VietVet,
In another blog I told you I would try to get an answer from Representative Tim Derickson's office on how they obtain funds for verious projects and what criteria they use for prioritizing funds to a project. I believe Tim Derickson is totally sincere and does his best for his district. I'm sorry I took so long. Here is the answer I got from his office:
Paul,
I apologize for not sending this
sooner. It has been a hectic week with the MBR budget.
Please see this fact sheet from the
Office of Budget and Management on the bill: http://webmail.cinci.rr.com/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.media.obm.ohio.gov%252Fobm%252Fbudget%252Fdocuments%252Fcapital%252Ffy-15-16%252FCapitalBudget_FactSheet.pdf&hmac=1add8928aa96760ae245d23aa4d891b9" rel="nofollow -
Here is how the capital
appropriations bill priorities were determined on our end:
Entities seeking funding came to our
office with their requests. We put together a packet of the requests and
advocated for the ones that fell within our district. Representative Derickson
did his absolute best in securing funding for projects in the 53rd
District by speaking directly to the Finance Chairman and convincing him that
the projects made sense economically and fiscally. While he fought hard for
each and every project, ultimately funding was not secured for 100% of them
(but it was pretty close).
Rep. Derickson was praised for his
efforts locally here: http://webmail.cinci.rr.com/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.journal-news.com%252Fnews%252Fnews%252Flocal%252Fstate-rep-brings-capital-funding-home-to-butler-co%252FnfGBm%252F&hmac=6de72a36b91212ec932cd67760b73d05" rel="nofollow -
Hope this helps!
Spencer C. Gross
Legislative Aide
Representative Tim Derickson |
District 53
Ohio House of Representatives
spencer.gross@ohiohouse.gov
(614) 644-5094
Also, I thought that this was interesting on the Governor's perspective on prioritizing projects to fund. This came from his speech here in Butler County on March 21st.:
Gov. John Kasich said the key to
turning a potential $8 billion deficit into a $1.5 billion surplus is that
“nobody gets a deal.”
Kasich was the keynote speaker
Friday night at the Oscar Event Center in Fairfield for the Butler County
Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner, the party’s largest fundraiser. He said
a key to balancing the state’s budget and working toward a surplus is to not
cut anybody breaks.
“You can’t do it that way,” said the
Republican governor who is up for re-election this November. “When you go about
setting priorities — and it’s the same way you go about setting priorities with
your family — what do we really need, what would we like to have, and what is
it we don’t need. You have to make those decisions and you have to figure out a
better way to carry on your life with a limited number of resources, and that’s
exactly what we did.”
Kasich said his administration has
worked to turn the deficit the state faced into a $1.5 billion budget surplus. Paul Nagy
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