Darke County Chamber urges legislators to
pass Jobs Budget
DARKE COUNTY, OHIO – The Darke County Chamber of Commerce
participated in the Jobs Budget Advocacy Day at the Ohio Statehouse in
Columbus on June 7, 2011. As part of Ohio’s Campaign for Jobs,
businesses, community groups and chambers of commerce from across the
state converged on the Statehouse to urge legislators to pass the state
budget bill with its original government reforms intact.
“The Jobs Budget closes an $8 billion hole in state finances without
raising taxes. It includes significant changes to the way
government operates at the state and local levels, to give taxpayers
better value for their tax dollar. And it makes creating jobs in
Ohio priority number one. For all these reasons, it’s important
for the General Assembly to pass the budget with the reform provisions
that were originally proposed,” chamber president Sharon Deschambeau,
said.
Deschambeau met with Senators Bill Beagle and Keith Faber to encourage
support for the reform agenda in the budget bill. Areas in which
the Jobs Budget is designed to produce significant savings include
Medicaid spending, the prison system, education, and local government
operations.
Ohio’s Campaign for Jobs is a grassroots coalition of Ohio citizens,
business organizations, community groups and chambers of commerce
funded by the Partnership for Ohio’s Future, a not-for-profit
organization formed in 2006 to help educate the public about policies
that lead to more jobs, greater opportunities and a higher quality of
life for Ohio citizens. The Campaign is supported by Ohioans who agree
that the Jobs Budget provides a responsible, timely plan for spending,
modernizing operations and supporting jobs development.
The reforms proposed in the Ohio Jobs Budget will:
• rein in unsustainable, rising government
costs;
• eliminate the deficit without taking the
traditional tax and spend approach to budgeting - in fact it does so
without increasing taxes and fully restores the final phase of the
state income tax cut;
• reform K-12 education by putting children first,
rewarding good teachers based on student achievement and empowering
parents with more choices to send children to better performing schools;
• allow for college students earn degrees in three
years, and foster coordination with high schools to better prepare them
for higher education;
• provide incentives to local governments to apply
common sense ideas to share services, pool purchasing, save on
construction costs and try other cost-saving measures; and
• bring Medicaid costs under control, improve health
outcomes, allow more choices for seniors to live where they want,
coordinate medical care, reduce nursing home costs, offer
reimbursements based on results rather than the number of medical
procedures.
More than 50 businesses, organizations and individuals have joined
Ohio’s Campaign for Jobs including:
ABC of Ohio
Barnes Construction Company, Inc.
Boreman-Cook Financial Services
Braund Funeral Home
C3 Church
CAW Lighting Solutions
Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber
Columbus Partnership
Darke County Chamber of Commerce
Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce
Fortkamp Foam
Greater Cleveland Partnership
Greater Ohio
NFIB-Ohio
North Coast Strategy Group
Ohio Building Restoration, Inc.
Ohio Business Roundtable
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Ohio Council of Retail Merchants
Ohio Grocers Association
Ohio Society of CPAs
Roppe Holding Company
Spec-Weld Technologies, Inc.
SSOE Group
Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce
Voss Industries, Inc.
Woodville Surplus
To learn more about Ohio’s Campaign for Jobs, log onto www.campaignforjobs.com
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