2020-2024 Actuals and 2020-2025 Estimates

SECOND READING ITEMS:

Levying special assessments for sprinkling, sweeping,

cleaning and snow removal services for the municipal

streets, alleys and public ways in the City during the

calendar year 2024; and declaring an emergency.

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Attachments: Comparison Charts 2023-2024 Actuals

Legislative History

7/15/25

City Council

First Reading

Levying special assessments for the improvement of

certain streets and public ways in the downtown area of

the City by providing street lighting during the calendar

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year 2024; and declaring an emergency.

Attachments: spec assmnts comps

spec assmnts estimates

Legislative History

7/15/25

City Council

First Reading

Levying special assessments for the improvement of

certain streets, alleys and public ways outside of the

downtown area of the City by providing street lighting

during the calendar year 2024; and declaring an

emergency.

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O-303-25

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Attachments: spec assmnts comps

spec assmnts estimates

Legislative History

7/15/25

City Council

First Reading

Levying special assessments for controlling the blight and

disease of shade trees within public rights-of-way and planting,

maintaining, trimming and removing shade trees in and along

the streets of the City during the calendar year 2024; and

declaring an emergency.

Attachments: spec assmnts comps

spec assmnts estimates

Legislative History

7/15/25

City Council

First Reading

Providing for the issuance and sale of Notes for the purpose

of paying, in anticipation of the levy and collection of special

assessments, a portion of the cost of (i) lighting streets,

alleys and other public ways of the City, (ii) sprinkling,

sweeping, cleaning and removing snow from streets, alleys

and other public ways of the City and (iii) controlling blight

and disease of shade trees within rights of way and planting,

maintaining, trimming and removing shade trees in and along

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streets of the City, all during the year 2025; authorizing the

execution and delivery of a Trust Agreement securing the

payment of the Notes; authorizing the execution and delivery

of certain other documents in connection with the issuance of

the Notes; and declaring an emergency.

Legislative History

7/15/25

City Council

First Reading

Providing for the issuance and sale of $1,260,000 of notes, in

anticipation of the issuance of bonds, for the purpose of paying

costs of constructing, reconstructing and rehabilitating

sidewalks, including, where necessary, driveway approaches

and curbs, in certain locations on designated streets; and

declaring an emergency.

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Legislative History

7/15/25

City Council

First Reading

Providing for the issuance and sale of bonds in the maximum

principal amount of $1,265,000 for the purpose of paying costs

of acquiring equipment for use in carrying out functions of the

City’s Hoffman Road Landfill, and declaring an emergency.

O-307-25

Legislative History

7/15/25

City Council

First Reading

Providing for the issuance and sale of bonds in the maximum

principal amount of $700,000 for the purpose of paying costs

of acquiring motor vehicles and equipment for use in carrying

out functions of the City’s Department of Transportation; and

declaring an emergency.

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Legislative History

7/15/25

City Council

First Reading

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Providing for the issuance and sale of bonds in the maximum

principal amount of $680,000 for the purpose of paying costs of

acquiring motor vehicles and equipment for use in carrying out

functions of the City’s Department of Public Service, including

but not limited to its Divisions of Fleet and Facilities

Operations, Solid Waste and Urban Beautification; and

declaring an emergency.

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Legislative History

7/15/25

City Council

First Reading

Providing for the issuance and sale of bonds in the maximum

principal amount of $660,000 for the purpose of paying costs

of acquiring fire apparatus and equipment for use by the City’s

Department of Fire and Rescue Operations; and declaring an

emergency.

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Legislative History

7/15/25

City Council

First Reading

Providing for the issuance and sale of bonds in the maximum

principal amount of $18,645,000 for the purpose of paying

costs of improving the City’s street system, in cooperation with

the Department of Transportation of the State of Ohio and

otherwise, by (i) improving streets by constructing,

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reconstructing and rehabilitating the pavement base, bridges,

curbs, drainage improvements, driveway approaches, pedestrian

ramps, bicycle paths and sidewalks, widening, realigning,

adjusting radius cutbacks, manholes and catch basins, preparing

the surface and surfacing and resurfacing, and installing traffic

signs, signals and signalization, where necessary, and (ii)

improving bridges by constructing, reconstructing, replacing,

rehabilitating, restoring and widening bridge decks, supporting

piers, abutments, arches, beams, columns and other structural

steel components and bridge bearing systems and related

embankments and drainage facilities, restoring and installing

expansion joints, bridge railings and traffic barrier railings and

constructing, reconstructing and rehabilitating the pavement

base, curbs, drainage improvements, driveway approaches,

bicycle paths and sidewalks and surfacing and resurfacing the

roadway on those bridges and approaches to those bridges,

where necessary, in each case as designated in the plans

approved or to be approved by Council; and declaring an

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emergency.

Legislative History

7/15/25

City Council

First Reading

Providing for the issuance and sale of bonds in the maximum

principal amount of $7,490,000 for the purpose of refunding for

debt charges savings certain of the City’s outstanding Capital

Improvement and Refunding Bonds, Series 2015, dated

October 15, 2015; and declaring an emergency.

Legislative History

7/15/25

City Council

First Reading

Providing for the issuance and sale of bonds in the maximum

principal amount of $1,740,000 for the purpose of refunding for

debt charges savings certain of the City’s outstanding Capital

Improvement and Refunding Bonds, Series 2012, dated October

9, 2012; and declaring an emergency.

Legislative History

7/15/25

City Council

First Reading

Authorizing the expenditure of $36,000 from the Special

Assessments Services Fund for the purchase of flower

containers/pots for Streetscape Beautification Projects in the

public right-of-way; authorizing the Mayor to accept bids and

award contracts for said purpose; and declaring an emergency.

Legislative History

7/15/25

City Council

Suspension

Authorizing the Mayor to enter into agreements with NW

Natural Renewables, LLC for a Renewable Natural Gas

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project utilizing Hoffman Road Landfill Gas and Bay View

Waste Water Treatment Plant digester gas; authorizing the

acceptance of incentive payments and revenue; and declaring

an emergency.

Legislative History

7/15/25

City Council

First Reading

Amending Toledo Municipal Code (TMC), Chapters 743,

1103, 1104, 1107 and 1116 relating to the Downtown Parking

Lot Review and Improvement Advisory Committee

(DPLRIAC) and surface parking lots in the Downtown and

Warehouse Districts; and declaring an emergency.

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Legislative History

7/15/25

City Council

held

Amending Various Sections of Toledo Municipal Code

(TMC), Chapter 11, Changing Commissioner of

Building Inspections to Planning Director; and declaring

an emergency.

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Attachments: Exhibit B New Language

Legislative History

7/15/25

City Council

Suspension

NEW ITEMS FROM COUNCIL:

COUNCIL MEMBERS MELDEN, WILLIAMS, HOBBS & MORRIS PRESENT THE

FOLLOWING 2 ITEMS::

Urging the Ohio Board of Pharmacy to Classify Kratom

(Mitragyna Speciosa) as a Schedule I Controlled

Substance.

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Enacting a new Toledo Municipal Code (TMC),

Chapter 513; Subsection 513.17 Prohibiting the Sale of

Kratom.

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Exhibit B - Excluded Properties

COUNCIL PRESIDENT HARTMAN PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING 5 ITEMS:

Approving the report of the Assessment Equalization Board

on objections concerning the estimated special assessments

for certain enhanced public services in the Revised

Downtown Toledo Improvement District; and declaring an

emergency.

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Attachments: Board of Equalization Report

Exhibit A - Objections

Determining to proceed with the provision of enhanced public

services in the Revised Downtown Toledo Improvement

District; confirming approval of the petition for the revised

Downtown Toledo Improvement District; and declaring an

emergency.

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Attachments: EXHIBIT B

Levying special assessments for certain enhanced public

services in the Revised Downtown Toledo Improvement

District; and declaring an emergency.

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Attachments: Exhibit A

Approving a Petition For Special Assessments for

Special Energy Improvement Projects and a Project

Plan for the Northwest Ohio Advanced Energy

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Improvement District under Chapter 1710 of the Ohio

Revised Code for aWLCo Ventures, LLC and 1015 N.

Summit St., Toledo, Ohio 43604; to authorize and levy

special assessments for the purpose of acquiring,

constructing, and improving certain public improvements

in the City of Toledo in cooperation with the Northwest

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Ohio Advanced Energy Improvement District; and

declaring an emergency.

Approving a Petition For Special Assessments for Special

Energy Improvement Projects and a Project Plan for the

Northwest Ohio Advanced Energy Improvement District under

Chapter 1710 of the Ohio Revised Code for aWLCo

Lowertown, LLC and 1017 N. Summit St., Toledo, Ohio

43604; to authorize and levy special assessments for the

purpose of acquiring, constructing, and improving certain public

improvements in the City of Toledo in cooperation with the

Northwest Ohio Advanced Energy Improvement District; and

declaring an emergency.

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COUNCIL MEMBERS WILLIAMS AND HOBBS PRESENT THE FOLLOWING 2

ITEMS:

Authorizing the Mayor to execute and deliver needed

instruments to forgive the loan balance and release the

mortgage and security interests with respect to the 24 scattered

site single family rental housing Low-Income Housing Tax

Credit Project known as United North School Homes LLC; and

declaring an emergency.

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Authorizing the Mayor to execute and deliver needed

instruments to forgive the loan balance and release the

mortgage and security interests with respect to the 24 scattered

site single family rental housing Low-Income Housing Tax

Credit Project known as United North School Homes LLC; and

declaring an emergency.

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NEW ITEMS FROM THE ADMINISTRATION:

COUNCILMAN MELDEN PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING 3 ITEMS FROM THE

DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT:

Amending Toledo Municipal Code, Chapter 151.05; and

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declaring an emergency.

Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a First Amendment to the

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Contract for a Joint Economic Development Zone between the

City of Toledo and City of Rossford; authorizing the Mayor,

Director of Economic Development and Director of Law to

execute any documents necessary to effectuate the amendment;

establishing the Toledo Community Improvement Corporation

Special Revenue Fund; authorizing the Finance Director to

transfer fund balances and close certain accounts; and declaring

an emergency.

Attachments: FirstAmendment_RossfordToledoJEDZContract

Amending Toledo Municipal Code Part Thirteen - Building

Code by: (1) repealing Sections 1301.02, 1301.06, 1301.13,

1303.01, 1303.02, 1303.03, 1303.04, 1303.07, 1303.08,

1303.09, 1305.02, 1305.09, 1309.04, 1309.08, 1313.04,

1361.03, and 1361.10 and enacting new versions of the

aforementioned Sections; (2) repealing Section 1309.09 Fire

Prevention Bureau approval; and (3) enacting Section 1367.04

titled Heat Supply; and declaring an emergency.

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Attachments: Exhibit A

COUNCILMAN SARANTOU PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING ITEM FROM THE

DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE:

Authorizing appropriations and budget adjustments within the

2025 Approved Operating and Capital Improvement Budgets;

and declaring an emergency.

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Attachments: MidYear.Adjustments.2025

COUNCILWOMAN WILLIAMS PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING ITEM FROM THE

DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND YOUTH SERVICES:

Officially designating the new park property located at

3184 North Summit Street as Pontiac Preserve; and

declaring an emergency.

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COUNCILMAN MARTINEZ PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING 6 ITEMS FROM THE

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES:

Authorizing the Mayor to enter into contract with M.E. Simpson

Co. for HydroV valve release and assessment services;

authorizing the expenditure of an amount not to exceed $13,500

from the Water Operating Fund for HydroV valve release and

assessment services; authorizing waiving the competitive

bidding provisions of the TMC Chapter 187; and declaring an

emergency.

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Authorizing the Mayor to enter into necessary

agreements with the Ohio Environmental Protection

Agency (OEPA) as granted through the H2Ohio fund

for purposes of the Childcare Lead Service Line

Replacement; authorizing the acceptance, deposit,

appropriation and expenditure of grant proceeds in the

amount of $500,000 into and from the Water

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Replacement 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.

Authorizing the appropriation and expenditure of $638,273

from Sewer Replacement Fund of funds that were received from

Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE on the City’s

insurance claim resulting from the December 2022 freezing and

subsequent bursting of water lines at the Water Reclamation

Facility; and authorizing the Mayor to accept bids and award

contracts to repair, replace, and refurbish the Water

Reclamation Administration Building and Wet Weather Grit

Facility; and declaring an emergency.

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Authorizing the expenditure of $22,900 from the Sanitary

Sewer Operating Fund to pay the National Association of Clean

Water Agencies (NACWA) for Water Reclamation’s 2026

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membership dues; and declaring an emergency.

Authorizing the expenditure of an amount not to exceed

$50,000 from the Water Operating Fund for emergency

services to repair a substation transformer and appurtenances

at the Low Service Pumping Station; authorizing the Mayor to

enter into a contract for said emergency repair services;

waiving the competitive provisions of TMC Chapter 187; and

declaring an emergency.

O-368-25

DPU081225 Professional Construction Management Services Att

Authorizing the disappropriation of $389,101 from the

2013 Water Bond Improvement Fund and $90,899

from the 2016 Water Bond Improvement Fund;

authorizing the appropriation and expenditure of

$389,101 from the 2013 Water Bond Improvement and

$90,899 from the 2016 Water Bond Improvement Fund

for Professional Construction Management Services;

waiving the competitive bidding requirements of TMC

Chapter 187; and declaring an emergency.

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Attachments: DPU081225 Professional Construction Management Services Att

COUNCILMAN HOBBS PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING 5 ITEMS FROM THE

DEPARTMENT OF POLICE OPERATIONS:

Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a vehicle lease agreement

with Acme Auto Leasing, LLC; authorizing the annual

expenditure from the General Fund in an amount not to exceed

$75,180 per year for four years; authorizing the acceptance

and deposit of funds from the Ohio High Intensity Drug

Trafficking Area (HIDTA) from the U.S. Department of

Justice, Office of National Drug Control Policy for

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reimbursement of General Fund expenditures for the Acme

Auto Leasing, LLC agreement; and declaring an emergency.

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Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a vehicle lease

agreement with Acme Auto Leasing, LLC; authorizing

the annual expenditure from the General Fund in an

amount not to exceed $96,660 for four years; and

declaring an emergency.

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O-372-25

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Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a contract for the purchase

of body armor; authorizing the expenditure in an amount not to

exceed $40,000 from Capital Improvement Fund and an

amount not to exceed $2,000 from the General Fund for the

purchase of body armor; and declaring an emergency.

Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a five-year

subscription-based information technology agreement

with Midwest Public Safety, LLC. for cloud video

storage for Getac body worn cameras; authorizing the

annual expenditure of an amount not to exceed

$325,000 from the Capital Improvement Fund over the

term of the agreement; waiving the competitive bidding

requirements of TMC Chapter 187; and declaring an

emergency.

Authorizing the Mayor to accept a grant in the amount of

$148,654.18 from the State of Ohio for police officer training;

authorizing the deposit, appropriation and expenditure of said

funds; authorizing the Mayor to accept bids and award

contracts; and declaring an emergency.

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COUNCILMEMBER KOMIVES PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING 4 ITEMS FROM

THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION:

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Authorizing the Mayor to enter into and execute a joint

cooperative agreement between the City of Toledo and Lucas

County regarding orthoimagery services; authorizing the

expenditure of an amount not to exceed $9,000 annually for

three years, subject to future appropriations; and declaring an

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emergency.

Authorizing the Mayor to enter into and execute

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cooperative agreements between the City of Toledo and

Lucas County for roadway improvements on 13th Street

between Washington and Monroe Street; and declaring

an emergency.

Declaring the official intent and reasonable expectation of the

City of Toledo on behalf of the State of Ohio (The Borrower) to

reimburse its Capital Improvement Fund for two projects with

the proceeds of tax-exempt debt of the State of Ohio; and

declaring an emergency.

Authorizing and expressing City Council’s support for the

Mayor to prepare and submit applications to participate in the

Ohio Public Works Commission, State Capital Improvement

and Local Transportation Improvement Programs and to

execute agreements as necessary and appropriate for obtaining

this financial assistance; and declaring an emergency.

COUNCILMEMBER KOMIVES PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING ITEM FROM THE

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES:

Authorizing the Mayor to enter into and execute necessary

agreements with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency

(OEPA) for purposes of the 2025 Community and Litter

Grant Agreement; authorizing acceptance, deposit,

appropriation and expenditure of grant proceeds in the

amount of $100,000 into the Operation Grants Fund;

authorizing appropriation of $25,000 from the

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unappropriated balance from the Storm Water Utility

Improvement Fund for grant-matching obligations;

authorizing the acceptance, deposit, appropriation, and

expenditure of fees collected; authorizing the Mayor to

accept bids and award contracts for the purchase of services

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and other necessary items to carry out the terms of this

grant; and declaring an emergency.

COUNCILWOMAN McPHERSON PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING ITEM FROM

THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION & TECHNOLOGY:

Authorizing the Mayor to enter into agreements for the

subscription to and implementation of a cloud-based call center

backup solution for DPU Customer Service and Engage

Toledo; authorizing the expenditure of an amount not to exceed

$48,700 from the Information and Communications Technology

Fund; waiving the competitive bidding provisions of TMC

Chapter 187; and declaring an emergency.

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COUNCILWOMAN MORRIS PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING 8 ITEMS FROM

ZONING & PLANNING COMMITTEE:

Changing the zoning maps attached to Part 11, Planning

and Zoning, Toledo Municipal Code, for the property

located at 4256 Secor Road, in the City of Toledo,

Lucas County, Ohio; and declaring an emergency.

Attachments: Hyperlink

Changing the zoning maps attached to Part 11, Planning

and Zoning, Toledo Municipal Code, for the property

located at 539 Broadway Street, in the City of Toledo,

Lucas County, Ohio; and declaring an emergency.

Granting a Special Use Permit for a Solar Array for the

property located at 1550 Miami Street, in the City of Toledo,

Lucas County, Ohio; subject to certain conditions and one

waiver; and declaring an emergency.

Granting an amendment to an Institutional Campus (IC)

Master Plan originally granted by Ordinance 382-15 for a site

located at 5601 Clegg Drive, in the City of Toledo, Lucas

County, Ohio; subject to certain conditions; and declaring an

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emergency.

Granting a Special Use Permit for a Type A Family Day Care

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facility for the property located at 2225 Dorr Street, in the City

of Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, subject to certain conditions;

and declaring an emergency.

Changing the zoning maps attached to Part 11, Planning

and Zoning, Toledo Municipal Code, for the property

located at 1513 S. Reynolds Road and 1517 S.

Reynolds Road, in the City of Toledo, Lucas County,

Ohio; and declaring an emergency.

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Vacation of a portion of Whitmer Drive lying between

West Alexis Road and Lyceum Place located in the City

of Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, subject to certain

conditions, waiving land costs; and declaring an

emergency.

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Declaring the intent to vacate the 14 feet wide alley

running North and South abutting Lot 179 and the North

15 feet of Lot 178 in Heffner’s Addition, located in the

City of Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio; and declaring an

emergency.

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