Zoning Services vehicles, $92,992.80; Ohio Public Works Commission applications.
  • Health grants: HIV prevention services, $100,000.00; Central Ohio Trauma System, $5,000.00; Integrated Harm Reduction, $168,000.00; Child Injury Prevention, $107,000.00; Safe Communities, $137,500.00; Ohio Buckles Buckeye, $77,650.00; Youth Suicide Prevention, $93,400.00.
  • Appointments: Terry D. Lahm (Board of Wellfield Protection Appeals), Almar Thomas Walter (Utility Advisory Board), and Seth Brehm, Ashley Hoye, Brian Wilson and Paul Lambert to the Sugar Farm-Renner South New Community Authority Board of Trustees.

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