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Gov. Kasich to sign
JobsOhio bill on Friday
Governor applauds legislature for passing jobs plan
By John Nolan Staff Writer
DAYTON — Gov. John Kasich, in office just five weeks, praised the Ohio
General Assembly’s approval on Wednesday of legislation to create
JobsOhio, a private economic-development agency Kasich says is needed
to create jobs in a state trying to overcome years of job losses.
“I will be signing it soon,” the governor said shortly after addressing
the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce’s board of trustees in downtown
Dayton. “It’s a terrific victory for the people of Ohio.”
The Ohio Senate and House both passed legislation to create JobsOhio,
which would take over economic development functions from what Kasich
describes as a “calcified” Ohio Department of Development. The Dayton
Chamber’s board had endorsed the legislation and “we stand ready to
assist you,” board chairman Jim Pancoast told Kasich.
Both the GOP-controlled legislative chambers, working quickly with the
Republican governor, passed the bill with amendments that lawmakers
said are intended to improve transparency, ethics and accountability.
They include specifications that public and private funds cannot be
combined at JobsOhio; mandate that agency directors, officers and
“certain employees” file ethics disclosure statements required of
university trustees in Ohio, and prohibit bribery of JobsOhio board
members, officers or employees.
Read it at the Dayton Daily News
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