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Here's how the city plans to spend first of Cincinnati Southern Railway funds
By Felicia Jordan,
2024-05-24
The City of Cincinnati has released its recommended budget for 2025 and it details for the first time how and where the city's planning to spend some of the funds from the sale of the Cincinnati Southern Railway.
The $1.6 billion the city received for the railway was put into a trust fund, with disbursements being paid from it for improving existing infrastructure within the city.
Those disbursements aren't beginning until 2026; the funding broken out in the 2025 budget is comprised of "revenue generated by certain contractual payments from Norfolk Southern to the Rail Board"
According to the budget, the city is allocating $29,201,000 from that revenue into five different funding categories:
Streets and bridges
Parks
Recreation
Health
Public services
The majority of the funds will go into the streets and bridges category, but recreation improvements will also make up 12.6% of the spending. In all, the city will spend $17,900,000 on streets and bridges, $2,700,000 on park infrastructure, $3,700,000 on recreation facilities, $2,100,000 on health facilities and $2,700,000 on public services and repairs to city facilities.
In addition, the city said it plans to spend more than 80% of the funding in neighborhoods with a median income of less than $50,000.
The majority of funds being spent, 16.4%, will be spent in Westwood, Cincinnati's largest neighborhood, but projects are slated for many neighborhoods throughout Cincinnati.
Here's where the money will be spent in each neighborhood:
Citywide projects:
Recreation:
Recreation renovations from emergency and community budget requests on aquatic facilities — $266,000
Recreation renovations from emergency and community budget requests for recreation centers — $266,000
Miscellaneous aquatic facility pool repairs — $146,000
ADA recreation center and aquatic projects at miscellaneous sites — $52,500
New pool chemical controllers for five to six miscellaneous pools — $35,000
Parks:
Ongoing and emerging maintenance and repair projects — $750,000
Staff reimbursements for various projects — $600,000
Bond Hill:
Recreation:
Recreation center improvements — $1,217,000
East Price Hill:
Recreation:
Roof warranty work (bring to warranty) — $250,000
Public services:
Roof restoration for the former home of CPD District 3 on Warsaw Avenue — $205,000
Lower Price Hill:
Health:
Price Hill Health Center air handler — $120,000
Price Hill Health Center generator — $30,000
Price Hill Health Center parking lot expansion — $1,000,000
Corryville:
Recreation:
HVAC new roof top unit for Corryville Recreation Center — $95,000
Health:
Roof replacement for the Cincinnati Health Department facility at Burnet and MLK — $61,000
Elevator replacement for Cincinnati Health Department facility at Burnet and MLK — $250,000
Boiler for Cincinnati Health Department facility at Burnet and MLK — $60,000
Fire pump for Cincinnati Health Department facility at Burnet and MLK — $40,000
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