One Government Center  
Toledo, OH 43604  
City of Toledo  
Formal Agenda  
City Council  
Tuesday, July 15, 2025  
4:00 PM  
Council Chambers  
RESOLUTIONS IN ATTENDANCE:  
Recognizing Bruce Baumhower, a pillar of Toledo’s labor  
movement, retired on July 1, 2025, after an exceptional  
32-year career as its longest-serving president with United  
Auto Workers (UAW) Local 12.  
Recognizing Magic of the Old West End on Winning a  
Telly Award  
APPOINTMENTS FROM THE OFFICE OF THE MAYOR:  
Re-Appointments to the Human Relations Commission  
SECOND READING ITEMS:  
Changing the zoning maps attached to Part 11, Planning and  
Zoning, Toledo Municipal Code, for the property located at  
4004 Angola Road, in the City of Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio;  
and declaring an emergency.  
Legislative History  
5/20/25  
City Council  
City Council  
City Council  
First Reading  
held  
6/3/25  
6/17/25  
held  
Changing the zoning maps attached to Part 11, Planning  
and Zoning, Toledo Municipal Code, for the property  
located at 0 S. Byrne Road, in the City of Toledo, Lucas  
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County, Ohio; and declaring an emergency.  
Legislative History  
5/20/25  
6/3/25  
City Council  
City Council  
City Council  
First Reading  
held  
6/17/25  
held  
Changing the zoning maps attached to Part 11, Planning  
and Zoning, Toledo Municipal Code, for the property  
located at 3920 Angola Road, in the City of Toledo,  
Lucas County, Ohio; and declaring an emergency.  
Legislative History  
5/20/25  
6/3/25  
City Council  
City Council  
City Council  
First Reading  
held  
6/17/25  
held  
Amending Toledo Municipal Code section 929.04(b)to  
reinstate the Winter averaging billing for City of Toledo water  
and sewer customers.  
Legislative History  
6/17/25  
NEW ITEMS FROM COUNCIL:  
COUNCIL PRESIDENT HARTMAN PRESENTS:  
City Council  
First Reading  
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 Happy Days  
Restaurant & Bar, LLC and 1396 W. Sylvania Avenue,  
Toledo, Ohio 43612; to authorize and levy special assessments  
for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, and improving certain  
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public improvements in the City of Toledo in cooperation with  
the Northwest Ohio Advanced Energy Improvement District;  
and declaring an emergency.  
Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a grant agreement with the  
University of Toledo Jack Ford Urban Affairs Center for the  
purpose of covering in part the cost of a legislative intern  
partnership; authorizing expenditure not exceed $15,000 from  
the General Fund to be paid to the University of Toledo Jack  
Ford Urban Affairs Center; and declaring an emergency.  
COUNCIL MEMBERS MELDEN, DRISCOLL, GADUS, JONES & McPHERSON  
PRESENT:  
Declaring July as “Disability Pride Month” in the City of Toledo  
COUNCILMEMBERS GADUS & MARTINEZ PRESENT:  
Amending R-368-24 to extend the moratorium on the issuance  
of Demolition permits for buildings of Historical Community  
Importance to January 17, 2026; and include qualifying  
publicly owned buildings under the same moratorium and  
declaring an emergency.  
COUNCIL MEMBER GADUS PRESENTS:  
Authorizing the expenditure of $50,000 from the Capital  
Improvement Fund District Improvement Program for  
replacement of the playground at Collins Park; authorizing the  
Mayor to execute the necessary contracts; and declaring an  
emergency.  
Authorizing the expenditure of $75,000 from the Capital  
Improvement Fund District Improvement Program for  
replacement of the playground at Dale Stone Park;  
authorizing the Mayor to execute the necessary  
contracts; and declaring an emergency.  
COUNCILWOMAN MORRIS PRESENTS:  
Authorizing the expenditure of $75,000 from the Capital  
Improvement Fund District Improvement Program for  
replacement of the playground at Mayfair Park;  
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authorizing the Mayor to execute the necessary  
contracts; and declaring an emergency.  
COUNCILMEMBERS DRISCOLL, WILLIAMS & HARTMAN PRESENT:  
Submitting to the Toledo Plan Commission a Request to  
conduct a study of pre-existing zoning in the Vistula  
Neighborhood; changing Industrial Zoning to Mixed-Use and  
Parks and Open Space zoning where appropriate, and Regional  
Commercial on La Grange St to Neighborhood Commercial and  
Parks and Open Space zoning where appropriate, and declaring  
an emergency.  
COUNCILMAN HOBBS PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING ITEM FROM TOLEDO  
MUNICIPAL COURT:  
Authorizing the Mayor to accept and deposit an amount of  
$1,610,069 from a grant received from the State of Ohio,  
Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, Division of  
Parole and Community Services for the appropriation and  
expenditure of those funds from the Community Corrections  
Grant; authorizing the execution of any grant documents that  
may be required for the acceptance of the funds; and declaring  
and emergency.  
COUNCILWOMAN McPHERSON PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING ITEM FROM  
THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION & TECHNOLOGY:  
Authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with  
the The BAZ Group to assist with phase 2 of the  
telephony optimization and modernization project;  
authorizing the expenditure of $108,000 from the  
Information and Communications Technology Fund;  
waiving the competitive bidding requirements of TMC  
Chapter 187; and declaring an emergency.  
COUNCILMAN SARANTOU PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING 14 ITEMS FROM  
THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE:  
Levying special assessments for sprinkling, sweeping,  
cleaning and snow removal services for the municipal  
streets, alleys and public ways in the City during the  
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calendar year 2024; and declaring an emergency.  
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  
year 2024; and declaring an emergency.  
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.  
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.  
Authorizing the Mayor at his discretion to enter into  
amended contracts with existing vendors through the end  
of 2025 in order to account for verified tariff-related  
cost increases; waiving the competitive bidding  
requirements of TMC Chapter 187; and declaring an  
emergency.  
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  
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.  
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  
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and curbs, in certain locations on designated streets; and  
declaring an emergency.  
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.  
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.  
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.  
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.  
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,  
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  
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approved or to be approved by Council; and declaring an  
emergency.  
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.  
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.  
COUNCILWOMAN WILLIAMS PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING ITEM FROM THE  
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND YOUTH SERVICES:  
Authorizing the expenditure of $15,400 from the  
General Fund for 11 movie nights at 11 different City of  
Toledo parks for the 2025 summer; authorizing the  
Mayor to enter into the necessary agreements for these  
initiatives; and declaring an emergency.  
COUNCILMAN MARTINEZ PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING 4 ITEMS FROM THE  
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES:  
Authorizing the appropriation and expenditure of an additional  
amount of $500,000 from the Sanitary Sewer Replacement  
Fund for the design and construction of the Ogontz Pump  
Station Project; authorizing the Mayor to amend the  
engineering contract with Tetra Tech, Engineer of Record, to  
provide additional professional engineering, metering and  
testing, inspection, construction management, and other  
services related to the construction of the Ogontz Pump Station  
Project; authorizing the Mayor to waive the competitive bidding  
provisions of TMC Chapter 187 for the continuation of Tetra  
Tech’s professional engineering, metering and testing,  
inspection, construction management and other services related  
to the construction of the Ogontz Pump Station Project; and  
declaring an emergency.  
Authorizing the appropriation and expenditure of an amount not  
to exceed $500,000 from the Sanitary Sewer Replacement  
Fund; authorizing an amendment to the existing contract with  
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Denali Water Solutions, Inc. for the completion of the Digester  
Tank Cleaning Project; and declaring an emergency.  
Authorizing the expenditure of an amount not to exceed  
$12,000 from the Sewer Operating Fund for fleet vehicle  
telematics services and monitoring; and declaring an  
emergency.  
Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a five-year contract  
for required cross-connection surveys for the Backflow  
Prevention Program; authorizing an annual expenditure  
from the Water Operating Fund in an amount not to  
exceed $440,000; and declaring an emergency.  
COUNCIL MEMBER GADUS PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING 9 ITEMS FROM  
THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT:  
Authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement for  
case management, street interventions, outreach, and  
wraparound support for city’s Peace in Motion  
Community Safety Plan; authorizing the reappropriation  
and expenditure of funds in an amount not to exceed  
$36,400 from the General Fund; waiving the  
competitive bidding provisions of TMC Chapter 187;  
and declaring an emergency.  
Authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with The Fair  
Housing Center for Source of Income Testing services;  
authorizing the General Fund expenditure of an amount not to  
exceed $25,000; waiving the competitive bidding requirements  
of TMC Chapter 187; and declaring an emergency.  
Authorizing the expenditure of an amount not to exceed  
$30,000 from the General Fund for the provision of a Source of  
Income (SOI) investigation training consultant; authorizing the  
Mayor to accept bids and award contracts; and declaring an  
emergency.  
Authorizing the Mayor to accept, deposit, appropriate, and  
expend the Emergency Solutions Grant in the amount of  
$627,043 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban  
Development to fund Emergency Solutions Grant Program  
activities; authorizing submission of the 2025-2029  
Consolidated Plan and the 2025-2026 Annual Action Plan to  
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the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; and  
declaring an emergency.  
Authorizing the Mayor to accept, deposit, appropriate and  
expend the HOME Investment Partnership Program Grant in  
the amount of $1,965,724 from the U.S. Department of  
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the purpose of  
funding the 2025 HOME Investment Partnership Program;  
authorizing the expenditure of HOME Carryover funds from  
all years prior to program year 2024 (33rd) in the amount of  
$3,787,820.93; authorizing submission of the 2025-2029  
Consolidated plan and the 2025-2026 Annual Action Plan to  
the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; and  
declaring an emergency.  
Authorizing the Mayor to accept, deposit, appropriate and  
expend the Community Development Block Grant from the  
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in  
the amount of $7,046,960; authorizing the expenditure of  
CDBG carryover funds from all years prior to program year  
2024 (50th) in the amount of $728,799; authorizing submission  
of the 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan and the 2025-2026  
Annual Action Plan to the U.S. Department of Housing and  
Urban Development; and declaring an emergency.  
O-324-25  
Attachments: O-324-25 Attachment  
rc edits Copy of FINAL.CDBG 2025 proposed schedule a and b r  
Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a grant agreement with the  
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)  
for the purpose of accepting and depositing an additional  
$11,826 for the HOME Investment Partnerships Program  
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (HOME-ARP) Grant;  
authorizing the appropriation and expenditure of said funds; and  
declaring an emergency.  
Authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with  
Bowling Green State University Center for Regional  
Development to evaluate the City of Toledo’s community  
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engagement efforts focused on use of boards and  
commissions; authorizing the expenditure of an amount not to  
exceed $51,000 from the General Fund; waiving the formal  
bidding requirements of TMC Chapter 187; and declaring an  
emergency  
Authorizing the settlement of claims brought in Elizabeth  
Harris v. City of Toledo et al.; authorizing the  
expenditure of $30,000 from the Risk Management  
Fund; and declaring an emergency.  
COUNCILMAN HOBBS PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING 2 ITEMS FROM THE  
DEPARTMENT OF LAW:  
Authorizing the settlement of claims brought in Keith v.  
Pluff, et al.; authorizing the expenditure of $50,000  
from the Risk Management Fund; and declaring an  
emergency.  
Authorizing the expenditure of $15,000 from the Risk  
Management Fund for the representation of a former city  
employee by the Spengler Nathanson law firm related to  
litigation pending in the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas;  
and declaring an emergency.  
COUNCILMAN HOBBS PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING 6 ITEMS FROM THE  
DEPARTMENT OF POLICE OPERATIONS:  
Authorizing the expenditure of an amount not to exceed  
$25,000 from the Capital Improvement Fund for the  
purchase of speed trailer(s) for Toledo Police; authorizing  
the Mayor to accept bids and award contracts; and declaring  
an emergency.  
Authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with the  
Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) through the Office of  
Criminal Justice services (OCJS) and to accept and deposit a  
2024 Project Safe Neighborhood grant in the amount of  
$20,564.80 for the Toledo Police Department; authorizing the  
appropriation and expenditure of funds from the Operation  
Grants fund; and declaring an emergency.  
Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a grant agreement and  
accept and deposit $37,622.64 from the Office of Criminal  
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Justice Services for Violent Crime Reduction Program grant  
for the Toledo Police Department; authorizing the appropriation  
and expenditure of funds from the Operation Grants Fund; and  
declaring an emergency.  
Authorizing the expenditure of an amount not to exceed  
$65,000 from the Capital Improvement Fund for the  
purchase of mobile data terminals for police vehicles;  
authorizing the Mayor to accept bids and award  
contracts; and declaring an emergency.  
Authorizing the Mayor to accept a donation from Our  
Rescue for an investigative software license valued at  
$11,843; and declaring an emergency.  
Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a lease agreement with  
Mercy Health - St. Vincent Medical Center LLC for 2527  
Cherry St., Toledo OH 43608, to operate as a Toledo Police  
substation; authorizing the expenditure for rent and operating  
costs; and declaring an emergency.  
COUNCILMAN HOBBS PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING ITEM FROM THE  
DEPARTMENT OF FIRE & RESCUE OPERATIONS:  
Authorizing the Mayor to supplement the existing Occupational  
Health Services contract with Mercy Health for the provision of  
employee medical services and evaluations for the Fire and  
Rescue Department; authorizing the expenditure of funds; and  
declaring an emergency.  
COUNCILMEMBER KOMIVES PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING 4 ITEMS FROM  
THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE:  
Authorizing the Mayor to accept bids and enter into a one (1)  
year contract with an option for an additional two (2) one-year  
renewals for the Green Infrastructure Landscape  
Maintenance Project; authorizing expenditures in an amount  
not to exceed $58,025 annually from the Storm Water  
Operating Fund; and declaring an emergency.  
Authorizing the Mayor to accept bids and enter into a one (1)  
year contract with an option for an additional two (2) one-year  
renewals for the Green Infrastructure Invasives Control  
Project; authorizing expenditures in an amount not to exceed  
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$33,100 annually from the Storm Water Operating Fund; and  
declaring an emergency.  
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.  
Authorizing the Mayor to enter into agreements with NW  
Natural Renewables, LLC for a Renewable Natural Gas  
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.  
COUNCILMEMBER KOMIVES PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING ITEM FROM THE  
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION:  
Declaring it necessary to improve the intersection at Matzinger  
Road & Stickney Avenue by installing street lights; and  
declaring an emergency.  
COUNCILWOMAN MORRIS PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING 3 ITEMS FROM  
ZONING & PLANNING COMMITTEE:  
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.  
Amending Toledo Municipal Code (TMC), Part 11,  
Chapters 1104.0400 Use Table, 1104.1700 adding  
locational criteria, and 1116 Terminology for Tobacco  
Shops; and declaring an emergency.  
Amending Various Sections of Toledo Municipal Code  
(TMC), Chapter 11, Changing Commissioner of  
Building Inspections to Planning Director; and declaring  
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an emergency.  
ITEMS LIKELY TO RECEIVE IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION:  
Authorizing the appropriation of $45,000 from the  
unappropriated balance of the Water Replacement Fund  
and operating transfer of same into the Water Operating  
Fund; authorizing the appropriation of $50,000 from the  
unappropriated balance of the Sewer Replacement Fund  
and operating transfer of same into the Sewer Operating  
Fund; authorizing the appropriation of $5,000 from the  
unappropriated balance of the Storm Water  
Replacement Fund and operating transfer of same into  
the Storm Water Operating Fund; authorizing the  
appropriation and expenditure of an amount not to  
exceed $45,000 from the Water Operating Fund, the  
appropriation and expenditure of an amount not to  
exceed $50,000 from the Sewer Operating Fund, and  
the appropriation and expenditure of an amount not to  
exceed $5,000 from the Storm Water Operating Fund  
to fund the customer assistance grant program; and  
declaring an emergency.  
Approving the Tentative Agreement with the Toledo  
Police Command Officer’s Association  
Fact-Finders Report on IAFF Local 92 Wages  
The Clerk of Council’s Office supports the provisions of the Americans’ with Disabilities  
Act. If you need special accommodations, please call 48 hours prior to meeting time at  
419-245-1060 for arrangements.  
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