Mallory's Press Briefings Are Back

After a few weeks off, Mayor Mark Mallory held one of his weekly Tuesday news briefings today. Here's some of what he said:

His new Grocery Store Task Force met Friday and will keep meeting to figure out how to attract a grocery store to downtown. On the task force: Holly Childs; and representatives of the Downtown Residents Council, his Young Professional Kitchen Cabinet, Downtown Cincinnati Inc. and the Cincinnati Center City Development Corp. (3CDC). "We'll have a series of these meetings to develop a strategy." There's no timetable or location chosen yet. The group will find a store first, he said.

Monday night, he spoke to the 17 graduates of the first Citizens Government Academy, which City Manager Milton Dohoney set up to teach people how City Hall works.


He's meeting with all City Council members, talking with them about committee assigments and possible reorganization of committees. "There've been no decisions made at this point," he said, but he expects to decide by this time next week. The official swearing-in, although the same nine are returning, is Dec. 1.

Speaking of that swearing-in, if you go, take some canned food for the Freestore/Foodbank. Mallory says it'll be a requirement to get in. Only the balcony of council chambers will be open to the public.

The Mallory family will do its holiday volunteering Dec. 8, from 1-3 p.m., at the Freestore. They'll be sorting food and bagging it into packages.