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Kasich's budget slashes aid to local goverments, libraries
Tuition hikes limited for higher education
Tuesday, March 15, 2011  11:10 AM
Updated: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 02:05 PM
By Jim Siegel and Alan Johnson

The Columbus Dispatch
 
Local governments would see a cut of 25 percent per year and state colleges and universities would be limited to 3.5 percent tuition increases under Gov. John Kasich's new two-year budget.

That move would cost counties, municipalities and townships $167.1 million the first year and $388.2 million starting in the second year. Kasich said those governmental units will get money back by sharing services and relief from the state on such issues as requirements to pay prevailing (union) wages.

Meanwhile, 400 school districts are expected to see increases in state-generated funding.

Read more at: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/03/15/kasich-releases-budget.html?sid=101

noozer:
Here's a link to all of the budget documents:

http://obm.ohio.gov/SectionPages/Budget/FY1213/ExecutiveBudget.aspx

noozer:
Updated Dispatch story....

Kasich's budget slashes aid to local governments
Tuition hikes limited to 3.5% for higher education
Tuesday, March 15, 2011  11:10 AM
Updated: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 03:50 PM
By Jim Siegel, Darrel Rowland and Alan Johnson
The Columbus Dispatch

Local governments would see a cut of 25 percent per year and state colleges and universities would be limited to 3.5 percent tuition increases under Gov. John Kasich's new two-year budget.

That move would cost counties, municipalities and townships $167.1 million the first year including an estimated $5 million for Columbus and $388.2 million starting in the second year, when the full 50 percent reduction would take effect.

For example, Circleville, which received $687,000 from the state's local government allocation last year, budgeted for $638,000 this year, or about 13 percent of its overall total. The real number under the state budget would total $515,000, with a drop to $343,000 the following year.

Read more at: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/03/15/kasich-releases-budget.html?sid=101

noozer:
Deep cuts, privatization fill Kasich’s first budget
He is reducing aid to cities and selling several state assets.
By Laura A. Bischoff 
and Christopher Magan, Staff Writers
Updated 6:14 AM Wednesday, March 16, 2011

COLUMBUS — Gov. John Kasich’s two-year, $55.5 billion operating budget calls for cutting funding for local governments, capping college tuition increases, refocusing the massive Ohio Medicaid program, selling off five state prisons, and injecting more choices in how K-12 schools are run.

The spending plan, which must be approved by the General Assembly by June 30, does not include tax increases.

“This budget is woven with one reform after another. It is, I would guess, the most reform-oriented budget in modern Ohio history,” Kasich said.

But while Kasich and his supporters praised the reforms, his critics derided them.

Read more at: http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio-news/deep-cuts-privatization-fill-kasichs-first-budget--1109000.html

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noozer:
   
Kasich plan: Budget cuts, program restructuring
Written by Jon Craig
10:44 PM, Mar. 15, 2011|

COLUMBUS — For weeks, Gov. John Kasich
threatened to call for state budget cuts that
no one would be happy about.

Only a handful of state agencies and public
advocacy groups complained Tuesday after
Kasich introduced his first two-year
budget, but many details remain elusive.
Kasich’s top advisers sidestepped
questions about annual spending
increases.

Calling his budget plans a work in
progress, Kasich promised more ideas for
profit-making endeavors – including
privatizing management of the Ohio Lottery
Commission – as state legislators begin to
review and balance the budget by June 30.


Read more at: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110315/NEWS0108/303150036/Kasich-plan-Budget-cuts-program-restructuring?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE

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