As your township trustees, we feel you need to have the facts concerning the township’s road repair program. The trustees have long recognized the importance of maintaining our roads. In 1996, the trustees proposed and the electors passed the township’s only road levy - a 1-mill levy which generates approximately $500,000 per year. We have been successful in obtaining millions of dollars in state and other grants to repair our roads since 2000. Despite this success, the trustees have recognized that the funds generated by the road levy and grants we have obtained are not sufficient to pay for the cost of repairing all township roads.
On four occasions, the trustees placed on the ballot a levy to address infrastructure and road repair needs. Each levy was narrowly defeated.
Mr. Hufford asserts that the township did not spend money on road repairs before the Joint Economic Development Zone was enacted in 2014. This is not true. The township, in conjunction with grants, has spent on average $1,574,599 per year on road and infrastructure repair since 2000.
In 2014, the township experienced a severe financial crisis as a result of unprecedented state budget cuts whereby Ohio officials kept our tax dollars rather than returning them to local governments, as they had traditionally done. The Board of Trustees showed leadership by placing the JEDZ issue on the ballot and it was approved by the voters.
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This Hufford guy has gone around the neighborhood lying to people about the JEDZ, road levies, and police. He told one neighbor he was a democrat and the next a libertarian. He writes in his blogs that he will close parks and use county sheriff to save money for police. And let me tell you he cannot promise to fix any road around here unless he and 2 other trustees vote to put it on the ballot which they won't do since it already failed 4 times like Berning says in the article. Until then, the township trustees are using funding from JEDZ, grants, and the initial levy which has been seriously outdated by almost 20 years now.
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