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Toledo, OH 43604

City of Toledo

Meeting Minutes

City Council

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

2:00 PM

Council Chambers

APPOINTMENT FROM THE OFFICE OF THE MAYOR:

Appointment- TCIC

A-565-25

Attachments: 2026_12 Dave Zenk Bio_TCIC

Schlachter ltr of resignation_TCIC

TCIC_New Appointments_Dave Zenk 12.16.2025

SECOND READING ITEMS:

Appropriating money for current ordinary expenditures of the various

departments for the City of Toledo for the first quarter (January,

February and March) of 2026; and declaring an emergency.

O-555-25

Attachments: 2026.TemporaryAppropriation.pdf

Declaring the necessity of providing sprinkling, sweeping, cleaning

and snow removal services for streets, alleys and public ways in the

City; providing for the assessment of the cost of those services; and

declaring an emergency.

O-556-25

Attachments: 2022-2024 Actuals and 2022-2026 Estimates

2025-2026 Comparison Charts (EST)

Declaring the necessity of controlling the blight and disease of

shade trees within public rights of way, and for planting,

maintaining, trimming and removing shade trees in and along

the streets of the City; providing for the assessment of the

cost of those services; and declaring an emergency.

O-557-25

Declaring it necessary to improve certain streets and public

ways in the Downtown Area of the City by providing street

lighting; providing for the assessment of costs of that lighting;

and declaring an emergency.

O-558-25

O-559-25

O-560-25

Declaring it necessary to improve certain streets, alleys, and

public ways outside the Downtown Area of the City by

providing street lighting; providing for the assessment of

costs of that lighting; and declaring an emergency.

Repealing Toledo Municipal Code Section 798.99 and

enacting new Toledo Municipal Code Section 798.99; and

declaring an emergency.

Attachments: 798 redline version.docx

Repealing Toledo Municipal Code Section 545.22-Wage Theft and

enacting new Toledo Municipal Code Section 545.22-Wage Theft;

and declaring an emergency.

O-561-25

O-562-25

O-563-25

Attachments: 545 redline version.docx

Repealing Toledo Municipal Code Sections 796.02 and

796.04 and enacting new Toledo Municipal Code Sections

796.02 and 796.04; and declaring an emergency.

Attachments: 796 redline version.docx

Authorizing the expenditure of an amount not to exceed $75,000,

annually, from the General Fund for consulting services for the

preparation of the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report

(ACFR) and accounting advisory services; authorizing the Mayor

to accept bids and award contracts for said services for a period of

three years, with an option to renew for two additional one-year

periods; and declaring an emergency.

NEW ITEMS FROM COUNCIL:

DIP District 5, Westwood Park Football Fields, $50,000 CIP

TMP-12038

Sponsors:

Melden

DIP District 5, Sanger Branch Library HAWK Signal, $100,000

CIP

TMP-12039

Sponsors:

Melden

MAYOR'S OFFICE OF NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY & ENGAGEMENT:

Authorizing the Mayor to extend the existing agreement with the

United Way of Greater Toledo to serve as the fiscal and

administrative agent for the Healing & Compassion Fund project;

authorizing the expenditure of an amount not to exceed $39,520;

waiving the competitive bidding provisions of TMC Ch.187; and

declaring an emergency.

O-568-25

Authorizing the Mayor to enter an agreement with the United

Way of Greater Toledo (UWGT) to serve as the fiscal agent for

the Young Leaders Collective; authorizing the expenditure of an

amount not to exceed $34,400; waiving the competitive bidding

provisions of TMC Ch.187; and declaring an emergency.

O-569-25

Attachments: YLC Memo for City Council

Young leaders collective - attachments for ordinance

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT:

Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a modified and amended HOME

O-570-25

O-571-25

O-572-25

Loan Agreement for South Toledo Homes I Ltd. dba South East

Toledo Home I scattered site affordable housing portfolio; and

declaring an emergency.

Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a modified and amended HOME

Loan Agreement for South Toledo Homes II Ltd. dba South East

Toledo Home II scattered site affordable housing portfolio; and

declaring an emergency.

Authorizing the expenditure of $80,000 from the General Fund to

provide funding support for Code Blue Cold Weather Response

Initiative; authorizing the Mayor to enter into a donation agreement

with the Toledo Lucas County Homelessness Board; and declaring an

emergency.

DEPARTMENT OF LAW:

Authorizing the Mayor and the Director of Law to enter into

professional legal service agreements for the collection of code

enforcement violation fines, income tax, general, and enterprise

accounts receivables; authorizing expenditures for said services;

waiving the formal bidding requirements of TMC Chapter 187; and

declaring an emergency.

O-573-25

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION:

R-574-25

Declaring it necessary to improve portions of Brockton Drive

bounded by Imperial Drive and Sylvania Avenue, by installing street

lighting; and declaring an emergency.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES:

Authorizing the Mayor to execute all necessary grant award

documents with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA)

for a 319(h) Grant; authorizing the Mayor to accept and deposit

grant proceeds in the amount of $278,480 into the Operation

Grants Fund; authorizing the appropriation and expenditure of said

grant proceeds for the Delaware Creek Stream Restoration Project,

Phase 3; authorizing the Mayor to accept bids and execute

necessary contracts to administer the grants; and declaring an

emergency.

O-575-25

Authorizing the Mayor to enter into and execute necessary

agreements with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency

(OEPA) as granted through the H2Ohio fund for purposes of

the Detwiler Golf Course Stream Restoration project;

authorizing the acceptance, deposit, appropriation and

expenditure grant proceeds in the amount of $400,000 into

the Operation Grants Fund; authorizing the Mayor to accept

bids and award contracts for the purchase of services and

other necessary items to carry out the terms of this grant; and

declaring an emergency.

O-576-25

Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a professional services

O-577-25

contract with SCS Engineers for Construction Quality Assurance

(CQA) related to Gas Collection and Control System (GCCS)

construction at the Hoffman Road Landfill; authorizing the

expenditure in the amount not to exceed $12,100: waiving

competitive bidding; and declaring an emergency.

Authorizing the Mayor and Director of Public Utilities to execute a

sewer agreement with Northwestern Water and Sewer District; and

declaring an emergency.

O-578-25

O-579-25

Authorizing the Mayor to enter into contracts for professional and

general maintenance services, including the replacement of parts and

materials associated with the Allen Bradley Electrical Equipment

Preventive Maintenance Project at the Division of Water

Reclamation; authorizing the appropriation and expenditure of

$600,000 from the Sanitary Sewer Replacement Fund for the Allen

Bradley Electrical Equipment Preventive Maintenance Project at

the Division of Water Reclamation; waiving the competitive bidding

provisions of TMC Chapter 187 to execute contracts with either the

original equipment manufacturer, Rockwell Automation, or their local

authorized sales and repair representative, McNaughton-McKay

Electric Company; and declaring an emergency.

Authorizing the Mayor to accept bids and award contracts for

proprietary parts and equipment and construction services

necessary to facilitate the construction of the Digester Heat

Exchangers Project; authorizing the appropriation and

expenditure of $100,000 from the Sanitary Sewer

O-580-25

Replacement Fund for the continuation of the Digester Heat

Exchangers Project at the Bay View Water Reclamation

Plant; and declaring an emergency.

[O-581-25] Authorizing the Mayor to execute a fifth amendment to

the professional engineering services contract with Black & Veatch

Corporation to extend the length of contract and to adjust the scope

of services performed for the Consent Decree with the United States

Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA); and declaring an

emergency.

O-005-26

O-582-25

Authorizing the Mayor to enter into contracts for professional

and general services associated with the rebuild and/or

replacement of proprietary parts and equipment associated

with the Roots Air Blowers Project in the Secondary

Treatment Facility at the Bay View Water Reclamation

Plant; authorizing the appropriation and expenditure of

$200,000 from the Sanitary Sewer Replacement Fund for the

Roots Air Blowers Project at the Bay View Water

Reclamation Plant; waiving the competitive bidding

provisions of TMC Chapter 187; and declaring an

emergency.

DEPARTMENT OF DIVERSITY & INCLUSION:

Authorizing the appropriation and expenditure of an amount

not to exceed $20,000 from the General Fund for

Toledo/Lucas County CareNet to support healthcare access,

insurance navigation, and community health worker services

for uninsured and underinsured residents; authorizing the

Mayor to enter into an agreement for said purpose; and

declaring an emergency.

O-583-25

DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE:

Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a three-year Central Depository

O-584-25

and a Secondary Custodian contract for banking services;

authorizing the expenditure of funds for banking service fees; and

declaring an emergency.

Authorizing year-end appropriations and budget adjustments within

the 2025 Operating and Capital Improvement Budgets; and

declaring an emergency.

O-585-25

Attachments: 2025.YearEndBudgetAmendment.Attachment.pdf

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