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Hardin County’s KENTON TIMES www.kentontimes.com Kenton, Ohio — Friday, March 25, 2011 USPS 584-440 50 cents Students earn Prisons look to share food costs Partly sunny state awards with Ohio State P-2 and cool Ohio Hi-Point Tonight, mostly cloudy. business students Lows in the lower 20s. win awards at Reactor breach suspected P-5 Saturday, partly sunny. state convention. Highs in the mid 30s. Arizona upsets Duke P-10 Hardin County News P-3 More weather P-5 by Hardin County People C + M Y County expects big cuts in state funding By DAN ROBINSON townships, villages, the city of since they were hit with a 28 per- said Bacon. to stop, but it will stop before 2018,” Times staff writer Kenton and the county. The funding cent reduction a few years ago, the In 2006, noted Bacon, the state he told the commissioners. The state budget for the next two will shrink over the next three years, governor only cut the libraries by began phasing out the personal “We are bleeding and we don’t years has not been approved, but if said Bacon. Next year the county five percent in the planned budget. property taxes and replaced it with a know how much they are going to the numbers proposed by Governor expects to get about $400,000, Other programs, such as the Commercial Activity Tax (CAT) and a accelerate the bleeding,” said John Kasich are adopted, Hardin which will fall to about $370,000 in electric and natural gas reimburse- personal property reimbursement to Commissioner Brice Beaman. County will need to live with a 2013 and hit the neighborhood of ments which provided the county make up the loss of revenue to the The funding continues for any reduction of several hundred thou- $305,000 the third year of reduc- with about $10,000 this year will be local governments. This year the levy on the books when the person- sand dollars of revenue over the tions. phased out within a short period of county will receive $130,197 from al property taxes were replaced, said next few years. The House and Senate may alter time, said Bacon. the state on this account, but the Bacon. For example, the Hardin County Auditor Mike Bacon met the numbers, but the funding cuts The state had paid a quarter of figure declines over the next seven Memorial Hospital levy expired in with the commissioners Thursday to at some level appear to be a certain- the cost for indigent defense fund- years to $1,826 in 2018 before it is 2005, but the hospital continues to review the proposed budget. The ty, Bacon said. ing, but that program is expected to eliminated completely. collect state funding through the biggest loss will come from reduc- “We know it is going to happen,” dry up, said Bacon. The county pays The decline in the funding is personal tax reimbursement. It is tions in the Local Government he said. “But we just don’t know about $200,000 annually for legal expected to be completed before scheduled to be paid $218,545 this Funds from the state, he noted. how deep it will be.” costs to represent defendants who 2018, said Bacon, but how quickly year, said Bacon. At its high point in 2006, Hardin The Local Government Funding can’t afford legal counsel. The pro- it will be eliminated has not yet been He said he notified the state the County received $710,432 from the is also a source of revenue for the gram change would mean a loss of decided. levy had expired, but it still appears state account. The money is used by public libraries, noted Bacon, but another $50,000 in state funding, “We don’t know when it is going on the schedule for payment. Alliance’s website credited with Parent removed attracting businesses to county from HN meeting By DAN ROBINSON meeting one of the reasons he was – Plans are underway for the Great after accusations Times staff writer impressed with Alger was due to the Ohio Bicycle Adventure (GOBA), Two new businesses in the western Alliance. which will be in Hardin County in By DAN ROBINSON students are involved in part of the county were welcomed at “I never worked with a council who June. A parade around the square, Times staff writer “horseplay.” the Hardin County Business and worked so hard to get a company here where activities and music will be DOLA — Law enforcement “There has got to be a Alliance County Insight meeting the way they did,” he said. available, is being planned. was needed to remove a par- problem or there wouldn’t be Thursday. One tool which impressed Wold, he – The Farmer’s Market in Kenton ent from the Hardin Northern this many people here WIWA, a custom airless spray sys- continued, was the Alliance’s website. will begin May 21 and continue each Board of Education meeting tonight,” said Purdy. “If there tem producer, is setting up a distribu- It was through the website, said John Saturday morning from 9 a.m. to Thursday evening. is something going on here tion center in Alger. General Manager Hohn, vice president of economic noon. A farmer’s market in Forest is Todd Taylor spoke to the you are not happy with, we Jeffrey Wold said the products they development, that brought Dynarex to being planned at the library parking board regarding some disci- need to fix it, but put it in produce come from Germany and will Ada’s industrial park. lot each Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon. plinary actions from the writing.” be shipped out across the U.S. from Through the Internet connection, The Ada’s Farmer’s Market is each school administrators he “One thing we are not Alger. the company learned of the availabili- Thursday at the depot parking lot found unacceptable. He was going to do is discuss person- The pumps, said Wold, are capable ty of the former Amazon Building. It from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. accompanied by about 20 nel issues in an open forum,” of painting ships and submarines. has become a distribution center now – The Hardin County Sheriff’s parents. said board member Michelle They are also used to spray the inside for the disposal medical supply pro- Office, in connection with the Taylor told the board he Obenour. “We won’t do that of water towers and smaller versions ducer. Northwest Ohio Solid Waste District had attempted to express his any more than we would dis- have put jelly inside doughnuts. “These are wonderful things for the and Hardin Memorial Hospital, will be concerns to High School cuss your children in an open “When people ask me why locate in county,” said Hohn. sponsoring a prescription drug “take- Principal Jeff Eader and forum.” Alger, I ask them why not?” said Wold. Also at the breakfast, it was back day” on April 30, which will allow Superintendent Larry The discussion was inter- The manager said the village has announced: residents to dispose of unwanted med- Claypool, but was stopped. rupted often by Taylor mak- welcomed his business with open – Tim Mayle, the GIS director for ication. As he began his complaint, ing accusations against the arms and it is a centralized location the county, will assume a new posi- – Laura Wingfield has purchased Board President Mike Purdy board members and adminis- for shipping products. He is planning tion as assistant economic develop- the former J’s Fashion Shop and is informed Taylor according to tration. an open house and ribbon cutting in ment director for Hancock County. renaming it Twirl. board policy, he must present He was asked by Sheriff’s the near future. – Alliance representatives present- – Not By Choice is now offering can- his concerns to the board in Deputy Jerry Corwin to tone “At the end of the day,” said Wold, ed information to owners– operators of cer patients gas cards to help pay for writing and the board would down his voice and speak “Hardin County feels like home.” bus tour businesses at a convention their transportation to and from treat- then discuss them in a closed respectfully, but after several Wold told the guests at Thursday’s in Detroit. ments. session. interruptions, the board “I don’t want this to turn asked Corwin to remove into a ‘he said, she said’ situ- Taylor from the meeting, ation,” said Purdy. “Put it in which he did. writing and bring it to the Afterwards, the board told No quick exit for U.S. from Libya board and we will do what we the people remaining it is dif- By RICHARD LARDNER near Tripoli, while U.S. ized by the United Nations, out the way forward, which need to do.” ficult to have to sit quietly Associated Press bombers struck Gadhafi including the protection of included the immediate trans- But Taylor wasn’t satisfied when accusations are being WASHINGTON (AP) — artillery, command and con- Libyan civilians and support- fer of command and control of with the answer. made, but they have little NATO agreed to take over trol and tank positions else- ing humanitarian aid efforts the no-fly zone over Libya, and “Sir, I am a taxpayer and I choice legally. command of the newly estab- where, the official said. on the ground. by early next week of the rest have the right to be heard,” Claypool was asked about lished no-fly zone over Libya, French and British warplanes “We are taking the next of the U.N.-mandated mis- said Taylor.

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