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The front of the Ohio Statehouse in 2007. Photo by the Ohio Channel.

ANNEXATION ALERT

HB 50, legislation that would change current expedited Type II annexation procedures, is scheduled for its seventh hearing this before the House Local Government Committee.

The committee will be meeting Tuesday, January 24, at 1:30 p.m. in hearing room #121, and will hear all testimony, consider amendments and is also scheduled for a POSSIBLE VOTE.

HB 50, as written, would give veto power to townships, school districts and other local government jurisdictions that own ally property within a proposed 100% owner ¬petitioned Type II Expedited Annexation. Type II Expedited Annexations have been the annexation option of choice for municipalities, landowners and -developers since the passage of SB 5 (the Annexation Reform measure) in 2001. With the added requirements to the more traditional forms of annexation, the Expedited Type II format has become the only real option for annexation for many communities. HB 50 would require the signature of any other governmental jurisdiction that owns land within the annexation territory regardless of the size of the parcel, as long as it has at least one employee "headquartered' at a facility on the parcel. Essentially, one part-time employee could report to a shed on a 100' x 100' lot and meet the requirements of this bill. SEE MORE...

 

 

OHIO ATTORNEY GENERAL DEWINE ANNOUNCES 2012 SUNSHINE LAW TRAINING SESSIONS

Attorney General DeWine has released the dates and locations for the 2012 Sunshine Law Training sessions http://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/SunshineLawTrainings, which all elected officials, excluding Judges, are required to complete. Ohio Revised Code section 109.43 outlines the statutory requirement for the training sessions to be fulfilled. If an elected official is unable to personally attend one of the training sessions, a designee may be sent to represent that official, as long as the designee is from that individual’s specific office. SEE More...

 

Website Addition: Shared Services

Please take a look under the new "Shared Services" tab located on the left side of this page for information pertaining to Shared Services and Local Collaboration. This page will be updated often so do take a moment to bookmark it for future use!

Also, Please note that any bulletins from 2011 will now be located under the Bulletins: 2011 archive tab at the top of this page.

We hope everyone has had a Happy New Year!

First Half of 129th General Assembly All But Complete

As December nears its completion and 2012 literally at our doorstep, the 129th Ohio General Assembly turns the page on its first year of business and is moving forward with a number of unfinished and a few yet to be unveiled pieces of legislation that effect Ohio municipalities. We continue to follow the developments in the House Local Government committee as they have been holding hearings on sub.HB50, the anti-annexation bill and HB246, that would permit some reverse auctions for local governments. HB246 received its fourth hearing on Tuesday with proponent testimony offered by a Valerie Stueland of the City of Dayton. As we have reported to you in previous bulletins, sub.HB50 is still in flux at the moment and we are not certain of what the future holds for this bill. The Senate State and Local Government Committee has taken up legislation dealing with the locating of amateur antenna in residential areas, HB158, which we oppose. The Senate committee held its third hearing on the bill December 7th and likely will hold an additional hearing on the bill sometime the first of the year. We are still anticipating legislation to be drafted and introduced proposing wholesale changes to the current operation of municipal income tax. Besides this short list of bills, we expect the second half of the legislative session will have other bills of municipal interest introduced with a special eye towards what may be included in the administrations’ spring budget also known as the Mid-Biennial Review (MBR). SEE MORE